Category Archives: Simple Dori
Jun 5, 2021 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Repeated Shapes, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tags, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Vellum
Hello, Friends! Get ready for a new monthly feature – Simple Dori Saturday. Since our Simple Dori is unique to Cocoa Daisy, we thought it would be fun to create a post each month to celebrate it! We have three eye-catching spreads from our Creative Team using...
May 26, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cards, Guest Designers, Rub Ons, Simple Dori
Shu-Wen has taken the Tranquility memory keeping kits and created several beautiful memory keeping projects! Project 1: Celebrate! TN Memory Keeping Spread I was so excited to be invited as Cocoa Daisy’s Memory Keeping Guest Designer for May 2021 that I made a...
May 25, 2021 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Off the Page, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, TNMK Instruction Sheet, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! We have another TN (Traveler’s Notebook) Tuesday post featuring both the Tranquility Collection and the My Escape Collection. Around these parts, we call our traveler’s notebook the Simple Dori. The inside of the notebook features designs...
May 21, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Art Journal, Basic Elements, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Mixed Media, Off the Page, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! Here at Cocoa Daisy, we are all about finding thinking outside your box of happy and encouraging ways to stretch your monthly kits a little further. What better way to do that than with a little mix and match! Whether it’s combing elements from...
May 19, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Journal, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! Are you someone who struggles with adding journaling to your memory-keeping layouts? Or maybe you love to journal but want so more inspiration on how to jazz up the white space around your journaling. Today, our Memory Keeping Team is sharing ways they...
May 18, 2021 | Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! Layering is a foundational element in most memory-keeping designs. By adding layers you can create depth and focus to your layout. Layered clustered provide visual interest and can help to tell your story. Today our Memory Keeping Team shares their...
May 14, 2021 | Kit Papers, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Stencils, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! There is something so striking about black accents on a colorful layout. The pop of black can come in the form of a stamp, paint drops, rub-on’s paper. In today’s post, we asked our Memory Keeping Team to design a layout using black as an...
May 12, 2021 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! Washi is a wonderful product for its versatility and simplicity. With just a few strips of washi, your memory-keeping spreads are embellished with lovely patterns and color with minimal effort. The Tranquility Collection Washi included the rich greens...
May 11, 2021 | Inspiration, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! Each collection from Cocoa Daisy is filled with beautiful pattern papers, gorgeous embellishments, pocket cards, and stickers. But a personal fan favorite is uncovering all the beautiful uplifting (and sometimes snarky) sayings and words of wisdom...
May 7, 2021 | Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Off the Page, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! Creating titles for your layouts can be its own form of creative expression. A simple spread can have a major impact with a well-designed title. In today’s post, we are focusing on some tips and tricks to make your titles pop. Evy always creates...
May 5, 2021 | Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! The Tranquility Collection is an absolute dream for those of us with a green thumb. You may have a garden in your backyard or on your balcony. Your love of green things might rest around your house in pots sitting on the windowsill. Or, maybe,...
Apr 30, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hello, friends! For today’s post, we asked our Memory Keeping Team to design a layout with a diagonal orientation. We frequently see center, right and left aligned spreads, but today, we are mixing it up! We think you are going to love what our team came up with....
Apr 27, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! For the Northern Hemisphere, spring is (hopefully) in the air! While some areas of the United States are still experiencing snow, by and large spring has sprung and we couldn’t be happier about it! Today, we have three spring spreads in three different...
Apr 21, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Scrap Happens!, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! It’s that time of the month where you have dug into your kits from the Tranquility Collection while also wrapping up your creative time with your kits from the Poppy Fields Collection. At this point, you likely have several paper scraps in...
Apr 20, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Washi Tape
Hello, Friends! Tell me if this sounds familiar – you receive your kit, squeal with delight with all the wonderful items to papercraft with, and then…the dreaded “analysis paralysis”! Each month, we are presented with a variety of items to...
Apr 14, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook, Video
Hello, friends! Clouds can symbolize many things and are a wonderful embellishment to the stories you want to tell. For some, clouds represent change and transition, For others, clouds represent hope and gratitude (looking for the silver linings). While others may...
Apr 13, 2021 | Journal, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tags, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, TNMK Instruction Sheet, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! We have another edition of “TN Tuesday” to share our love of the Simple Dori Traveler Notebook. While it is certainly possible to use this format for your monthly, weekly, or daily memory keeping, you can also create more of a mini-book...
Apr 6, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, TNMK Instruction Sheet, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! The Poppy Fields Collections is filled with the beautiful artwork of Olga Cuttel and is a perfect mix of bold colors with soft details. To highlight Olga’s designs, we are focusing today’s post on the stunning Poppies and florals she created. First, we...
Mar 17, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Product Focus, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! In the world of paper crafting, we all know that stickers, papers, washi, and die cuts come into our possession and (hopefully) go on to document beautiful memories and embellish our pages. But you want to know what lasts forever? STAMPS! That’s...
Mar 16, 2021 | Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! It’s Tuesday, which means another edition of “TN (Travelers Notebook” Tuesday! Around these parts, we like to refer to our traveler’s notebooks as “Dori’s” (after the original Midori Travelers Notebook). The...
