Category Archives: Simple Dori
Nov 17, 2020 | Everyday, Simple Dori, TN Tuesday, TNMK Instruction Sheet, Travelers Notebook
Hi Everyone, Today the design team is sharing travelers notebook layouts created with sketches. Let’s jump right in with this design from Casie, “Hi all! I used Christine’s simple dori sketch from the Acorn Lane TNMK kit for this my layout and my...
Nov 11, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook, Vellum
Hello! Today our design team is sharing various ways they incorporate vellum in their layouts. We have three designs to share today beginning with Melina’s TN pages. She tells us, “I love vellum! One way I love using it is with stamps. Stamping on vellum gives a...
Nov 10, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! Brown is a truly lovely color that sits on the warm side of the color wheel along with red, orange, and yellow. It’s probably not the first color you notice in a rich and vibrant autumn landscape. And yet, brown has a quite a diverse range of hues...
Nov 3, 2020 | Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! Rub-ons are a fun way to add color and a bit of texture without bulk to your layouts and planners. The rub-ons that came in our Acorn Lane kits are gorgeous and can be added to many different textures including photographs, cardstock and patterned...
Oct 30, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Classified, Product Focus, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! Today we are focusing on layouts created from components in our Classified Memory Keeping kits. Our classified kits are a wonderful compliment to our memory keeping kits and our planner kits too. And for many of us, we enjoy the delightful surprise of...
Oct 26, 2020 | Chipboard Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Cut Files, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Planner Setup, Rub Ons, Sequins, Simple Dori, Video
Hello, my planner friends, it’s Julie here today to walk through my November planner set-up. I plan in an A5 ring binder and this month, I’m loving my Filofax Domino Luxe Teal. The color of it just matches the teal colors in the kit so wonderfully. The...
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Oct 20, 2020 | Daisy Designers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook, Video
Hello and happy Tuesday! Today, we’re sharing ideas on how to add that extra bit of gold to your Traveler’s Notebooks this month. Two of our Memory Keeping team members agreed to show you how they made their TNs pop with gold embellishments and spray inks....
Oct 16, 2020 | Basic Elements, Kit Papers, Pocket Pages, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Here at Cocoa Daisy, many of us are obsessed with circles and there are good reasons for our fascination with this shape. Circles have a lot of symbolism associated with them including balance, wholeness, time, and the cosmic universe. The circle...
Oct 9, 2020 | Design Team Tips, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Happy Friday! White space, also known as negative space, is an important element of design. It helps separate your content, object groupings and it minimizes clutter. Another way that white space is used is to create emphasis. One example would be placing a photo on...
Oct 6, 2020 | Hand Stitched, Kit Papers, Printables, Simple Dori, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, It’s another TN Tuesday here at Cocoa Daisy and today we are sharing ideas for using vellum in your traveler’s notebooks and Simple Dori planners. Vellum is a translucent paper that is often used on invitations, announcements and cards, but...
Oct 2, 2020 | Everyday, Journal, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends! Adding a sense of movement to your layouts is a great way to draw the viewer into your story and is a design principle in paper crafting. There are many shapes that can be incorporated to add movement including swirls. Our Flannel and Frost collection...
Sep 30, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Hand Stitched, Mixed Media, Project Art, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, We’re focusing on mixed media in our designs today. Mixed media can be a complex layer of mediums or something as simple as a bit of texture paste applied to a pocket card with a stencil or a few drops of water color on your background. Our design...
Sep 25, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cut Files, Printables, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Cocoa Daisy fans, What do you get when you drop a pumpkin? A squash. He he…are you a pumpkin lover or a pumpkin hater? I’m not a big fan of most things pumpkin with the exception of the pumpkin roll. Yum! …but I digress. As you can tell, we...
Sep 22, 2020 | Journal, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Sequins, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, In the Northern Hemisphere the air is cooler and the tree’s leaves are beginning to shed their summer green. Autumn is arriving and our DT is sharing their fall greetings with us today. Grab a nice warm drink and enjoy our first look at this colorful...
Sep 16, 2020 | Dissecting Design, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Today our design team is sharing their layering tips and tricks with lots of great examples! Layering is an important element in design because it adds texture, depth and focus to your paper crafting. For example, adding layers of paper and texture...
Sep 15, 2020 | Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello! Bold titles can be used to set the tone for your story as well as cover the majority of space for your design. In fact your title can be the foundation of your layout. For example, cutting out a short word such as hello, go, or love in a large letters and using...
Sep 11, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello and how is everyone doing? We hope you are staying safe and well. On the blog today, we are exploring hexagons. Hexagons are one of the shapes that make regular appearances in memory keeping and planning. I’m always delighted when I see layouts with...
Sep 9, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cards, Mixed Media, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, The tags in our kits are a staple, extremely versatile and can be used in any style of memory keeping or planning. Tags can be used as the main foundation for a layout, planner page or greeting card, a journaling spot, a small work of art, a bookmark,...
Sep 8, 2020 | Inspiration, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, Here at Cocoa Daisy we want to inspire you with a mix of old and new ideas for using your kits. Adding pockets to our traveler’s notebooks isn’t a new idea but how we decorate them can be fresh and creative. Today the design...
Sep 4, 2020 | Classified, Hand Stitched, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello and happy weekend friends! Our classified memory keeping kit is extremely versatile and a fun treat each month. I love to open it up and see what fun things Christine has chosen to include in each kit. And all of the items are complimentary to the planner,...
