Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
Oct 9, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here! Ria and I have been experimenting with new techniques and textures for our traveler’s notebook pages. Halloween is this month, and Ria wanted to document her son’s love for scary masks. Ria gathered orange elements from the Autumn...
Oct 4, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello! Melanie here today with my very first blog post on the Cocoa Daisy blog, what a thrill to be here guest designer! I’m joined by Candy and Jil to share our takes on incorporating circles and hexagons on our crafty projects! Both are such fun elements and a...
Sep 26, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! I am back this month with my planner set up for October and a video walk through. I love the vivid colors of Autumn Whimsy. They are so perfect for this time of year in the mid Atlantic. I use the Daisy Planner Kit for Personal Rings and the planner add...
Sep 24, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone! Welcome to TN Tuesday. Today my teamies and I are sharing with you some fun techniques that you can try in your layouts if you want to experiment or if you have a bit of extra time. First up are shakers!!! I love this really gorgeous Simple Dori cover...
Sep 21, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Project Art, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! Lisa here showing off my fun dashboard/covers I made for my October Planner. I have simplified my setup a bit the last couple of months but one thing I never skimp on are the dashboards or covers for my inserts. They are a must have for me! First up I...
Sep 20, 2019 | Everyday, Inspiration, Pick-a-Size, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies!! Moon here to share some ideas about making the traditional 12″x12″ two-page layout that I’m still in love with. Actually, I made these two pages separately but with the same color scheme and similar scrapbooking items. First, I...
Sep 13, 2019 | Die Cut Files, Everyday, Pick-a-Size, Project Life, Tips and Tricks
Hey, everyone! Jil and I are here today to share our pages using concentric shapes. I love how Cocoa Daisy helps me think and create out of the box and out of my creative comfort zone. I loved how this month’s kits had these super cute tags included in the die-cuts....
Sep 11, 2019 | A Day in the Life, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies!! Moon and Evelyne are here today to share some ideas about making the pocket pages with the “Book Club” Memory Pocket Kit. First, it’s Evelyne’s beautiful page. Let’s take a look of the before and after photos. How easy and...
Sep 6, 2019 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies!! Moon and Candy here today are going to share some ideas of using banners and enamel dots. Firstly, let’s take a look at Candy’s gorgeous pocket page. I’m so in love with how she used those beautiful journaling cards. She said “I...
Aug 29, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! I’m back with my September planner set up! The Book Club is such a fun kit and so perfect for me as I am a lover of books…I have preferred reading over other activities for as long as I can remember! August as well as September has been a...
Aug 10, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks
Hi everyone!! Hope you’re all doing great. Today I’m sharing about something that I always struggle with : Meal planning!! Hehe! I absolutely love spending time working on my daily planner but when it comes to planning the week’s meals, I just want it to be over...
Aug 5, 2019 | A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks
Hello friends! Lisa here doing a quick flip through of my not really a planner planner hehe! I decided I need a notebook to keep some of the things I don’t really want to carry in my main planner so I used one of my A6 ring planners to organize things like my...
Jul 26, 2019 | Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello Daisies! Anyone on vacation now? Do you bring scrapbooking supplies with you or you prefer documenting the trip after? For me, I love scrapbooking at home and it’s like going traveling again when you look at the photos! Today Evy and I are going to share...
Jul 15, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Video
Hello Daisies! Lisa here sharing my very first plan with me video. It is short and sweet and I show a couple of sticker hacks that I like to use. Hope you enjoy 🙂
Jul 5, 2019 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Video
Hello Daisies! How is everything going? Today our new team member, Candy, joined Ria and me to share some ideas of how to add details to your projects by using layering. First, let’s take a look at Candy’s lovely TN page. I’m so in love with all the...
Jun 15, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cards, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Inspiration, Out of Your Element, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! Lisa here and I cooked up a few cards for you this month using papers and elements from this months fabulous CocoaDaisy kit called Lemon Grove. I Love using my kits for other projects besides my planner and memory keeping! Its so funny because...
Jun 11, 2019 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Pocket Pages, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks
Hello Cocoa Daisy fans, Today I am on the blog sharing the start of a new project I am embarking on with the South Beach kits. It’s an album documenting my dad’s 80th birthday week. The entire family got together on a cruise to the Bahamas to celebrate! I am sharing...
Jun 6, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Behind the Scenes, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks, Video
Hello Daisies, Today I am walking you through my thought process as I create 4 dashboards using the Lemon Grove Day Planner Dashboards. Each one these on their own are beautiful but adding that extra touch will bring them to the next level and make them your own! This...
Jun 4, 2019 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! Have you created anything with the beautiful items of the latest kits from Cocoa Daisy? Moon and Robin are here to share some pages with the idea of the monochromatic on the diagonal. First is Robin’s TN page featuring the “Lemon...
May 28, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Jil here challenging you to try circles and stamps on your pages. Kylie and I both worked in our travelers notebooks and addressed the challenge differently. Here is Kylie’s pretty design: As you can see, Kylie chose the word “summer” for her title,...
