Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
Feb 12, 2022 | Planner Setup, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Repeated Shapes, Tags, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! The Elegance Blooms Collection is bursting with beautiful hearts and florals. To celebrate this, we’ve asked our Creative Team to design projects featuring these two items. We think you will be all heart eyes over what they created! Laurie loves...
Feb 1, 2022 | Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! Planning with Cocoa Daisy is possible in any format and in today’s post, we have three styles of planning to share with you. The Elegance Blooms Collection can add embellishment and function to a traveler’s notebook insert, a book-bound...
Jan 27, 2022 | Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! We have another edition of “One Item: Three Ways” where we ask the Creative Team to choose one item and find three ways to utilize it in their memory-keeping projects. This is a fun challenge that we encourage you to do as well. It helps...
Jan 25, 2022 | Chipboard Elements, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Journal, Planner Setup, Rub Ons, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! If you love memory keeping and you love planners, then you will probably love memory planners! What is a memory planner? It is a place to document your days after they happen. Memory planning can be completed monthly, weekly, or even daily. Memory...
Jan 22, 2022 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! It’s “Simple Dori Saturday” and we have two awesome projects to share with you today. But before we do, let’s talk about all the different ways you can use the Simple Dori Traveler Notebook. While the Simple Dori can be used as...
Jan 15, 2022 | Inspiration, Planner Setup, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Rub Ons, Tips and Tricks, Video
Hello, friends! In today’s post, we are featuring a product staple for several of the kits and a specialty product that we are always excited to receive. Yes, we are talking about die cuts and rub-ons! Die-cuts can be found in several of the kits, including both...
Jan 8, 2022 | 12x12 Layouts, Art Journal, Design Team Tips, Pocket Cards, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Tutorial
Hello, friends! It’s “Stamping Saturday” and if you love stamping, then the Confetti Wishes Collection is the one for YOU! With three ‘a la carte” stamp sets, there were SIX sets in this collection. To get a better feel for the stamps and a few quick...
Jan 4, 2022 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Off the Page, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Repeated Shapes, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial, Video
Hello, friends! Something that may have caught your attention from the Confetti Wishes Collection was all the bright, gorgeous colors greeting you. To celebrate all the beautiful hues, we asked our Creative Team to create with color in mind. Let’s see how they...
Jan 1, 2022 | Planner Setup, Rub Ons, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! It’s here! A new year, 2022, is here! One of the most exciting parts of a new year is figuring out your planner lineup. Once you know what planner, or planners, you will use, it’s time to set them up and get them ready for a new year of...
Dec 30, 2021 | Dissecting Design, Journal, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! Today, we have a few ideas for adding text to your memory-keeping spreads. Handwriting is the easiest way to write down your thoughts about your documented memory. But what if you don’t particularly like your handwriting? Or, maybe, you enjoy the...
Dec 16, 2021 | Chipboard Elements, Christmas, Document December, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Tags, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! The Winter Twilight Collection is perfect for decorating your planners and embellishment your journals and memory-keeping layouts, but it also makes great decorations for your home and the gifts you might be giving this season! Our Creative Team is...
Dec 9, 2021 | Christmas, Design Team Tips, Document December, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sequins, Sticker Fun, Tags, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for memory-keeping, that is! It has become a bit of a tradition for paper crafters to engage in daily, or close to daily documenting of all the happenings in December. Our Creative Team enjoys...
Dec 2, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Art Journal, Chipboard Elements, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Journal, Kit Papers, Repeated Shapes, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs
Hello, friends! December already?! With every new month comes the thrill of a new collection and the Winter Twilight Collection does not disappoint! Here is a closer look inside the collection with Traci Reed! Now that you had a chance to see the collection in...
Nov 30, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Christmas, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! We hope in the month of November you had an opportunity to visit with family and friends (even if it’s over Zoom or Facetime) and have fun! Our Creative Team is sharing how they document family, friends, and fun using the Cocoa Daisy Kits. Audrey...
Nov 16, 2021 | Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Planner Setup, Printables, Repeated Shapes, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! November is a great time of the year to reflect on all that you are thankful for. What better way to do this, than will some daily documenting of gratitude in your planner, journals, and memory planners! The Gather Collection is full of beautiful...
Nov 6, 2021 | Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Stencils, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! We were spoiled with the Gather Collection to have so many wonderful inky tools including the Gratitude Stamp Set, available to new subscribers, the Gather Memory Keeping Stamp Sets, and even a stencil in the Gather Classified: Memory Keeping Kit! Our...
Oct 30, 2021 | Inspiration, Kit Papers, Planner Setup, Repeated Shapes, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Washi Tape
Hello, friends! It’s Setup Saturday and we have two fantastic designs to share with you. Whether you are setting up your planner or preparing for a fresh memory-keeping project, the Gather Collection is sure to make your creativity shine! Jennifer’s...
Oct 5, 2021 | Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! The Umber & Gold Collection is the perfect way to transition our planners, journals, and memory keeping toward all things fall. Maybe you’re like me, and your current locale still feels more like summer than fall. That’s ok! This...
Sep 30, 2021 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Pocket Cards, Simple Dori, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hello, friends! What is a quick and easy way to capture your life right now? Yes, you could take a photo, but what about creating a “currently” spread? “Currently” pages are designed to be a snapshot of you at a given moment to including what...
Sep 16, 2021 | Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Throwback Thursday, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hello, friends! If you have been with Cocoa Daisy for while, you know that each collection is unique but also mixes and matches with past collections. So today, we are celebrating this with a Throwback Thursday: Mix and Match Edition! We love how our Creative Team...
