Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
Feb 18, 2015 | Cocoa Daisy, Scrap Space, Tips and Tricks
Hello beautiful Daisies. After a month on holidays we returned home to find my laptop’s motherboard was fried! That meant another month with no computer. So with all the extra time on our hands we decided to start on the scrap room makeover that had been a...
Feb 7, 2015 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hey everyone, Florence here! I am excited to share with you how I am using my February inserts. My style is very scrappy and I wanted to show you how I utilize this area for positivity and motivation. Depending on the week, I know for me, some weeks are more tough...
Jan 30, 2015 | Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! Alissa here today with another tip on a cool product in the Journal Entry main kit. The photo corners! Everything old is new again. I love that saying. But, not especially when the “old” that’s “new” is something I held on...
Jan 27, 2015 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello everyone! I am sooooooo in love with Cocoa Daisy Day Planner February kit! There are so many little hearts sprinkle all over the the page inserts and embellishments. Before I show you how I make retractable washi samples page marker (with a short video...
Jan 26, 2015 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Die Cut Files, Everyday, Freebies, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
Happy Monday, Christine here with you today to share my January planner set up, a few tips and some FREE cut files/PDFs! I like to keep all my planner supplies together in a small basket, I have the items from the Planner Kits as well as some favorite things...
Jan 14, 2015 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Tips and Tricks
Hello everyone! Today I am going to show you a quick pen test / swatch chart that I write on Daisy Day planner pages – to show you how well the papers hold the inks – even fountain pen inks and markers. And here’s the close-up of the page that i did...
Dec 30, 2014 | Inspiration, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks
Hey All! How many of you all were here PJ partying with us last night for the reveal? It was so fun, right? 🙂 Such a fun mix of stuff in the kit this month! I love when Christine adds, what I call, non combustible items to the kits! This month she added a Amy...
Dec 28, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello all! Happy holidays and happy weekend =) Today I am showing you some of the page markers that I made for my planners. Most of my planners have their own set of dividers and page markers. I don’t use them all at once but I would like to swap the dividers...
Nov 29, 2014 | Product Focus, Tips and Tricks
Hey All! How do all LOVE the December kits and add ons? Awesome stuff, right? One of the cool things in this month’s kit are the exclusive Cocoa Daisy acrylic shapes. So fun!!! I just love the colors and the shapes. Perfect with this month’s papers and...
Nov 26, 2014 | Tips and Tricks
So this post is meant to be a tips & tricks post. But instead of being some ideas for a scrap project I’m going to talk about life. Have you seen the Monty Python movie “Holy Grail”? Are you familiar with the scene with King Arthur and the Black...
Oct 31, 2014 | Mini Book Madness, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies! Happy Halloween! Are you all ready for the big night? I don’t think I’ve purchased any candy since last Halloween and I had to pick some up for the “trick or treaters” today. It was a little weird. Oh well, the kids will be happy...
Oct 23, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Tips and Tricks
Hello there! Today I would like to share a simple set up of one of my work planner using Daisy Day Planner kit. I am in love with the peachy pink colour in the October kit so I decided to use a pink planner to go with it. And October is alsoBreast Cancer Awareness...
Oct 22, 2014 | Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies, Martha here sharing a quick, fun technique I used on one of my layouts created with October’s Crabtree Falls add-on. For this project I printed my picture on a page from a vintage Girl Scout Handbook that I had picked up for .25 at a local thrift...
Oct 20, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
If you ordered the November Day Planner Kit then you received a star transparency strip that can be used as a page divider in your planner. We purposefully did not pre hole punch these so that you can adjust how far up you want your divider to peek above the top of...
Oct 9, 2014 | Everyday, Inspiration, Off the Page, Scrap Happens!, Tips and Tricks
Does Halloween happen in your home? Do you decorate your house? Here in the UK it’s not a huge thing. It’s more popular than it used to be, but nowhere near as big as it is in the US. We do decorate our home a little, the kids love Halloween. Today I have...
Oct 4, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
Hello hello, this is Sam (Happie Scrappie) here and this is my very first blog post on Cocoa Daisy here. so this blog post is about unboxing my very FIRST Day Planner kit from Cocoa Daisy. I took a lot of photos of the kit because I want to show you more details about...
Oct 1, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, News & Events, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
I am so excited to share this very first tutorial on how to use our Daisy Day Planner kits and pages. I’ve also included a FREE page divider PDF that matches the October Planner Pages and you can download that here. I’ll warn you, this is a long blog post...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mini Book Madness, Tips and Tricks
Hi Daisies! I am so excited to share some of the details of the mini album I made using the fabulous Story Time kit this month. This September kit is my all-time favorite kit from Cocoa Daisy- so far. I say that nearly every month, but that just proves how great...
Aug 14, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Scrap Space, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
Hi all! Suz back with you today to share my August edition of “When Your Kit Comes.” First, I begin by taking my monthly #mycocoadaisykitishere photo for Instagram (–a favorite “must do” for me) 😉 I am @SuzMannecke if you want to...
Aug 13, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Die Cut Files, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies. I want to show you how to customize/alter the free cut files we receive with your subscription. You can click here to see the video of how I was able to just get the crane from the card cut file and then design my background. This is the end result...
