Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
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 4, 2021 | Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Mixed Media, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Rub Ons, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Tutorial
Hello, Friends! We hope you are having as much fun with the Tranquility Collection as we are. The mix of zen-like greens and pops of black, mixed media elements make this collection so fun and versatile. We wanted to take time to focus on two products that are pretty...
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 23, 2021 | Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Tutorial
Hello, friends! Putting together memory-keeping spreads is a snap when you have pretty pocket cards to work with. With each collection, there is a variety of pocket cards to use for decoration, journaling, titles, and photo mats. While they are available as part of...
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 17, 2021 | Cards, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Pocket Cards, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone. Tanti is here. As you might know, I love using stamps in my planner or on my journal pages. So today, I‘m sharing how I used the April Cocoa Daisy stamp sets from both the modern memory keeping kit and from the planner add on kit. I love the cloud stamp...
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 7, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! We have already sprung into April, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look back at March, right? I know for me, I’m usually still in the midst of documenting the previous month (or two!) as I enter the present month. And you know what?...
Mar 26, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Pocket Cards, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs
Hello, friends! Sometimes, we need a little help to get started with a memory-keeping spread. Lucky for us, the Cocoa Daisy Memory Keeping Kits has a variety of little prompts to kick start your creativity. Today, our memory-keeping team shares how elements in the...
Mar 20, 2021 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hi everyone. I love it when Cocoa Daisy included the puffy stickers in one of their kits. I use them not only to decorate my planner and journal pages but also to make some extra planner accessories. Today I‘m going to show you how I make them and how I use them in my...
Mar 19, 2021 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Pocket Cards, Repeated Shapes, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! Memory planning is a wonderful way to document the little things. There are so many things that happen in our daily life that we want to remember but aren’t necessarily appropriate for a traditional scrapbook layout or project life spread....
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...
