I’ve heard from quite a few customers that they would really like a chance to purchase the sold out project kit.  Because there is such demand for it, we are considering re-ordering it.  If you would be interested in purchasing one of the kits, please email us at mailbox@cocoadaisy.com   Thanks!

The color scheme of this months kit is so striking that I could not stop playing with it and I thought I would share a few ideas on how to use some of the bits and pieces I had left over as well as how to stretch the color scheme. The first thing I did was make a set of cards using some of the scraps I had left over - so glad I found a way to use that leftover half of a flower!
I love how the pale blue on the always card blends so well with the black, white and green of this kit. It is a nice “icey” color! The dandelion I used on the card was a scrap I had laying on my table

After putting the cards together - I really wanted to use more of this color scheme, so I grabbed my paints and just played! Including the pale blue in my background and the darker blue stitches help to add some great texture and make the grass overlay stand out.

So the next time you feel like scrapping but are not really in the mood to do a layout, use your scraps for a card -keeping them simple, or just grab a piece of white cardstock and play - adding paint and some little bits from your kit!

Hi all, Mou here. This is my first post ever on the CD Blog and I’m excited. Today, I want to share with you a small project I did with my October Cocoa Daisy kit “Newbury Street”.

I love tags. Being small in size, they don’t intimidate me and I get instant gratification when I finish one.

I love to create in layers. So, I wanted to combine my two loves in one little project : a layered tag.

For this project, you’ll need:

WNP Chartreuse Tag
HS flower

Prima stamp ornate frame

AC Thicker Daiquiri - Black
AC McKeown Felt Ricrac Lime
White Velvet Ribbon
MAMBI Sanctuary Awaken
HG Blk & White Floral shimmer glitter

SR Hampton Turner St
Stamping ink

White cardstock scrap

Circle punch

Craft knife

Adhesive

Pop dots

Step-by-step:

1.  Adhere the flower toward the top right of the tag below the tag hole.

2.  Stamp the ornate frame onto white cardstock scrap and cut out with a craft knife.

3.  With pop dots, mount this frame at about the center of the tag keeping left.

4.  Cut out a small sprig from the MAMBI Sanctuary Awaken paper.

5.  Adhere it toward the top right of the frame overlapping the flower. Tuck in the bottom part of the sprig under the frame.

6.  Cut a piece of AC McKeown Felt Ricrac Lime ribbon to fit the width of the tag and adhere it below the frame.

7.  Attach a scrap piece of SR Hampton Turner St paper at the bottom of the tag.

8.  Cut out a ‘1′ from the other side of the same patterned paper and glue it to the base of the sprig above the ricrac.

9.  Punch out a couple of circle from scrap pieces of the MAMBI Sanctuary Awaken and HG Blk & White Floral shimmer glitter papers. Tuck them in

     under the frame and one of the flower petals.

10. Use the AC Thicker Daiquiri - Black to spell ‘hi’ inside the frame.

11. Finally, tie a piece of the White Velvet Ribbon to finish the tag.

Now, you can use the tag as a free standing accent or use it to make card or even to embellish your next paper crafting project. Hope you enjoy making this dimensional and textured little project.

Thanks,

Mou

Hi there!  It’s me, Emily S. again!  I thought I’d share my thought process behind one of my gallery layouts for October.  I started keeping a journal in the middle of High School.  Every year around my birthday I would make a giant list of everything that I loved at that exact moment…a mini time-capsule of my life, if you will.  Well, I stopped journaling in written form (now I just use my blog) sometime around the end of college, and I hadn’t made a Birthday list for some time.  Well, a week ago today I turned 29 (yikes!  Isn’t this the age that I am going to repeat over and over for the rest of my life??!) and I thought that it would be fun to revisit “the list”!  So…here is my layout featuring everything that is “emily” at 29!

Hi everyone!  Emily S. here!  So…back in January I jumped on the “Photo a Day” bandwagon.  It was my second year…the first year I think I made it through like January 5th.  Seriously…it was bad.  Well this year I really put my mind to it!  And while I can’t say I actually have taken a photo a day since January 1, I did manage to take one through about June.  That’s a pretty big increase from the first year!!  Well here it is almost October, and I have tons of “POTD’s” cluttering up my scrap space.  I wasn’t quite sure what to do with them…but I knew it had to be something fairly simple or I’d most likely get annoyed quickly when it took forever!  I came up with the idea of using kraft cardstock (my favorite!) to create my own little mini-album.  I made the pages 5×6 so they would easily fit one photo and perhaps a few decorations.  I added the date to each photo, and then when I finish the entire month, I will create a few pages that detail each photo, kind of like an index!  I wanted to share a couple of them with you, including some that use my October kit!  (Did I mention that I love this kit???!!) It’s a great way to use up scraps, and it’s quick and easy enough not to drive you crazy!  I’m about done with January now (yes, yes, I know…I’m 9 months behind) but I think I’ll be pleased when I’m all finished! :)  Click on each image to see the full cards!