First of all, thank you for the FANTASTIC response to the challenge! I wanted to highlight the runners-up, but there were too many to post! I loved seeing all of your work and am very thankful you took some time to play along.
The winner of this challenge is Marti Richards! Marti, thanks for sharing your talent with us, and make sure to contact Lisa for your gift certificate!
Thanks again, Daisies! We love seeing what you make!
We asked our amazingly talented Design Team to do a little challenge. For some,
it was easy, for others, it really pushed them out of their box, but they all did it.
Christine sent everyone an Alterable Hip Bag from Maya Road, the only instruction
was to use something we got from a Cocoa Daisy kit or is in the Daisy Boutique on
the bag.
Can you figure out what each team member used that came from a Cocoa Daisy kit
or is available in the Daisy Boutique?
Join us to see what each team member did. Some of the designers will be hosting
their own private giveaways, so be sure to check out each blog, you could be a
winner!
And because we ended up having more fun than we thought, we’d like to give a
chance to alter along with the Design Team. Hip bags will be available in the store
come the June kit. Pick up your own to alter and we’ll have the DT vote on a winning
bag. More details will follow!
Now off you go, be inspired!
1. Alissa Fast
5. Emily Pitts
6. Jaime Warren
7. Jody Ferlaak
8. Kim Stewart
10. Mandie Pierce
11. Mandy Koeppen
We are thrilled to have long time Cocoa Daisy friend, Ronda Palazzari, here as our May Guest Designer. She’s a great friend and supporter and we love having her stencils in the shop, they are always a huge favorite. We love what she did with the kit, please read on to learn a little more about Ronda.
Ronda Palazzari is an Author, mixed media Artist, Scrapbook Designer, and an Instructor living in the burbs of Denver. She has been into art since early childhood. One of her most memorable Christmas presents was a Crayola Caddy that inspired her to create. She took many art classes throughout her secondary and college schooling. Ronda was also an editor on her high school newspaper. She loved photos, stories, and white space so layouts became her specialty. After the birth of her children she began scrapbooking as it brought art & storytelling together. In 2009, Ronda became a Memory Maker Master for Memory Makers Magazine. She has designed for many manufactures including Fancy Pants Designs, Lily Bee Designs, Crate Paper, Purple Onion Designs, as well as Guest Designing for many other leading manufactures. She was on the Cocoa Daisy Design team from Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2012 and has been a subscriber since the beginning. Her first book Art of Layers with North Light Publishing/F&W Media was released in March 2012. She has published in several magazines and idea books including Artful Blogging, Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, and Somerset Magazines. Ronda is currently a license designer for The Crafter’s Workshop releasing 8 new stencils in January 2013. She is currently contract designing for Maya Road, Sizzix, and My Mind’s Eye. Ronda launched her website Ronda Palazzari Designs in February complete with online classes, digital downloads, & tons of inspiration. She’s best known for combining her mixed-media techniques with bold bright colors. Ronda is one to follow because you never know if she will be art journaling, scrapbooking, sewing or getting messy with paints; her art changes day-to-day. She continues to teach worldwide as well as providing inspiration and telling her dorky stories on her blog HelpMeRonda.
Here are her answers to the standard questionnaire:
Here’s a link to Ronda’s May gallery, make sure you check out all her work!
Thank you Ronda, we’re so happy to have you here this month!
Hi everyone! Jaime Warren here with you today to share a super simple spring mini album using the gorgeous Day In The Life April kit! I had some left over cards and embellishments, so, I decided to put them to good use by creating this album. We love spring time around here and I wanted to document all of the fun things that we do this time of year – gardening, playing in the water and relaxing around the fire pit.
This album is really easy to create – I simply punched two holes along the sides of each card using my hole punch and then used jump rings to bind. I used my Cameo for some of the die cuts and the rest is strictly from the kit! There were so many lovely little bits to use! I used a combination of large and small cards to maximize the area I had for journaling and photos.
Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek at my mini album! Have a wonderful Tuesday!!
Hello Daisies~ I am here with lots of ideas and uses for those cute cloud stamps that came in the April main kit. For some, the clouds have dumped more snow and rain than needed this spring, but the clouds at Cocoa Daisy never bring unwanted weather with them…just fun and inspiration! So let’s get to that, here we go!
I love that each month when the kit comes there are endless possibilities of what to create out of the kit contents, and that inlcudes the stamps for sure! I have a few ideas to share of how I used them with my April kit {which is sold out}, but with the Bumbershoot add-on as well {which is still available for purchase if you want to grab one for yourself!}. I love trying to think outside of the box, and that is one way to get more uses out of your stamps. One way to use stamps obviously, is to simply stamp them as is. Using various colors or adding glitter or embossing on them adds dimension, texture and changes the details of them. So play around with your stamps each month and see how simply using different techniques changes the way they look and feel.
Here are a few examples of basic stamping with the clouds:
In addition to stamping, you can trace around the actual stamp and create cut-outs. These are fun for adding dimension to your projects and you can use them in so many different ways. Here I cut and traced some out of felt. You can’t stamp on felt or fabric very well most of the time, but you can trace and use the stamp as a template. I used my cloud template and cut and layered a couple of clouds together with pop-dots for added dimension and texture on this card. There are so many ways you can use cut-outs. You can make a mask with your stamp shapes when you use this technique too. Like I said, endless possibilities!
Another way I used the stamp was to trace it, but include some extra border to the base of it. It changes the look in yet another way on this minibook cover and on this layout where I added the cloud and number 9 {which was a 6 on the cards in Bumbershoot add-on} to imply “on cloud 9″.
Sharmaine used her cloud as a border stamp on this cool page, instead of as a traditional cloud.
Look at your stamps in new ways each month and see how you can turn them, trace them, glitter them or any other way simply have fun and be creative with them! We love seeing your ideas in the gallery and hope that you are putting your Cocoa Daisy stamps to good use each month. Happy stamping!
