Category Archives: Dissecting Design
by Lisa Saunders | Oct 2, 2018 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks |
Hello it’s Lisa with a new blog feature for you today. We are going to be taking something from the kit each month which may be a little challenge for you. For me personally, this is one of the reasons why I love receiving a monthly kit. I like being sent...
by Lisa Saunders | Jul 25, 2017 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks |
Hi, It’s Lisa here today. I always find it really interesting hearing when people create a scrapbook page where their starting point came from. Was it the photo? Perhaps the story?? Or was it a particular item in your stash that you just couldn’t wait to...
by Janet Perafan-Babar | Mar 27, 2017 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, Sketch, Tips and Tricks |
Hello everyone! Janet here poppin’ to ask, do you use your Daisy Dori for memory keeping? I do. I love doing this in my Dori. I want to show you how you can be inspired by the Cocoa Daisy Sketches and adapt them to create layouts in your Daisy Dori. I use the...
by Lisa Saunders | Jan 10, 2017 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
Hello, it’s Lisa with you today to share a few little tips and tricks. I thought it would be fun to share more a technical tip of mine that I really enjoy doing. That’s printing off photo mosaics. You won’t often find those words in sentences of mine...
by Lisa Saunders | Oct 18, 2016 | Challenges, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks |
Hi it’s Lisa!! I don’t just have a challenge for you today, I have a blog post about Fall and how we document it. Today I am using my October Kit (has your’s come yet??!!) to remember a wonderful Fall afternoon. What do you think of when you think of...
by Lisa Saunders | Aug 24, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks |
Today I am sharing some tips with you on how I add extra colour to my scrapbooking pages. I am using my August Kit. I often like to add a bright colour border to my LO’s.I trim down a couple of 2cm off the sides off my white card stock and stick on to a coloured...
by Lisa Saunders | Jul 28, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
Today I have this LO to share with you. It’s a new one created with the very new August Kit. I am focusing on the paper addon and also the 12×12 Simple Stories Sticker Sheet that also comes as an addon. I’m always a big fan of the Simple Stories...
by AnnaB | Jul 18, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Dissecting Design |
What does your scrapbooking process look like? Do you change your mind a lot, going back and forth between ideas, or do you know from the beginning where you are heading? I rarely know where I will end up when I start pulling out photos and supplies. My starting point...
by Lisa Saunders | Jun 28, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Product Focus, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
Hi, it’s Lisa with you today, along with my lovely new July Kit!!! I really like working with large alphas, but sometimes you may like the size or the shape but the colours or patterns may not quite match your scrapbooking page. That’s what happened...
by Lisa Saunders | Jun 13, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration |
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gone through many phases since I started scrapbooking. The amount of photos I use on one page has been one of them. When I first started out I would use lots on the one page, but back then the design side of things...
by soapHOUSEmama | May 23, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration |
Hello friends! I just love the exclusive papers in the May kit! One of them even features a favorite design element of mine… GRIDS! Take a look at how I took inspiration from this paper and deconstructed the grid a bit… [iframe...
by Lisa Saunders | May 17, 2016 | Challenges, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
What is it that inspires you when you create? Is it your photos, a story, an image???? Today I have this month’s designers challenge for you. It’s a recipe challenge. I do love a recipe challenge. I like to make a little list and look around my stash to...
by Lisa Saunders | Apr 28, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Product Focus, Tips and Tricks |
Hello, it’s Lisa with you here today. I really enjoy these ‘Product Focus’ posts. When I open my kit my eyes usually zoom in on something particular. This month is was the Shimelle Starshine Chipboard Stickers in the main kit. The colours, the fun...
by Lisa Saunders | Apr 22, 2016 | A Day in the Life, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Feature Friday, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
Hi, It’s Lisa with you today. I think as well as scrapbooking our lovely photos, it’s just as important to document conversations. I like to keep a notebook on me so I can jot things down. When we take a trip, I keep a full journal as I want to remember it...
by Suzanna Lee | Mar 23, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Die Cut Files, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks |
Hi there Cocoa Daisy’s! Suzanna here today to share with you a little bit about my design process. Last month I showed you how I set up my kits for designing and this month, we will take that a step further and actually work on a layout. Here’s the...
by soapHOUSEmama | Mar 9, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
Hi there! You know those little tiny strips of paper we all end up with after a bit of trimming? They usually end up in the trash, right? I know they do in my studio! Well, not today! Take a look… [iframe...
by Lisa Saunders | Mar 8, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks |
Do you have a colour that always draws you in? A colour that always catches your eye? This is mine…. I am always drawn to teals and mint greens. This is my colour. I wear it, I choose my home decor in these colours, I can not keep away from it. I found...
by Lisa Saunders | Feb 26, 2016 | A Day in the Life, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Mini Book Madness, Scrap Happens!, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial |
I really am a no fuss scrapper. I have my materials in front of me and I get on with it. Today, with this mini book it was no exception. When my kit came I really loved the 12×12 transparent sheet that came with the paper addon. I knew I would make some kind of...
by Lisa Saunders | Feb 25, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Tips and Tricks |
We were chatting on the message board recently about different projects you would like to see on the blog and one thing that came up was seeing more creations using older and new kits together. It’s been quite a while since I’ve done that, so I thought it...
by soapHOUSEmama | Jan 26, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration |
Hey there! Ashli here with you to share a process video. I was so inspired by the gold vellum die cuts included in this month’s kit! Let’s take a look… [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/lFgo_xUh5K8″ align=”center”] As...
