Category Archives: Dissecting Design
Feb 23, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Mixed Media, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Video
Hello, Friends! Today, we have two members of our Memory Keeping Team sharing their process as they put together a memory planner spread and a 12×12 layout. We have the final spreads here on the blog, but make sure to head to their YouTube Channels for a...
Feb 19, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Chipboard Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! As paper crafters, we tend to have a tried and true formulas for designing a layout. That said, it is always good to mix it up and challenge ourselves with different design styles and formats. Today, we asked our Memory Keeping Team Members to create a...
Feb 13, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Basic Elements, Behind the Scenes, Classified, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Freebies, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello Daisies ! Today, a little insight into how I make one of my favorite page each month : my tracker page ! I really need to have a pretty tracker page. If not, I completly forget to fill the page in. This month, I fell in love with the tracker printable...
Feb 10, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Art Journal, Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! If you follow us on Instagram or are a member of the Facebook group, then you might have seen a new FREE Monthly Journal Challenge, created by our Design Team Coordinator, Jennifer. This month, the journal challenge is all about our favorites. We love...
Jan 29, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Classified, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Printables, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! Much of the joy in receiving a Cocoa Daisy kit is looking through all the beautiful embellishments. The Die-cuts, chipboard, stamps, enamel dots, wood veneer, stickers, and washi tape are just a few of the embellishment options that arrive at your door...
Jan 13, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Mixed Media, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial, Video
Hello, Friends! Patterns are all around us, especially on our memory keeping pages. When we think of patterns, we often think of pre-designed patterns, like the ones found on the papers, stickers, and washi from our monthly kits. But if we remember that a pattern is...
Dec 28, 2020 | Basic Elements, Challenges, Christmas, Classified, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Journal, Kit Papers, Planner Setup, Printables, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello Daisies ! I hope everyone is Ok and had a wonderful Christmas despite this complicated year. Today, I wanted to show you how I plan my weeklies. Since June, I use a dotted notebook as a planner, and I add all my wonderful CD goodies. Each week comes on 4 pages :...
Nov 7, 2020 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Art Journal, Classified, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, Journal, Mixed Media, Planner Setup, Rub Ons, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial, Washi Tape
Hello daisies ! I hope you are all OK. November is Gratitude month, and I’m sure you all have some things to be grateful for. Personally, I love doing this exercice for some time now, every day of the year 🙂 . Each morning, with my “wake-up-coffea”,...
Sep 16, 2020 | Dissecting Design, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Today our design team is sharing their layering tips and tricks with lots of great examples! Layering is an important element in design because it adds texture, depth and focus to your paper crafting. For example, adding layers of paper and texture...
Feb 18, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Happy Tuesday! The design team are sharing 12×12 designs they have recreated in a TN format with the Love Notes kits. First up is Traci with a lovely layout based on a 12×12 sketch. “12×12 Sketches are so easy to turn into Traveler’s Notebook...
Nov 22, 2019 | Dissecting Design, Everyday, Monochromatic, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! Today we are getting to know Ria de Lara through an exploration of her monochromatic designs. Ria is highlighting many of our past kits as well as a new design with the Memphis Season memory keeping kits in today’s post. Now here’s Ria!...
Nov 6, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here. Odessa and I had fun making interactive flip out pages with the Memphis Season kit. Here is Odessa’s page before it’s opened up: And here it is with the fold-out: So cool! This is what Odessa has to say about it: “A fold out...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
