Category Archives: Traditional Designs
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 5, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Challenges, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs
Hello, Friends! Every now and then, it is nice to pare down your supplies and see what you can create. Today, we have set out a challenge to design a layout featuring the Denim and Blush Classified: Memory Keeping Kit. This kit comes with everything you need to create...
Dec 8, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Classified, Design Team Tips, Pocket Pages, Product Focus, Sequins, Stencils, Tags, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs
Hello, Friends! The Classified: Memory Keeping Kit is the best kind of surprise! Each month, this kit is thoughtfully assembled to coordinate with the other Memory Keeping Kits, with items that can really make your spreads sparkle. This month, the Cranberry Rose...
Nov 24, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Grid designs in memory keeping and planning are always popular because they make pulling a layout together simple and easy. The design is perfect for organizing photos and embellishments in a way that balances the layout. It’s the theme for...
Nov 10, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! Brown is a truly lovely color that sits on the warm side of the color wheel along with red, orange, and yellow. It’s probably not the first color you notice in a rich and vibrant autumn landscape. And yet, brown has a quite a diverse range of hues...
Nov 4, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Traditional Designs
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, On the blog today the design team is sharing layouts using the Acorn Lane pocket kit. We have a traditional 12×12 design and a pocket page design for you. Our pocket kits come with traditional 3×4 and 4×6 pocket cards as well...
Oct 30, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Classified, Product Focus, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! Today we are focusing on layouts created from components in our Classified Memory Keeping kits. Our classified kits are a wonderful compliment to our memory keeping kits and our planner kits too. And for many of us, we enjoy the delightful surprise of...
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Oct 21, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cocoa Daisy, Cut Files, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Inspiration, Printables, Sketch, Traditional Designs, Video
Greetings on this Wednesday in mid-October! Today’s blog post is all about gnomes, getting you ready for the Acorn Lane gnomefest happening in Gnome-vember at Cocoa Daisy! Three of our Memory Keeping team members have gathered fun ideas for adding gnomes to your...
Oct 7, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Sequins, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs
Hello friends, It’s mid-week in the beginning of October and we are fully into the fall season. If your like me, you’ll have lots of fall photos and memories to document. And you may be swimming in autumn ephemera, papers, and stamps. We thought it would...
Sep 30, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Hand Stitched, Mixed Media, Project Art, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, We’re focusing on mixed media in our designs today. Mixed media can be a complex layer of mediums or something as simple as a bit of texture paste applied to a pocket card with a stencil or a few drops of water color on your background. Our design...
Sep 25, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cut Files, Printables, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Cocoa Daisy fans, What do you get when you drop a pumpkin? A squash. He he…are you a pumpkin lover or a pumpkin hater? I’m not a big fan of most things pumpkin with the exception of the pumpkin roll. Yum! …but I digress. As you can tell, we...
Sep 11, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello and how is everyone doing? We hope you are staying safe and well. On the blog today, we are exploring hexagons. Hexagons are one of the shapes that make regular appearances in memory keeping and planning. I’m always delighted when I see layouts with...
Sep 9, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cards, Mixed Media, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, The tags in our kits are a staple, extremely versatile and can be used in any style of memory keeping or planning. Tags can be used as the main foundation for a layout, planner page or greeting card, a journaling spot, a small work of art, a bookmark,...
Aug 21, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Journal, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello Daises, Our design team has stepped up to the challenge of incorporating purple or blue or both in their designs. We are blown away by their ideas and use of these colors. Purple and blue are deep rich colors that pack a punch. They are on the cool side of the...
Aug 18, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Mixed Media, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs
Greetings! We often use frames to bring attention to a photo or journaling in our layouts and when we want to call attention to something pertinent in our planners. There are many ways to use framing to highlight the item of interest and we begin today with a...
Aug 12, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Traditional Designs
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, Are you drawn to flowers? Morgan Harper Nichols notes, “perhaps the reason you are drawn to flowers is not only for their outer beauty, but because they remind you beautiful things will bloom after the longest seasons of...
Jul 28, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Everyday, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Printables, Sticker Fun, Traditional Designs
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, Today we are exploring the power of floral elements in memory keeping and the various ways you can use flowers to accent your story. Flowers have a universal appeal in many areas of our lives and this includes memory keeping. There is...
Jul 17, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings friends! Are you a plaid lover? If so, we have a special treat for you today from our design team. They are sharing unique and one of a kind layouts with plaid using our To the Sea and Backyard Blooms kits. Let’s begin with a this awesome traditional...
Jul 8, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Cut Files, Inspiration, Traditional Designs
Hello friends, All of us are redefining what it means to travel in 2020 and we thought it would be fun to share a staycation layout idea with our To the Sea kits. In addition to travel themes, this collection can be used to create all sorts of every day documentation...
Jul 7, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Simple Dori, Sketch, TN Tuesday, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, It’s TN Tuesday, a day we explore traveler’s notebook layouts and sketches from Christine. Today the DT is sharing their interpretation of Christine’s sketches in both TN and 12×12 sizes. You are going to love these...
