Category Archives: Basic Elements
Aug 24, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Guest Designers
If you’ve been in the scrapbooking world long, you might recognize our Memory Keeping Guest Designer, Paige Tayor Evans! Here’s brief introduction from Paige: My name is Paige Evans and I have been scrapbooking since I was 16 years old when I got my very...
Aug 7, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Journal, Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! One of the best parts about planning with Cocoa Daisy is the ability to make your planner pages super fun and fully functional for your everyday needs. Today, our Creative Team shares how they stay on track in their planners while having plenty of room...
Jul 1, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Design Team Tips, Off the Page, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! The memory-keeping kits have a few “MVPs” that we receive most months, and one of those is the sheet chipboard elements. The sheets are usually filled with a mix of cute sentiments, shapes, and decorative pieces that can jazz up your layout...
May 26, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cards, Guest Designers, Rub Ons, Simple Dori
Shu-Wen has taken the Tranquility memory keeping kits and created several beautiful memory keeping projects! Project 1: Celebrate! TN Memory Keeping Spread I was so excited to be invited as Cocoa Daisy’s Memory Keeping Guest Designer for May 2021 that I made a...
May 24, 2021 | Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Planner Setup, Pocket Cards, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Daisies! If you want to know the truth, this post is all about making your planner pretty, not functional. Ha, ha! Don’t get me wrong, functional planners absolutely have their place. However, speaking for myself, if my planner looks pretty, it takes the...
May 21, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Art Journal, Basic Elements, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Journal, Kit Papers, Mixed Media, Off the Page, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! Here at Cocoa Daisy, we are all about finding thinking outside your box of happy and encouraging ways to stretch your monthly kits a little further. What better way to do that than with a little mix and match! Whether it’s combing elements from...
May 18, 2021 | Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, friends! Layering is a foundational element in most memory-keeping designs. By adding layers you can create depth and focus to your layout. Layered clustered provide visual interest and can help to tell your story. Today our Memory Keeping Team shares their...
May 6, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Planner Setup, Product Focus, Stamping Sensation, Tutorial, Washi Tape
Hello Daisies ! I hope you are all OK. Today, I will show you how I make a month view with calendar sticker kit, some decorated papers and some littles elements. 1/ Here are the things you will need to make your page : calendar sticker kit, some...
Apr 30, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hello, friends! For today’s post, we asked our Memory Keeping Team to design a layout with a diagonal orientation. We frequently see center, right and left aligned spreads, but today, we are mixing it up! We think you are going to love what our team came up with....
Apr 27, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! For the Northern Hemisphere, spring is (hopefully) in the air! While some areas of the United States are still experiencing snow, by and large spring has sprung and we couldn’t be happier about it! Today, we have three spring spreads in three different...
Apr 19, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cards, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Product Focus, Product Spotlight
Dashboards are one of my favorite kits. They aren’t expansive and you can do so much with those ! In this blog post I will show you how I used some of this month dashboards, and will make some other suggestions. Each month, I like to use a dashboard to...
Apr 14, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook, Video
Hello, friends! Clouds can symbolize many things and are a wonderful embellishment to the stories you want to tell. For some, clouds represent change and transition, For others, clouds represent hope and gratitude (looking for the silver linings). While others may...
Apr 7, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! We have already sprung into April, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look back at March, right? I know for me, I’m usually still in the midst of documenting the previous month (or two!) as I enter the present month. And you know what?...
Mar 18, 2021 | A Day in the Life, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Inspiration, Planner Setup
Hello everyone! I’m back for another post here on the blog to show the flexibility of Cocoa Daisy. Last month, I wrote a post and shared how I used multiple kits in multiple planners. I want to kind of revisit this topic, but with a slight twist. I’ve added a third...
Mar 13, 2021 | Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Video
Hi daisy friends! I’m happy to dig into my March Treetop Canopy planner today and walk you through how I set up my weekly spreads. I’ve picked week 11 to set up, which includes St. Patrick’s Day so I started off by choosing a (mostly) green spread...
Mar 11, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Tutorial
Hello Daisies ! I hope you are all OK. This month I wanted to talk to you about my Memory keeping system for 2021. I stole the idea from Kristine who was in the Design Team last year. She posted a flip through on the Facebook group in December and I knew I wanted to...
Mar 10, 2021 | Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial, Video
Hello, friends! Today, we are sharing some fun with the contrast of big and small elements on a page. When including an element like an enlarged photo, it helps to pair the big element with smaller details. The Treetop Canopy Collection plays well with this idea as...
Feb 20, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks
Hi everyone. Hope you are all doing well. Today we are going to focus on the sticky notepad that we usually get in the planner main kit. Sticky notepad is one of my favorite stationery items, because it’s so versatile. You can use sticky notes not only to plan and...
Feb 17, 2021 | Art Journal, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cut Files, Daisy Designers, Die Cut Files, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! The updated Modern Memory Keeping Kit inspires our Memory Keeping Team to jump into all kinds of paper crafting endeavors. Today, we’ll share a few of these projects featuring the Denim and Blush Modern Memory Keeping Kit. Let’s see what they created!...
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...
