Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Cocoa Daisy Sneak Peeks: Home Again



A HOUSE IS MADE OF WALLS & BEAMS. A HOME IS MADE OF LOVE & DREAMS.

Because of the US Thanksgiving holiday, Reveal Night will be moved up two days! Mark your calendar now for NOVEMBER 26th and join us on the message boards for the Reveal Night festivities. Same times, different date. Chatting starts at 8 PM ET, kits and add ons go on sale at 9 PM ET. 

Many have penned words on the subject of home, but perhaps the best words of all come from Oliver Wendall Holmes when he said, "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

December's kit and add ons are all about that feeling of love and home. Featuring many Cocoa Daisy exclusives again, including the new wood veneers, we think you'll find all you need to focus on what makes your house a home with our December kit, Home Again, on sale to subscribers November 26th at 9 PM ET. Sales to the public will be at our normal day and time of December 1st at midnight.
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We think the December stamps are ones you'll reach for again and again. Perfect for organizing and categorizing, you'll want to get them all! And don't forget to try out our Cocoa Daisy ink pads, they are the perfect black. Or you can go for bright colors, we've got them too with our Prima chalk inks.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Wordless Wednesday: Oh Mav!

A partying Mav on Teagan's Birthday. Not sure what this face is about. Love this Dude! 


Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Silent Night Sketch


Today's post is my sketch post from this past week's October Afternoon blog. 
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I love the bold yet simpleness of the poster. I created this simple sketch with a a few added embellishments to inspire you. I hope you like it.
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Here is the layout I created:
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The first thing that came to mind when i started creating was that the bold vertical block would be a great place for a photostrip. I haven't scrapped many of the photos from the 2012 holiday season so the brand new Silent Night collection and this sketch was just the kick i needed to get those photos on a page. I love the classic Chrsitmas colors with the added pop of gold and chalkboard in this new line. The black chalkboard like washi tape from Silent Night is AWESOME! I used it for the journaling on the left side of the layout.The title and gift box are cut with the Cameo. 
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~Have a great day! MK

Sunday, November 10, 2013

1 hour packaging layout

I thought I would share one of my challenges from the Cocoa Daisy Crop last weekend. This was a 1hour challenge meaning the ladies had 1 hour to create a layout using 3 different types of packaging and then 20minutes to photography and upload to the CD gallery. It was a lot of fun.
I posted a teaser the week leading up to the crop to give the ladies some ideas of what not to throw away? Here are some of the items.
Glassine bags your kit embellishments come in Clear plastic from embellishments
Basic Grey or MME embellishment backing
stickers from your CD bags
the clear plastic baggies from embellishments etc.
whatever packaging you want to use go ahead and use it.

Here is what I started with:
a few examples of what I did with my packaging. 

Embossed the BG packaging for the background of my frame.

Stitched a shaker baggie out of an embelly baggie


Journaling on a Cocoa Diasy Stamp backing

Frame cut with my bigkick and Laina Lamb die but you could freehand it.

Stars cut from the Websters Pages packaging.

The layout again:

I hope I've inspired you to create something with packaging. Thanks for stopping by! MK

Friday, November 01, 2013

Stargazing Revealed

Here are the projects I created with this months Stargazing kit and add-ons by Cocoa Daisy.













thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to join us this weekend on the Cocoa Daisy message board for the Fall Crop. ~Mandy

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