january cocoa daisy designer's challenge

This one was for the January Designer's Challenge over at Cocoa Daisy.  The prompt was to journal around a page element - a fun one.  Still proud of my boy and his Arrow of Light.  :)

You can see a couple of the other designers' takes on this challenge HERE.

cocoa daisy: january daisydori insert

got my january planner all set up just in time for the new year.  lots of talk about goals and plans in this one.  bring it on, 2016!

cocoa daisy: january mini mini

a super quick flip through of a very mini mini album created with the january day in the life cards from cocoa daisy.

cocoa daisy: flirt

there is a lovely love theme in the january cocoa daisy kits, perfect for my parents' 60th wedding anniversary photos.  my dad has become quite the flirt.  ;)

cocoa daisy: lots of project life pages

i cranked through my april project life pages with the january cocoa daisy ditl kit.  april is done!  hoping to finish march soon and then do another flip through video.  i'm into videos lately.  :)

cocoa daisy: january reveal!

can you believe 2016 is upon us?  just one more sleep till the countdown to the new year!  wow!  2015 has been a good one.  i have to say a big thank you to cocoa daisy.  january marks my one year anniversary with them.  i have enjoyed my first year tremendously and am looking forward so much to the next.  they are, after all, responsible for my current planner addiction.  ;)

if you haven't been by cocoa daisy lately, there's lots of new goodies and inspiration to enjoy!

cocoa daisy: kitty flip card

i made my first flip letter and it was SO much fun!  it's basically a mini-album in a card.  i thought the best way to share it with you would be through a little video.  you can see all the delightful things inside here:

cocoa daisy: christmas parade 2014

i love seeing my boy in that crochet beard!  he reminds me so much of my brother!  I used that black patterned paper in the background a lot.  mostly i used it to look like little christmas trees, but for this layout, i flipped it over to look like little beards.  hee.

cocoa daisy: jigsaw puzzle layouts

i love making these sorts of layouts.  i call them my jigsaw puzzle layouts because i just gather all my little leftover bits and see how i can fit them together.

cocoa daisy: post thanksgiving 2014

i'm slowly but surely finishing up my PL/scrapbooking albums from 2014.  This one I'm calling my post Thanksgiving spread.  It covers the last mow of the season, the Cub Scout Thanksgiving celebration, Christmas ornament making, a first snow flurry, and some random selfies.

cocoa daisy: his and hers kitty layouts

The Cocoa Daisy reveal is going on right now!  These were made with my December planner add-on.

Speaking of the Cocoa Daisy planner . . . oh my, oh my, oh my!  I need this . . .

and this . . .

With January starting out this amazing, 2016 is going to be a heck of a year!!!

cocoa daisy: printables and stickers in my planner

i have a blog post up over at cocoa daisy about using their free subscriber monthly printables in my planner.  i'm also enjoying using up more of the girly stickers in there lately.  as a boy mom, i love to find excuses to use flowers and pink deer.  :)

if you're on instagram and would like to see my pages on a more regular basis, you can look me up.  i'm doris sander over there like i am everywhere else, lol.

youtube: my favorite peeps

if you've been hanging around here this year, you'll have noticed that i've gone gaga for planners, the midori traveler's notebook to be precise (and soon to be adding a hobonichi addiction as i mentioned earlier).  you'll also have noticed that i've become more and more enamored with youtube.  you can find several people i've found to follow (as well as all my videos) over on my youtube channel, but here are some of my absolute favorites:

hobonichi/midori:
palest blue
my life mits
the little ink
april wu
wei taillandier

lifestyle:
fleur de vlog
extrasunbeamsjess
anna brim

do you have any favorite youtubers?  i'd love to check them out!

p.s. the super cute planner stamp set from cocoa daisy (that i used above) is back in stock!  check it out HERE!

cocoa daisy: woc 2014

another cocoa daisy november spread.  this one's from boy scout webelo outdoor challenge 2014.  my baby just keeps growing up on me . . .

cocoa daisy: gatlinurg

i think this might be the first layout i've created in which all the photos were taken by my son.  he was on vacation in gatlinburg with his father and now has an iphone of his own.  yes, we've entered a whole new era.  it's good.

another layout with my cocoa daisy november kits.  gorgeous and awesome as usual!

cocoa daisy: november reveal "gathering"

last night was the reveal at cocoa daisy!  the november kits are called "gathering" and they are just lovely, per usual.  the color combo is a bit unexpected for this time of year which makes it absolutely refreshing.  it was another effortless month on the scrappy front.  i threw together three layouts and two project life pages in one day.  wowzas!  today i worked on my november daisydori planner.  i think it's time to tidy up now and then make a list of what else i want to create with it.  dfefinitely i will need more time with the kitty stamps.  definitely.

cocoa daisy: halloween inspiration!

i have a new post up at cocoa daisy today!  it's all about halloween inspiration with non-themed product.  Check it out HERE.

cocoa daisy: ober gatlinburg

my goodness!  it's a good thing i finally took the time to tidy up the photo files on my laptop.  i had completely forgotten to edit and upload this layout!  i believe it was with the september (or maybe even august) cocoa daisy kit.  and i can't even believe we're getting close to cold weather season again.  brrrrrrr.  nor can i believe that my baby's been a boy scout for months and months now.  time flies.  this was his last big trip with the cub scouts.  i remember being so proud of him for sticking to it in the skating rink even though it made him nervous and he didn't like it much at all.  he persevered.  then i was very thankful that he really took to the skiing and loved it lots.  what a great trip!  we sure did love our cub scout pack and we love our boy scout troop too, we just love scouting.  it's brought and keeps bringing us so many wonderful opportunities and great people.

cocoa daisy: october cuteness

if i had to pick just one word for the october cocoa daisy kits, it would be cute.  squealworthy cute.  i really piled it on with this layout too.  hee.  and i still have to make a "foxy selfie" layout this month.  fun times ahead!  :)

cocoa daisy: golden highlights

i absolutely love that christine includes golden highlights in the kits most months. they are a neutral that goes with everything, but still add a little sparkle to my projects.