Cocoa Daisy Memory Keeping Kits "Always" - January 2018

Hi there! Today I"m sharing a closer look at the January 2018 Memory Keeping Kits "Always". They are the perfect combination of love and winter and will help you get your memories onto beautiful paper and into your albums!


This is one of my most favorite cards of the Memory Keeping Pocket kit! The designs on the cards are so versatile. Several have beautiful quotes and sayings printed on them that you can easily use to make cards or tags and send some love notes to friends near and far.


This die cut from the Memory Keeping Kit is a great prompt to journal about your status quo! What are you currently doing, loving, watching, reading, feeling? Take photos of your everyday life and document where you are at "right now' - these snippets of life are always so great to look back at.

The next three photos show some of the different paper combinations that spoke to me while I was filming the unboxing video.


What do you think about this combination? A busy, colorful pattern, combined with a larger patterned and an almost solid?


Or what about this? It's very dramatic with those bold colors. But it would still work with a smaller pattern contrasting the larger hearts. Maybe it would even work on the awesome mixed media background! I love papers like this one: you don"t have to do the intimidating mixed media stuff, it"s already there!


Now last but not least this paper combination! I think this one with the bright yellows calling for Spring is my favorite of them all! What is yours?

Here is a link to my unboxing video, I would love for you to check it out! What are your plans for your kits? Did you see that there are still some Memory Keeping kits and pocket cards left in the store? Right now, I think I am going to start with one or two spreads in my Project Life 2016 album, I am still catching up and those cards and embellishments are just perfect. Then I would love to create another mini album, a bit different than last month's, more structured. I'd love to capture one highlight from each month of 2017 and create a "Best of 2017". How about you? Have you created a 2017 review layout yet? And then finally, if there are still papers and embellishments left, I might start another new project. Hahaha. As if I hadn't enough already! I would love to hear about your ideas and plans for the kits in the comments! Thanks so much for your time! I'll see you next month!

Cocoa Daisy: April Planner Kits and TOP 5

When my package from Cocoa Daisy arrived at my house on Wednesday, I filmed an unboxing video and then arranged all of the items from the kits on my white foam core for some pictures. Theo -my youngest- was home with me and pointed out the different things he liked and was generally very interested in all of the pretty planner things, that I had the idea of a new little series: every month Theo and I will pick our TOP 5 items from the kits and share them.

Theo's choices are dominated by the pretty butterflies, he picked those first and then he also chose the washi tape and the week on one page from the personal planner pages. I totally understand why: the stripes perfectly represent the color scheme of the month and are always an eye catcher. Then his and circled above the die cuts once more and the minute he read: "Today will be a good day!" he dove down and made his last pick.

I leaned towards the clouds this month: I chose the puffy cloud paper clip as well as the cloud sticker sheet. I love the patterns on the clouds and I cannot wait to use them. Then I chose the journaling card which not only includes my favorite pattern from the patterned papers but also this quote from Shakespeare. And even though I don't use the tab die cuts very often, I love them non the less and this one has a raindrop pattern! Lastly I chose these two dandelion die cuts which are by far my most favorite item in the whole kit. I just LOVE dandelions.

April Lilli Design Team: Crate Paper "Heart Day"

Can you believe it is already February?

For this month April chose the Valentine's line "Heart Day" by crate paper to be the featured collection in her shop. For the whole month of February 2017 it will be 20% off the original price. I have filmed an unboxing for you where I show you the papers and tell you my ideas and thoughts on the collection. I have already been working with the papers and embellishments and can't wait to show you my ideas. Since I am most active on instagram make sure you follow me there so you won't miss any sneaks and closeups of my projects. a talk about my ideas for this wintery collection.

April Lilli Design Team: Simple Stories "Winter Wonderland"

I have been chosen to be on the April Lilli Design Team for the first half of 2017. I'm so excited! If you followed me for a long time you know that I love sharing my passion with you all! To have the opportunity to help a small business grow and reach more people and maybe get some of you interested in and passionate about scrapbooking feels really great.

Every month there is a featured collection in the April Lilli Shop which is 20% off the original price. For the month of January 2017 this is the Simple Stories Winter Wonderland collection. I have filmed a very detailed unboxing for you where I talk about my ideas for this wintery collection. I am still working on several ideas and will be sharing them with you here on my blog, on instagram and over on my youtube channel.

Unboxing the Cocoa Daisy September Kits: Lunch Break

If you want to have a closer look at the kit - here you go. It got here Monday, but I was just able to do the voiceover today.

Studio Calico. Project Life Kit. Februar 2015.

Ich habe es wieder gemacht: ein Vorstellungsvideo zum Project Life Kit im Monat Februar. Dieses Mal habe ich ganz schön mit iMovie gekämpft, denn das Programm ist immer wieder abgestürzt, wenn das VoiceOver etwas zu lang war. Alle paar Sekunden musste ich stoppen und wieder neu beginnen. Wenn ich das vergessen habe, war alles futsch. Deshalb wiederhole ich mich an manchen Stellen auch. Nun ja. Sicherlich kann ich noch einiges verbessern ... aber ich lerne am liebsten by doing. Viel Spaß beim Gucken!

Studio Calico: Project Life Kit. Januar 2015.

Oh man ey. Premiere. Ich hab tatsächlich mein erstes Video gedreht und bei youtube hochgeladen. Diese winzigen, delikaten Scrapbooksachen kann man mit Fotos nicht so schön zeigen, wie man das mit einem Video hinbekommt. Außerdem kann man gleich (oder dann hinterher beim VoiceOver) kommentieren, wie einem das Teil gefällt und wofür man es wohl einsetzen möchte.



An eine englische Version habe ich mich noch nicht getraut, aber vielleicht ist es ja auch mal ganz schön und noch nicht so verbreitet, wenn es ein deutsches Haul- (oder Unboxing-) Video des Project Life Kits gibt. Falls es Euch gefällt, dürft ihr das gerne sagen! Es hat auf jeden Fall Spaß gemacht und ich habe Lust auf mehr, vielleicht gibts das jetzt monatlich? Und vielleicht auch irgendwann als deutsche und englische Version ... mal gucken.