Maintaining Continuity When a Project Drags On

Posted on May 28, 2016 by daydesigns

Happy Saturday everyone!

It’s the weekend … finally! I’m not sure what that signifies in your house, but around here it means chores, birthday parties, field hockey, soccer, more field hockey, and hopefully, some crafty me-time. I’m lucky that I can get into my Scrap Cave whenever I want during the week as I am home with the kids right now. I am working strictly from my stash though as the budget doesn’t allow new purchases. This can create different challenges and today I’d like to share one solution to prevent burn out.

This post is also about how to keep things interesting and feeling fresh when you’re working on a project over a significant length of time.

These two challenges came together recently as I was working on my youngest daughter’s First Year album. I explain what I mean by that pretty well in my video introduction so let’s get right to it.

Here is my completed layout. Continue reading →

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LOAD516-24 – Gather All The Pretty Papers!

Posted on May 24, 2016 by daydesigns

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Welcome to Day 24 of LOAD516!

My humble apologies for this post not going live with prompt. I was confused and thought I was up tomorrow! Oops!

I completely blame my insanely busy weekend! When you are as old as I am you should just know that you can’t possibly hope to function on 4.5 hours sleep!! It messes you up for days!

But, moving on …

Today’s prompt was about what makes you feel confident or courageous and I freely admit, if I feel like I look like a million bucks, then I can act like it too! Here’s my process video in which I explain that a whole lot better and show you how I gathered all my favourite and pretty things to make my layout.

And the finished layout. Continue reading →

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Stash Busting – Off-Cuts and Branding Strips

Posted on May 19, 2016 by daydesigns

If you’re a paper scrapbooker like me, then you probably have a love hate relationship with manufacturers. It’s great that they don’t take away from the gorgeous 12×12″ patterned paper by adding a bar code and other identifying marks onto the paper, and it’s fun that they are now starting to add a patterned strip on the opposite side to said bar code and branding, but … then what? What do you do with all those cute 1/4″ strips of paper?

I keep mine safely in a drawer “for future projects”. You know the type of drawer I’m talking about, right? The type where good intentions go to die?

Not anymore!

I’m here to show you how to break out all those strips and use them on a layout! In fact, use them to create the background of a layout. Take a look.

And here’s my finished layout. Continue reading →

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LOAD516-16 – Odd Socks and Flying Monkeys

Posted on May 15, 2016 by daydesigns

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Welcome to LOAD516 Day 16!

We are officially over the half-way point.  How are you doing? If you saw my post on Saturday then you know my answer to that question! But it is a brand new week. Onwards and upwards!!

Today’s prompt had me a bit stumped at first but I got it all sorted out eventually. I talk about it in the introduction to my process video so I’ll just let you watch that instead of prattling on about it here. Enjoy!

And here is my finished layout. Continue reading →

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LOAD516 – Week Two and the wheels came off the LOAD Train!

Posted on May 14, 2016 by daydesigns

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Well this week sucked as far as my LOADing went! Hope your week was better.

That’s the way it goes sometimes though. I’ll admit there were a couple of prompts that had me stumped but I know I don’t have to follow them so I have no excuse for not creating a layout. Other than life getting in the way. Darn it!

Here are my efforts for this week and I’ll be back soon to show some other layouts that I made during (Inter)National Scrapbook Day which was last Saturday.

Day 8 – WTF? (Where’s The Food?)

What were YOU thinking it meant?? Continue reading →

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Helping Fort McMurray Victims

Posted on May 11, 2016 by daydesigns

Words on Wednesday

I’m  not sure if you’re aware of this or not, but I am Canadian.

Red, white and proud!

There are a lot of stereotypes about Canada that are hilarious because they’re mostly true – or so ridiculous that you can’t help but laugh. One of those stereotypes, that no one in Canada is laughing about at the moment, is the image of a plaid clad lumber jack.

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LOAD516-11 Crunching The Numbers

Posted on May 10, 2016 by daydesigns

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Welcome to LOAD516 Day 11!

How are you doing so far? There have been so many lovely layouts in the gallery, so I’m thinking you guys are rocking it!

Today I am back as the Featured Scrapper with a prompt about how much things cost. Since I give a pretty good explanation at the beginning of my video, I think I’ll just get right to it!

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