LOAD516 – My first Week’s Efforts

Posted on May 9, 2016 by daydesigns

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In case you’re not aware, I’m participating in LOAD this month. In fact, I’m one of Alice’s Featured Scrappers! Very exciting!!

I’ve already completed my layouts with the prompts I received in advance (and have scheduled those posts to be released on the right days), but I have been trying to also play along each day. So far I’ve completed 5 (and a half) layouts – not a perfect score but sometimes even fun events like LOAD need to take a back seat to real life. I know, I know! Real life! Whose brilliant idea was that anyway?

Want to see what I’ve made so far this month?

Like you have a choice! LOL!

Day #1 – What does a typical day look like? Continue reading →

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Principles of Design – Part VI: Unity and Harmony

Posted on May 7, 2016 by daydesigns

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Wrapping up our Design Series and bringing it all together.

The last principle is kind of a cheat. It’s the over arching concept behind this whole series. So far we have talked about how to create balance in your layouts, how to move people across your page by creating rhythm, how to draw your viewers eyes to one particular aspect of your page with emphasis, how to make sure the proportions of your layouts are kept balanced, and how to play with scale to keep things interesting on your layouts. I assigned you homework and then tackled it myself – just to show you it can be done! I’ve still got my layout with large scale pattern to make, but I showed you how I chose the papers I wanted to work with and then used them to create a layout with a small scale pattern in the background, and one with a medium scale patterned background.

Today I have a whoppingly long video to share to demonstrate our last design principle.

Principle #6 – Unity and Harmony

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New Mini Bundle from Scrapbook Bundles

Posted on May 5, 2016 by daydesigns

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Your friends at Scrapbook Bundles are at it again! We’ve compiled a fantastic mini-bundle just for (Inter)National Scrapbook Day.

To give you a closer look at what’s inside the mini-bundle we are having this blog hop. There’s no particular order to complete it, and no penalties for not completing it! But if you do visit the Scrapbook bundles site plus all four contributing designers sites and leave comments, you’ll be entered to win a bundle!

EDITED TO ADD: We have a winner! Patti Pierce you’ve won a mini-bundle! Congratulations!

Sound good? If you get lost head back to the Scrapbook Bundles site where the master list is!

Once again I am participating – I love coming up with new products for these bundles! This time it’s a fun art journal for you and your kids to create together. Continue reading →

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LOAD516 – Let’s Get This Party Started!

Posted on April 30, 2016 by daydesigns

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Welcome to LOAD516!

It’s day number one and I am so excited to be the first Feature Scrapper of the month. Big shout out to Alice, our hostess with the mostess, Go To Gal Kelli, and all the rest of the Featured Scrappers. I know we are going to miss Lain but I also know that she has left us in such capable hands. Alice has awesome plans up her sleeves!!

So let’s get to it.

Today’s prompt was a lot of fun for me to tackle. I even made a cut file on my Silhouette for the occasion. You can see it and my layout come together in this video.

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Dissecting the #Momfail Attitude

Posted on April 27, 2016 by daydesigns

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#MOMFAIL #PARENTFAIL #EPICFAIL

How many times have you seen those hashtags used on social media this week? Today?

How many times have you used them?

A couple days ago my twelve year old daughter and I had a full on, screaming, door slamming, ugly cry-face fight that left me thinking in hashtags like these. It also left me quite shaken. So much so that it’s been impossible to think straight, make any headway on any creative tasks, and generally, left me feeling like a zombie. I’d love to be able to throw in some witty reference to The Walking Dead here but I don’t watch the show (because, ew!) so I’ll just say that caffeine is my best friend at the moment! And my iPhone calendar. Thank goodness somebody knows where I’m supposed to be at any given time!

The reasons behind the fight are unimportant (but for all you young people out there – coming to your parents at 11PM when they are just trying to catch up on a million hours of PVR’d shows they don’t have time to watch anymore because they’re always driving you and your sisters hither and yon, and you’re supposed to have gone to bed two hours before, to cry about how awful it is that there are so many stray cats and dogs in the world, is NOT A GOOD IDEA! ‘Nuff said!) but the aftermath will have repercussions for years. And hopefully not just for me!

Her comments of what a mean Mom I am don’t bug me. I am a mean Mom! Thank God! She’s the fantastic kid she is because I’m a mean Mom that believes in boundaries, early bedtimes and restrictions on the internet! Continue reading →

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Working with a Medium Scale Patterned Background

Posted on April 23, 2016 by daydesigns

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Forgive the delay in continuing my lessons on Design Principles but I wanted to share more of my “homework” with you.

Last week I talked about Scale and gave a homework assignment at the end of the post. I asked you to go through your stash and chose three sheets of 12×12 paper – one with a large scale pattern, one with a small scale pattern, and one with a pattern somewhere in between the two. Then grab items from your paper scrap bin that could be used with these 12×12 sheets to create layouts. Did you attempt this?

I’ve been doing this with my own stash and sharing my results with you. First I chose my papers, and then I created a layout with the small scale patterned background. Today I’d like to share the layout I created from my mid-sized pattern paper.

And here is the layout up close and personal. Again, don’t laugh! It was 1991 people!!

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Working with a Small Scale Pattern Background

Posted on April 21, 2016 by daydesigns

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I’m back with the first of three process videos where I take you through my Scale Homework. Not sure what I’m talking about? Check out my post from Saturday where I talk all about Scale and it should become clear. Then you can watch this video which takes you through my process in choosing my three patterns and the complimentary papers from my scrap bin that I collated to use when creating my layouts.

Small Scale Patterned Background

Clear as mud now? Here’s that layout. Continue reading →

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