Show Your Colours

Posted on June 21, 2015 by daydesigns

Make it Monday - FebruaryWelcome to Make It Monday! Today we are sharing our love of our Countries! You may have arrived here from Gina’s site where she is sharing a perfect upcycled project that answered her need for a place to put canisters. Or this may be your first stop, either way I’m glad you are joining us on our Blog Circle today. Your next stop is linked at the bottom of this post.

My Home and Native Land is Canada. Home of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Polar Bears, Beavers, Mosquitoes big enough to eat you, the Rockies, Maple Syrup, Poutine, Ice Hockey, … I could go on! I am a first generation Canadian, we immigrated in 1981 and haven’t looked back since. Well, that’s not totally true. I look back all the time – it’s important to know where you came from! I am proud to say that I am Canadian and I am equally proud to say that I am Scottish (British even – gasp!) I am proud that my children are Canadians. We are so very fortunate here.

Today I’d like to share some projects that I’ve made over the years to celebrate my Red and White Pride. Continue reading →

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Using Up Those Off-Cut Strips

Posted on June 20, 2015 by daydesigns

Welcome back! Today I am sharing the last of the four layouts I made from my May 2015 Gossamer Blue Kits. I had a lot of fun with the kits I purchased and I still have a lot left but my June kit is here and calling to me to open it!

Today I am also sharing another inspiration starter from Shimelle Lain’s latest workshop – Ready, Set, Scrapbook. She is the undeniable Queen of creating layered layouts using seemingly non-matching scraps of paper. I love watching her put layouts together! Usually I am thinking “no, don’t put that there it doesn’t go!” But she always manages to bring everything together so in the end it looks like it belongs. Like any other choice would have been wrong! Genius!

This one is inspired by her use of branding strips and off cuts to create an L-shaped frame for a photo and story.

PB&J by Alison Day Designs Continue reading →

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Mixing Portrait and Landscape photos on One Layout

Posted on June 18, 2015 by daydesigns

Hello again. Happy Thursday!

Do you ever sit down to scrapbook and realize that the photos you want to use to tell one story are a mix of landscape and portrait orientation? I have developed the kind of style that prefers a single photo block on my pages so mixing the orientations can be challenging sometimes.

In the immortal words of Barney Stinson, “Challenge Accepted!”

Field Trip by Alison Day Designs Continue reading →

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Ready Set Scrapbook

Posted on June 17, 2015 by daydesigns

Hello again! On Monday I shared the first of four layouts I completed with my May 2015 Gossamer Blue kits as well as (a lot) of talk about losing my creative mojo and how I am starting to get it back now. Are you ready to see another of those layouts today? I sure hope so because I am in a sharing mood!

Easter Bounty by Alison Day Designs

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Getting My Groove Back

Posted on June 15, 2015 by daydesigns

Make it Monday - pinkWelcome to Make It Monday!

This is a day that many of my fellow crafters take to share their latest creations, tips, inspiration, and tutorials with you. For a while now, every week, I’d stare at my computer screen in the days leading up to Monday and try to come up with something to share with you. And every week, I’d draw a blank.

You see, my mojo has been off. I had lost my crafting groove!

My photos and supplies have been piling up but I’ve had no idea what to do with them. I would move paper around, clean up my desk, sort through my scrap drawer, even organize my enamel dots. But nothing seemed to spark my creativity.

Now, there are many reasons why this is the case for me right now, none of which I will get into today. Maybe one day I’ll share, but today I want to talk about my Craft Cave! Continue reading →

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So You Think You Can Dance

Posted on June 6, 2015 by daydesigns

Today is Day #2 of the Annual Year End Dance Recital for my girls. This year it is Cinderella!

Deas Island Dance Presents Cinderella

This is the culmination of a year of dance classes for the girls and as such, I felt the teachers needed thank you cards! Continue reading →

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Will She? Won’t She?

Posted on June 4, 2015 by daydesigns

It’s June. JUNE!! How the heck did that happen?

Every month I film my latest Gossamer Blue Kit and have the very best of intentions to scrap with it. But for more months than I can remember I have failed to do so.

Last month I did manage to get 3 layouts made but … for a gal who’s used to making 10 or more layouts in a month, three doesn’t seem that big a deal.

Why am I telling you this?

Because I got an email today that my June kit is on its way and I haven’t cracked into May’s yet?! I did film it for you though.

So … the question is, what will I make from it? To find out, stay tuned here and over on my Flickr Gallery.

Thanks!

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