{"id":28687,"date":"2019-02-09T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=28687"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:37:19","slug":"february-feature-designer-day-dreams-n-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/02\/february-feature-designer-day-dreams-n-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"~~February Feature Designer &#8211; Day Dreams &#8216;n Designs~~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/images\/Blog\/Headers\/GS_blog_FeatureDesigner_Header.jpg\" width=\"353\" height=\"28\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy February. Today we&#8217;re talking with Shelley of Day Dreams &#8216;n Designs. She was kind enough to answer my scrapping and somewhat off-the-wall questions.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been designing?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I started out designing blog train freebies in 2014 and then opened my first store in April 2015. I started with a guest spot at GingerScraps in November 2017 and love being a GS designer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What made you decide to design?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had started digital scrapbooking a fews years before but then found some tutorials on how to design my own stuff. After participating in blog trains I found out how much I really enjoyed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you use to create your designs (program, additional tools, etc.)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Photoshop CC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Describe your design workplace.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have my own office with a large u-shaped desk that holds my PC and two monitors and my Mac Computer. And yes I use it all!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What motivates and inspires you as a designer?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My kids and what I need to scrap for them along with colors and themes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is your favorite kit currently in your GS store and why?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Snowy Adventure has always been one of my favorites. I love doing snow kits because I love snow but I also love the color palette.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/A-Snowy-Adventure-Kit-by-Day-Dreams-n-Designs.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/images\/P\/ddnd_ASnowyAdventure1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was your first job?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My first job was at a place call Sears Teleservice. We answered calls from people wanting to schedule repair service for Sears appliances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever met anyone famous?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are you reading right now?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Unblemished series<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is your favorite quote?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is something you want to do in the next year that you\u2019ve never done before?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take my family on a cruise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You have your own latenight talk show, who do you invite as your first guest?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmm, I don&#8217;t really watch talk shows but recently some of my favorite songs have been from Imagine Dragons so let&#8217;s go with them!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Find iphone, Messages, and overdrive &#8211; gotta have my ebooks and audiobooks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you could have someone follow you around all the time, like a personal assistant, what would you have them do?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hands down cooking and then cleaning. But I hate cooking more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you rather travel back in time to meet your ancestors or to the future to meet your descendants?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmm that&#8217;s a tough one but probably to the future to meet my descendants and see what it&#8217;s like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What commercial jingle gets stuck in your head all the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We only stream so we don&#8217;t watch commercials but my kids like that shark song and that gets stuck in my head a lot unfortunately!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you could turn the ocean into a liquid other than water, which one would you pick?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But water is my favorite thing to drink! I don&#8217;t drink soda any more but my favorite was cream soda so I&#8217;ll go with that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you to Shelley for playing along. Make sure to check out her <a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Day-Dreams-n-Designs\/\">GS Store<\/a>, her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Day-Dreams-n-Designs-1419540888293638\/\">FB Fan page<\/a>, and her <a href=\"https:\/\/daydreamsndesigns.blogspot.com\/?fbclid=IwAR1AvkqIYR2ryfJq5tj9P_TdCWBiLaUdzBliPYab8WdqD4R_N6nTE0zKXkM\">blog<\/a>. Also, make sure you are grabbing each piece of the daily download from the GS blog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dd.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/images\/Blog\/GS_footer_Stephanie.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"24\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy February. Today we&#8217;re talking with Shelley of Day Dreams &#8216;n Designs. She was kind enough to answer my scrapping and somewhat off-the-wall questions. How long have you been designing? I started out designing blog train freebies in 2014 and then opened my first store in April 2015. I started with a guest spot at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 10:45:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28688,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions\/28688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}