Hello from Debbie, Adornit editor. It’s time for Beginner’s Basics again! For the next few months, I want to focus on scrapbooking spring and summer traditions. If you’re like me, you have lots of scrapbook pages about fall and winter traditions, but not many that describe the fun things you traditionally do in the warm months. As you celebrate Easter this week, be sure to plan a scrapbook page that describes your Easter traditions.

A favorite May tradition is to make May Day Baskets and hang them on the doorknobs of special friends and neighbors. May Day Baskets are part of an old English festival called May Morning or May Day, which is celebrated at dawn every year on the first of May. Originally a Celtic fest, it celebrated the coming of spring by gathering flowers and branches – “bringing in the May.” Other May Day festivities include dancing around the Maypole and crowning a May Day queen.

The tradition of May Day Baskets is fun for young and old – especially the door ditching part! Using designer patterned paper from Adornit makes them extra easy – and pretty. I made baskets in three sizes; the tiny one is filled with flowers. The middle-sized cone has Hershey’s kisses and the large basket holds three or four cookies. I used my favorite color combination: pink and green. The pink papers are from Adornit’s new Dance Collection and the green polka dots are from our ‘Spunky Volleyball’ paper.