Meet Stacy

A new year, a new month and of course a new Guest Designer! Avina brought December some wonderful layouts and it was such a delight having her with us...and now it's time for her to gracefully exit stage left as we welcome January 2010's Guest Designer, Stacy Stone!! Stacy has been around lurking in the wings of the blog for a long time. She's one of the few people on my friends list on FB who I've never actually met. I bet she'd be about as fun in person as she is online though.



Q-Tell us a bit about you & your family

A-I am married to my BFF Randy going on 12 years we have 3 beautiful kids 2 boys and a girl we live in Central Alberta i am a mostly stay at home mom i work casual at the local hospital as a lab assistant

Q-Why do you scrapbook?

A-when i was growing up i always asked alot of questions about when i was born and when i was little all the things you could think of i asked my mom never knew the answers she did not keep track i wanted those questions answered for my children besides the fact that i am a creative person and need an outlet

Q-What is on your playlist right now?

A-love various kinds of music country, classical even the young stuff love miley cyrus taylor swift those girls are so cute and talented

Q-Where fuels your creative mojo?

A- good pictures!! i have a photographer for a sister so she helps! I also recently purchased a canon rebel also helps

Q-What projects are on your scrap table today?

A-9 calendars for christmas presents 3 all about me books for my kids for christmas

Q-Which products are currently getting the most action in your layouts?

A-love october afternoon, amy butler paper or material love some independants like evalicious!

Q-Tell us about one of your personality quirks (weird habits/rituals)

A-i like to talk alot not much for adult conversation in my house when i am around others adults i talk alot!!!

Q-When you finish working on a layout, do you tidy up or walk away and leave the mess?

A-most of the time i walk away incase i am not finished

Q-Have you ever had a scrapbooking disaster? (spilled paint, burnt w/ heat gun?) and if so, were you able to rescue the destroyed layout?

A-yes i had a candle burning and did not notice my big plastic container to hold finished layouts was above quit messy noticed it before any real damage was done

Q-If time stood still for just one day, what would you do with the time?

A-breathe spend time with my kids and hopefully its a good moment where everyone is getting along lol

Q- Please share three of your favorite layouts.

Challenge 156

Merry Christmas!! I hope Santa has been good to you all. :)

We have another sketch for you and the Design Team has rocked it out once again. All the information to play along is here. If you would like to lift a layout by our Guest Designer, Avina, that is here.

Tania
Vanessa
Gudrun
Eva

Carol

Elly

Avina

Challenge 155

This week we are challenging you to

scrap a page without a photo!

I had these tickets laying around from a fun night with my girls but no photos. I still wanted to save the memory. There are lots of memories without photos that I want to save and have always left them unscrapped because I had no photos, but I don't have to... and neither do you. Lets see what you have!

All the info to join our challenges is here.

If you are looking to lift Avina's layouts go here.

Tania

Vanessa
Gudrun Carol

Eva

Elly

Avina

Challenge 154

Well, we've got a bit of a slim week of layouts this time, I'm afraid. Carol is on hiatus and Gudrun is unable to participate this week too...Bummer. Miss you guys!

This week's challenge is a great sketch that is super versatile and I, for one, really enjoyed working with it. Get a load of Elly's layout...she rotated it a quarter turn and got a completely different layout. Love that!

Don't forget, we want to see your layouts so if you aren't sure how to participate, go HERE to get the scoop and if you like a little extra challenge, go to THIS POST and scraplift one of Avina's layouts. Good times!

Vanessa

Tania

Eva

Elly

Avina

Challenge 153

Oh what a thrill! We have our brand new Design Team to introduce to you! Over the next short while (in between challenges, our new tutorials feature and all the voting) we'll give you a chance to get to know each of our amazing designers one by one.

If you are new and would like to participate in our challenges, go here to get the lowdown on how it all works!

For this week's challenge, I was a little reluctant. I wanted to go back into the (way too large) stash of supplies and dust off something from waaaaay back. The good ol' foam stamps. But I was kinda concerned that they'd look dated. Out of "fashion". But y'know what? I was beyond tickled...I was jumping up and down happy. I forgot about how great these stamps are!! When we moved to Whitehorse and I set up my studio, one of the things it was lacking was plumbing so if I ever dared to use paints, I'd always get stuck hauling the mess into the house to clean it up. (Not as fun as it sounds) so truly, as much as I love paints & foam stamps, avoided using them. But now, I'm set up in the house and I'm not afraid of the paints anymore. I think this challenge reminded me to dig into the supplies archives and bust out some old-school goodness. Why don't you give it a try...

USE FOAM STAMPS

Vanessa

Once the paint dried, I couldn't resist just a little bit of stickles (for sparkle, of course)

Tania

Carol
(Carol is taking a short 2 week hiatus...she's been on the team a looooong time and deserves a break!)


Gudrun

Eva

Elly

Avina

Meet Avina!

Another month down and can you believe that we're on the final month of 2009?!?! It seems like I just got used to writing 2009 and now I've got to get the hang of 2010. Sheesh, time sure moves fast, doesn't it?

Well, our previous designer, Dena Coe brought us some unbelievable layouts throughout November and we are sad to see her go. Thanks Dena, for all your awesomeness. We truly loved having you on our team and hope that you will be back to participate in challenges with us along with the rest of our wonderful readers!!

Now that December has begun...we have a new Guest Designer to welcome to the team. Avina Lim (AKA Brainybairn!). You may recognize her name in brackets as a regular particpant in our Flickr challenges. We've seen her gorgeous layouts appear over and over and she's been a finalist as well! This is really exciting to have her join us in our challenges for December. We are looking forward to seeing what wonderful artwork she'll produce in the coming weeks and welcome her warmly to our team of new & returning designers.

She shares a bit about herself, her creative process and a few favorite layouts as well. Sadly we are no longer offering the scraplift contest but still invite you to scraplift her layouts anyway and please do share the links to your work in the comments section below.

Get to know her a little::

Q:Tell us a bit about you and your family.

A: I'm a FTWM with 1 little one who's often the subject of my scrapbooking endeavours. I have an extremely supportive husband who understands that scrapbooking is my source of entertainment and a creative outlet that allows me to de-stress.

Q: How long have you been scrapbooking and where did you get your start in this craft?

A: I started off as a card maker but stumbled upon scrapbooking while looking for a LSS that sold Sizzix dies about 2 – 3 years ago. It was through this that I got to teach at a LSS. But I would say that I went into scrapbooking full swing this year.

Q:What inspires your creativity when you are scrapbooking?

A: All sorts of craft! I especially love flipping through vintage craft books and looking at crafts of yesteryear. I'm also inspired by advertisements I see and other people's work!

Q:Describe your creative style

A:I dabble in almost all styles but probably do vintage or clean lines with more ease. But that sounds like an oxymoron, right? LOL! With vintage layout, I tend to go with the flow when I scrap with minimal planning and they usually turn out nice. With clean lines, I can't go with the flow and need to plan BUT I do them a lot faster and I do get compliments for those layouts so that would be considered good too!

Q:What are your three favorite products/techniques right now?

A: 1. Mists 2. Stickles 3. Inks! With all these, anything can be modified to make it your own!

Q:What project(s) are you currently working on?

A: To stay on top of the housework so I can get more scrapping done! LOL!

Q:Describe your perfect day

A: The day where the housework would get miraculously done and I have all the time in the world to play with my family and scrap!

Q:What are your three favorite layouts of all time that you’ve created (published or not)?