Happy Sunday everyone! It’s the SMG to bring you another wonderful spotlight. This week we have the pleasure to learn more about one of our wonderful designers…Happy Scrap Girl!

1. What is your real name? Well, only Andrea knows that for sure! Online, I go by Happy Scrap Girl, HSG or Happy – honestly, as long as you are nice, I’ll pretty much answer to anything, LOL!

2. Why did you pick your Designer name?I started out in digi land as a freebie hunter. My blog was called Happy Scrap Girl. Since so many people knew me with this name, I thought it might be a good idea to stick with it.

3. Can you tell us a little bit about who lives with you? I live with my wonderful family – a very supportive and loving DH & two sweet little girls.

4. What is your favorite color? My favorite color is blue – but fall in love with new color combos for designs almost daily!

5. Do you find yourself incorporating that color into your layouts/kits?I do have several kits in my shop that have blue in them – Taylor, Aiden, Wild, Flirt, Inspire Me and Color Me Happy Worn Papers all have lots of blue in them

6. What kind of computer do you have? I am a PC girl.

7. What program(s) do you use to design? I mostly use PSCS3 and PSE 5.0. I’m also learning to use Illustrator.

8. What is your favorite element? Flowers & greenery – I seem to be drawn to them lately.

9. What is your favorite type of paper? I’ve been designing a lot of Worn products lately – I’m a bit addicted to them actually!

10. When did you start designing? I started designing a little over a year ago.

11. What motivated you to design? One of my friends and I have this running joke whenever we go to a crafty type store – “oh, I could do that” – for those projects that just seem to easy to do on your own. The more I scrapped, the more I thought – “Oh, I could do that”. It’s taken me a while, but I learn how to do something new almost every day.

12. What was the first thing you designed? The first thing I designed was a template that I gave away on my blog. The first thing designed for SM was a pumpkin themed kit. Looking back at it now – I just cringe looking at it – my style has changed so much and I have learned so much more – maybe I’ll redo it someday – but it’s not in my shop anymore.

13. Do you remember the name you gave it? It was called Little Pumpkin.

14. Where do you get your inspiration? EVERYWHERE!! Kids clothes, toys, books, ads, TV, just walking through a store gives me ideas.

15. Have you ever done a Collaboration kit with another designer? I’ve done a few. I did one with Shari(SHARIng Creations) called Juliana and anther with Shari & Andrea called Refresh for the Queen of Scrap Challenge participants last year. I’ve done many with the SM design team. I’ve just finished a charity collab for Divine Digital. I worked on this month’s newsletter kit with Heather of Haynay Designs – I think this is my all – time favorite kit – just wait till you see it!

16. When did you start selling here at ScrapMatters? October 2007

17. What is your favorite kit that you’ve ever designed?That would be this month’s newsletter kit – I LOVE it! It was loads of fun to create, and the CT has created some gorgeous LO’s with it! I’m also addicted to making worn overlays.

18. Can you tell what your theme is for the next kit? Right now, I’ve got a few small projects in the works, but I’m really trying to cut back this month – because of the Christmas holiday and all the extra activities that come with it.

19. What is your design/scrapping area, what does it look like(Clutter, clean, organized, etc). Eeek! It’s a mess right now! When DD2 came along my office got moved to our basement. I have a huge French door that rests on file cabinets and is covered with a sheet of plexiglass as my desk that I absolutely love. I’ve got lots of pictures of my family and friends tucked in each window opening. My FIL made me a beautiful shelf that hangs above it and runs the whole length of the desk. Both are painted a creamy white.

20. Can we get a “Fan of Blinkie” for our readers to shout your beautiful creations in their signatures? Absolutely! I’ve got this one that was created by Neverland Scraps – Wendy – yup my interviewer!

I also have this older one:

Check out Happy Scrap Girl’s store here at ScrapMatters. Thanks for letting us get to know you better Happy!

Hi everyone!  Happy weekend!

Each week, the Saturday Special challenge brings us a new technique to try in scrapping.  This week I have chosen an artistic technique rather than a technical one.  I have chosen the technique of using a series of photos to sequence an event or project.  I want you to choose pictures that show the parts or progress of something.  It can be anything!  Some examples are showing a few photos taken within a short time span, like a minute, that show a child making a play in a sport, or using pictures of an object you are making that show the progress of it being completed (building something, doing a craft, etc.).  I chose to scrap a Holiday Tradition my family has and did it with a light feel to it.  I showed the progress of a couple days’ work of us making a TON of cookies!!!  Have fun and make it your own, I am excited to see how everyone interprets this!

Here’s mine:

See here for journaling and credits

Please scrap your entry using a series of photos and post it in the Saturday Special challenges gallery on or before December 31st.  And post it in the SM challenge forum here.  When you do, you will receive one point for completing the challenge.  You don’t have to use SM products, but we love it when you do!  As a bonus if you use a NEW SM product that has been released within one week, you will receive an additional point!  And there is no double-dipping.  Each LO must be unique to this challenge (i.e. can’t use it again for another challenge).

Here are some awesome examples the CT made to get you started:

From monsu:

From alamama:

From littlehiccup:

Happy Saturday and Happy Scrapping!  I’ll see you in the forum and gallery!

Jen