Sunday Spotlight-Happy Scrap Girl
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!
