Hello all!! Super excited to be announcing the LOTW! So many awesome LOs to look through and it means that I am Scapmatters Girl!! This week I choose Y_Baros Lucky U. It is perfect  for this month (or any month!) with wonderful use of green. The blocking is outstanding, I just love the way she used the elements and the journaling is so touching!!

Congrats Ybaros on you awesome LO!! Head on over to the gallery or the forum and leave her some love!

-Chel (Chel)

Yay!! It is that time of the month where we get to learn more about our fabulous guest designers!! This month our guest designers are Studio Tangie and Wimpychompers Creations.  I have been loving seeing all their stuff in the store (and alot of it is on my wishlist..he he!).   But it is always so interesting to learn more about the people behind these amazing designs.

First up I talked to Tangie Baxter of Studio Tangie:

1. Your screen name? Your real name?  My screen name is Tangie Baxter. My real name…I’ll give you three guesses (actually it’s Tangela but everyone calls me Tangie)!

2. What is your main job/career?  I’m lucky enough to be able to proudly say “Full Time Artist / Digital Designer”! Before that I was a real-estate office manager/controller and before that I owned my own preschool…I do change jobs about every 5 years that is about all I can take of something (hope that is a good thing?!).
3. Are you married/children/pets?  Oh yes very happily married to Dave, one fantabulous 12  year old daughter Samantha and an Italian Greyhound named Tank.

4. Where is home for you?  Sunny, Sunny, Sunny Arizona!
5. What are your 3 favorite foods?  Does Dr. Pepper count as a food?
1. Dr. Pepper
2. Mexican food (any!)
3. “Sunday” dinner (Roast & Mashed potatoes!)
6. PC or Mac? What program do you use?
I’m a PC girl through and through teehee! I use CS2, saving my pennies for CS5 due out in late Spring!

7. What is the most challenging part of designing for you?  Advertising! I’d much rather be designing but advertising is just as important as the design portion I think. But honestly I love designing so much I just JUMP out of bed every morning soooooooo excited to see what comes out of a day’s work. I pinch myself quite often and say do I REALLY get to do this all day????

8. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking?  Oh well let me see now….*thinking* there is so much! Computer Programmer, Website Developer, Seamstress, Chef, Collage Artist….

9. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?  *blush* I think the last time I watched TV was like 3 or 4 years ago… I just have too many other things I’d like to be doing (see #8 lol)
10. Describe your “designing” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?
Oh this is a fantastic question! I’m sitting at my Ikea workstation with my 2 dual monitors… stack of magazines & books, Dr. Pepper ( & sometimes a snack), notebook all on the left…I’ve got Pandora playing or a movie (almost always 1 of the 6 Harry Potter movies, or an old musical) playing on the extra computer behind me as background noise…in my Studio looking out some French doors to the backyard!
11. If you only had 2 elements in a kit, what would they be?  Ephemera and Frames!

12. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…?  A little known fact…I was in a commercial once (it’s a long story and NOT very glamorous) but none the less I really was!

13. When did you start designing? How did you get started?  I’ve been designing for about 3 years now (where DOES the time go???). I got started by doing freebies on my blog about 2 weeks after hearing about digital scrapbooking, I had been making websites for people to put their family photos so the transition seemed perfect!

14. How would you describe your design style?  Altered Vintage.

15. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation?  Is it just too cliche  to say EVERYWHERE!? I really do, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever said “I’ve lost my mojo”…I’ve got about 3 notebooks of ideas still waiting for me to get to them…truly I just love this job so much that everything around me inspires me…art imitates life, so I’m sure you can tell I LOVE all things vintage and altered art–I surround myself with it all the time!
16. Which of your products in the Scrapmatters Store showcases your style the most?
Well since this is only my second week as a guest I’d say the Bundle (it has little snippets of tons of products that I truly loved making!).

But I do love the Orchid Elixir kit because it combines my “usual style” with something a bit more modern and fresh!

17. What is your favorite color scheme to design with?  *chuckles* this is an easy one, you will almost ALWAYS find a very vintage color of turquoise and/or red in ALL of my kits!

18. Favorite kit you’ve designed for Scrapmatters?
Oh ooops I think I answered this in #16 but I do love the Orchid Elixir kit! Mehndi designs meets glitter and orchids! I heart it!

(That kit is so beautiful I figured I’d show it to you twice!  LOL!)  Thanks Tangie for letting us get to know a little more about you!  Check out Tangie’s full store HERE!

Next up is Christina of Wimpychompers Creations…

1. Your screen name? Your real name?  Wimpychompers but real name is Christina.
2. What is your main job/career?   I am a stay at home mom of three.
3. Are you married/children/pets?  Married 9 1/2 years and we have three children (5, 4 and 2)
4. Where is home for you?   California
5. What are your 3 favorite foods?  ice cream, soda, and fresh fruit (lol)
6. PC or Mac? What program do you use?  PC
7. What is the most challenging part of designing for you?  Having *too* many ideas and not knowing where to go.
8. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking?  I really want to practice more at photography.
9. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?  I love Greys Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.. sad I know. 
10. Describe your “designing” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?  I just got a laptop for Christmas so now I can snuggle on the couch in the same room as my kids and they are usually playing or watching cartoons.  I do sometimes steal hubbies i-pod and always have some snack nearby.
11. If you only had 2 elements in a kit, what would they be?  Something unique to that kit, and a frame
12. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…?  I played flute in marching band.
13. When did you start designing? How did you get started?  June of 2008 I think it was?  I was actually playing with PSP long before that as a signature tag maker, started writing tutorials and got bored with it all.  Digital Scrapbooking was a natural jump for me since I knew PSP already so well and loved paper scrapping since I was a teenager.  It was also less messy with small kids so I took the plunge, realized I could actually make stuff myself, and that’s the end of that.
14. How would you describe your design style?  I try to be unique but yet something I’d want to use.  I love to look at what others can do and especially love to push myself to try new things and new ideas.
15. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation?  Everywhere… online, catalogs (I stole my sisters Scrapbooking magazines once), Inspiration Boards, it’s everywhere.  I try to think “what do I need to scrap?” and figure others might need it too.
16. Which of your products in the Scrapmatters Store showcases your style the most?  My kit “It’s getting hot in here” mixes my felt dolls with elements that are digital and I really think I love that combination of craft meets digital world… it’s all about textures to me.

17. What is your favorite color scheme to design with?  It depends on my mood (isn’t that the truth) but I love green and yellow at the moment.
18. Favorite kit you’ve designed for Scrapmatters?   My newest one “Enchanted Blooms” is on my list of favorites for the moment, I think it’s a good collection of fun colors and is very versatile.

That was so much fun!! Thanks Christina for letting us in on some inside information!!  Check out the full Wimpychompers Creations store HERE!

Thanks again ladies for letting me interview you this week!!  These fabulous ladies are only with us for two more weeks so head on over to the store and check out all their awesome products!

-Amanda (panders77)