LOTW and Sunday Spotlight – Lawteeda Designs
Before we get to our regular post I wanted to remind everyone that the Scrapmatters Girls Call is still running!! It ends on September 10th so hurry and get in your application! This is an awesome team to be a part of!!
-Amanda (panders77)
This week was pretty easy to choose a winner for LOTW.. I had to pick Ophelia by Strange.bird that Wendy found and nominated for GSO. Seriously I’ve never seen anything like it; so much time, effort, and pure technique was put into it.. I think its one of a kind and definitely deserving!
Congrats Strange.bird!! Head on over to the forum or the gallery and leave her some love!
-Whitney (Whit)
I had the chance to interview a designer with possibly one of the coolest store names in the digital scrapbooking community- LawTeeDa Designs! Her kits are always full of inspiration, unique elements, and tons of personality- they are perfect for so many occasions! Now is the time to find out a little more about Christa:
1. Your screen name? Your real name? My screen name is LawTeeDa Designs (clever, I know, LOL)… my real name is Christa
2. What is your main job/career? I work full time in the business office of an outpatient surgery center. I’ve only been there for about 3 months now.
3. Are you married/children/pets? I’ve been married to my hubby, Derek, for 7 years now! We have one little boy, Cade Lucas, who is a huge inspiration in my designs… he’s 2 and a half and an absolute doll baby! My boys are my life!
4. Where is home for you? Home is where ever my family is! For the past few months, we’ve been in the process of making a HUGE move, across the state of KY. So we’ve basically been living in 3 different cities and living apart most of the time. It didn’t take me long to realize how much I missed my family… the house or city doesn’t matter, as long as my family is together, I’m happy.
5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Homemade pizza, homemade vegetable soup & anything Mexican.
6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Anything chocolate….
7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Salty… unless chocolate is an option, LOL
8. Beverage of choice? Coffee is usually my beverage of choice!
9. What’s your least favorite food? I haven’t met many foods I didn’t like…
10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? I have a desktop PC that is a dinosaur but I do most of my designing on my laptop and I use Photoshop Elements.
11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I’ve been digi scrapping since my son was born, so over 2 years.
12. What was your 1st LO about? Unfortunately I don’t have any of my 1st layouts posted in galleries. I believe that once I started designing, I hid my early stuff, LOL, but everyone starts somewhere! Pretty sure my first digital layouts were of my son, probably around the time he was born.
13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? Oh yes, I LOOOOVE photography! My dream is to be a professional photographer!
14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Getting started… usually once I get something in my head, it flows quickly and easily. But putting down that first paper or element or picture is the hardest!
15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Photography. Anything related to photography. You will rarely see me without my camera hanging around my neck.
16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? I love anything funny! Right now we are HUGE Dexter fans! I also love The Office, and of course Friends, Seinfeld, Family Guy & the King of Queens…
17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? Usually sitting in the floor with my laptop, in front of the TV. Usually with Cade driving his cars around me and throwing balls past my head.
18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? I love ribbons and I love buttons & brads…. I think with the right pictures, I could make a layout work with those elements!
19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I work a full time day job, I have a transcription business that I do at home, and then I’m a digital designer, wife and mommy. I wear a lot of hats, LOL!
20. When did you start designing? What is your favorite product that you’ve designed? I started designing about a year ago. My favorite product is probably “Faith”… I loved the kit, loved the color palette, but more than that, a LOT of the layouts that came from my own CT and from the site CT were so incredibly touching. I felt like the kit helped people scrap things that were difficult or things that were just hard to get out. So that kit is definitely special to me!
21. How would you describe your design style? Fun & bright… I like for pages to look like they’ve been paper scrapped, so I try to include a lot of elements that just look like something you’d find on an actual scrapped page.
22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation?
I get my inspiration from everything around me… my son, my family, my spiritual life…
23. Which of your kits showcases your style the most? I think “Faith” is a good example of my style.
24. What is your favorite color scheme to design with? I like neutral colors, like in “Faith”, I always love to include solid kraft papers in every kit because I love a lot of white space in layouts and I appreciate a good solid! I have designed a lot of fun colorful kits though! I’m really not partial to one color scheme.
Thanks so much Christa for letting us get to know you better!! Check out all of Lawteeda Designs in her store here!
-Whitney (Whit)
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