Sunday Spotlight – Guest Designers!
Hello, hello, hello and welcome to another edition of our Sunday Spotlight. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend so far. I’m excited to bring you interviews with our two awesome Guest Designers this month, Micheline Martin and Armina Designs.
Let’s jump right into a little Q&A with Micheline Martin.
1. Your screen name? Your real name? Micheline Martin (both my screen name and my real name)
2. What is your main job/career? I currently self employed and run an in-home daycare.
3. Are you married/children/pets? I am happily married for 8 awesome years!
4. Where is home for you? My home is in Canada.
5. What are your 3 favorite foods? My three favorite foods are Lasagna, Grilled Cheese, Ceasar Salad.
6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Vanilla
7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Sweet, I have a huge sweet tooth.
8. Beverage of choice? Pepsi, definately Pepsi!
9. What’s your least favorite food? Ground Beef….yuck!
10. PC or Mac? PC
11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I rarely ever make layouts. I can count the amount of layouts I’ve made in my whole life on two hands.
12. What was your 1st LO about? I have no idea, it was such a long time ago.
13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I love reading, watching movies and having family time with my husband and children.
14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Honestly, picking the colors. I’m such a perfectionist that it takes me hours to find the perfect colors that look well together.
15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? I would love to sky dive.
16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? My favorite movie is anything that is old school horror and tv show is definately The Big Bang Theory (I want to marry Sheldon lol).
17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? Pepsi, music on my ipod, I can’t design in a too quiet environment.
18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Um, if I would need to scrap a layout I need an alpha and a ribbon.
19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I am french
20. When did you start designing? What is your favorite product that you’ve designed for ScrapMatters? I’ve been designing for almost 6 years. So far, I have a Grab Bag available in the SM shop.
21. How would you describe your design style? It changes with my mood. Some days I want to be playful and design something more bright and fun, other days I like to keep it simple and clean.
22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? Magazines, tv, and my kids clothing.
23. When designing, do you start with papers or embellishments first? ALWAYS papers, elements are always last.
Now, let’s take some time to get to know Armina Designs.
1. Your screen name? Your real name? My real name is Armina and I’m not too creative, so I used my name for my screen name too.
2. What is your main job/career? I’m a stay at home mom. I used to work as part time web designer and a part time web design lecturer in a local university here. Right now, I’m focus on digital scrapbooking.
3. Are you married/children/pets? I’ve been married for over 10 years and have 3 wonderful children. We have fish pond and a turtle.
4. Where is home for you? I am originally from the Philippines, but moved to Indonesia in 2002 and got married.
5. What are your 3 favorite foods? It’s not really easy to narrow just 3 foods? Hmm… mostly anything about Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino foods.
6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Cookies and cream, mango and ube.
7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? I like both 
8. Beverage of choice? Make it simple, water.
9. What’s your least favorite food? Anything that doesn’t taste good, lol.
10. PC or Mac? PC forever!
11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I discovered digital scrapbooking in 2007. I joined several designers to CT and and I’m still on their CT’s until now. A few months after I started scrapping, I tried making freebies and the feedback was good, so I’ve decided to start designing.
12. What was your 1st LO about? It was just simple and the shadows were not really proportional. I never did upload it since I didn’t know any digiscrap gallery that time.
13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I love sewing whenever I have free time.
14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? To get inspired in starting a page and find a perfect kit for my pictures.
15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Photography. I have the tools but am to lazy to start learning, hehe.
16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? Anything at Cartoon Network, Playhouse Disney, Disney Channel and Boomerang. I like cartoons and children shows LOL. Most of the time, my kids use our TV. I do love anime too. Movies? Well, anything about Jackie Chan, Jet Li or other Chinese action movies. I also love comedies, adventure/fantasy and animation.
17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? I want to have a peaceful environment when I work but it seldom happens, so most of the time I hear screaming, fighting, laughing, playing and my kid’s TV shows because my PC is in our bedroom.
18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Hmm… a flower and wordart.
19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? OK, I am not a chatty person.
20. When did you start designing? What is your favorite product that you’ve designed for ScrapMatters? I started in 2008. I’ve designed some exclusive products for SM and one of them is the Forever Grateful Kit inspired by my family.
21. How would you describe your design style? At first I really focused on dark colors, mostly extracted elements and a bit grungy kits. Then I needed to try something new, so I am not sure about my current style.
22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? Usually my kids and family inspire me. Whenever my kids do something cute or funny, I usually have something in my head to design for.
23. When designing, do you start with papers or embellishments first? I usually start with the papers while creating the preview and add finished elements at the same time.
Thanks so much for taking time to get to know our two fabulous Guest Designers! Be sure to stop by the SM shop and take a look at the amazing goodies Micheline Martin and Armina Designs have available this month!
-Kelli (kellig)
