Happy Sunday to you all! Today we spotlighting one of our wonderful members Jude (judet).

1. Your screen name? Your real name?

judet. Real name is Jude.

2. What is your main job/career?

I’m on a career break at the moment, but normally I attempt to teach physics to teenagers.

3. Are you married/children/pets?

I’m married and I have 3 year old and nearly 2 year old girls – they appear in my layouts quite a lot!

4. Where is home for you?

I live in Essex which is in the east of England.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods?

Really difficult to decide! My husband’s homemade curry, my pizza and my signature cheesecake (only dessert I can make well!)

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Either homemade pistachio and cardamom (don’t knock it til you’ve tried it, or Ben & Jerry’s Fossil Fuel

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet?

Sweet. No contest!

8. Beverage of choice?

Going to have to be really English and say a nice cup of tea…

9. What’s your least favorite food?

Anything deep-fried. Yuck.

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use?

I’ve got a laptop running Vista and, as everyone probably knows, I scrap using GIMP (it’s free!)

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started?

I was looking for pretty backgrounds to print for my elder daughter to stick things on as a kind of holiday journal. Found a few things then clicked on Shabby Princess… That was early last year, but I didn’t really do much with it til November. I know it was November cos I missed all the National Scrapbooking Day giveaways!

12. What was your 1st LO about?

A day out in the country with my family. It was basically a paper, a few photos and a flower stuck randomly on…

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)?

I run, not as much as I should; I used to do a lot of big walks, but we just do the 3 miles my daughter can manage now and I love taking photos – trying to learn how to do it properly now.

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you?

Stopping!! Um, probably having to figure out how to do everything from scratch as all the tutorials don’t apply! That’s getting easier though as I learn more.

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking?

I want to improve my running, my aim is to build myself up to a 10k. Of course, that means getting off the sofa. And I want to learn to take photos in manual.

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?

Not too bothered about TV, but I do watch Doctor Who (it’s a revamped cult British family sci-fi type thing).

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?

On the sofa with my laptop, TV or whatever game my husband is playing on in the background.

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be?

Flowers and something sparkly.

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…?

I’m doing ADSR with Judy (jupiter394) and apparently I send too many emails …

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style?

Ever changing! I’m inspired and influenced by other layouts. Depends on the kit and the pictures. I’d say I mainly try to mimic paper layouts, I love it to look like its sticking up off the page.

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?

Resolution – One of my better pieces of journaling – there is some!

I do – I love the way the pics came out on this one and it’s a really precious memory

Dedham and Flatford – I just really like the way this one came out.

Aren’t those pages beautiful! Thanks Jude for letting us get to know you. We sure love having you at ScrapMatters and we love seeing your work. Make sure you check out her gallery and leave her some love!

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!

Hello again it’s Shantell from the SMG. Today we have a very special treat. We are going to learn more about the wonderful Judy. She is a member of the SMG.

1.   Your screen name? Your real name?

My screen name is Jupiter394 and my real name is Judy.  My husband always called me Jupiter when we were first dating and sometime still does.

2.   What is your main job/career?
I am a SAHM of three.  Now that they are older I do quite a bit of volunteer work.  I manage two travel soccer teams, help at two shelter organizations, and will hopefully re-enter the work force once my daughter can drive.