This week we were lucky enough to interview Jadelyn (scrappycharmer) from our very own ScrapMatters CT!  Here is what she had to say when asked a few questions:

Thanks, Jadelyn, for sharing more about you!  It is fun to get to know our CT a little better!

Melissa (Missi_me)

ScrapMatters is proud to feature 4 Guest Designers this month:

*Brine Designs

*Little Green Frog Designs

*PictureDesigns

*WM[squared] Designs

We wanted to find out a little more about them so here are responses from Andrea of Little Green Frog Designs and Sandra of PictureDesigns!

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First up:  Little Green Frog Designs

1. Name/username? Andrea / Andrea4376 (aka Little Green Frog Designs)

2. What does “family” mean to you? Will you share with us about yours? Family means the world to me. My hubby and I have just celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary and have been together over 19 yrs. We have an 11 yr old son and an 8 yr old daughter and our world revolves around them. I’m also lucky in that my immediate family is close by – my nan lives next door to my mum and dad and my sister and her family are also a short drive away. We love to get together for special occasions.

3. What is your favorite aspect of being a guest designer? Getting to know a whole new group of customers, designers and CT – it’s a lot of fun.

4. Is there a style, theme or color scheme you tend to gravitate towards often? If so, what? I tend to prefer bright colours against a white background – I think it’s a lot more eye-catching. Style wise I don’t believe I stick to a particular style and love trying out new looks.

5. What is one thing you know now you WISH you had known when you first started designing? How much time I’d spend on promotion and marketing. Luckily I think I’ve finally got myself organised and it doesn’t take quite as long as it used to (and I have a great team behind me to help)

6. Any helpful tips/tricks/shortcuts you’d be willing to share with us? The one thing I do all the time when I scrap or when I am making my previews is sharpen up my layout/preview. I use this method and it rocks!

7. Do you spend more time designing or scrapping?Right now – definitely designing. My scrapping time has shrunk quite considerably but being on 4 CT’s helps me to make time to do occasional pages.8. What types of photos do you enjoy taking most? (family, scenery, action, etc.)I would say the majority of my photos are of my daughter. She’s a total diva and loves playing it up for the camera. My son on the other hand will hole up somewhere until he’s sure the camera has been put away. I only ever get shots of him when we’re out and about and he’s not looking !9. If a magic scrapping/designer fairy could come and grant you ONE wish…..what would it be??An action that would create all the  TIF, PSD, pngs and page files for one template in one press of a button That would be so much easier ! lol.10. Where would your dream vacation be?There is only one answer for me and that’s Disney World, Florida. I’ve been so lucky in that I’ve been able to visit 6 times so far and we’ve just booked to return for 3 whole weeks in Oct/Nov 2013. It’s likely it will be our last trip while the kids are kids.You can stay in touch with Little Green Frog Designs at the following links:
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We’re catching up this week with a couple of ladies who work hard at ScrapMatters.  The first is Jacqueline (Jacqueline1976) who is on our CT and the second is Trisha (tishyrae) who is on our ScrapMatters Girls team!  Read on to get to know these two ladies better  . . . .

Jacqueline:

1. Your screen name? Your real name?
*Jacqueline1976 or Jacqueline, my real name is Jacqueline*

2. What is your main job/career?
*I’m in surveying, but in the office.*

3. Are you married/children/pets?
*This year I married 10 years. We have two children, a son and a daughter.We have no pets.*

4. Where is home for you?
*I live in Germany with my family.*

5. What are your 3 favorite foods?
*Cheese, fruit, bread*

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
*Chocolate and Strawberry*

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet?
*Salty*

8. Beverage of choice?
Cola, milk, juice, but no coffee*

9. What’s your least favorite food?
*I like to eat pizza, salad*

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use?
*PC. I use Photoshop Elements 10*

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started?
*I scrap since late 2006. I’ve been looking on the internet. And I’ve discovered DST ….. and now I scrap digitally.*

12. What was your 1st LO about?
*I do not have my first LO. Here is a layout from the year 2008. I find it terribly.*

*Is that not awful? No shadow….*lol**

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)?
*A new hobby is geocaching. It’s totally fun and my kids love it to go on a treasure hunt.*

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you?
I don’t now. *

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking?
*hmm, don’t now*

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?
*I watch no television …. very rare times. Movies are too long …. because I’m impatient.* *lol*

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?
*We have a hobby room. Since PCs are for my husband, son and mine. So we always sit together. Music running sometimes from the PC my husband. I have usually quiet*

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

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

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style?
*I like cluster and my elements are most big.*

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?
*I have no favorite layout. I like almost all of my layouts.*

or this

22. What is one thing you tend not to use on layouts?
I use so rarely alphas.*

How fun to see some of your work and hear about your faves!!  Thanks Jacqueline!

Now, on to Trisha:

1. Your screen name? Your real name?
tishyrae- Trisha

2. What is your main job/career?
MOM/daycare provider/taxi/graphic designer

3. Are you married/children/pets?
I am married to my best friend, Andy! In August it will be years! We have 4 beautiful children. Madalyn (9) Miles (6) Dawson (5) Delaney (4). TOTALLY busy with our kids and their events! We have a boxer named Otto who adds lots of laughs to our household and farts! My son, Dawson got fish in October and one was pregnant so we had baby fish who have made it pretty far. Kind of neat to share that with my crew!

4. Where is home for you? Home is Wisconsin. My family came from Germany to Dale, WI.back in the 1800′s. And this area is where my parents grew up and I see myself growing old. We shall see what happens. I have 4 kids to stay close to. I WILL do anything to continue our relationship even after they are grown.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Right now anything healthy is my favorite.  I have been on a weightloss journey since Feb 2011 and have lost 53 pounds. I love finding healthy alternatives that taste GOOD! I love ice cream but it always gives me gut rot so I don’t have it often!

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Depends on my mood. I would say Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches today!

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Salty. Popcorn

8. Beverage of choice? Water. I drink a LOT of it!

9. What’s your least favorite food? Liver and Onions ACK! Seafood. The texture freaks me out!

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC all the way. My husband is a Web Designer/Computer Programer and is a PC guy. I don’t know if he even LET me have a mac at the house. I have heard wonderful things about macs tho. I use PS5 for graphic designing and scrapping. I use Lightroom for my photography stuff. I am spoiled!!!

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started?  2008 Don’t remember how I got started. But with 4 kids paper scraping was a NIGHTMARE and I didn’t find much time to get everything OUT to scrap with it. I LOVE Digi-land!

12. What was your 1st LO about? My kids. Surprise. Surprise.

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

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Journaling. I really should do more of it. It will help up remember more about our LIFE events!

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Always looking for way to better my photography. I love to knit too. Oh. Forgot to add that to the hobby list but I research that at times too. I have a guitar too I would love to learn out to play better!

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? Criminal Minds/Biggest Loser/The Walking Dead/Raising Hope/Office/Modern Family/Impractical Jokers (so funny)

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? We have PCs all over the house. (comes from having a computer husband) Mama’s computer is in the dinning room where I can see the living room/bedrooms/etc. The placement is sweet from my view. I can get stuff done and keep an eye on all the little monkeys running around here. Music is a given. Sometimes there is snacks. I normally only get little bits of time so I would call my scrapping environment as STOP and GO!

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Scallops. I LOVE THEM. And….hmmmmmmmmm….whimsical element. I am all about whimsical

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I was born 2.5 months premature and weighed 3lbs. in the 70′s. The fact that I am here and healthy is only God’s will. I am thankful to have this wonderful life I live!

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? I would say my scrapping style is Simple. I don’t like a lot to take away from the photos themselves. Does that make sense?

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?
Love that this one is about ALL of my kids. I am working on a book for ME. I make a scrapbook and print at shutterfly for my kids each year. But Mama needs one too. And I am going to try and group photos of them at the same age to scrap with. It is work to look through all the photos but I think the outcome is going to be amazing!

Simple. And the photo tells the story. This is my style in a nutshell.

This one is about all my favorites! MY MONKEYS/MY KNITTING/MY SCRAPPING!

22. What is your favorite part of being a member of the ScrapMatters Girls? I love learning more and more about the girls on the team. I love getting to see all the layouts and different styles of scrapping out there! The rewards are wonderful too, of course!

Thanks so much, Trisha, for sharing with us!!  And thanks to Melissa (missi_me) and Sandra (sberkan) for  interviewing these ladies!

Lisa (kelseyll)

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We would love for everyone to get to know on of our CT Members, Isabel (Leandi), a bit better!  Here’s what she had to say when asked a few questions:

15.  What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? I think I could improve my shadows and my cluster work. I love to see many scenes on pages but mine could be improved.
16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? Twilight or Vampire Diaries

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? When I scrap in the morning, I drink my latte. In the evening, I eat chocolate or chips and drink water or sometimes a beer with cola.

18. If you only had two elements to use on a LO, what would they be? A flower and a mask.

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? Hmm, I don’t have that much more to say about myself. We live here in Germany and my days are often very stressful with my five children. I´m a little bit crazy – laugh – to manage my hobby with Ct´s and my real life, but I love this so much!

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? I don’t have a special style. I can scrap pages with many different styles.

21. Favorite LOs that you have done? That´s hard to choose one page, but this I love this one.

22. What is your favorite childhood memory and have you scrapped it? I don’t have a page but my favorite childhood memory is when I started to walk. I was 3 years old and my mom started to cry because I was very sick as a child. I had operations on my leg.

Thanks so much, Isabel!!  We love getting to know our members at SM! =)

Carol (Iowan)

We have two fabulous Guest Designers at ScrapMatters this month and we wanted to take the time to get to know them a little better.  First up is Maaike of Find Your Bliss Designs.  Here is what she had to say when asked a few questions:

1. Your screen name? Your real name? My name in the forums and for real is maaike

2. What is your main job/career? My main job is taking care of my kids! I used to work in a paperscrapstore, but not anymore.

3. Are you married/children/pets? I am maried to Pierre, he’s my best friend! We have two boys, Damion(17) and Quincy(11) and two cats(boys too, help!) Jordan and Tweety!

4. Where is home for you? Home is Zaandam , the Netherlands. We lived in Amsterdam for a while too, but I was happy to get back to where I was born! (15 minutes by car form Amsterdam!hahaha)

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? I love wokked veggies with sweet and sour sauce with rice and fish or meat ! I love creamy tomatosoup and I love pizza!

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Ohh hmmm though coice! Pistachio

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Sweet! Definately!

8. Beverage of choice? tea for me please!

9. What’s your least favorite food? Everything too spicy!

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC. I want a mac someday! *sigh*  I mostly use pse10 right now!

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I think I started the end of 2009! I was a die hard paperscrapper and one day I decided to see if I could scrap digital too! I was a complete computer dummie and my paperscrap friends cracked up even thinking about me trying to digiscrap! Who’s laughing now right??hahaha My goal was to see what I could acomplish in digiscrapping, when all my dreams came true paperscrapwise(working in the stores, being on dt’s ect.) and I must say I’ve been on my dream teams ct-wise and loved every minute of it!

12. What was your 1st LO about? The first one I can still find is probably my 3th or 4th for real, it is a page I made with my friends little daughter on it!

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I love to read and watch series and crop with my friends on fridaynight!

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Scrapping pages about myself and emotions that come along with that! Scrapping kids is fun, scrapping emotions is different!

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

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? The Voice kids (I shure hope you will get that version too) and private practice!

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? TV or music in the background , lots of tea and biscuits and my cats sleeping besides me! I am in the corner of our livingroom!

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? only 2?? idie! I can’t even imagine!!!

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I tend to be a little overexcited with new things and will act like a ten year old when that happens!

20. When did you start designing? What made you get in to design work? I started about 10 months ago and opened my first store 7 months ago. Since I love to create things and ct wise I had done all I wanted, and I relly need to challenge myself alway, I decided to see what would happen when I would give it a go and I couldn’t live without designing anymore!

21. How would you describe your design style? My design style is still very paperscrapping-like ! And colorful, I need lots of colors to activate my brain!

22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? Everywhere! Outside, photo’s, ads, pinterest, really, everywhere!

23. Which of your kits showcases you style the most? I think Be a Teen is closed to me!

24. What is your favorite color scheme to design with? Hmmm, I think pink, yellow, some kind of blue and maybe some greens in it!

25. Favorite kit you’ve designed? At the moment I must say Being a Woman with Amy Stoffel! I really love that one!

Thanks, Maaike, for letting us get to know you better and I hope you are enjoying your month with us at ScrapMatters!  You can see more of Find Your Bliss Designs in her shop HERE.

Lisa (kelseyll)

Our next Guest Designers at ScrapMatters this month is Mirjam of Pink Reptile Designs.

1. Your screen name? Your real name? Both mirjam.

2. What is your main job/career? I work for the workers council of a Foundation that takes care of elderly people.

3. Are you married/children/pets? Living together for 13 years now with the love of my life Gurt, been together for 15, no kiddies except for my little darling dog Yuki who comes VERY close to being our child.

4. Where is home for you? Home is where I am with Gurt and Yuki, preferably at our appartement though…LOL I love cozying up the place so our appartement is my favorite place to be.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Steak from the BBQ, lasagne and homemade Caesar salad.

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Cookie dough with caramel. YUM!!!

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Sweet! I love sugar coated pop corn, plain cookies and chocolate.

8. Beverage of choice? Coca Cola without a doubt and not the diet stuff please. Just plain ol coke preferably ice cold and with a slice of lemon!  And I looooooooooooooove tea! Jasmin being my fave blend.

9. What’s your least favorite food? Porc meat…yuk!

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? I use a desktop PC with a 24 inch monitor, that Gurt built for me personally, with an 8 GB RAM. My 64 bits operating system is running off an SSD (solid state disk) and I have almost 3 Terabytes of internal storage space (2.8 to be more precize) of which I am already using 2 thirds (yes, almost all is taken up by photos and scrap related stuff!).  I mostly use Photoshop CS5 (64bit) and Illustrator CS5. On rare occasions I also use my WACOM Graphire Bluetooth tablet, a Birthday gift from my sweetie who loves everything that has buttons, switches and a manual! I asked for perfume by the way! LOL

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? In March 2009 I officially turned digital and I loved having this whole new field of techniques and styles to learn and experiment with! Then in October of that same year the Zig Zag Scrap team gave me the opportunity to even further broaden my creative horizon, this time as a designer. I was over the moon!!  Although I still need to feel paper and/or fabric from time to time I have to say that I couldn’t be happier with this clutter free hobby! Besides a creative outlet it brought me a whole world of digital friendships too! Friends that I cherish just as much as the ones I have in real life!

12. What was your 1st LO about? Here’s my first attempt. I made it in February 2009 and I cannot even call it a scrap LIFT from a layout by Ju Kneipp I tried to copy it exactly except I used my own photo. I worked on it for several days until I thought I got it right. Learned A LOT on shadowing  while I was at it. I think I used 2 tutorials that I found on the Internet.

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? Actually I do have another hobbies but I combine them with designing and scrapping. I love to paint, photograph, draw, crochet, embroider , sew and knit! I used to use put hand made crochet flowers on my paper pages, paint on them, machine stitch, you name it I probably did it. Now I make the flowers, scan or photograph them and put them in my designs!  The photos I take I scrap with!

Here is a Flower pack exclusive to ScrapMatters right now!

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? The most challenging is to find the time to design AND scrap a page from time to time.

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

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? Favorite movies: Lord of the Rings, Lethal Weapon series, Die Hard series, Mission Impossible, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Matrix, Legally Blonde and Bridget Jones Diary.   Favorite TV-shows: House, Dexter, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Bones, Spooks and Vampire Diaries.

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? I use my scraproom to design in. Just drink and a little snack sometimes. For both I will have to get up and go the kitchen and when I am on a roll I tend to forget and just keep going. Definitely music unless I need to read or write.

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Flowers and some stitching. I think I could make that work for me.

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I am REALLY organized.

20. When did you start designing? What made you get in to design work? See question 11, I spilled the beans there already…

21. How would you describe your design style? Well that’s a tough one! I think you can recognize me in all my designs although I try different things and techniques. So I must have a certain style huh? I can’t give you a name but what I can say is that I definitely like to put a little humor in everything I create and also like the realistic paper look. Someone also called it fancifully vintage.

22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? Well actually I get inspired by the world around me. Anything can trigger my creative juices: a song I hear on the radio, a pattern on a napkin or skirt, a topic in a magazine or a magazine cover, a conversation I hear, you name it. Pinterest is a favorite source of inspiration at the moment. Tons of inspirational pictures at my disposal with just a click of the mouse. So I guess I should say that ‘everyday life’ is my biggest inspiration. On top of that I get brilliant suggestions on kit themes by my fabulous CT-members!

23. Which of your kits showcases you style the most? Haven’t got a clue…I think they all show a little something of me.

24. What is your favorite color scheme to design with? Fun and bright colors.

25. Favorite kit you’ve designed? That’s like asking who your favorite child is!!!

Pink Reptile Designs has all kinds of goodies in her store including alphas, masks, element packs and some amazing kits like this ScrapMatters exclusive:

We enjoyed getting to learn more about you, Mirjam,  and I hope you are enjoying your month with us at ScrapMatters!  You can see more of Pink Reptile Designs in her shop HERE.

Lisa (kelseyll)

This week we caught up with one of our new SMG girls, Stefanie!  She was recently added to our team during the last call and I’m thrilled she is such an active member in our SM community!  Here’s a little info to get to know her better:

1. Your screen name? Your real name? My real name is Stefanie and my screen name is Eyeore,
only because Stefanie was already taken. I love Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh because I can
identify that he takes the blame for stuff when it really isn’t his fault and that we are both
glass half empty types.

2. What is your main job/career? I am a stay at home mother of three older children but I also teach paper scrapbooking from my studio at home every week. I also sell Avroy Shlain skin care products.

3. Are you married/children/pets? I have been married for 23 years, we have three children: Joshua (18), Caleb (15) and Hannah (12) and we have 4 cats.

4. Where is home for you? I live in Cape Town, South Africa. One of the best places in the world.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Chocolate, roast chicken with potatoes and veggies, steak and
chips.

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? I had some in America that had a vanilla base with
chopped up bits of chocolate and peanut butter cups.

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Both, I can alternate them quite happily.

8. Beverage of choice? Something that is diet and caffeine free, we have Tab (like cola) and Sprite
(lemonade)

9. What’s your least favorite food? Seafood.

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC, I have PSE 9.

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? Almost 3 years now I think. I started with hybrid, adding brushes, frames and journaling to my photos. I took some classes from Jessica Sprague and when I found a local place that I could get my LO’s printed at a reasonable cost, I swapped to totally digi around July 2010.

12. What was your 1st LO about? I can’t really remember. I know that I deleted a whole lot of my early stuff when I got a bit better – was so embarrassed, but here are a couple.

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? Yes I love
reading and host a book club once a month at my home too. Christian romantic suspense.

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Deciding what to scrap about. Sometimes I have a kit I need to create with for a DT I am on and I have no cooking clue where to go with it.

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Photography and editing of photos.

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? CSI, NCIS, Body of Proof, the Defenders, Modern Family, Love bites.

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?
I sometimes listen to a podcast otherwise it is very quiet, no drinks or snacks unless the mojo stops flowing and I need a little break. Then it’s coffee and a rusk. I have my pc set up within my studio.

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Some form of attachments; brads, stitching or staples and flowers with greenery.

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I was born in Germany and came to South Africa when I was 4. I can speak English and Afrikaans and German to some degree. I have a BSc in Zoology.

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? I love doubles with loads of photos and enough space for journaling. Clean and simple, often using a template as a starting point. I really battle to cluster.

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?

22. How long have you been a member at ScrapMatters? I followed Elise’s Pieces to ScrapMatters last year and was just settling in when she moved on again.

23.  Do you have any suggestions for kits you’d like to see in the SM store? I would love a kit about reading or bookclubs.

24.  What is your favorite part of being a member of the ScrapMatters Girls? Being a part of the community and having fun, there really is so much happening in terms of challenges and speedscraps that you can pick and choose. So much inspiration in the galleries too. A team of fabulous designers and lots of lovely comments left on layouts posted.

25. What is one thing you tend not to use on layouts? I struggle to use lined journalers. I usually have too much to say to fit them in the space and getting the leading to match is more trouble than it’s worth.

26. How long have you lived in your city? Wow if I say 41 years does that make me old?

27. What is your favorite childhood memory and have you scrapped it? Gathering around the table for family meals every Sunday with the extended family. Believe it or not my grandparents died when I was 13 and in “those days” we didn’t take photos of the ordinary everyday things like eating lunch together. Photos were too expensive to waste. Sadly no photos, no layout.

Thanks for letting us get to know you better, Stefanie!

Lisa (kelseyll)

We were fortunate enough to catch up with Ramona of Memory Clips this week and ask her a few questions about her and her designing business!!  How awesome to get to know her a little better!  She is one of our newer designers, but has just jumped in with both feet!  WOOT!

1. Your screen name? Your real name? Ramona/Ramona!

2. What is your main job/career? I’m a stay at home mom to 6 great, but busy kids!

3. Are you married/children/pets? I’ve been married for 16 years. We have 6 children from ages 14 to 2. We tried pets, once or twice, and well, we’re doing good just to keep track of the kids! Maybe someday!

4. Where is home for you? We have lived in lots of different places, but northern Utah is what we consider home! We love it here!

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? cheese enchiladas, greek yogurt with blueberries and bacon.

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? I don’t eat a lot of ice cream, as it makes me sick, but I do love a recipe I make using coconut milk, spinach, peppermint flavoring and chocolate chips! It’s exactly like a mint chocolate chip!

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Both-at the same time!

8. Beverage of choice? water with lemon

9. What’s your least favorite food? avocados

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC. I design with Photoshop, CS5

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I started digiscrapping in February of 2008, so 4 years ago this month. I was an avid paper scrapper before that and had started making siggies for online forums using Corel PSP 3 years before that. Digiscrapping was a perfect mix!

12. What was your 1st LO about? It was about my 2 daughters and was actually scrapped a year before I found that actual kits could be purchased. This was done with the tubes in PSP. It’s pretty scary!

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I love to write! I have been writing novels since I was in elementary school. I’ve not been published yet, but hopefully someday. Journaling is one of my favorite parts of scrapping, because I get to use my words to tell the story!

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Finding the right photos. I much, much prefer photoless layouts!

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? I have recently started sewing, just simple projects, but I would like to become really, really good at it!

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? My all time favorite movie is “Pride and Prejudice”. My favorite tv shows are Modern Family and Parenthood!

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? I love to scrap and design with the tv on in the background! I am a political news junkie, so this is my favorite background noise when I work! My desk is set up in our family room, so I can always be part of the action, even if I’m sneaking in some scrap time!

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

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I can’t think of anything. I’m a very open book-so most people who know me, know it all! For better or for worse!

20. When did you start designing? What is your favorite product that you’ve designed? I started designing in April of 2008, right after discovering the digiscrap world. I think my favorite products ever, are my templates. I love to design kits, but I’m not always as happy with them, as I am my templates.

21. How would you describe your design style? I think that I am still a paper scrapper at heart, so my style is reflected in that. I love big photos and lots of layers and a big title and journaling. I rarely do white space layouts, as I love to fill the page with goodies!

22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation? I am inspired by a lot of things, but mostly things I want to scrap for myself. I use pinterest a lot to get ideas, as well. I love pinterest for finding color combos and looking at crafts and home design that I then reflect in my kits.

23. Which of your kits showcases your style the most?
I think it would be my kit, Curious You. It’s bright and playful with a good mix of neutrals. I don’t do a lot of graphic type kits (because I really can’t draw!), so I love ribbons and borders and elements that are fun to cluster together!

Are you ready for this??!! Guess who came back to visit us….Amy Stoffel!! Amy is our Guest Designer, which is so strange to say since she used to sell at SM!! =)  So, here is what Amy had to say when we asked her a few questions….

1. Your screen name? Your real name?

My screen name is amystoffel and my real name is…..drum roll……Amy Stoffel

2. What is your main job/career?

My main job title is Mommy

3. Are you married/children/pets?

I am not married, though I have been with my partner and father of my children for 9 years, we have two boys together ages 7 and 4, and we have one dog whose name is Rex.

4. Where is home for you?

Sunny Tucson, Arizona

5. What are your 3 favorite foods?

Steak, Salsa Verde and Pickles

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Chocolate Chip Mint

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet?

Sweet

8. Beverage of choice?

Diet Coke or Water

9. What’s your least favorite food?

Rice. I don’t know why, I just hate it.

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

PC. Although we are buying a Mac soon and who knows…I could switch to the dark side. LOL

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

About 6 years. I started making little siggy tags and things with freebies I found off the internet, one day I found a template freebie and it got me wondering if there was more to it than just what I was doing. I actually googled computer scrapbooking and it was like the heavens opened up! I found tutorials and a handful of stores and never looked back. I sold all my paper items shortly after and used the money to buy kits

12. What was your 1st LO about?
Though this is not my first layout, this is the first one in a gallery It’s about my nickname for my youngest son.

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

I collect vintage odds and ends, I make jewelry, I read and I love to cook.

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

Finding more time to do it!

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

Photography. I really want to learn how to take great photos.

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?

TV, Sons of Anarchy, Ghost Adventures, The Voice, Jersey Shore and Dr. Phil. Movies, Goodfellas, Boondocks Saints and Step Brothers.

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

I am at my dining room table I can’t work with music or television on because I get distracted very easily. Usually I just have a glass of water or ice tea, no snacks. I’m big on keeping my keyboard clean.

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

Leaves and flower

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

I snort when I laugh

20. When did you start designing? What made you get in to design work?

Three years ago in March. I just wanted to try it actually, I just wanted to see if I could do it and here I am three years later!

21. How would you describe your design style?

Fun, Vintagey, Colorful

22. Where do you get your inspiration/motivation?

My kids, colors, things in my life, music, patterns. So many things really.

23. Which of your kits showcases your style the most?

24. What is your favorite color scheme to design with?

I don’t have a favorite scheme, but I do have favorite colors I like to use. Mostly orange, teal and yellow.

25. Favorite kit you’ve designed?

Thanks soooo much, Amy for coming back to hang out with us at ScrapMatters!  If you want to see all of what Amy brought you can see her store HERE!

Lisa (kelseyll)

Today we get to know a little more about one of our CT Members, KairynLisa!

1. Your screen name? Your real name?  KairynLisa/Karen

2. What is your main job/career? I am a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom

3. Are you married/children/pets? Yes… with seven children between us (hence my blog name: 7kids4me, lol), our Buddy dog died last summer (