Meet the DT - Pt II

We hope you enjoyed last weeks introduction and the wee insight into the worlds of our resident Queens of Crap.

So how about some more - are you ready? Well, here we go!

Louise

http://www.punknscrap2.blogspot.com/

"Hi I'm Louise and I am happy to admit I am totally addicted to paper crafts.  I live in rural New Zealand on a small lifestyle block with my scrapbook supportive Husband Andrew and our 4 children, who I am sure you will get to know alot better through my layouts.
I am a huge fan of flowers, patterned paper and anything PINK (this can become a little difficult when scrapping my 3 boys).  I love lumpy, bumpy layouts but lately I seem to be tending toward more graphic "flat" looking pages, I think this has more to do with getting my photos scrapped in a more timely manner than the actual "look" of the layout. I also make cards and enjoy sewing ( I said enjoy I did not say I am good at it.lol) I have started to sew on my layouts recently now that my sewing machine is out on my desk so you will probably see alot of pink, flowers and sewing.  I am so excited to be a part of the SYC team and I am looking forward to getting started"

Martine

www.scrapcatslove.blogspot.com.

"I'm from Quebec in Canada.  I share my life with my boyfriend, my three cats and more scrappy supplies than I'll ever be able to use! I'm particularly addicted to paper, clear stamps and flowers (okay… and glimmer mists, and bling, and chipboard, and … you get the picture! lol!) I love to travel, and scrapbooking fits right into that passion for me. I scrap mostly my trips, and while I'm working on a layout, I'm immersed back into the place I'm scrapping. I forget everything else other than trying to find the perfect papers and embellies to match my photos! It's my escape!

I'm so excited to be on this team! I hope you'll join us! "

Nitasha

www.myeyesandheart.blogspot.com

”I am a full-time social service worker, but that does not stop me from daydreaming about paper, glue, embellishments, and glitter all day! I am constantly writing down ideas and conversations that "need" to be documented!  Scrapbooking is the perfect outlet for me to express all the random daily thoughts that I want to remember as well as the milestone events for my family.

When I am not working or crafting I can be found spending quality time with my husband and our two sons at the movies, park, or sporting events or curled up with my sweet bulldog, Bella, watching TLC, HGTV, or some cheesy Chiller movie. I love looking at things through a creative lens because I think everything is better with a little embellishment.”

Norine
www.thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com

”Hello, my name is Norine.  I'm a not-quite-50 yr old, mother of 4+ a daughter-in-law, married to Paul for 30 years, misplaced Canadian living in Arizona. I've been "scrapping" since my teens, but made it my official hobby in 2003.  Before that it was cross stitch, folk art painting, pretty much anything "crafty".

All my life I have loved photos. Even ones of people I don't know. And I've loved the stories that each photo tells. But eventually the story-tellers are gone and (if we’re lucky) the photo albums remain and while it's fun to imagine the story behind each picture, it's much more satisfying to know the real story. That is what motivates me to put pictures and pen to paper.  Well, that and the patterned paper.  Oh, and the mists and rub-ons and ribbon and chipboard.

Four kids, one endlessly supportive husband and many varied interests (cooking, reading, snowboarding, travel, photography, cottaging) provide me with more photos than I will ever get scrap booked, but in the meantime, I'm having a great time messing around with fun and artistic techniques and products. And when I need to sound more credible, I refer to myself as the "Guardian of my Family's History".  I'm thrilled to be part of the Scrap your Crap DT and look forward to alleviating some of my "hoarding guilt" by contributing here!”

Sarah
http://my-little-somethings.blogspot.com/

"I am wife to a wonderful husband and Mom of our two beautiful daughters, two terrific sons and one great son in law. Originally from New England, Southern California is now our home. When not taking care of my family, I can often be found in my studio with my two precious Labrador Retrievers right beside me. My paper crafting focus is mostly on cards, but certainly scrapbook pages and altered items are common projects for me as well. I also enjoy doing counted cross stitch and baking. I love antiques, vintage things and estate jewelry- and "the hunt" for them by way of antiques stores and flea markets. I also love spending time at nearby Disneyland or walking along the beautiful beaches and enjoying the sunny, warm weather of SoCal.
I am so happy to be joining the design team of SYC! I look forward to the fun ahead here while using up my overflowing stash and hopefully bringing you some inspiration along the way. "

There you have it - all the skinny on our brand spanking new DT, who have already been mega busy to bring you our first challenge for this year on 15 March 2012.

See you then!

Announcing...

We are super excited to introduce our new DT Members to you.

As before, we had TONS of talent responding to our call and I swear it gets harder and harder every time to narrow the applications down.

So, without further ado here are the new Queens of Crap 2012 (in no particular order)

Please take some time and check out their awesome blogs, you will love what they create!

Aimee Fleck

http://www.aimeefleckart.blogspot.com/

Louise Forsyth
http://www.punknscrap2.blogspot.com/

Sarah Benett
http://my-little-somethings.blogspot.com/

Gabrielle Lowe
http://www.gabyspapery.blogspot.com/

Channa Suitella
http://www.crafts-pieces.com/

And then we have these awesome ladies return for another term, we are so thrilled that they agreed to stay one for a further four months:

Caryn Kidwell

http://thescorpiancrafter.blogspot.com/

Martine Labelle

http://www.scrapcatslove.blogspot.com/

Norine Borys

http://www.thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com/

Nitasha Griffin-Johunkin

http://www.myeyesandheart.blogspot.com/

Jenifer Evans

http://heldscraptive.blogspot.com/

Finally we would like to thank all of you for having taken the time and trouble to apply - we are honoured that you wanted to become part of the team and sincerely hope that those we were not successful this time around will give it another try in four months time, when we have another call.

DT Call 2012 - March - June

Another DT Call - Is it that time already????

Our current DT are still rocking the crap until the end of February but as you all know, we like to keep things cool and stress free. So we give you loads of time to get your application in if you fancy becoming part of our fabulous Design Team.

Are you a hoarder? Do you surround yourself with pretty papers, chipboard, embellishments and continue to add to your stash rather than use it?

Well then you are the prefect crafter to become part of our DT.

Scrap You Crap is looking for four to six team members and ideally we would love to have a good mixture of cardmakers and scrapbookers.

**What do we ask of our Designers?

Just one project per month – due on the 7th as our challenges will go live on the 15th.

Register for our DT forum, where we will be throwing ideas around for future challenges and communicate with each other. We do not ask for gazillions of posts, just a bi-monthly check in

Promote SYC wherever possible, for example on your personal blog, online communities.

Commit to a four month term with the possibility of extending this for another term.

Leave comments on all challenge entries <- this is super important and will be monitored

**What do our Designers get in return?

The gratification of having used up all that stash which gathered dust. As the concept of the blog is to make use of the stash you already own, it would be kind of defeating the object to compensate with product, right? And also, this gives you the perfect excuse to go and buy more stash...seeing that you used the old one up for our challenges :)

Designers will have a permanent link to their blog (or homepage) on our site.

If you want to become part of this well-established challenge blog, send an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and don’t forget to put SYC DT Call in the subject line.

We would like you to submit three projects (layouts or cards) which you feel represent your style the best but they don’t have to be newly created. You can email us images of stuff you have already done before no need to recreate and keep it a secret. Please DO NOT embed images within your email we require them as attachments only. Please make sure that our pictures are not blurry and of a maximum size of 700 x 700 pixels.

Don’t forget to include a link to your personal blog (if you have one) as we are nosy like that and fancy checking you out...

Internationals are more than welcome and the deadline for this call is February 10th 2012. If accepted, your term runs from March 2012 through to June 2012. No prior DT experience is required.


We will contact the successful applicants no later than February 15th 2012.

If you have any questions, please shoot us an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hear from you all!

Brief Interuption

Sorry for this interuption but I have been getting swamped with emails regarding Noel's Kits. Anyone interested in taking a look you can find her here. And you're in luck because she just put the April kit (Sonoma County) up for Pre-Order.
Below is a pic of the newest kit. I get these kits and I can tell you they are packed to the gills with loads of stuff.
So you will see lots of my layouts done with these kits.

 

I figured I would share with everyone since I have been getting 2 bazillions emails regarding them :)

Back to our regularly scheduled challenge. See post below.

Announcing....

You have been waiting so patiently and we are really very truly sorry that it took us SO long to make our announcement but here they are, our new SCRAP YOUR CRAP DT gals.
It will be a surprise for them to see their name too as we did not email them beforehand - so let's hope they still all want to be part of this crazeeeee ride :)

Initially we wanted to add five to the team, but we just were not able to narrow it down, so we decided to take eight of you. That's how we roll at SYC, make up some rules and then totally ignore them *tee hee*

Please help us welcome the following ladies to our team (in no particular order):

Tara Van Moorsel (CAN)

Leslie Rehm Hunt (USA)

Ilaria Gianquinto (ITA)

Brianna Marshall (USA)

Kristen Fougeron (USA)

Michelle (CAN)

Angela Fehr (CAN)

Sarah (AUS)

Congratulations to you all - we cannot wait to work with you and hope that you are as excited about scrapping your crap, as we are.

Thank you again to everyone who submitted to our call - we have been so overwhelmed with your entries that we decided to offer a GDT spot to all of you, who have not made the final team and most of you have already responded to my email, accepting the spots. I am pleased to say that it looks that we will have the most wicked GDT throughout this year...WOOHOOO.

If any of you (DT or GDT) have any questions, please E-mail me and I try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Oh and in case anyone is wondering - there will be another DT call in six months time....so get your scissors at the ready :)

Congrats to

DRUM ROLL...............

KT....you won the $20.00 gift certificate to noel mignon
just in time for her new release on monday as well...

how cool is that?

please meail me at greta.adams@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Sneak Peeks of the new kit she has appropriately named OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION








Kit is for sale Jan 18th and if you want one be sure to get it fast hers always sells out within the first 48 hours but most of the time within 12 hours.

Be sure to check back in about a week For an announcement ...YIPPEEEEE!!!!!

Merry Christmas Crap Scrappers

From us to you....Geaux SAINTS!!

Hey Crap Scrappers

We will be back in full force with our monthly challenges starting FEB 1st.
and we also have a new member with us for some more incredible inspiration.

You can visit Kim Sonksen and get to know more about her here.

Can i Get a WOOT WOOT!!!???

SYC update

In honor of the new year and because we are all so busy we are only going to bring you challenges once a month...YAY!! Each challenge will roll out on the first of the month.

We wish all of you a

Ho Ho Ho

From our family to yours!

Happy halloween from us to you!
Be Safe!

ok ladies...

you've all been working hard at purging and 'scrappin' yo' crap' so...treat yourself to something new (after all, while it sure does feel good to use that 8 tons of chipboard you just simply had to have, you must certainly be tired of it right?)

The lovely and talented Noel at noelmignon.com is having a sale THIS WEEKEND ONLY. so get your happy selves on over there and purhcase $20 or more and get a FREE, yes FREE stamp this weekend only. did i mention it's free and this weekend only? see....
(image is directly from Noel's super awesome site...she's got all kinds of goodies over there...if you haven't checked out her amazing kits yet, be sure to do that right now!)

Thanks girls, now if you haven't done challenge #24 (see below), please give it a shot! i am lovin' all the layouts i am seeing! who needs Bazzill Just the Edge, eh? (well, i do. unless i want my straight lines all 'wampy-jawed' as my mil would say. not sure what that means, but i think it applies here.)

anyway, i'm blabbing. this is the first and LAST time Greta asks me to post something on here all by myself :)

and don't forget...give Noel a visit here for your free stampie!!!

RAK WINNERS

Whoo hoooo!! so the random number generator (although i put names in not numbers)
picked:

Patty
Chris
Mica
Penny

Please email us at scrapyourcrap@gmail.com with your snail mail so we can get our crap out to you!

Because i have enough left for 2 people and Simone only has enough left for 2 people we picked 4 people and therefore will be passing on our crap to you.
There is a catch though {evil laugh} you have to use it...make something with it and then email us so we can see...we are 2 nosey girls ;)

**The post below this one is our current challenge that will run until Monday**

Thanks everyone for commenting and we hope to see you participating in our challenges so you can use up your crap and buy more guilt free.