Hi all, it’s Jen. Ginger is busy so I am sneaking onto the blog to show all of you what we have for you on Friday. Ssshhhh! Don’t tell her I told you.
We are counting down to Friday’s big launch. The new Gingerscraps Design and all of their CT’s have an out of this world freebie for you starting on Friday…. Keep your blog reader’s tuned here!
And tomorrow’s designer of the week is OUT OF THIS WORLD as well, so hurry back to read about A.H. … have a I said too much?
Erin
Erin is 25 and has two wonderful kids, Maddox and Samara. Erin has also been engaged to fiance, TJ for 3 years, although they have been a couple for about 6 years. Erin started digital scrapping in 2007. She started by learning cool photo edits and creating “photo collages” and by late 2007 she realized what she was doing was called digital scrapbooking and she was hooked! By the middle of 2008 Erin was getting curious about how kits were made and that lead to her first attempts at designing. By September, Erin posted her first freebie kit on her blog. She said it was awful, so she deleted it once she moved on to bigger and better kits. Erin is blown away whenever someone likes her work. She is quite modest! Here’s a preview of her beautiful “Rejoice” kit.
Jen Jen is named after Guinevere from that 70s version of Camelot so that her mom could call her Jenny; but Jen has NEVER been Jenny. Jen lives in Southern California with her husband and her little boy, Alton. She used to love to read, but now all of her free time is spent scrapping and designing. She still bakes and makes the best brownies around. Her husband jokes that he married her for her chocolate chip cookies and stays for the brownies. She started digi-scrapping in August of 2008, and started designing so she could give better freebies on her blog. She is a sucker for stars and you will be hard pressed to find a kit of hers without one somewhere.Here’s a preview of her lovely “A Star Danced” kit.  |
Jodi is a loving wife to her husband John and a stay at home mom to an adorable 2 year old girl named Rebekah. Jodi loves to scrap, design, and dabble in photography as well. I She always saw card making programs and even bought a few but they didn’t satisfy her creativity, then she discovered the digi scrapping world! She started designing last year and loves every minute of it! Ginger has been such a good mentor to her and she has learned so much since starting out. Her favorite kit is her “Giving Thanks” kit. She loves the colors and that everything is felt! The “Giving Thanks” alpha is her favorite alpha creation so far. She slaved over it for weeks until it was perfect, so it’s like her “little baby”. Here’s a preview of her very festive “Giving Thanks” kit. 
Charmaine Charmaine is wife to stay-at-home-dad and web designer, Stephen, and mom to two amazing kids, Casey-22 months, and Lilah-3 years old. She works full time as a pharmacist and digital scrapbooks every chance she gets as her relaxation time! She started digital scrapping about a year and half ago when she finally realized that she would never be able to paper scrap again when she had children under the age of 12 in her house! She started applying for creative teams and once she got on a few of her favorite designer’s teams, she saw the potential for designing. Jen (another new designer) had her sign up for a design challenge with her, and well, here she is!Here’s a preview of her “toadily cute” kit called “Spring into Froggy Love”:  |
Lindsay Lindsay is a 30 something SAHM to an adorable 16 month old girl, named Bailey. Her husband, Brandon, and her have been together for 10 years,married for 5 and call Oklahoma their home sweet home. Though she enjoy’s all things creative, photoshop is her creative outlet of choice. She has been playing in photoshop for about 4 years, everything from blinkies to parenting board siggies and scrapping/designing. She has been designing scrap kits since about May of 2008 and started selling in November 2008.Here’s a preview of her adorable kit called “Keston Vol. 2”:  |
Misty  Misty is a SAHM to two sweet boys; 2 year old Ian and 7 month old Aidan. She has been married to her husband, Dan for 3 years and they have known each other for over 10. Misty and her family live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington State. She began digi scrapping in 2007 and have recently jumped into designing. She is also a creative team member for Gingerscraps, Scrappy Cocoa, Polka Dot Plum, and Sunshine Studio Scraps. Here is a preview of her elegant kit called “In the Spotlight”. This kit is on sale at Gingerscraps for $2.50 through the weekend.
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Steph Steph is a 24 year old SAHM. She has been married to her husband, Tim, for a little over 4 years. They have an almost 2 year old son, Brock. Steph and her family are currently living in Seattle while Tim finishes Med school, but they can’t wait to get back to Idaho. She has been designing for about 6 months and is excited to join the GingerScraps team. Besides digital scrapping, she loves to cook for her family and exercise. She is an avid runner. Something not many people know about her is, that although she runs almost daily, she loves to be lazy. If she could stay on the couch, with her laptop, in her jammies all day, she totally would! Nothing is more comfy, for her, than a pair of yoga pants and an oversized sweatshirt! Here’s a preview of her rockin’ “Garage Band King” kit.  |
Okay, have you ever found a designer and instantly fallen in smit? I am deeply smitten with Amanda Heimann’s Designs. To the point where I think I scared her with my fan girl excitement. She overcame my overt enthusiasm and interviewed with me anyway. Amanda, thank you for ignoring my fan girl excitement. 🙂
*Tell us a little about your family. I have been married to my husband Billy for ten years. We have two amazing boys- Garrett (6) and Lance (4). We also have a dog and a new puppy.
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*What other hobbies do you have besides scrapping and designing? There are others? I love to bake and have a cross stitch project I have been working on for 10 years. LOL!
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*When did you start Digi-scrapping and who taught you? I started digi scrapping at the end of 2005. I learned by tutorials and by asking for constructive critism.
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*When did you start designing and how did you learn? I started designing 2 years ago. I am celebrating my designiversary this month! I also learned to design by tutorials.
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*Which programs do you use to design? PSCS3 and PSE5. I am slowly learning Illustrator.
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*Do you draw most of your items with a mouse, or hand draw and scan? All of the above. I also use my camera frequently.
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*Where does your inspiration come from? Gymboree. 😉 I browse my favorite stores, have tons of home decor catalogs and save ads and brochures that I receive. *
*What is your favorite food? Mustard. Seriously.
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*What do you like doing with your family? We love to go to the beach. We also love to just hang out with each other and play in the backyard.
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*Where is your favorite place to be? Matagorda beach.
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*What are three things that are important to you? God, family, laughter
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*Is there anything you would change about your life? No, I love my life. There are things I would change about myself but I love my life how it is.
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*What are you afraid of? My children hurting.
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*Do you collect anything? laundry? I am starting a collection of camera lens. I also have a collection of nativities that I add to every year.
Okay, for even more fun, here are Amanda’s kits. Normally we show you three. Today we are going to see all of the kits that I have in my external hard drive. 🙂 {Insert fan girl sigh here.} (Sometime soon I hope return to my facade of professional… I am not making promises though)
This kit was the first glimpse I had into Amanda’s designs. I was instantly smitten.
This was a free-bee Amanda gave away to celebrate selling at Scrap Orchard.
Soon we will have a layout from Amanda using our blog train kit… the blog train that starts tomorrow…. Stay tuned.*note* Hi all this is Ginger putting a little note on Jen’s post 🙂 One of my CT pointed out to me that in the blog reader there was a headline that said “Amanda interview is scheduled and “waiting for her if she ever turns in her LO”. This in NO way was met to be offensives!! I hope no one took it that way!! Jen (as you can tell) is a huge fan of Amanda, she actually IMed me the day she got a response from Amanda- freaking out, sooo excited!! Jen wrote up the interview and was anxiously awaiting the arrival of Amanda’s LO. She wrote that little headline as a silly joke…. in her, true to form, rye sense of humor. I hope you enjoy the interview 🙂 And that no one has ruffeled feathers. Thanks , Ginger
What’s your name and digiscrap blog address? Julie https://mycrazylifeasamomandawife.blogspot.com/
Tell us a little about your family. My family is loud and crazy! I have four kids and one hubby! LOL! My kids=1 daughter 16, and 3 sons 13, 4, and 1.5! Things get very crazy around here with 2 teenagers and 2 toddlers! We are always on the go. (She doesn’t mention this, so I will, Julie is Ginger’s sister. 🙂 )
Do you work outside the home & if so what do you do? No, I don’t work outside the home, I do in home daycare so I can be at home with my 2 little ones.
What other hobbies do you have besides scrapping? I love anything creative, I make jewelry, but that has come to a stop with the 2 little ones, I will do it again someday. I Love to be outside with the kids, nature hikes are always fun. I love thrift store shopping, you can find the coolest stuff. I hate paying retail! LOL! My new favorite projects are Hybrid! It’s the best of Digi and Paper together. And when football season starts, my life is on the field as the team Mom!
When did you start Digi-scrapping and who taught you? I think it’s been about a year, I can’t imagine life with out it now, my sister Ginger taught me!
Are you on any creative teams? Yes, GingerScraps…duh! I am also an the Hybrid team at Snap and Scrap, and the Hybrid Blog team at The Digi Chick, also for Jodi another up and coming GS designer.
Do you design at all? I wish I had more hours in the day…I have made some hybrid freebies and some lovely Word Art, I have kits in my mind, but that is where they stay for now.
What is your favorite challenge here at GingerScraps? I love Speed Scraps, although my I have been known to post late…the kids seem to runamuck when I try to Speed Scrap.
Who are your favorite three designers? My lovely sis Ginger of course, Gina at Weeds and Wildflowers has the coolest Life 365 kit. TDC has great ones too! Wow, this is too hard to pick 3! How can I pick 3! There is too many!!
What are some of your must have elements? Ribbons, leaves and flowers, and a really great alpha and word art!
Whose gallery here at GingerScraps do you just love? Wow Jen, another hard one, I think I will go with beckag99, she has awesome LOs with her cute little girl as the star of the show.
What’s your favorite kit in the store right now? My favorite kit is Man Oh Man I have used it so much with 3 boys in the house, and I love Kayla’s Quilt!
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? I wish I loved exercise, you see these people who are like, “Oh I just love to work out” What!? I have to force myself, and that doesn’t happen often!
What is the one word that best describes you? Original
Out of all your LO’s so far, what are your favorite 2 & why? That’s hard too…I love this one of my little ones cute little toes.
And this one of Kayla and Tyler
Who is the most important person in your life? My Family..all of them! My family means the world to me, nothing is more important.
What is something that not many people know about you? Hmmm, I’m pretty much an open book, but you might not know that I am actually very shy, but I force myself not to be. If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Somewhere tropical would be nice, but I would love to take my kids on a Disney Cruise!
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? I always wanted to be a Mother!What is your favorite food? Depends on my mood, I love Mexican, Sushi and Mr. Pickle sandwiches, and my sisters pork chops!
How did you pick you user name? juliemomof4…hmm that was easy!
What do you like doing with your family? Anything..we have lots of fun together!
Where is your favorite place to be? Home is Where the heart is 😀
What are three things that are important to you? Kids, Hubby, Family
Is there anything you would change about your life? I wish lots of things, I wish my brother was still alive, I wish my Mom and Sister never got sick..I wish I would win the lottery and could give all my peeps lots of money!
What are you afraid of? Heights!
Do you collect anything? Yes, my dining room is all Cherries, love them, I also collect Milk Glass and heart shaped rocks we find at the river!
We have so many great things happening here at Gingerscraps this week! My CT and I have been very busy and we can’t wait to share with you!
But for now, we have a freebie. A quick page made by CT Member Jen with the Gingerscraps Collab kit, Spring is in the Air (which will be available in the store, April 1st!) .
Before we begin, I have to just say this. RAMONA BROWN IS NOT A BRUNETTE!!! If you have spent any time at the forum of Brownie Scraps, you will probably be as shocked as I am by the picture we are about to see. All of the designers and CT members at Brownie Scraps have darling little cartoonized “mini-me” avatars. Ramona (who we are about to meet) used to sport one that depicted a brunette with brown eyes. So whenever I pictured Ramona, that is what I pictured in my mind. And here is the picture I received from her:
Isn’t she lovely? And not a brunette!
I know that normally we save the Gingerscraps layout for the end of the feature… icing on the cookie if you will, but this one is so pretty that I am showing it to you right away. Isn’t her daughter gorgeous?
That was of course made with the Gingerscraps kit, Chocolate Kisses. Which is of course, available in the Gingerscraps store. 🙂 Okay, I have rambled enough. Let’s get to the interesting stuff, shall we?
What’s your name and digiscrap blog address? My name is Ramona and my blog address is : https://designsbyramona.blogspot.com
Where do you sell? I sell at and own Brownie Scraps at browniescraps.com
Tell us a little about your family. I have 5 beautiful children who keep me very busy and happy! Our 6th baby will be here sometime in the next 30 days! That will make a total of 4 boys and 2 girls. My oldest is almost 12. We live in Northern Utah and love it here! My 4th child, Sam, has a rare chromosomal defect called xxyy syndrome, but he is the sweetest, most loving little boy. He’s 4 1/2, has very little speech, but gives the very best hugs!
What other hobbies do you have besides scrapping and designing? I love to garden and to write novels. I hope someday to be a published author!
When did you start Digi-scrapping and who taught you? I started working with digital images in the summer of 2006. I used PSP back then and mostly learned through free tutorials I saw online. I also started doing my own digital scrapbook, but it was very simple.
When did you start designing and how did you learn? I began designing in February 2008 when I bought Photoshop. I took all of the courses at godigitalscrapbooking, taught by Andrea Goldman, as well as lots of experimenting and searching the Internet!
Which programs do you use to design? PS CS3
Do you draw most of your items with a mouse, or hand draw and scan? Mostly with a mouse or pencil tool.
Where does your inspiration come from? Everything! I was an avid paper scrapper before, so I’ve always loved layouts. I love a good challenge and seeing something that was scrapped with paper supplies and trying to get the same look with digital!
How did you pick your companies name? What can I say, I LOVE chocolate!
When did you decide to start Brownie Scraps? Last summer, I came up with the name and began brainstorming different challenges and things. I was selling at a few different stores, but I am a control freak and had too many ideas of my own to just wait around for others! So, in August, I took the plunge and opened my own shop!
Who are your favorite three designers? I absolutely love the other three designers I work with and love their work. I rarely buy kits from anyone but them! They are Bethany of Scrappin Daisies, Kelly of Dreamersmagic Designs and Leslie of Dragonfly Designs. They inspire me every day to do more and work harder!
What are your favorite parts of a kit to design? The digital art
What’s your favorite kit that you’ve designed? It changes with every new kit I create!
What’s your least favorite? Most of my early stuff. I still can’t believe I was ever pleased with it!
How do you get started on a kit? I love to skim through colourlovers.com for palette’s. I consider it as fun as shoe shopping!
Palette first? Usually, yes, but often I have a theme in mind and will use the search section to find ideas of colors.
How long does it typically take you to make a kit? About 8-10 hours, usually straight. Designing a kit is like reading a good book. Once I get started, I can’t stop until it’s finished and I know the end! I can’t think of anything else until I’ve completed it. So often, I will go a week or so with no designing and then cram it all in at once!
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? Maybe to slow down a bit, enjoy the process and not get overly excited by a kit that I short change it!
What is the one word that best describes you? Passionate!
Who is the most important person in your life? Definitely my hubby! He is my best friend and my soul mate! We’ve been married for over 13 years and I can’t imagine my life without him.
What is something that not many people know about you? That’s tough because I’m very much an open book. But perhaps it would be that I struggle with depression (more than I’ve often admitted) and only recently have sought help for it. I’m always one to put on a smile and just fake it till I make it, but I realized that I wasn’t being true to myself in doing that. By accepting the fact that I struggle with these emotions and sometimes never want to leave my house, I have learned to overcome my fears and find a deeper sense of happiness and self-satisfaction.
If you could travel anywhere where would you go? It would definitely be Prince Edward Island or the countryside in England! I’ve always been extremely fascinated with both places!
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? When I was in the 3rd grade, I read “Little Women” for the first time. I vowed then that I would grow up to be an author, just like Jo! I haven’t fully succeeded yet, but I am still working and dreaming towards that!
What is your favorite food? Anything Mexican!
What do you like doing with your family? I love to play games! I especially love the more obscure ones like “Settlers of Catan” and “India Rails”.
Where is your favorite place to be? Disneyland with my family!
What are three things that are important to you? My family, My Faith and my dreams.
Is there anything you would change about your life? Nope, every mistake has been a learning experience and every trial has helped me to grow. I don’t believe in living with regret.
What are you afraid of? Not showing my kids enough how much I love and cherish them.
Do you collect anything? Books.
And here are three of Ramona’s adorable kits:
Girly Girl
Mud Puddles
Hello!
I have TWO brand new kits for you today! (And if you keep reading a freebie or two.) They are available in the Gingerscraps Store.
My wonderful CT girl Laura inspired me to make these kits. Her husband was deployed and she was anxiously awaiting his return home. She had many pictures to scrap and knew she would have many more. I told her I wanted to do a military kit, and she was so excited!! We spent many late nights on IM exchanging ideas. She took a ton of photos for me, which I then turned into elements and paper. Scroll down to get a link and you can read all about Laura and her daughters joyous reunion with their soldier!
AND If you want to get The Soldier and The Soldier’s Wife you can get them both for $8.00!! (Click on each image to be taken to the store)
You can buy both kits for $8.00 or each individual kit for $5.00.
Click here to read about Laura and her husband’s return.
Here are the layouts that my fabulous CT came up with for both kits.
Julie
Misty
Christie
Jen
Jodi
Laura
Laura again. 🙂
Misty
Sharon
Okay, fair warning. This is Steph’s layout and reading it totally made me cry! You have been warned!Okay, you can read her layout now that you are prepared.
That was a lot to go through! Because you have made it this far, we have not one, not two, but three freebies for you! This is a kit add-on for both The Soldier and The Soldier’s Wife.
What’s your name and digiscrap blog address? Misty O’Brien – https://scrappaperie.blogspot.com/
Tell us a little about your family. I’m 26, married to Dan (27) and we have two boys – Ian (2) and Aidan (6 months). Dan and I went to elementary school together but didn’t “meet” until high school. We stayed friends after high school and started dating 5 years later (2005). We married after within 6 months of dating. Dan and Aidan have the same birth date – September 11th.
Do you work outside the home & if so what do you do? I do not work outside the home. I have been a SAHM for a year now. I love being at home with the boys.
When did you start Digi-scrapping and who taught you? I started digi scrapping about a year and a half ago. No one taught me, I just started playing around with freebies. My husband taught me Photoshop though.
Are you on any creative teams? Yes. I am on Gingerscraps CT, Polka Dot Plum’s CT, and Sunshine Studio Scraps’ CT.
Do you design at all? I just started designing. Ginger has already taught me so much and I am grateful to her. I also enjoy learning from the other designers on the Gingerscraps team. Everyone’s style is so unique and it’s wonderful.
What is your favorite challenge here at GingerScraps? My favorite challenge is the Template Challenge.
Who are your favorite three designers? Gingerscraps, Scrappy Cocoa, and Polka Dot Plum
What are some of your must have elements? Glitter. I like sparkles. I also love ribbons and glass elements.
Whose gallery here at GingerScraps do you just love? Oh wow. There are so many ladies in that gallery now! I really love Julie’s (JulieMomof4) Layouts and the pics of her hybrid projects and recently Angie has been posting some inspiring layouts – I love the way she puts things together. All the CT girls really work hard too and their galleries are fantastic.
What’s your favorite kit in the store right now? I am drawn to Ginger’s White Cherry Tea Kit.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? I would not be such a procrastinator! I work best under deadlines and pressure though.
What is the one word that best describes you? Compassionate
Out of all your LO’s so far, what are your favorite 2 & why?
credits: No 9 Collab by the Sunshine Studio Designers
I love this one because it’s a rare picture of me and Ian. I am hardly ever in front of the camera, always behind it. I just really adore how it turned out.
credits: Retro Fall by Pixie Keepsakes
I love this LO because it’s of my husband and son, playing in the yard one late afternoon late summer. The weather was perfect and I loved playing photographer. I get warm fuzzies just looking at this LO.
Who is the most important person in your life? Obviously my husband and kids and faith are the most important to me, I would never put them behind anything else. So after them, I will say my sister is the most important person – I can trust her with anything.
What is something that not many people know about you? I have some weird kind of sixth sense. It’s creepy. In high school, I had a dream that a classmate (who I had never spoken to before and knew nothing about her) wore a tiara to school. Two days later she came walking in with a tiara on. (and No, it wasn’t a Halloween). I still don’t even know why she was wearing it! I have weird dreams like that a lot.
If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Right now I would take a cruise. Dan and I put off a real honeymoon since we got married on the beach.
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? I wanted to be a forensic pathologist. No joke. Even before all the CSI shows. I went to college to go pre-med and when I finally got into the science courses I realized it was a no go. I just couldn’t get into it. (Maybe that’s why I’m being creative now! Lol)
What is your favorite food? Chocolate Milkshakes. I drank one every night for the last 4 weeks of both my pregnancies.
How did you pick you user name? my forum user name is my nickname Mis and my last name OBrien
What do you like doing with your family? We like doing stuff for the kids – traveling, parks, amusement parks, camping – all that good stuff.
Where is your favorite place to be? At home with my family.
What are three things that are important to you? Faith, Family, Health
Is there anything you would change about your life? Just the medical issues I’m facing right now. I just added hypothyroidism and pituitary problems to my trigeminal neuralgia.
What are you afraid of? My children missing or dying before me.
Do you collect anything? Nope.
Hi all 🙂 Happy Monday!! It is time for a freebie list!!
And a little note to tell you to make sure you check my blog often this week!! I have some very exciting news !!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to tell you all about it 🙂
All the freebie are linked to the designers blogs- Just click and you will be taken to their blog to download the goodies. Don’t forget to leave them some love!!
Have a great day, Ginger
Are you a scrapper who has toyed with the idea of learning to design?
Do you currently design but feel like you want to learn more techniques but don’t want to pay someone to teach you?
Then we have found the digi-scrap community for you!
Ramona and company have a wonderful site. They have weekly and monthly challenges, tutorials, and a daily layout of the day award. Not only that, but every two months or so, they run a FREE six week designer training program.
I recently tried their last six week training program. (I totally dropped out in week 6 because of visiting company and bad time management, BAD Jen!) But the 5 weeks of training I received stretched me creatively and professionally in ways that I haven’t used in years of being a housewife and mother.
Even if you don’t want to sell your designs, but just want to become more familiar with the program you use to scrap book, I highly recommend signing up for their six week course as soon as sign-ups start.
ETA: Sign-ups are RIGHT NOW! Click here!
