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*Tell us a little about your family.<\/strong> 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. *What is your favorite food?<\/strong> Mustard. Seriously. 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. \ud83d\ude42 {Insert fan girl sigh here.} (Sometime soon I hope return to my facade of professional… I am not making promises though)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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. \ud83d\ude42 What\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 06:49:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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*What other hobbies do you have besides scrapping and designing?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> All of the above. I also use my camera frequently.
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*Where does your inspiration come from?<\/strong> Gymboree. \ud83d\ude09 I browse my favorite stores, have tons of home decor catalogs and save ads and brochures that I receive. *
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*Who are your favorite three designers?<\/strong> Oh that is a loaded question! How about I tell you who has the most real estate in my EHD? Dani Mogstad, Shabby Princess and Christy Lyle.
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*What are your favorite parts of a kit to design?<\/strong> Papers! I love making papers and ribbons come a close second. (As a user of her kits, I can tell you, her papers and ribbons are AWESOME!)
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*What\u2019s your favorite kit that you’ve designed?<\/strong> Each new kit becomes my favorite. Pinky Swear has a special place in my heart.
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*What’s your least favorite?<\/strong> Anything made before July 2007.
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*How do you get started on a kit?<\/strong> Palette first? Rough idea on what you want your papers or elements to look like? Usually the colors and the idea or theme happen at the same time.
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*How long does it typically take you to make a kit?<\/strong> Anywhere from 2 days to over a week. Depends on what is going on in my real life.
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*What is the weirdest thing you have ever made a texture out of?<\/strong> Nothing too weird over here. My furniture.
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*If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?<\/strong> My weight.
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*What is the one word that best describes you?<\/strong> busy
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*Who is the most important person in your life?<\/strong> God.
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*What is something that not many people know about you?<\/strong> I have worn glasses for 27 years and contacts for over 20 years. (and I am only 33)
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*If you could travel anywhere where would you go?<\/strong> Anyplace tropical.
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*When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up?<\/strong> A mommy. *<\/p>\n
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*What do you like doing with your family?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> Matagorda beach.
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*What are three things that are important to you?<\/strong> God, family, laughter
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*Is there anything you would change about your life?<\/strong> 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?<\/strong> My children hurting.
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*Do you collect anything?<\/strong> laundry? I am starting a collection of camera lens. I also have a collection of nativities that I add to every year.<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> This kit was the first glimpse I had into Amanda’s designs. I was instantly smitten.<\/p>\n<\/a>
Are you a fan of Disney? Here is the kit for ALL of your scrapping needs…<\/a> This was a free-bee Amanda gave away to celebrate selling at Scrap Orchard.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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Soon we will have a layout from Amanda using our blog train kit… the blog train that starts tomorrow…. I am excited. Very anxiously excited to see what she did with it. \ud83d\ude09
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