{"id":37615,"date":"2020-11-05T22:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=37615"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:08:39","slug":"designer-spotlight-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2020\/11\/designer-spotlight-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wimpychompers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37616\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/feature-designer-500x107-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/images\/teamPics\/Designers\/Wimpychompers.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we are in November already. 2020 has, in so many ways, definitely been an annus horribilus, to steal from the Queen. Hopefully there are better days ahead!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to introduce you all to <strong>Christina<\/strong>, the creative genius behind <a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Wimpychompers\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Wimpychompers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. (I just wish I would have thought to ask her how she came up with that name&#8230; I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a story there!) She&#8217;s in the <strong>Designer Spotlight<\/strong> this month and has gifted all of us with a fabulous <strong>Daily Download<\/strong>. Make sure you&#8217;re picking up your pieces while they&#8217;re available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: How long have you been designing? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>I want to say 10 or 11 years<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What made you decide to design? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>I got really interested in making signatures in forums actually. I started messing around with Paint Shop Pro (ha) and ended up writing tutorials for signature making. I swore I would never start digital scrapbooking as I did paper scrapping at the time but soon changed my mind. Once I started figuring out the program I switched to digital, then decided I loved designing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What do you use to create your designs (program, additional tools, etc.)? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>Mostly Photoshop but I have recently gotten my hands on Procreate so we will see if I add my own drawings to my items <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: Describe your design workplace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C:<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #444950\"> My couch. (laughs). I sit on the couch with a lap desk, it&#8217;s the most comfortable and especially helpful now that my kids are doing school from home and have taken all of our desks.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What motivates and inspires you as a designer? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>I love looking at colors on Pinterest but mostly I am theme driven. I especially love to do kits I know I could use.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What is your favorite kit currently in your GS store and why? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>Can I say all of them? (ha). I would say the entire <strong>When I Grow Up<\/strong> series, it&#8217;s not technically one kit but that one took a lot of time and makes me smile, each kit being so different.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>Ooh, dangerous. Cinnamon rolls probably although my waistline may not appreciate that one<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What is your favorite game or sport to watch and play? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>I don&#8217;t watch sports but I love playing Lego video games with my kids, it can be therapeutic to smash everything in the game.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What did you want to be when you were small? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>A children&#8217;s book author, a teacher, and a ballerina<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: Aside from necessities, what one thing could you not go a day without? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>Hugs from my kids, they are teens so it&#8217;s not as often anymore and I take them when I can!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: Who would you want to play you in a movie of your life? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>I&#8217;ve never considered this one. Maybe someone like Kristin Bell<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: If you had a warning label, what would yours say? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C: <em>Caution: Can go off on a tangent with no warning!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">J: What celebrity would you like to meet at Starbucks for a cup of coffee? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444950\">C:<em> Maybe Reese Witherspoon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before we say thanks and see ya to Christina, I think I should tell you that she&#8217;s put everything in her <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Wimpychompers\/\"><strong>store<\/strong><\/a><\/span> on sale at 30% off for the WHOLE MONTH of November!! That&#8217;s really generous, and I bet it boosts her sales pretty nicely, just in time for Black Friday and Christmas. I&#8217;m going to check it out right now!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37270 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GS_footer_blog_Jan_2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GS_footer_blog_Jan_2019.jpg 575w, https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GS_footer_blog_Jan_2019-500x25.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"signature restore\">\n<div class=\"signaturecontainer\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimpychompers! Here we are in November already. 2020 has, in so many ways, definitely been an annus horribilus, to steal from the Queen. Hopefully there are better days ahead! I&#8217;d like to introduce you all to Christina, the creative genius behind Wimpychompers. (I just wish I would have thought to ask her how she came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229,102,284,134,92,66,286,58],"tags":[253],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 00:44:35","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\/37615"}],"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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37617,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions\/37617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}