{"id":39574,"date":"2021-04-04T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=39574"},"modified":"2021-04-04T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T22:58:13","slug":"designer-spotlight-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2021\/04\/designer-spotlight-april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Spotlight: April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cherry on Top!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lisa<\/strong>, the designer also known as The Cherry on Top<\/strong><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0didn’t have time to sit for an interview so she instead sent me a little bio. Here she is in her own words:<\/p>\n

Lisa-Lisa here, from The Cherry On Top.<\/div>\n
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I grew up State side, where I worked as a teacher. \u00a0What a wonderful job to have. \u00a0I often found myself underwhelmed by the typical curriculum and so I created a lot of my own, more visually appealing activity sheets and encouraged the kids to also show more creativity in their work. History can be pretty boring for most. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that even teenagers liked to construct scrapbooks to show off their knowledge of historical events. \u00a0I didn’t realize, at the time, that I was actually “designing” digitally. \u00a0I had next to no program or computer experience. \u00a0I even struggled learning how to do e-mail. \u00a0Ha!<\/div>\n
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I originally started scrapbooking traditionally and took those skills with me, over the pond, to Belgium, where I presently reside. \u00a0I wanted to make something that I couldn’t find anywhere in paper format. \u00a0So, I scoured the internet looking for images and “pieced” together exactly what I needed. \u00a0Funnily enough, I thought I invented digital scrapbooking, until I stumbled across the digital scrapbooking world.<\/div>\n
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I dove in the deep end! \u00a0After a couple of months, I was on a praise team at Scrap Take Out where I met a lot of fantastic designers like Fran B and Amanda from A-Manda Creation. \u00a0Slowly, I worked myself on to Creative Teams. \u00a0At one point, I was on 28 teams. \u00a0Talk about a junky! Ironically, I despised templates. \u00a0I still cannot get over the grudge I had against them. \u00a0Until I realized what a wonderful starting point or catalyst they can be. \u00a0Especially, when your mojo is low or the inspiration just isn’t there. \u00a0Now, they are my passion.<\/div>\n
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I find ideas for templates, everywhere. \u00a0In an advertisement, greeting card, sketch, nature…I’m always coming up with new ideas, techniques and I make designing unique, easy to use templates my main objective. \u00a0They truly are a wonderful tool and certainly an excellent way to learn how to digital scrapbook. \u00a0They save so much time, too.<\/div>\n
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I started off using PowerPoint to scrapbook. \u00a0I know, right?! \u00a0Then I moved to My Memories for a few years and then Photoshop Elements. \u00a0I still mostly use Elements. \u00a0It is incredibly user friendly and perfect for designing templates, for the most part. \u00a0Occasionally, I jump over to PS when PSE doesn’t offer a particular function I need and I’m pretty sure, that one of these days I’ll morph over to PS, but I still have so much to learn in PSE.<\/div>\n
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I do design a lot of other products besides templates, but templates are still my favorite.<\/div>\n
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Thanks for letting us get a peek into your creative process Lisa<\/strong>! Ladies, don’t forget that Lisa<\/strong>‘s also presenting the Daily Download<\/strong> this month. And she has a $2 coupon<\/strong> for her GingerScraps store<\/strong> (linked above in pink): the code is tcotspotlight<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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See you again soon!<\/div>\n
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