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…and I thought I was dragging my feet last<\/em>\u00a0weekend, but I’ve finally got all my morning self-appointed chores finished and ready to rock and roll!<\/p>\n Let’s all say hello to Maaike – owner of Find Your Bliss Designs!<\/p>\n She’s been our absolutely lovely guest designer this month. If you haven’t see her designs and fallen in love with at least one, check your pulse.<\/p>\n A little bit more about Maaike in her own words.<\/p>\n I live in the Netherlands with my husband and our two teen sons! I love to digiscrap, have cropnights with my paperscrapfriends, I love photography, reading and just having fun with the ones I love!<\/em><\/p>\n How did you get your start designing?<\/p>\n I was a paperscrapper working in Scrapstores before and teached workshops and when I turned digi, I felt the need to combine those two and felt the need to design and I am really happy I started designing because I couldn’t live without it anymore!<\/em><\/p>\n What inspires your designing?<\/p>\n Everything!! Real life, colors I see,Pinterest, people around me, really, everything!<\/em><\/p>\n From your (beautiful) kits in our store, what’s your favorite? What inspired it?<\/p>\n I would have to say\u00a0Always Strong<\/a>, because it is such a diverse kit! They are totally different colors from what I normally use, but still the kit is very colorful and you can scrap real fun moments with it, but also very serious subjects and I had someone here on the forum thanking me for making this kit because she needed to scrap a serious moment and was inspired because she could use this kit and I was very honored!<\/em><\/p>\n An absolutely beautiful kit! I personally love your Stories<\/a>\u00a0kit, the color pallet is totally awesome!<\/p>\n I also love all the little talk\/thought bubbles!<\/p>\n While you’re designing these lovely kits, what is the one thing you just can’t do without?<\/p>\n Just one??Wow!! Well, I must answer tea than! (and ofcourse everything you can eat with tea, and the tv or radio on in the meanwhile! Was I cheating with putting this between brackets?\u00a0 We’ll allow it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n What’s your advice for aspiring designers?<\/p>\n Think good about what you really want, what your style is and stick to it! And learn your program and how to make good quality products.<\/em><\/p>\n Now for some more fun!<\/p>\n If you could time travel to any time, when would you go and why?<\/p>\n I would go back 20 years ago to my parents house to see my dad one more time !<\/em><\/p>\n Your most favorite book turned movie? Right now that would be The Help!<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0If you could vote any FICTIONAL character into Presidency for 2012 who would it be? Harry Potter ofcourse!<\/em><\/p>\n I’m with you on that! Wands and messenger owls for everyone!<\/p>\n What’s your favorite recipe to make at home?<\/p>\n A lot of mixed veggies in the wok with oriental oil, cajun urbs and sweet and sour sauce, a can of tuna in there and some basmati rice and along with that some backed seasoned tilapia fish on top! Mmmm (cooked in 10 minutes and my favorite meal)<\/em><\/p>\n That sounds positively de-lish!<\/p>\n What’s your favorite subject to scrap?<\/p>\n My youngest son Quincy, he’s 11 now!<\/em><\/p>\n Lastly, I’ve got to ask,\u00a0journaling or wordart, which do you favor?<\/p>\n Word Art! I journal sometimes, but it always comes down to loving him so much and I think he will get that without seeing it on every page! \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n I was able to chat personally with Maaike, and I’ve already thanked her but I would love to do it again! Thank you Maakie for chatting with me, and sharing with us more about you! You’re totally awesome and we love having you here!<\/p>\n You can check out the rest of her store here<\/a>\u00a0and definitely check out her blog<\/a>!<\/p>\n I hope everyone has a super scrapperific day!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning scrappers! …and I thought I was dragging my feet last\u00a0weekend, but I’ve finally got all my morning self-appointed chores finished and ready to rock and roll! Let’s all say hello to Maaike – owner of Find Your Bliss Designs! She’s been our absolutely lovely guest designer this month. 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