Exciting Announcement!!

   Today I have some exciting news to share and I'm very happy to tell you that I have accepted a new Design Team Position for Through the Craftroom Door.    TTCRD is the fabulous Craft Publication created by Suzanne Dean and Marti Wills.   I have been a subscriber since day one and also have enjoyed taking part in all of the craft challenges!    I was even the lucky  winner of last month's challenge - Yippee!!

Design Team Members

anaRy Baumgarth - Senior DT

Anita Autore - Senior DT

Danielle Linton - Junior DT

Jennifer Scull - Junior DT

Lisa Haines - Junior DT (that's me)

Melanie LaBelle--DT Leader/Magazine Partner

Sandi Huggett - Junior DT

Stephanie Lee - Junior DT

Wini Bell - Junior DT

  
   With Summer winding down, I knew it was time for me to look into returning to designing and when I read about the DT call, I decided to apply.  I'm very excited to have been given this wonderful opportunity and can't wait to create with all the awesome members of the team.

   I would like to invite you ALL to join the main site, which is OPEN to all!   If you would like to be a subscriber of this wonderful publication, you can find the details HERE!     Secondly, I would like to invite you to join our newest challenge, which started yesterday and can be found on the main site here, as well as on our Challenge site, which is HERE.  We are currently on Challenge # 9 and this challenge is all about TEXTURE!!    We call it - You'll find all the details HERE!

"Fun With Textures"

Use at Least 2 Products to Give your Card/ Project Texture

     We have a wonderful prize this month and it's 4 images, winners choice is from  Delicious Doodles!    Good Luck !  

    Please be sure to post your completed project at the CHALLENGE SITE - using Inlinkz.   You may also feel free to add a your project to the Main Site Gallery and we encourage you to share it there too!

   This is my 'Texture Card' that I created today.  It's also going to be a birthday card for my nephew who turns 8 next week.   My image has been colored with Copics and for my texture I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the bright orange layer.  Next I added a layer of blue/gold metallic mesh, from my stash and then created a top border with some copper foil.  I topped it all off with some matching Pezz-a-bling! 

   I want to say Thank You to Suzanne, Marti and Melanie for choosing me as part of the team.  I think we'll all have a lot of fun creating together and I'm very happy to be working with so many wonderful designers!

   I also have two more cards to share today and the first one was created for the new Twisted Thursday Challenge over at The Outlawz Group.   The challenge this week was to follow a Recipe (Go HERE for all the details).   This is my card which was created in a Fall theme.  My cute little Pumpkin image is a freebie from StampFairy, which I colored with Copics markers and edged with Distress Ink.   I then adhered the colored image to a foil circle which I cut and embossed in my Grand Calibur.   

    The card is being submitted to each of these challenges -

• The Outlawz - Twisted Thursday - Recipe Challenge
• Polka Doodles - Week 35 - Autumn Leaves/Theme
• Heidi's Hobbystuggu - September Challenge-  Fall Colors

   And my final card today was created with for the newest challenge over at By Lori Designs and this week the challenge is to create a "Back to School" themed project, including one of the sweet BLD images.   This is the card that I created and this is my brightest and happiest card.  I went with lots of bright colors and colored up my little school girl in happy colors for Back 2 School.   The card would also work out very well for the Texture challenge at TTCRD.  It has multiple embossed layers and also used my Distrezz-it-All to add a lot of texture to the first layer.   Another fun card!

    This cute little Back to School card is being submitted to each of these fun challenge:

• By Lori Designs - Challenge #21 - Back 2 School
• If the Shoe Fits - Challenge #90 - Back to School
• Lily Pad Cards - Color Palette Challenge

     I had such a fun day and I am so happy and excited to be part of a Design Team again!  My thanks to everyone for all your wonderful support!!   Hugs to you all!!