HOME GROWN GUEST DESIGNER #2 AUGUST 2016

Well, it's the middle of the month and you know what that means...It's time to share our Homegrown Guest Designer for August.  This month's Homegowner is a lady that I have been lucky enough to actually meet in real life and she is just as freaking awesome and cheeky as she appears to be through her art.  She is a very busy mum of two that has her own scrapbooking business, Flutterby Designs.  I am pleased to welcome Anita Rodway.

"So you know you're an artist if you go through a glue stick faster than a lipstick!? Well that's me!!  Hello, I'm Anita.  Graphic Designer / Full-time mummy to one boisterous 4 year old boy and a beautiful 1 year old girl (enjoying every bit of it!!)  & married to my best friend, Chris.  We live in Tamworth, the country music capital of Australia.  My love of art started at a young age and I had chosen my career pretty early.  I have always loved mixed media and the design process.  Never shying away from getting my hands messy.  I am lucky enough to say the quote "Do what you love, love what you do" applies to me.  I started scrapbooing about 10 years ago and I haven't stopped.  I have however since forgotten other basics live vacuuming, cooking etc - but we get by LOL.  Paper and paint are like therapy to me.  It calms me & satisfies my arty desires.  I have been on numerous Design and Creative Teams.  I am curretnly designing for Flutterby Designa dn Show Us Yout Stuff (Yay!!)  I've had layouts plublished in magazines such as Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbooke Creations and Jot Magazine,  I have made many friends and met some awesomely talented people through scrapbooking that inspire me everyday.  I am truly grateful to have met them all.  My blog: http://anitarodway.blogspot.com.au/"

And here is Neet's take on this months Moodboard...These are totally her colours.

Neet's style it all about layers and paint.  She just nails it everytime.

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What do you think?  I love that there is so much to look at and every time you look you see something different.

I will be back in a bit with our International Guest Designer for August.  She is from Finland and has a very distinct style.  Any guesses?

PLEASE WELCOME THE NEW DESIGN TEAM (June - January 2017)

Good Morning, Pinch and a Punch for the first of the month.  Welcome to Winter in Australia!  Today I am so excited to be sharing with you the new Design Team.  There are a few new additions and a few familiar faces that have opted to stay on for another term.

So without further ado....

Welcome to:

Tania Ballestrin

Tania from Adelaide and currently living in the Northern Territory.  She is currently on a few other Design Teams so you may have seen her work already.  Tania's work is very pretty with a bit of mixed media thown in. You are going to love her style.

Michelle Stokes

Michelle is a very familiar face.  She is one of the 2016 Scrapbooking Memories Masters and is currently also on the design team for D-lish Scraps.  Michelle's style is very clean and feminine.  She loves a cut file.

Lucie Forte

Lucie is a bit of International flavour for the team.  Lucie is from St-Philippe, on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec (Canada). She is French spoken and her layouts often feature a French title and journalling.  (Don't worry she will provide us with a translation and we all might learn a little French along the way.) Lucies Style, I think, is bordering on girl grunge.  Just not quite so dark.  Her layouts feature mixed media backgrounds, a lot of flowers and her little girl.

Anita Bownds

Anita is a Queensland girl and a face you might recognise.  She is on the design teams Kaisercraft and Couture Creations.  Anita describes her style as clean with a splash of mixed media.

That the four fresh new faces then we have these beautiful ladies returning for another term with the team:

Tammy Klinger

Rikki Graziani

Amanda Hartmann

AJ Reddicliffe

Ros Madley

Mandy Melville

Audrey Underwood

And myself - Krisy Podolak

This month the team has put some fantastic samples together for a wonderful moodboard created by our very own Rikki Graziani, so make sure you check out the post and link up later today.

Krisy  xx