Meet Our September Guest Design Team Member - Mandy

My name is Mandy, and I live in Dallas with my husband, Jack. I work as a Broadcast Editor for an international radio program, and Jack is a taekwondo instructor. I started scrapbooking in 2003, when I made a really terrible little scrapbook for Jack while we were dating. Since then, I've learned a lot more about good design and composition (thank goodness!). In my free time, I run a non-profit organization called Survival Mode Parent (survivalmodeparent.org), design digital scrapbook kits and blogs (hornbuckledesigns.com), captain a BikeMS team (which raises money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society), and spend time with Jack and our dog, Maggie.

Meet Our September Guest Design Team Member - Malina

Hi, my name is Malina Rome and I am so excited to a be a guest designer this month! I guess I have been scrapbooking about ten years. I discovered it while I was a child photographer and shortly after my daughter was born. I laugh now at what was scrapbook art then and what it is now. This is how I tend to view most of my work...as art. I am a designer for my local scrapbook store, "Rochester Scrapbooking Company." I do not just do layouts but mini-albums and paper art and this is becoming my niche with the design team it seems so I am always on the look-out for new ideas and techniques to try.

 I also assist in teaching classes on using the Cricut cutting machines now. I am really grateful that I have that chance and look forward to the opportunity for teaching more classes locally on scrapbooking. I will be published for the first time in Scrapbooking News and Review com Magazine(http://www.scrapbookingnewsandreview.com/) on Aug. 29, 2010 with 4 different layouts!!! I hope you get a chance to check it out because I am super excited and super proud so forgive the shameless promotion lol.

In addition to all this I do own a small home-based/internet-based company called Reflections; Scrapbooking & Paper Keepsakes. In my restructure from local projects for local individuals I am reaching out for something bigger...you can follow that 'bigger' at www.reflectionskeepsakes.blogspot.com or www.facebook.com/MalinaofReflections.


I do not have any special style but I do have specific tools I cannot scrap without! I must have my Fiskar's locking spring handled scissors, my five different types of tweezers, my crafting knife, my headlight and my family. My children are my favorite subjects to scrap always and living in MN gives me lots of different environments for great pictures. I used to just scrap big events but now I scrap everything! My favorite inspiration books are from Creating Keepsakes but I believe inspiration can come from ANYWHERE! I especially like "Scrap Our Stash" because I have A LOT of stash. I like to tell my children I have enough paper to scrap for 10 years without buying another piece...but I will keep buying pieces because I have a problem, lol. I am a huge fan of "Scrap Our Stash" and hope to be able to design for them again after this month but if not I will still keep scrapping Kathy's challenges because they are great.

Meet Guest Design Team Member - Stacy

I'm Stacy Harper-Watson and I feel so lucky to get to be a stay at home mother to my 5 children. I have 3 sons and 2 daughters who range in age from 10 to 2. My husband and I were blessed to be able to adopt them all. We like to say that we have adopted their birth countries too...Taiwan (4 kids) and China (1 daughter).


I have always been a "crafty" person but didn't start to scrap until March of this year. We adopted our daughter from China last year and when we did I met and made immediate friends with another mother. She is a scrapper and invited me to join in on a group to make life books for our daughters. (Life books are basically scrap books telling the story of our child's life before they joined our family)


I agreed to join the group. Made my first layout and was hooked. I now have my own blog (doesn't everyone?? lol) and I try to be creative every day. I am on a DT at Sketches for You that is so much fun. And I get to roam around the net and join in on inspiring challenges on other challenge sites like Scrap our Stash .


I am so happy to get to be a guest designer here in September. Thanks so much for choosing me!!