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Our November Guest Design Team Member is Elise McKay-

New Zealand - Elise McKay - Guest DT for October

Thank you card - Elise McKay - Guest DT for October

and we asked Elise our serious of Guest DT member questions and here we find out a little more about her !

Questions
a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod
or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now. Hannah Montana - “The hoedown”. My daughter plays it constantly!!!!

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you; just
write the numbers of the answers that you pick
When I scrap :-

2> Prefer not to play music - Listen to either music or tv

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

17> I take my time when I scrap, it can take me days to do one
layout

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

c) Finish this sentence;
The words that would be describe my style are  Shabby / Vintage at the moment
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d) I have been scrapping for
5 years

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you
like to meet and what would you say?

I would love to meet Ingvild Bolme from Norway and look through her albums in real life. She has a beautiful way with shabby vintage.that I would love to see in the flesh!

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

I would be a Prima flower as they are all just so stunning.

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would
they be?

I must have a scalpel/blade to cut with, a triangle ruler is also a must and of course some double sided tape! The three essentials!

Thanks Elise!!!

Our September Guest Design Team Member is Nicole Pomeroy -

here we share her work - Nicole used our September Boxx of Scraps Kit

and a little bit of inside info on this talented scrapbooker

Daydreamer

Down in the Garden

He Is

Questions - Nicole’s answers are highlighted

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod
or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.

Hmmm hard one, don’t download and we hardly ever listen to tunes……..

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you; just
write the numbers of the answers that you pick
When I scrap :-
1> I have to play music

2> Prefer not to play music

3> Watch the TV

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day

5> Scrap on my dining room/kitchen/lounge table and the family eats
around me

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate
from there

7> Stick everything down before I change my mind

8> Don’t stick anything down until I have looked at it at least a
dozen times and sometimes even slept on it

9> I’m a neat freak

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

12> I only buy when I need things or have a project in mind

13> I am a bit of a Type A Scrapper

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

15> I love freestyle

16> I scrap quickly and normally finish a layout in or under 2 hours

17> I take my time when I scrap, it can take me days to do one
layout

18> I scrap everyday

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

20> I scrap 2 to 3 times a month

c) Finish this sentence;
The words that would be describe my style are forever changing with nothing that will distinguish between the messy and the neat.
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d) I have been scrapping for

2.5 years

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you
like to meet and what would you say?

Way too many scrappers that I want to meet, I’m not lucky enough to live in a major city for catch up’s so most of my scrappy friends are online girls.

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

too easy, Paint, it’s always messy, like me

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would
they be?

Patterned Paper, Paint and chipboard

thanks Nicole!

Our Guest Design Team member for August is Tatum Woodroffe - here she tells us a little more about herself - great to have you on the team this month Tatum!

Questions

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod

or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.

Probably the new Greenday Album…studying up for their concert in December LOL!

b)

When I scrap :-

1> I have to play music

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate

from there

7> Stick everything down before I change my mind

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

15> I love freestyle

16> I scrap quickly and normally finish a layout in or under 2 hours

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

c) Finish this sentence;

The words that would be describe my style are;

Evolving…at the moment I am really concentrating on keeping focus on the photo and the story.

d) I have been scrapping for

4 years now…it was not long before Charlotte’s 3rd birthday and she just turned 7 last week!

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you

like to meet and what would you say?

Emily Falconbridge, it was her work in Scrapbook Creations that inspired me to start scrapbooking.  I’d love to hear about living in the states and what it has been like being able to immerse herself in the scrapping industry over there.

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

Patterned Paper

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would

they be? Craft knife, metal ruler, paper piercer

this month we welcome Jodie Butler to our Design Team - welcome Jodie!  We posed these questions to Jodie and here are her interesting answers - giving us a little insight into this talented scrapper!

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod
or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.

“FAR” by Michelle Tumes

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you; just
write the numbers of the answers that you pick
When I scrap :-
1> I have to play music
I usually listen to the radio.

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day
Usually in my scrap room, but everyone tends to follow me in there…

5> Scrap on my dining room/kitchen/lounge table and the family eats
around me
When my scrap room starts to get too messy I migrate to the dining table to avoid cleaning it up.

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate
from there
Yep, this one…but very rarely do I have a planned idea, I just hope for the best!

7> Stick everything down before I change my mind

Yes! Don’t overthink it, just stick it down!!

12> I only buy when I need things or have a project in mind
I only buy scrapping supplies as I need them, but hoarding fabric and buttons and other little things, well, that’s different…

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!
But make that PAINT, distress and tear!

16> I scrap quickly and normally finish a layout in or under 2 hours
Yep, that’s me!

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week
…but I visit scrapboxx everyday!!

c) Finish this sentence;
The words that would be describe my style are;
colourful, a little bit messy, vintage-y

d) I have been scrapping for 4 years

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you
like to meet and what would you say?
Clair Bremner…and I would say “Can you please teach me how to take photos like you?”

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?
Glimmermist…messy but nice

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would
they be?
Sandpaper, stapler, and scissors

thanks Jodie!

We welcomed Kylie Fraser to the Scrapboxx Design Team in June and we asked her the following series of very serious questions - here are her replies - giving us a little more insight into this lovely lady!

1. Questions

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod

or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.

Skidamarinky dinky dink Skidamarinky doo because Laura keeps singing it to me.

(not to sure about the spelling though)…lol

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you;

When I scrap :-    6, 8, 10,11, 14, 17, 19.

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate

from there

8> Don’t stick anything down until I have looked at it at least a

dozen times and sometimes even slept on it

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

17> I take my time when I scrap, it can take me days to do one

layout

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

c) Finish this sentence;

The words that would be describe my style are;

I guess Multi-styled if I can say that!!…although I have really found a passion for vintage, shabby chic!!

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d) I have been scrapping for

(how long) 4 1/2 years

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you

like to meet and what would you say?

Tim Holtz!!…..Love your products, can’t wait to see more.

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

Definitely a distressed ink!!…cause lifes never boring

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would

they be?

Scissor, my cuttlebug & embossing folders & Crop-A-dile

thanks Kylie!!!

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Tammy Templeton Interview

Tammy is our latest Guest DT member this month and here we find out a little more about this talented scrapper -Thanks Tammy it’s great to be able to feature your gorgeous work!

Here is her answers to our round of questions:-

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod

or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.
Beyonce - Halo (from the Boxx Jukeboxx) thanks girls

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you; just write the numbers of the answers that you pick

1 & 3 - sometimes,

5 - not only do the family eat around me but they also play and fight around me too Keeps me in the Know
8 - pretty self explanatory

10 - yep definitely mounds!

15 - I refuse to set limitations on my creativity

17 - Sometimes it can take me days but I have been know to scrap a layout in a couple of hours…especially after the Scrapboxx retreat! Boy I certainly was very inspired to scrap after being surrounded by so many talented ladies!

19 - some weeks I don’t get to scrap (especially if I’m working that week) but then other weeks I could scrap every day (those are the days I especially like!)

When I scrap :-

1> I have to play music

2> Prefer not to play music

3> Watch the TV

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day

5> Scrap on my dining room/kitchen/lounge table and the family eats around me

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate from there

7> Stick everything down before I change my mind

8> Don’t stick anything down until I have looked at it at least a dozen times and sometimes even slept on it

9> I’m a neat freak

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

12> I only buy when I need things or have a project in mind

13> I am a bit of a Type A Scrapper

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

15> I love freestyle

16> I scrap quickly and normally finish a layout in or under 2 hours

17> I take my time when I scrap, it can take me days to do one layout

18> I scrap everyday

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

20> I scrap 2 to 3 times a month

c) Finish this sentence;

The words that would be describe my style are;

I can’t really think of a particular style that shouts ME! It’s just “Tammy Templeton” style. LOL. Does that count? Can I say that?! Is this thing on??

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d) I have been scrapping for

Since late 2003

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you like to meet and what would you say?

This is a tough question because there are so many wonderful scrappers in the whole of the World, not

to mention our own home grown Aussie talent…but I guess I would love to met Heidi Swapp…and in meeting her I would love to gather any useful tips for designing chipboard

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

I guess I would have to be ‘Pink chipboard Alpha’s’ LOL…everyone knows I’m never short of a word on the Boxx forum haha!!!!

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would they be?
A paper trimmer, Pritt glue and my trusty Zig writer

Kathleen Glossop - Interview

Questions

a) What’s the last song you downloaded to your ipod

or the song you just can’t get out of your head right now.

Lol - honestly!? “Bob the Builder (can we fix it!?)”

b) Pick any of these answers below that best describe you; just

write the numbers of the answers that you pick

4, 7 (funny, I soooo used to be “8”, then I came to the Boxx retreat, lol, no time to check things twice with challenges!), 10, 11, 14 (again, used to be 13, that’s ur fault too ;P), 15, 16 (refer to previous comments!), 18.

When I scrap :-

1> I have to play music

2> Prefer not to play music

3> Watch the TV

4> Sit in my scrapping space away from the hustle and bustle of the day

5> Scrap on my dining room/kitchen/lounge table and the family eats

around me

6> I take out everything I think will work with the layout and eliminate

from there

7> Stick everything down before I change my mind

8> Don’t stick anything down until I have looked at it at least a

dozen times and sometimes even slept on it

9> I’m a neat freak

10> I seem to create mounds of products wherever I go

11> I have a stash to envy a shop

12> I only buy when I need things or have a project in mind

13> I am a bit of a Type A Scrapper

14> I love to ink, distress and tear!

15> I love freestyle

16> I scrap quickly and normally finish a layout in or under 2 hours

17> I take my time when I scrap, it can take me days to do one

layout

18> I scrap everyday

19> I scrap on average 2 to 3 times a week

20> I scrap 2 to 3 times a month

c) Finish this sentence;

The words that would be describe my style are;

Ever changing! Lol – atm? Loud, bright, fun, white space, detailed.

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d) I have been scrapping for

4-ish years…but most seriously in the last 2.

e) If you could meet one scrapper in the world; who would you

like to meet and what would you say?

Lol – honestly (and she’ll laugh at me Im sure), Nic Pomeroy!! And what would I say? “Can I borrow your brain please?!” ;P

f) If you were a Scrapbooking product, what would you be?

Bling Frequently over the top & always bright J

g) If you could only have three tools to scrap with; - what would

they be?

Oh eeek! Hrmmm……Paper trimmer, sand paper……and a sewing needle J

Thanks Kathleen!!  great to have you on the team this month!

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