Introducing: The Card team!

Here is a little more information about the ladies who will be sharing their cards with us on the second Tuesday each month as part of our card team!

Our sketch and card designer:

Cathy

Crafting has been my creative outlet since the 80’s when my children were little.  In 2007, I began making cards and it has been my craft of choice every since.  I'm an empty-nester, so for the past five years I have had my own craft room instead of using the dining room table!  I bought my first Copic markers about three years ago.  Although I took the Copic Certification classes in 2012, my biggest resource for learning how to color and shade has been the Internet.  I am grateful for websites like Splitcoast Stampers and other bloggers I have found along the way for helping me continue to build my skills with each card I color.

Our designers:

Katie

My name is Katie and I live in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. By day I am a paediatric nurse on a general childrens' ward. I live with my partner and two gorgeous kitties. I have been card making for just over a year now and love to craft on my days off. I am excited to be part of the SID team

Colleen

Hello from the beautiful state of Michigan. I am a recent retiree and love having extra time to create. I am a grandma of 6 of the most wonderful grandkids in the world. They can make a dark day bright. I love making and giving cards as well as making pages for the grandkids scrapbooks. I have been making cards and scrapping for about 10 years.

Valou

My name is Valérie Allard, more known under the pen name valou250809.  I live in Belgium just next to the big city of Chaleroi and 40km from Brussels. I have 5 children from 3 to 12 years old. I scrap since 2006 and my style is the “Shabby Chic Style” but I know also how to create in a vintage style or C&S without any problem. I create a great deal of cards and of projects home decoration. I thank you very much for my introduction on the DT Team

Jessica

My name is Jessica and I live in sunny Southern California. I have been married to my husband for 8 years and have two wonderful children, Trinity 6 and Luke 4. I have been scrapbooking and card making for 6 years. I work full-time and enjoy my scrap breaks whenever I get a chance.

Monica

My name is Monica and I was born and raised in San Diego, California.  I currently live in Phoenix, Arizona with my husband of 21 years, my 16 year old son and 2 Dachshund dogs.  I have always been crafty and have at least tried most every type of crafting.  I got into scrapbooking when my son was born and switched over to card making about 3 years ago.  I am excited to be part of the Stick it Down design team and look forward to this creative journey.

December Sneak Preview!

We do not officially launch until January 7th with our first single page sketch, but the ladies were so excited to get started that we thought we would share a few sketches and creations to show you what we are all about!

So the wait is over, here's a sneak preview of the sketches we will be sharing with you in hopes to inspire you!

Our Single Page sketch courtesy of Smellykat

Doreena

Simona

Henva

Card Sketch courtesy of Cathy

Cathy

 Jessica

Monica

Colleen

Double page sketch courtesy of Shelby

 Stephanie

 Tracey

 Phillis

You will have until 8pm EST on January 6th to link up with us for the chance at a future guest designer spot!

Introducing - The Single Page Team 1

Here is a little more about our Single Page Team 1 ladies!

This is team will reveal on the first Tuesday of every month.  To play along, you will simply link up your single page version of the sketch!  Hope to see you on January 7th

Our sketch artist and layout designer for this team is:

 Cecile

Hi everyone! My name is Cecile (known as Smellykat on the web – yes I’m a big fan of FRIENDS TV show). I'm 35 & live in Paris suburbs (France) with my DH & my “crazy but cute” kitten Pixelle.

I’ve been working as a sales assistant in a creative perfumery house for the past 12 years.

I love reading books (especially vampires-related ones), surfing on the web (don’t mention the silly time-consuming Facebook games…uh oh, too late!), watching TV series…and I try to always look at the bright side of life!
 
I've been scrapbooking since summer 2006.I’ve tried many techniques and trends these past years but I would say my current style is clean-free: I love playing with bright colours, inks, gesso, stencils, modeling paste…and I love to create my own sketches!
 
I've been published several times in French scrapbook magazines (Histoires de pages, Carnets de scrap, Entreartistes magazine) & regularly work as a scrap translator. I’ve just been accepted as a DT member at Com.16 (a printable papers online shop) so it seems I’m in a good roll this month!

I hope you’ll be inspired by my realisations during these 6 months! Thank you for accepting me in the team! I’m so so Happy to bring my French touch to it!

Our Layout Designers:

Simona

My name is Simona, I'm Italian. I live in Bologna with my husband and my two sons - Jacopo 17 and Sara 12 years old. I started to make scrapbooking in 2007 and since then I'm fell in love! I like mini album, PL, card, but most of all I love the LO. I'm very happy to be part of this group, I still can't believe it!

Doreen

Hi, my name is Doreen!

I have been married to the love of my life, David, since 2001. I am the mother of 2 human babies: Joseph (18) and Madison (11) and 3 fur babies: Spotty (dog), Ivanna (dog) and Panini (cat).

I started dabbling in scrapbooking 14 years ago, however, it turned into a serious hobby for me in 2005 when I discovered a scrapbook website that opened my eyes to new, fun techniques and allowed me to interact with other scrappers. About 4 years ago the hobby turned into an obsession when I discovered blogs, contests, and scrapbooking kit clubs!

I don't scrap chronologically, as I would rather scrap whatever subject I am "feeling" at the moment.

Luckily I have a variety of subjects to scrap! I will never be caught up since as much as I like to scrap I also love to take pictures! For every new layout I create there's probably a dozen new pictures I have just taken, LOL!

But, that's okay... Just like life, it's not about the destination but the journey and I am excited to add being a DT member of "Stick It Down" my scrapbooking "journey"!

Michelle M

Hi! My name is Michelle. I live in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with my amazing husband, and our teenage daughter. My family feature throughout my work, they are my world. I discovered scrapbooking when my daughter was born, but only really became passionately addicted about 1 ½ years ago. There’s so many styles and techniques to play around with. I really enjoy the creative outlet of paper crafting, while documenting all parts of our life. I’m not sure if I have any set style, I think it often depends on my mood, the subject, or challenge involved. I have been honored to be a member of five design teams and have some of my work published. Besides paper crafts, I also love reading, baking, and spending time with family and friends. I look forward to sharing my work with you.

Michelle L

Hi my name is Michelle Looi. I'm a full time working mum and have 2 boys age 4 and 6. I have been crafting since May2011. As DT member I hope to inspire other scrapbookers as much as they inspire me to try new things and techniques. Most of the time, I'm into inking/stamping/misting in my layouts. Of course I do scrap with pattern papers too! You'd also see some washi tapes being used on my creations every now and then. 

I am on also on DT team at Kaboodle Doodles, Let's Scrap, 365cards and Sunny Side Up Creations. I had guest designed at Artist Cellar and CSI; and had been published on ezines - Life.Paper.Scrapbook, ScrapN'Art and ScrapStreet

And good news, our designers are furiously working on a little bit of a surprise.  Stay tuned!

Please welcome our first Design Team!

After a fantastic first call and some hard choices, we are pleased to announce our very first Design Team!

Single Page team 1 
(new sketch revealed the first Tuesday of each month)

Sketch and layout designer: Cecile

Simona

Doreen

Michelle M

Michelle L

Card team
(new sketch revealed the second Tuesday of each month)

Sketch and card designer: Cathy

Katie

Monica

Colleen

Valou

Jessica

Single Page team 2
(new sketch revealed the third Tuesday of each month)

Sketch and layout designer:  Brenshevia

TantiK

Henva

Vivian

Darcy

Double Page team
(new sketch revealed the fourth Tuesday of each month)

Sketch designer:  Shelby

Tasha

Kelli

Tracey

Stephanie

Phillis

And there you have it!  Our first Design Team! Congratulations ladies, we can't wait to see what you come up!

If you did not make it this time, please try again, there were so SO! many fantastic projects submitted.  We were so very impressed with everyone, but we could only take a certain number.

Please stop by and play along!

PS.  Each Tuesday in December we will give you a closer look at our design team.  You can check out their blogs before if you'd like!

A success!

Our first ever design team call has come to an end and it has been a complete success.  Now the hard decisions need to be made.

We thank each and every one of you who applied.  We received more applications than we have positions to be filled, which is great for us, but means we will disappoint some really fantastic and creative ladies.

We are working as fast as we can to make our decisions.  The official announcement will be made on December 5th.

Thanks again to everyone who applied.  It makes us very excited to get the ball rolling!