Papercraft Star: Design Team

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December 4, 2010

Introducing Papercraft Star's Sketch Designer Liz Chidester

We're excited to announce the latest addition to our Creative Team here at Papercraft Star! Liz Chidester joins us for 2011 as our Sketch Designer. You'll see Liz's scrapbook and card sketches on and off through the entire year and we couldn't be more thrilled to feature her designs for lots of our up-coming challenges beginning in January 2011! Liz's sketches are fabulous (if we do say so ourselves) and we just know you're going to love using them to inspire your papercraft creations! Here's just a bit about Liz...

Liz Chidester

My name is Liz Chidester and I am 32 yrs old. I am married to a wonderful man who puts up with my scrapping obsession. Together we have 4 children and we live in the wonderful scrappy state of Utah. I have been scrapbooking for over 11 years now and loving every minute of it. When I'm not at home creating I work part time as a cake decorator.

You can see more of Liz's sketches and learn about her at her blog: The Scrappiest. Please give Liz a warm welcome to the Papercraft Star Creative Team!

June 17, 2010

T-Minus Five Days and Counting...

In only five days, Papercraft Star kicks off it's very first official challenge with the beautiful red, white and bling photograph posted at the left sidebar. All you have to do to play along is create a project using that photograph as inspiration and entry the project between Wednesday June 23 and noon on Saturday June 26. When the entries close, the public voting begins. So enter your project and then get on your blog and tell all your friends, family, followers and papercraft peeps to join in the fun and vote for their favorite projects right here at Papercraft Star! We are a unique blog like that... allowing the public to pick the winner! The first of its' kind (as far as we know anyhow!).

The winner not only will receive a sweet package of papercraft goodness and a nifty People's Choice Award button for their blog...they will ALSO be in automatically placed into the finals! Once we have three People's Choice Award winners, the Judges (Kristina and Beth) will select their favorite and they will win a Papercraft Star Winner blog button! The judging will go on every three weeks! How cool is that?!

Don't forget also that once Papercraft Star reaches 250 followers some lucky follower will win a papercraft prize worth at least $25.00!

We are so excited about this new concept in blog challenges that allows for the public to vote that we want EVERYONE to know about it! Help spread the word about Papercraft Star!

Now let's introduce you to the last (but not least) two members of your Papercraft Star Design Team!

Steph

Aloha! My name is Steph :). It is an honor to be selected as one of the Papercraft Star Design Team Members. I have had a passion for fine arts and crafts since a very young age. I enjoy exploring different media and techniques and I love meeting new artistes (and artists) from all over the world. Welcome to the Papercraft Star Challenge Blog. Come and play :)! We'd love to see your wonderful creations. You're also welcome to visit my blog. *hugs* and Much aloha~!

Dawn Bennett

Hi everyone! My name is Dawn (Cort) Bennett, and I am lucky enough to be a designer here at Papercraft Star! I am recently married in a big country wedding (6.12.2010... like r-e-a-l-l-y recently!) here in Washington State and have two children as well as an amazing man as my husband. I love adhesives, tattoos, papercrafting and cameras, as well as long walks on the beach and candlelit dinners. I am a sworn paper addict and can't help but at least get 'just a few sheets' each time I pass any store that even remotely could... may, just possibly carry some line of paper. I have a wry sense of humor and sarcasm is my specialty. I love to make cards and seem to make them faster than I can even give them away! I have a lot of scrapbooking to catch up on, and can't wait to share! I have a blog over at Dawn's Addiction and I try to update daily with at least an update or photography project. I can't wait to help motivate you to step outside your comfort zone, try and learn new things as well as sharing and learning with you wonderful Papercraft Star readers! Cheers!

That wraps up the introductions of your Papercraft Star Design Team...but that's not all, come back tomorrow to meet the creators and Judges for the new challenge blog Papercraft Star!

June 16, 2010

250 Followers Equals a $25 Gift Certificate!

Can you believe it, in just six more days Papercraft Star kicks off it's first official challenge in the blogging world of papercrafting! If you choose to join us...and we certainly hope you do. You have an opportunity to win a beautiful People's Choice Award blog button AND some swell papercrafting blog candy too! We dare you to try your hand at the first challenge, an inspiration photo, and all the other challenges that follow as well!

Just to make things even more interesting.... When Papercraft Star reaches 250 followers... we'll randomly select one of those followers to win a $25.00 gift certificate to Papertrey Ink! How's that for an incentive to lure you into joining us here at Papercraft Star?

Alrighty then... here's two more members of your Papercraft Star Design Team.

Liz from 'Down Under'

Hello, my name is Liz. I am honoured and excited to be part of Papercraft Star! I live in Adelaide, Australia - 'Down Under' as we like to say :). I am married to a wonderful and understanding man, Filip, and we have two children - Kajetan who's almost 6 and Kalia who is 1. Our life is always busy, exciting and loud, these are the moments I love to capture and scrap. I have been scrapbooking for 3 years and love every bit of it. I am looking forward to this fantastic experience and working together with Beth and Kristina and with such a talented design team. Here's my blog: LovingLife

Tracy

Hey Yall! My name is Tracy and I'm a southern belle from Mississippi. I've been married almost 25 years to an incredible man who is my best friend and soul mate. We have one daughter who's about to finish college and one white lab who thinks she's human. I don't ever remember a time that the feel of paper and scissors in my hands didn't make me happy. I started scrapbooking about three years ago and discovered my passion for mini albums about a year ago. I love to create projects with a vintage look and I don't mind throwing in a little mixture of different kinds of crafts like crochet or sewing. I just started dabbling with cards so I have to say my stronger suit is scrapbooking. I hope that the projects I can add as a Design Team member at Papercraft Star will help inspire your own creativity in some way. Thanks for blessing me with this wonderful opportunity Kristina and Beth. I'm so excited about being a part of this fantastic team of crafters!

Come back tomorrow to meet the rest of your Papercraft Star Design Team and get ready for the first ever official Papercraft Star Design Team challenge! Whoot Whoot!

June 15, 2010

Two more Design Team Members ...

Only 7 more days! The time is clicking by... are you getting ready for the first ever official Papercraft Star Challenge? Enter your project inspired by the photograph inspiration (posted on the sidebar left) and you could win both a Papercraft Star People's Choice Award button AND some blog candy too!

Now let's meet two more members of your Papercraft Star Design Team!

Caroline

Hi Everyone! I'm Caroline. I am honored to be a part of the Papercraft Star Design Team. I live in Sunny South Florida and am married to the love of my life Gregg. We don't have and kids but we do have a loveable furbaby, Rocky. My day job is a title examiner but wish I could be home creating all day long. I have always been a "crafter" of some sort. Be it papercrafts, photography, cross stitch, alterd items or what not. However, right now I am more of a paper crafter and love to share my work with everyone. Thanks for letting me be a part of this exciting opportunity.

Suzy

I'm Suzanne, aka Suzy, a 28 year old wife, first grade teacher and dog mom from Pennsylvania :) I've been enjoying this hobby since high school. I love showcasing our photos, telling our stories, and sharing our life with others through scrapbooking and sending cards. Stop by my blog to see what I've been working on. I'm so honored to be a part of the Papercraft team and this community of talented women. Looking forward to being inspired by all the talent here!

Have a happy crafting day and return tomorrow to meet two more of your Papercraft Star Design Team Members as we count our way down to the big Papercraft Star Challenge #1!

June 14, 2010

More DT Members and Papercraft Star Info!

Only 8 more days! Yep, just eight days until Papercraft Star Challenges begin! Have you checked out the gorgeous red, white and bling inspiration photograph on the left sidebar yet? That photo is for the first challenge, which means that you have plenty of time to get that project ready before we start accepting submissions on June 23, 2010. Submissions for the first challenge will be open from June 23 through Saturday the 26th at noon. After that, the voting begins! Votes will be accepted from Saturday noon until late Monday night. The winner of the challenge will receive a snazzy little Papercraft Star People's Choice Award button for their blog as well as some very yummy paper-crafty goodness package mailed to their home to kick off our first official challenge at Papercraft Star!

Before you run off to your craft room to get ready for the first challenge, we'd like you to take a moment to meet two more of your Papercraft Star Design Team members....

Christy

Greetings! My name is Christy and I am honored to be a part of the Design Team here at Papercraft Star! I am a Radiologic Technologist by day and scrappy crafter by night! My family consists of my wonderful husband and two beautiful children, they are my world! I started scrapping in high school and although my style has changed my passion for the craft has not!

Jan

Hello - I am Jan. I am a retired college instructor, and live in Eugene, Oregon with my husband. For fun I do tournament scoreboards and computers for the Oregon Golf Association. Papercrafting is pretty new to me, but crafting has been a huge part of my life for many many years. I am always looking to learn and grow ! Papercraft Star Design Team is an exciting endeavor, and I am so happy to be a part of it.

Don't forget to come back and visit us tomorrow here at Papercraft Star to meet two more members of your Papercraft Star Design Team! Have a fan-tabulous-day!

June 13, 2010

Meet the Papercraft Star Design Team

By now we hope that many of you have had a chance to look around our new challenge blog and taken note of the up-coming challenges we'll host starting on June 23, 2010! As we gear up to kick off our first challenge we'll spend every day this week introducing you to your new Papercraft Star Design Team!

Our plan is to introduce two or three members of the team starting today and then every day through Friday, followed by a brief bio about the Judges and Co-creators of this blog on Saturday... after which, it will be but a few short days and we'll officially introduce the first Papercraft Star Challenge! To start the first challenge off right, participants will not only have a chance to win the Papercraft Star People's Choice award (a very smart looking blog button for our winners) and move forward into the finals with two other winners over the next several weeks to have a chance to win a coveted Papercraft Star Winner button in the finals we'll hold every three weeks, the first winner of our first challenge is also going to receive a nice little package of papercrafting goodness mailed right to their home! We are so looking forward to all of your entries so check out the challenge list on the sidebar...it's not too early to get started crafting for the up-coming challenges!

Now it's time to introduce three of your Papercraft Design Team members (in no particular order)...

Steph

Hi everyone, my name is Stephanie and I am so excited to have been selected for the Papercraft Star Challenge Design Team. I have been creating in some form since I was a child and absolutely love the creative process. I love to make cards, layouts and altered items and find my day is just not complete if I haven't spent some time in my scrap room.

Catherine

Hello Crafters! My name is Catherine and I am so thrilled to be on the new Design Team here at Papercraft Star! Just a little bit of info about myself. I live in the great Lone Star State (Texas) with my husband, and we both teach at the same high school. I have been scrapbooking off and on for about 10 years, since I was in high school. I enjoy all types of paper crafting, but more recently chipboard/mini albums and cards! Since it is summer and I have loads of extra time... I am trying to do a project almost everyday!

Regan

Hi, my name is Regan. I am excited to be a Design Team member here at Papercraft Star! I am a stay at home mom to two beautiful little girls, and I have been married to my best friend and the love of my life, Daniel, for 6 years in July! I enjoy doing anything crafty and I love to crochet! I started scrapbooking back in middle school, but I was reintroduced to scrapbooking and card making about 3 years ago and I haven't turned back!

That's all for today folks... don't forget to come back and check us out again tomorrow to meet two more of your fabulous Papercraft Star Design Team. Until then, feel free to hop on over to our Message Boards (link is at the top left of this blog) and join us for some papercrafting talk that you just simply should not miss!