Sunday Q&A

I've been thinking about setting aside a day to answer questions that are left on here as well as e-mailed to me and Sunday seems to be a good one so here goes!

I will try to answer as many questions as I can but there is a good chance I will miss some and if I do just post your questions in the comment section on THIS post and I'll get to it next Sunday :o)

I just have a question...do you have any ideas for wedding invitations?  My niece is getting married in June 09 and asked me to make her inviations.  Her colors are pink with touches of either purple or lavender.  I don't have a clue but said I would try.  If you have any ideas or where I might find some, please let me know.  I enjoy your web site very much..
Thanks a bunch....
   Marlene

I don't really have any ideas for you as wedding invites can take MANY shapes and forms and not knowing your neice personally makes it more difficult. HOWEVER I recommend checking out the gallery at Splitcoast - you can even enter the keywords "WEDDING" "WEDDING INVITATIONS" "WEDDING INVITES" etc into the search bar and see what all comes up. With thousands of projects uploaded to that gallery I'm sure you'll find TONS of inspiration!!

EDITED TO ADD: Here's a tip posted by Kristine in the comment section (thanks Kristine!!):

Hi Amy!  I have a tip about your first Q/A from Marlene:  I saw this webisode over at Craft Tv Weekly and he shows how to make an interlocking heart card and at the end, he shows it in all different colors for wedding invites!  Looks neat and very simple.  Don't know how to let Marlene know, but here's the link:
http://www.crafttvweekly.com/player.html

Happy New Year!! :)

Did your Costco have the K&Co chipboard as well .. they have it here in Calgary .. I bought it with the ribbon as well. 

Yes the Costco in Saskatoon had those chipboard sets - I looked at them and debated about it and then put them back! I have a K&Co set of baby chipboard shapes and letters sitting here that I got at Michael's months ago and never used and I'm not sure if I'd ever use MORE of it.......

I know that you told a little bit about your sketches in your blog. I was wondering what program you used on your computer? Or would you be able to tell us where to get it?? thanks a bunch!!

I just use the Paint program to make my sketches - it's all I know how to do right now (and it took me forever to figure out how to make them on there LOL!)

Hi! My name is Olga. I live in Ukraine. I very much like your cards. I too want to do(make) such cards. But we on Ukraine do not have such materials. You could something will inform also to send me. I very much to you I shall be grateful. Answer please.

I wait for your letter!

First off I must say I still find it very cool that I have an international audience here on my blog. Secondly I really don't know for sure how people in other countries (other than Canada and the US) get their hands on a lot of the paper-crafting items I use here.......I do know that All That Scraps will ship internationally. And there are probably other online vedors who will as well (Cornish Heritage Farms is another one and I think Stamping Bella ships internationally too).

For things like this I always say your best bet is to go to the forums on Splitcoast and post your question there - they have THOUSANDS of members from all over the world and there is always bound to be someone on there who can better answer a question like this!

I'm trying to find out what exactly are One Sheet Wonders? I know it's making several cards out of one sheet of paper but is it a template or something? Or something from the new SU catalogue? Is there a pattern for them? Any info you would share would be greatly appreciated.

Yes a One Sheet Wonder is making several cards out of one sheet of patterned (or plain card stock that you stamp yourself to make "patterned paper"). There ARE templates out there (the ones I've seen are on Splitcoast in the Downloads section - just do a search of OSW) that "maximize" the paper so that you get the most out of it (and therefore the most cards).

Personally I never use a template - I just cut the paper however I feel LOL! When using 12x12 patterned paper one little trick is to cut it into 4x4" squares - that will give you 9 squares and therefore 9 cards...

I came across your blog page through a link on someone elses page. I LOVE your work!!! I liked reading about you and how far you have come in so short a time. I am curious about something and hoping you can enlighten me. How does someone go about becoming a designer for a stamp company? I am an "ok" stamper, but I would love to know what needs to be done to achieve the "designer" status. Can you let me know? I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks for sharting your work with the rest of us. You are an inspiration!!

Thank you for the sweet comments!

I get asked this a lot and I've also seen it posted quite often in stamping forums - how do you get on design teams? is a question burning in the heads of many a stamper!

Really I'm not an authority on this subject - yes I am on several but I was asked to be on them - I never applied! And you want to know something really interesting?? ALL the design teams I've actually applied to be on (I either submitted to their Design Team call or I contacted the company personally and asked) I was rejected from LOL! Altho really I don't take it as a personal rejection (I know in the beginning I did - it hurt!) - because I've come to know what it's like to run a team and to be on the lookout for new members and to go through applications.

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When it comes to getting yourself on a Design Team - there are a couple of different things you can do. You can wait and see if there is a call for designers (most companies will post that somewhere on their website that they are doing a call - or if they have a company blog (which a LOT of them do) they will post it there as well) and then apply to be on the team and wait.

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You can also contact a company directly and include a couple of samples of your work (and linking to your blog/gallery is a good thing too!) and ask if there are any DT positions available.

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Like I said neither of those methods have worked for me so far but that doesn't mean they won't for you!

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I just discovered your blog and am really enjoying reading it. I would like to read past posts but don't see a place to go back and read them. Am I missing something or is that not an option?

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Yes all my older posts are categorized by month in my "Oldies but Goodies..." section (if you scroll down a bit on the right you'll see a little section labelled "CHECK OUT" - and then there's listed the "Oldies but Goodies..." (archived posts), Killin' Time.... (sites I like to frequent), "Gotta Shop!" (links to the places where I get my goodies), "My Tutorials" (links to all the tutorials I have done on here as well as for SCS) and "So Many Blogs....So Little Time!!" (a list of TONS of blogs!).

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OK that's it for now! Have a great Sunday everyone!