Craft Warehouse Scrapbook Design Team 2010

On April 14th I got the awaited phone call around 4pm that I had made it onto the Craft Warehouse Scrapbook Design Team! I know that I sounded like a dork on the phone but I was so excited and wasn’t sure if I should accept politely or start jumping up and down and scream with excitement. :o)

I had decided last year after making it on the honorable mention list to try out for the team again this year. I thought my chances would be greater since I would get at least two months to work on my entry instead of the two days I had last year. Luckily I was sent an email the day the contest started so I didn’t forget about it.

Coming up with the card and layout ideas came pretty easily for the most part but I had a really hard time deciding on a project. I spent three hours up at the Craft Warehouse in Salem and didn’t really come up with any ideas! While visiting my parents for spring break I paid the Vancouver Craft Warehouse a visit with my mom. My mom fell in love with a box that you put together to hold recipes. It looked like it had a lot of possibilities but it cost $20.00 and I had already spent a lot of money on everything else. Well my mom’s excitement rubbed off on me and I bought it along with a new paper line that I had fallen in love with.

I spent the next couple of days painting all the parts of the box brown and then sealing it with a matte finish varnish. It took those couple of days to figure out what I was even going to do with it! The box comes with five wooden dividers and so I decided to do something with the five senses. So each divider is one of the senses and then behind each divider I put pictures that show some of my favorite things that have to do with that sense. I attached journaling paper to the back of each picture so I could write a description about it. Seemed like an idea that would work.

Well the Monday before it was due was the day that I was planning on finishing it so I could get the pictures of my projects in the mail on Tuesday hoping that would be enough time for it to reach it’s destination by Friday. I was stressed and everything seemed to be going wrong. I basically decided it wasn’t worth it after all and was getting ready to head back to bed. My dear husband started to encourage me and even stayed home from school to sit by me as I worked on it. He helped with measuring and cutting pieces of paper to size. I honestly wouldn’t have completed it without him!

I feel so blessed to have made the team and I’m very excited to be challenged with new product. And of course I’m excited for the goodies that I’ll be sent for my personal use. My bio and project pictures can be found on the Craft Warehouse website.