Blagovesta Gosheva is one of the newer designers to join our SSD team but she’s been a designer for awhile now. Before we take a walk down Memory Lane to show off how her design style has evolved, here is her design story:

I came across Digital Scrapbooking by chance in 2007 while I was reading the posts in a local forum for moms. It seemed quite interesting to me and I decided straightaway that I should have a try at it. So I did and I just got addicted. Now I have several photobooks ready, and many more stories and pictures waiting for me to put them in photobooks.

In 2011, a van hit me as I was going to work in the morning and I had a leg badly broken. I had to undergo several surgeries and that leg is full of metal bits and pieces to that day. I was bed-ridden for a very long time, and I couldn’t go to work. I spent those endless days at the computer at home while my daughter was at the kindergarten. I scrapped many pictures. I had many photos of my daughter with her favourite dinosaurs (she was crazy about them) and I started looking around the shops for a good dinosaur kit. Then I thought I might try to make my own. So I got to it and made my dinosaur kit as well as some other stuff … it was such a fun!  At first, I did not intend to sell them, but then I decided to try out of curiosity and in June 2011, my first kit was released.

Here are some of her very first kits!

 

And here are some of her kits that are currently available in her shoppe.

 

I love seeing the change over the past 5 years! I’m so happy that she made that risk to start designing and selling. She’s a great designer and I’m thrilled she’s made her home at Sweet Shoppe Designs! Remember her FWP kit, Me+You=Everything, will only be available for FREE with every $10 purchase through this Thursday, February 25.