Featured Scrapper 1/7 – Kay Miller!
Hello Sweet Shoppers and welcome to our very first Featured Scrapper Friday for 2011! This week we’re featuring someone whose gallery is absolutely full of goregousness – Kay Miller! Most of you probably know Kay already, but let’s get to know her a little better:
I’ve been digital scrapping now for 7 years. I can’t believe it! I used Photoshop Cs4 and I scrap on my beloved iMac and my Macbook pro.
How often do you find time to scrap?
I try to scrap every day. It’s something I really love to do and I rarely get tired of doing it. I homeschool the kids and while they are working independently I’ll run into my computer room and work on layouts. I also scrap at night while they’re sleeping. I stay up way too late!
What’s easier and why? Creating girl pages or boy pages?
Oh girl pages!!! I find it very difficult to scrap boy pages. The reason is there are usually no flowers! How in the world do you scrap a page with no flowers?? My little guy is going to look back at all of his pages one day and ask why I put flowers on all of them! LOL! I really love the colors of girl kits better too. Also my little girl poses and will let me take pictures of her much more willingly than my boy will.
Where do you draw inspiration from when you start a layout?
Well, these days I usually use a template!! LOL! I LOVE Cindy’s templates! I would be lost without them! I am totally backwards when I scrap. I start with the template and the kit and then after I’m done with the page, I go look for pictures to put in it. I think that comes from being on creative teams and designing for so long. I do start a layout with photos in mind from time to time but it’s not my norm.
What do you do when you’re not online?
Oh plenty that’s for sure! LOL! I homeschool the kids for one thing. I have three dogs that I adore and I love to walk with them and play. I love love to rubber stamp and make cards. I also work with polymer clay and love to make ornaments and little figures. I enjoy reading and sometimes just doing nothing, but that’s a rare treat these days.
I also asked Kay to pick three of her favorite layouts to share with us and explain why they are faves:
I love this layout because Christmas is my very favorite time of year and because I love love Christmas kits! I buy almost all of them . Most of all though I love these pictures of me with my sweet kiddos all in our jammies on Christmas eve. These are definitely memories I want to keep.
Next to Christmas kits, winter kits are my favorite. I love doing winter layouts. I also love taking pictures of my kids playing in the snow. I love living in a climate that has four seasons and gets plenty of snow .
As soon as I finished this layout I knew it would always be one of my favorites. I adore these pictures I took of the kids on vacation and they match this gorgeous kit by Kristin and Meg so perfectly. I just love everything about how this page turned out.
Featured Scrapper Challenge (Bonus #1) for your January 2011 Scrapper’s Portfolio
Your challenge today is a traditional Sweet Shoppe Spin-A-Lift. Choose a layout from Kay’s Gallery, rotate it 90 or 180 degrees, flip it or rotate it and then scrap!
**please note this challenge is worth 1 point and cannot be combined with other portfolio prompts except for NR bonus point for a total of 2 points.**
Here are some examples from our very own Sugar Babes:
By Aly
Aly lifted Kay’s layout Cool and used products from Fishing Adventures by lliella designs
by Kjersti
Kjersti lifted Kay’s layout Berry Sweet and used products from Peace on Earth by Eva Kipler and Studio Flergs
by Amy
Amy lifted Kay’s layout Summer Vacation and used products from It’s Cold Outside by Meghan Mullens
by Nikki
I lifted Kay’s layout Christmas Love and used productes from What’s Happening? by Fee Jardine
Don’t forget to edit your Portfolio with your page for this challenge!
NOTE: These Bonus Challenges are EXTRA on top of the Posted Portfolio Challenges. They CANNOT be combined with any other challenge and stand alone (except New Release bonus pt). Please feel free to PM me with any questions – nikkiARNGwife. Thanks!
