{"id":3762,"date":"2010-05-07T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2011-12-14T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:31:21","slug":"friday-featured-staffer-andrea-gourley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/friday-featured-staffer-andrea-gourley\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Featured Staffer – Andrea Gourley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TGIF Sweet shoppers!\u00a0 I love Fridays for two reasons \u2013 1. Sneak Peaks come out today & 2. Friday Featured Staffer.\u00a0 This Friday our scrapper is a Babe that is super talented, active in the community and is as sweet as pie.\u00a0 It\u2019s Andrea {Geordie Girl}!!\u00a0 Yep \u2013 this week we are featuring a Hybrid Babe.\u00a0 So get out those scissors, glue and flowers for the Blog Bonus Challenge.<\/p>\n

Andrea has been making cards, scrapbook layouts and other papercrafts for about 10 years but has been using digital kits (for hybrid) for about 3 years. She uses Photoshop Elements 5 for manipulating the digital papers, resizing elements etc. and she has an Epson Inkjet printer and an HP Laser printer. She is a full time teacher in a special school and Andrea is also a freelance designer for several papercrafting magazines here in the UK – Scrapbook Inspirations, Complete Cardmaking and Perfect Day magazines.\u00a0 You can see her amazing designs at MSA and her blog is awe inspiring – www.andreagourley.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had a few questions for Andrea about her art & the hybrid way.<\/p>\n

Q. What do you love about hybrid?<\/strong>
\nI love that I can reduce the patterns on 12×12 paper to fit any sized projects. I love that I can have an idea for a project, shop for and download digi supplies and be making something within 15 minutes of having the idea – so convenient! And I save a fortune as my favourite piece of paper never runs out – I just print more if I need it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0 What basic supplies to you use on most projects?<\/strong>
\nRibbon, buttons and brads – I think I have an addiction to buying these supplies.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

Q. What are some of your tricks of the trade in regards to hybrid scrapping?<\/strong>
\nUse white card to mat your patterned papers onto to give the colours a lift and make them pop and always keep your scissors and craft knife sharp so you don’t get fuzzy edges when you cut out<\/p>\n

Q. What’s your favorite kind of project to work on?<\/strong>
\nCards! I love making people happy and I think receiving a card through the mail is such a lovely way to start the day<\/p>\n

Here are her 3 favorite projects from her gallery at SSD:
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I love this little cake box, the designs of the papers were just perfect to work with!<\/p>\n

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My friend taught me how to make these money boxes out of 4 wooden beads and a sheet of chipboard, it sits on my window ledge in my craft room and Im saving for our next crafting retreat together.<\/p>\n

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I love this card so much I am beginning to think that I should change the monogram to an ‘A’ so that I can keep it for myself \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

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It’s a Hybrid Blog Bonus!! This week we want you to brows through Andrea’s Gallery either at SSD<\/a> or MSA<\/a> and be inspired! Lift one of her fabulous projects for a Blog Bonus. \u00a0Please make sure you mark this as Blog Bonus #1 on your May Portfolio Tracker and remember that these cannot be combined with any other Portfolio Challenge. \u00a0This Blog Bonus Challenge can be used for a New Release point making it worth 2 points.<\/p>\n

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TGIF Sweet shoppers!\u00a0 I love Fridays for two reasons \u2013 1. Sneak Peaks come out today & 2. Friday Featured Staffer.\u00a0 This Friday our scrapper is a Babe that is super talented, active in the community and is as sweet as pie.\u00a0 It\u2019s Andrea {Geordie Girl}!!\u00a0 Yep \u2013 this week we are featuring a Hybrid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}