Our DT Call closed last night and were overwhelmed
by the number of applications we received!
Thank you to everyone who applied, we hope you won't be disheartened if you weren't successful, and please feel free to apply again in the future.
We are very excited to announce
our fabulous NEW Design Team members...
Amber Kroeling
My name is Amber
Kroening. I'm a 36 year old Marine Corps wife, and work at home mom to 3 cutie
pies. My husband and I have been married for 13 years. He retired in September
2012 after serving for 20 years.
I've been stamping since February '08. I would describe my style as
fresh, clean, happy, and simple. Although I do want to do more mixed
media this year! I also enjoy making hairbows, scrapbooking, making
jewelry, and photography. As you can see, I love to be creative!
My other passion is dogs. I have three of my own plus I volunteer with a
local rescue, and we almost always have a foster dog staying with us. My
daughter and I help out at adoption events every Saturday. I also help
the rescue with web graphics and by taking pictures of the adoptable dogs.
Here are a few of Amber's awesome cards which grabbed our attention...
Tracy Freeman
Hiya ! I'm Tracy, 34, I live on the fens with my VERY
understanding hubby and fur babies. I have been crafting since I was
child, but was always into painting & cross stitch, then one day I saw a
card making kit and thought "I want to try that"....fast forward 10+
years and I now am very lucky to have my own craft room that I can get messy
and creative in everyday. I don't really have a crafting style, I equally
enjoy cute & dark and grungy projects. I do love working with different
mediums and learning new techniques.
Crafting is what keeps me sane (well
semi sane) . I am an all round crafter and make cards, mixed media &
scrapbook. To say I was happy when I was asked aboard the Visible Image
team is a total understatement! They are a very talented team, and Visible
Image produce such wonderful
products, I cannot wait to get creating with
them!
Here's some of Tracy's brilliant work with our character stamps...
Kim Bacon
Hi!
My name is Kim. I am older than I would like to be but young at heart.
I live
in Buckinghamshire with my husband, 3 sons and 2 dogs. I have crafted ever
since I can remember. I come from a background of crafty people.
Sewing, knitting, baking, painting, paper crafts, woodworking, pottery, model
making, etc have always been part of my life. I have upholstered three piece
suites, made patchwork quilts, done cross stitch, made my own paper, made
stained glass pieces, and so much more but always come back to working with
paper. I started making cards 20 years ago. Things were hard to come by
then, all that you could get was office stationary. Rubber stamps were
what the post office used, ink pads came in red, black or blue, and envelopes
were either white or Manila! And of course there was no Internet!
How things have changed! I am thrilled that we can now all get such wonderful
products to craft with and have such easy access to inspiration. I look forward to
sharing my passion for paper crafting with you.
Kim's Blog
Here are some examples of Kim's amazing work...
Susan Moffatt
I love creating - I have flitted between cardmaking
and scrapbooking but the scrapbooking has really taken a back seat although I'm
trying very hard to get back into it. I have also cross stitched in the past
but when I had to cross stitch over 100 orders of service for a friend’s
wedding I made myself a bit sick of cross stitch and haven’t really touched it
since.
What do I love about stamping? I love
bringing the little characters in stamps to life, I have always loved colouring
in and that little girl who used to ask her Dad every day if he had a colouring
book for her has never really grown up so being able to colour in to create
cards is a fantastic part of it.
I like to
try and show folk what other things you can do with products and not necessarily
stick to what's expected of a particular thing.
Some of Susan's fantastic cards created with our stamps...
We also welcome a Guest DT member who will be
working with our NEW stamp releases over the coming months...
Hazel Eaton
Hi, I'm Hazel aka' the dragon' - my
husband named me this many years ago and it has just stuck! I am based in Rugby and have my own craft shop. I have been crafting
for a good few years now and what started out as a hobby has turned into an
obsession!
I am very passionate about my work
and love to share ideas and inspiration through my workshops and facebook page.
I am also on other design teams and have demonstrated on create and craft and at
craft fairs on a number of occasions. I am very excited to be a guest designer
for Visible Image and sharing my inspiration with you xxx
Some of Hazel's brilliant cards created with our stamps...
Welcome on board ladies!
We are really looking forward to working with you all, and to seeing what
you create with our NEW stamps over the coming months!
We are sad to say goodbye to Julie Woodward who has been on the team since we met at the Artstamps Newbury show in July 2012
Julie has some brilliant tutorial videos over on her
YOU TUBE CHANNEL
which you might want to check out!
Thank you Julie for all your fantastic work, and it goes without saying that we'll keep in touch as you've become such a lovely friend.
All the best for the future! xx
Thanks again to everyone who applied for our DT.
Have a great weekend!
Mark & Helen xx
