The Big Atta Girl!

In October of 2006 I was contacted by one of the Scrap Jammie Girls asking if I would like to do some work for them. Well of course I would! Laurie packed up five sets of supplies for me to create with. I thought it loads of fun and the reward this time came in the form of American dollars! Woo Hoo! Boy did I like that!

Treasure Sold out!

Grandpa Sold out!

Grandma Sold out!

Retirement

Diner

My Home Base has a DT Call! Spring 2006

Now this is exciting! This company makes kits. They're quick and easy to put together. Your basic no brainer, gotta get it done quickly! They're having a Design Team Call!

Pure Joy

Cousins

The Piano Lesson

Flower Power

This was an exciting time for me. These kits are my own design and they were all sold by Scrap Jammies. I was rewarded with a lovely prize an a huge amount of satisfaction!

What is a Design Team?

Coming home from Chicago had me all reved up! I even spent half the way home deciding how I would sign my work. Famous or not I was going to have a signature. I mean, you wouldn't send a postcard without signing the thing so why would you create a layout and not sign it? Go figure! My signature became janTgrits circled around a stamped "B" for my last name and the month and year I produced the layout.



What is janTgrits? Jan is my nickname, T stands for Todd my husband's name and GRITS is an acronym for girl raised in the south!



Total Florida girl sometimes I still get Sandspurs In My Feet!



Bound and determined I planned to go to CKU Houston, not realizing it was in Orlando that same summer, ok we all get the "duh" award from time to time.



From the CKU Houston Yahoo group I got a notice about a design team call. The company is no longer in business but the spin off of this company is Scrappy Arts. 


Here is my submission for this DT as of February 2006. The little file folder has school pictures and baby pictures of my daughter. Of course the formal picture is her Senior picture from high school.

This layout was following my friend Alicias sketch TxScrapper!

So, here you have it! My first attempt at a Design Team!

There Is More To This Story!

Thinking backward to earlier days and progressing to current I'll have to say that discovering the online community of scrap booking was awesome. I needed new friends and boy did I meet some! We will be life long friends, I just know it. Our first trip to Chicago we had three gals from Houston, one from Denver and myself. While I live 100 miles away now I still call Orlando my home. We met, five crazy women and shared a room and saw thes sites before heading to what was my very first crop. We even made it into many magazines with the Scrap Jammie's advertisements and the back cover of the March 2006 Issue of Scrapbook Trends Magazine.