Welcome Sue Nagata

Hello everybody,

Please join us and welcome our newest DT member Sue Nagata.  

Here's a few words from her.

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Hi! I’m Sue, aka foleysfriend. I’m a paper crafter. I started as a scrapbooker but since I’ve been taking fewer and fewer photos, I needed something else to do with my collection of papers. Card-making seemed like a good idea. Except now, I have even more papers – ugh! My style is clean and simple and love learning new techniques and working with new products and materials. I’m very excited to be joining the Die Cut Divas team.

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You can check out more of Sue's work on her blog:   foleysfriend

Please do come back tomorrow to check out her first solo post right her on Die Cut Divas.

A Brand New Diva

Announcing the addition of a new Diva to Die Cut Divas.  Rebecca will begin posting for our September challenge.  We wanted you to get to know Rebecca, so we asked her to write a little bit about herself and we're so glad to share her with you.  Please welcome Rebecca.

 I live in Church Village, Wales.  It is a lovely location in Wales because we are approximately 10 miles from Cardiff  and 30 miles from the beautiful countryside of the Brecon Beacons. I live with my husband and two sons,  Ieuan, 17 and Dewi 12. I have always enjoyed crafting, I started with knitting when I was a child. When my eldest son started school I started to make my own personalised greeting cards. My sons studied through the medium of Welsh so we wanted to send Welsh language cards to Teachers and friends. Welsh cards are few and far between and the ones you can buy on the high street are very basic. My mother and mother-in-law are both called Mam as are a lot of other mothers in Wales but you can't buy many on the high street. My Mam is also known as Mam-gu (Welsh for Grandmother) so handmade cards are ideal for her. I always use die-cuts on my cards and very often I only use die-cuts. I often use embossing folders too. I use an Ebosser.  You will find my blog at  cardsbybeckie.blogspot.co.uk

Rebecca x

Let me Introduce

Let me introduce our new Diva!

Monica Maier

Monica is from Illinois in the USA.  She's the owner of a Cuttlebug  and a Cricut.  She'll be starting June 1st. when we start our new challenge.  Here's Monica's bio below.

Monica:

My husband and I have 3 boys, and I work part time at Michael's. I've lived in IL since 2003 but was born in TX. I grew up a "military brat", so I've been lucky to TX, FL, Germany, IN, NC and IL home at some point in my life. I've been crafting things since I was little. I've dabbled in painting (canvas, wood and plaster houses), sewing, wreath making, crochet, scrapbooking and card making. Card making has become a favorite, why buy a card if I have the supplies to make my own!

Find me at:

Blog- monicascraftcorner.blogspot.com

Flicker- https://www.flickr.com/photos/scolex_169/

Welcome Monica to the Die Cut Divas.  Check out her first Diva card on June 1st.

Welcome to our newest Diva....

We have a new Diva in the house.... Please welcome Michelle.  Here she is to tell us a bit about herself.

 

I live in Central Point, Oregon, USA. I've been married to the love of my life Bill for the past 20 years. I'm also retired from a local high school where I was a Campus Monitor (fancy name for "babysitter") for over 20 years. My husband and I have owned beagles as long as we've been together, so they are my fur children.

I got started with Creative Memories probably 10 or 15 years ago to scrapbook my husbands sprint car racing. I still haven't got all of the memorabilia into the albums! Then about 3-4 years ago I wanted to use up my scraps from scrapbooking and I started making cards to sell as a fund-raiser for Sparrow clubs (a school based fundraiser to help children and families with cancer)-it all snowballed from there!

I love to make cards. Now my friends and family get disappointed if they receive a "store bought" card! It's also one of my favorite gifts to give-a dozen cards of various themes (Thank You, Wedding, Sympathy, etc) in a gorgeous reusable box. And I still scrapbook and make home décor items.

 

I love my Cuttlebug and Cricut, and figuring out how to embellish cards. I actually try to rotate different embellishments so all my cards don't look the same. I use ribbon, brads, twines, buttons, flowers, machine stitching, pop dots, burlap, etc! My blog doesn't show it all, because it seems if I make some really great cards, I need a dozen for a gift!

Spare time….I sew, read, upholstery, and refurbish furniture. I work on our classic car collection-not turning a wrench, usually tracking down parts & pieces! I've just started autocrossing and love it! I will recover the seats if I have to. I even help a friend show her Murray Gray Cattle at various fairs and speciality shows. I don't think I sit around bored-there's always something to create!

And here are a couple of examples of Michelle's wonderful work.

 

And you can see more of her fabulous work on her blog - Just aNutter Paper Crafter. 

Looking forward to seeing more of her beautiful work in the future... you will be impressed.

Dawn and the Divas