Design Team Member Introduction : Olesya Kharkova

Hello there and welcome back! Today we are so excited to introduce our second designer. She is the super talented lady behind all the beautiful creations and hand drawn details from As If By Magic. Please join us as we welcome, Olesya Kharkova to our team.

"My name is Olesya Kharkova. I live in Russia, Saratov with my husband who supports me in my passion for cardmaking. I have been papercrafting for about 4 to 5 years now. I spend most of my spare time on cardmaking, delicate cutting and coloring because of my love for handmade cards. I just love what I do. I call my style as subject or plot cardmaking because I like to tell some kind of story with my cards. I also love to illustrate my cards by drawing some details to make the images more alive. I am so happy to be a Tic-Tac-Toe design team member!"

Welcome to the team, Olesya! We are so glad to have you join us for this term! And here is Olesya's gorgeous DT entry card.

We love all the super fun elements in Olesya's masculine design, but what really grabbed our eyes from the design were those hand drawn woodgrain slices!!! We love the cool look and think it's SERIOUSLY awsome! :)

Thank you for stopping in today! Come back tomorrow as we will introduce another design team member! Have a great day!

Design Team Member Introduction : Stephanie Dowding

Merry Christmas to all our friends celebrating! I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with lots of love and laughter (and yummy food!).

Today is the day that we start announcing the Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge Design Team! We are so excited and cannot wait to reveal all our designers to you! As we mentioned in our previous post, we will start announcing them one by one leading up to our challenge debut on January 1st!!!

So, for today, please join us in welcome our first designer Stephanie Dowding to our team.

"Hi, my name is Stephanie! I live in California and have been stamping and card making for almost two years. Card making is my favorite hobby because I get to be creative and share with others! I love using cute critters and characters on my cards, layering, and embossing! My cards tend to be on the busier side of things, but I do enjoy creating clean and simple cards as well. It is such an honor to be on this fantastic team with all of these talented ladies!"

Welcome to the team, Stephanie! We are so happy to have you with us for this term! And here is Stephanie's beautiful DT entry card.

We love all the sparkles from the fun woodgrain paper to the die-cuts on Stephanie's card. We also love the dimensional look she created by offsetting the word "Thank You." It is a truly beautiful and sparkly design!

We'll be back tomorrow with another design team member introduction! Stay tuned!

THANK YOU!!!

Hello everyone!!!

I am so excited about this new challenge and I cannot wait for it to start! But first, I want to say a big THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to everyone who applied to my design team call! I am so humbled to see such talented people who want to be on my design team. Your creativity, beautiful awe-spiring projects, and sweet words about me and my new Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge are all so appreciated!

I know that along with the excitement for the new team there will be some disappointment too. And I wish I can afford to have every single one of you on my team, but we all know the reality of that will break me. So please know that I appreciate YOU so much! I love seeing your work, reading your posts, and browsing your gallery! I’m glad you put yourself out there because I wouldn’t have known about you or your blog. So I love you for that! And I’m happy to have “met” you and now I consider you all my new crafty friends! :)

So after spending countless hours and days going through gorgeous design team applications, poring over blogs filled with beautiful inspiring projects, I finally have my new design team! The designers had already been notified and their projects are in the works for our first challenge. Mady, my DT Coordinator and I will be introducing a new design team member with a post everyday starting on Christmas day leading up to our challenge debut on January 1st! I hope you will join us on the 25th to help give these girls the warmest welcome ever!

Until then, wishing you all a wonderful week filled with laughter and crafty time!

~Ka