Please Welcome...

We simply couldn't wait another day, and with today being the 29th of Feb, a very special day we thought it a great day to spill the news...

Please join us in welcoming the amazingly talented Tomoko Takahashi to the 2012 Dusty Attic Design Team!

We are so excited to have Tomoko join the team, with her stunningly luxurious layouts and projects, and simply cannot wait to be inspired with her Dusty Creations.

Tomoko has shared these beautiful works with us while she waits for her first Dusty kit to arrive, thanks Tomoko!

 

Introducing Karola Witczak

Hi everyone, My name is Karola Witczak (in pronunciation: Vit - chuck). I am an absolutely addicted scrapbooking Mommy to Rose, wife to Martin, friend of our furry friends - Miki and Chili. 

I'm a little crazy woman, who is dedicated to my scrapbooking passion almost every day, for a few years now.  I am constantly trying to develop my passion - in different ways and stepping on different paths - from digital scrapbooking 6 years ago, to an intensive exploration of the intricacies of traditional scrapbooking, constant learning and teaching others as a scrapbooking instructor. 

Currently I am working as a freelance designer for a large group of scrapbooking companies, shops, projects, challenge blogs and I'm proud ambassador of many top brands and initiatives in my country of Poland and abroad like Prima, Pink Paislee, Melissa Frances, Glitz Design and others... sometimes I design products for scrapbooking - it gives me lots of joy and satisfaction. I am proud and honored to being Creative Director and Product Designer in The ScrapCake company, so it's my full time job which I make at home. In everyday life I create a LO's, cards, albums, and other things not directly related to scrapbooking - such as notebooks, home decors.

It is hard to define my style, mostly my friends call it "Karola's style," and often hear that this is a soft, romantic, feminine, eclectic. I love shabby chic but with something modern. In most of my work you can usually see portraits of my daughter - I am absolutely in love with her face, and such pictures usually go to my Lo's and albums. Definitely I like all feminine, romantic themes, delicate, soft colors, I'm also dependent on the sewing machine, especially when I make cards. 

I love to add new things to my projects, but usually I have big inspiration from patterned papers, flowers and interesting color palettes - I believe when I have a piece of paper I can create anything! 

Besides scrapbooking I love to cook, read (for the books I definitely spent much more money than for scrapbooking!), I'm a geek about thrillers and horrors in  books and films. I'm also a rock girl, but I love jazz and bossanova too, I love live music, coffee, and I am dependent on buying jeans and sneakers.

Sneeky Peek...

Oooh we have some lovely little snippets to share of our new release, which will be up for pre-order in the store very soon!

This cute as card from Bev uses some gorgeous new mini locket and keys!

And another adorable card from Karola uses one of the new little birdcages... 

Thanks Bev and Karola for sharing these gorgeous cards!   You can see more snippets in their Design Team Galleries here - Bev / Karola

Introducing Julie Winks

My name is Julie Winks and my husband Troy and I live in Central Queensland with our four incredibly active kids, Maddison 15, Claire 12, Cooper 8 and my little man at home, Lachlan 3.  Between running around after my crazy busy family, catering to our love of camping, sports and the outdoors and indulging in my favourite creative obsession, there isn’t a lot of spare time in my days ... and that’s just how I like it!

I have been scrapbooking specifically for about 7 years now, but have always been obsessed with craft and creating from a very early age with things such as sewing, knitting, decorating and journaling.  I’ve always got some sort of project on the go!

Whilst whatever style I have is constantly evolving, some aspects remain constant.  I love to layer with plenty of detail, I adore white space and I am really colour driven.  Colour combinations in design are always the things that catch my eye and are inevitably what inspires me when I create a layout... no doubt a hangover from my interior design days at uni, which is now far too long ago to admit to!! 

I am on the Design Teams for both The Scrapboxx and The Colour Room and have also been on the Creative Teams for challenge sites Kraft It Up and Stuck! Sketches.

In the last 12 months I have started to dip my toes into the wonderful experience of teaching this amazing craft of ours and I think I am just as hooked on sharing the passion as I am with the creative process.   Most recently I have been teaching via video tutorials for Miss Art’s Papercrafting School, a fabulous crafty education centre, which is rapidly growing in popularity.

I am thrilled to be on the DA Design team and can’t wait to play some more with my favourite chipboard!

Introducing Ingrid Gooyer

 

Hi all! My name is Ingrid Gooyer and I live in Zaandam, a place near Amsterdam in the Netherlands.   I'm married to the greatest husband and together we have two beautiful daughters, Tessa and Yiscka.

Working part time as an analyst in a lab and after a busy work day, filled with analyses and numbers, I find it very relaxing to scrap to clear my head!

I started scrapping since 2006 and now I just can't imagine my life without it!  Most of my pages are on a white background.  When I first started to scrap, I made very clean pages but now with all the wonderful products on the market, I find myself adding more and more to a page!  I love to work with paints, gesso, flowers, lace and pearls.

I'm so thrilled to be designing for Dusty Attic with all those talented ladies and all the gorgeous products!

xxx

Introducing Bev Rochester

I have always done "crafty things" starting off with the usual knitting, crochet, cross stitch, tapestry then later on to decorating faberge style eggs.  It was the class teacher that introduced me to papercrafts about 4 years ago.  When I discovered rubber stamping about a year after that I was a confirmed total and utter addict! 

I would say my style is anything BUT clean and simple, I am definitely a more is more kinda girl.  I absolutely love fiddling lol so can spend hours going through my embellishments to find the perfect "thing" to finish off my project.  If my project is not embellished to within an inch of it's life it ain't finished!  Saying that I do admire CAS, but it's not something I have been able to master (it's that fiddling again!!)

I am married to my best friend, have two children and two grandchilren as well as 6 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.  I have a stressful job (work full time to pay for my craft supplies!) so my craft time is my de-stressing "me" time.

Introducing Belinda Spencer

My name is Belinda Spencer and I have been scrapping since 2003. I live on a farm in the Adelaide Hills with my husband Brenton, my two children; Hayley, 6 and William 5, our dog Merlin and cat Noodle as well as lots of cows, deer and chooks (not to mention the native fauna).

My main focus for scrapbooking has always been 12” x 12” layouts but more recently I have become addicted to cardmaking and artist trading cards.

My style tends to include elements of shabby chic, vintage, fussy cutting and a touch of grunge. I love to include texture, dimension and different techniques, Dusty Attic chipboard, flowers, Distress Inks and Glimmermist. My inspiration comes from my children, blog surfing, magazines, product and other scrappers that I admire.

I have been published in Scrapbook Creations and Scrapbooking Memories magazines and have been lucky enough to be chosen as Guest Designer at Darkroom Door, The Color Room,  Handmade By Suzanne and Stuck Sketches.

I currently teach at Charlotte’s Web in Adelaide, am a Design Team member at The Color Room, Handmade By Suzanne and White With 1 and participate in as many blog challenges as I can fit in each month.

I am so thrilled to be joining the fabulous Dusty Attic team. I absolutely adore Dusty Attic chippie. Thankyou so much for having me on the team, Dusty Attic. I look forward to getting to know everyone and playing with lots of gorgeous chippie!!

You can see more of my work on my blog http://happyscrapspace.blogspot.com/

2012 Design Team Announced!!

Hi and welcome to The Dusty Attic Blog!  

We have created this blog to share with you regular Dusty Attic news, release sneak peeks and wonderful inspiration from our Design Team.  We will also share with you tutorials, tips and hints, freebies and competitions, so be sure to follow us to receive update notifications.

Now for the news everyone is waiting for...

We are thrilled to announce the Dusty Attic Design Team and Sponsored Designers for 2012!

Not only has the whole team from 2011 have remained with us, but we have grown to include some amazing fresh new talent to inspire you.

2012 Design Team:

Belinda Spencer - SA, Australia
Emeline Seet - Singapore
Evana Willis - WA, Australia
Gabrielle Pollacco - Canada
Helena Johansson - Sweden
Ingrid Gooyer - Netherlands
Irene Tan – Malaysia
Iris Babao Uy – Philippines
Jen Burns  WA, Australia
Julie Winks - QLD, Australia
Maiko Kosugi - Tokyo, Japan
Mandy Harrell  - USA
Michelle Grant - QLD, Australia
Mistra Hoolahan - WA, Australia
Nancy Winter - WA, Australia
Natasha Naranjo Aguirre - USA
Tina Rutledge - Florida, USA


2012 Sponsored Designers:
Anna Dabrowska-Pekocka (Finnabair) - Poland
Bev Rochester - England
Ingvild Bolme – Norway
Karola Witzak - Poland

2011 was a huge year for The Dusty Attic, and there are more amazing things just on the horizon.  Be sure to follow our blog for regular updates, sign up at our Ning site to interact with the team and meet other Dusty Addicts or "Like" us on our Facebook Fan Page.

Thank you all for your support through 2011!   We'll be introducing our new team over the next few days, so you can get to know them before they share their first 'official' Dusty Attic creations.