Design Team 2012: Elizabeth Carney

Elizabeth Carney  

My very favorite thing about Doodlebug is that each product is fun and makes me smile! I love Doodlebug and have since I started scrapbooking.  I love my family, they mean the world to me! I’ve got a great husband Dayv. We’ve been married 15 years. We have a beautiful daughter Alyssa who is 14 and a freshman in high school and 3 dogs too! We’re a military family and for the past 5 years home has been in Washington.  We love hanging out with one another and you can always bet there is laughter going on!  I recently quit working to go back to school full time to study dental hygiene and am excited about that journey! Aside from scrapping, I love to read, garden, and have loads of fun too!

Fun Facts about Elizabeth: 

• If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose?  I would absolutely love being Hermione in the Harry Potter series. Who doesn’t want to go to Hogwarts school?
• What’s the best/worst gift you’ve ever given/received? The best gift I ever received were the two sets of diamond earrings from Dayv. The first ones were when we were first married and they were hanging on the tree in an ornament and I couldn’t find them. They were special because I ended up giving them to my mom right before she passed away {with Dayv’s blessing} because she always wanted diamond earrings. The second pair was this last year for Christmas again and they were on a teddy bear’s ears {I didn’t see them right away} and he wanted to replace them because I had lovingly given her the first pair.
• What is one of your favorite quotes?  When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". Erma Bombeck
• What is one thing that most people wouldn’t guess about you? My great-great grandfather Jean Tijou was a master Huguenot Ironworker who was commissioned by Sir Christopher Wren building the staircases, balustrades, and gates in Hampton Court Palace. He is most noted for his iron work in St. Paul’s cathedral which are called Tijou Gates and they are on either side of the High Altar. Both of these are in London England.

Here are some projects by Elizabeth: 

Visit Elizabeth's blog: http://www.elizabethmcarney.com

Design Team 2012: Aphra Bolyer

Aphra Bolyer  

I LOVE Doodlebug’s bright, colorful, and whimsical papers and the variety of coordinating embellishments, especially the brads and buttons.  Oh, and new twine!   My name is Aphra, and I live down South in Louisiana with my Alaskan oil man Jeff and our two boys, ages 11 and 4. While my husband is tromping around in the Alaskan tundra for weeks at a time, I'm home working part-time at a doctor's office, chasing around our two rowdy boys and miniature dachshund Max, and staying up into the wee hours of the night scrapbooking. 

Fun Facts about Aphra: 

• What’s the #1 most played song on your iPod?  Right now, I’m loving “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry.  I like a good ‘ole sing along.
• If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose?  From about age 6 until about age 10, I wanted to BE Laura Ingalls Wilder from Little House on the Prairie.  Now, however, I’d rather be
• If you had to work on only one project for the next year, what would it be? It would be putting my layouts in albums.  In fact, it would probably take me about a year to get it done.  Shame, shame . . . I know!

Here are some of Aphra's projects: 

Visit Aphra's Blog: http://www.aphradeedesigns.blogspot.com

Scavenger Hunt Winners

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Thanks everyone for playing along with our fun Design Team Scavenger Hunt...we had hundreds of entries and we loved that you really do know our new Design Team girls. First I'll reveal the ANSWERS and then below I'll reveal who won which PRIZE!!

Question 1 - Let's start with an easy one first.... Which design team member joins us from down under?

Answer: Melinda Spinks

Question 2 - Which Design Team member has always wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder from Little House on the Prairie?  

Answer: Aphra Bolyer

Question 3 - Which Design Team member says that Condoleezza Rice is who she would like to be her mentor.

Answer: Jing-Jing Nickel

Question 4 - Who has a black lab named Chevy?

Answer: Stephanie Buice

Question 5 - (Multiple answers possible) Who says their least favorite chore is "doing dishes"? We all hate doing those, don't we??

Answer: Ro Philippsen, Stephanie Buice, Jing-Jing Nickel

And the wInNeRs are listed below each item shown: 

Winner of Santa's Workshop Collection samples: Nina Nuernberger

Winner of Classic Collection samples: Sarah Babin

Winner of Color Wheel Collection samples: Cathy Drescher 

Winner of ONE album (8x8): Lillian Child 

Winner of Monster Mania Collection samples: Denise Wakelin 

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: 
Please email your shipping information to blog@doodlebug.ws with the prize you won in the SUBJECT LINE. You must claim your prize by October 7, 2011.