Our New Design Team

The Robin Nest Design Team!  This group of Amazing blogger will start post project here on this blog and their personal blog using Robin Nest Products in July...  We are so excited to see what they create for you.  New post on Blog every day.  so please stop by  (each of their names is a link to their blogs)

MONTHLY CHALLENGE 

FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH (you might win $25 to the on-line store)

Terri Sproul

Team Leader and Educational Director

Terri Sproul is the producer of a DVD called "MasquePen Magic" to see more of her video check out her Youtube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul and a Monday Night Live stream. http://www.linqto.com/rooms/terrisproul

She is a diverse and experienced designer, design team leader  and instructor for multiple companies in the paper craft world including “ Robin Nest” “Creative Paperclay®”, “Sakura Hobby Craft” and Hobby Baby!” to name a few.  Terri and her husband Marc have the pleasure of living in San Diego County On top Of Palomar Mountain. She has received a Bachelor of Scrapbooking Arts from Creating Keepsakes and Bachelor of Scrapbooking Education from EK Success. Terri’s passion is teaching fellow Scrapbooker’s and Stamper’s new techniques and to think ‘out of the box’ and ‘off the Page.’  Visit her website and blog to see all the exciting stuff she does at http://www.terrisproul.com – link to blog is also there. 

Michelle Cummings

Michelle Frae Cummings is a mixed- media artist, instructor and
Freelance writer.

She lives with her husband, Brian and son Dyllan in sunny Southern California.

Michelle has painted sets for local play houses, created costumes,
designed store front windows, taught at local scrapbook stores, public
groups, and sells her art locally and online. Michelle is an organizer
of a local scrapbook/altered-art group, West Coast Crafters, which
meets at her home monthly. She is also the owner of a popular blog,
"Faerie Dust Dreams" where she regularly writes for various craft
companies and strives to inspire others. Michelle's mind is in
constant creative motion. Her specialty is working with wire, beads,
sewing and painting in Color. It’s how she expresses her dreams and
inspirations.  Creating with her fingers is as therapeutic as it is
energizing at the same time.  To learn more about Michelle, please
visit her blog - http://faeriedustdreams-michelle.blogspot.com/ 

Danielle May 

Danielle May:  I live with my husband, and three furbabies on acreage just outside of Casino part of the beautiful Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia. Since 2009 I have been a stay at home wife and more recently I have become a part-time carer to my aging parents (my mother has Alzheimer's) and they now live with us.


When I discovered the world of papercrafts about 10 years ago I immediately knew it was a hobby for me. There isn't a day that goes by that I do not spend time in my craft room. I am card crazy.....love making ATC's, passionate about Stamping (a huge fan of Red Rubber) and I dabble in scrapbooking.


The most wonderful thing I have found about sharing my passion for papercrafts and blogging is the wonderful people you meet along the way.

Brooke Gorrell 

Hi! My name is Brooke Gorrell and I live in Central Canada. 

I love all kinds of crafts but am most passionate about scrapbooking, cardmaking, and giftwrapping! I love that scrapbooking allows me to express my creativity and preserve my memories. Creativity for me is a hobby, a great stress-reliever, but most of all it is a lifestyle! I love to capture everyday moments, the ones that are easily forgotten,  on my layouts and inspire others to stretch their creativity through scrapbooking. There's no better feeling than receiving something handmade and knowing that someone took time to create that JUST for YOU!

I have been scrapbooking for 6 years, ever since a friend gave me some sparkly stickers and paper for my 12th birthday. My scrapbooking has evolved quite a bit since then and I would describe my current scrapbooking style as Shabby Chic with a lot of clean, white space. I love trying new techniques and my favourite scrapbooking item is definitely patterned paper!  Two techniques that you'll almost always find on my projects are machine stitching and glitter. LOVE glitter! 

I have previously been a guest designer for Love is in the Details scrapbooking store, and last year won 2nd place in the Creating Keepsakes Teen Talent search. 

I am so glad for this opportunity and I hope I can inspire you in some way! Looking forward to getting to know you all. :)

 Jamie Lindstrom

Jamie had her first scrapbook in elementary school even though it didn't have any designs to it, just important papers adhered to paper in a book titled "scrapbook." Real scrapbooking began about 13 years ago and has since evolved and progressed and is a continually growing and evolving experience for her. She began cardmaking about a year ago and loves trying to delve into altered items as well. She is a mother of two boys, 18 and 11, and been married for 13 years now. She loves crafts as well as reading in her free time. During the school year she is a substitute teacher who colors with her copic markers in her free time at work. She feels so lucky to have been selected for this wonderful design team. 

 Michelle Wallace

 I am a mother to three girls and one boy. I live in the southern suburbs of South Australia in a house we build to fill with lots of love and happy memories .I have been scrapbooking now for just over 9 years and I don't think that I would know what life was without it scrapbooking. My scrapbooking love includes layouts to off the page and cards as well. I wouldn't say That I have "one" specific style as I do enjoy trying different styles and tailoring the layout to suit the subject or photo whilst adding different texture or techniques to my work.In my free time I teach scrapbooking. I love to teach and share my ideas to hopefully inspire others along their paper crafting journey. I have been on several design teams and have enjoyed showing others what can be done with products. I have been the Fiskars Ambassador for South Australia for over 5 years now and host regular crops here in South Australia for Fiskars. I have done many instore demonstrations and classes for Fiskars and LSS.  My work has also been chosen to be showcased nationally at Spotlight and Officeworks stores on behalf of Fynmark and Fiskars. I have worked on behalf of Fiskars at the Craft and Quilt Fair here in Adelaide. I have also taught at several shops here in Adelaide over the past few yearsI am a regular layout contributor to Southern Cross Kids Camp, Victorian Fire Appeal and Bonnie Babes Foundation. I have been asked to work on behalf of Fiskars at the Craft and Quilt Fair that is being held here in Adelaide, South Australia in November. I am a regular contributor to the Open Arts - Scrapbooking Area of the Royal Adelaide Show. I have been lucky to have won several places in the past years including being awarded Best in Show two years in a row. 

Wendy Cusky

 I am a wife of 22 years and a mother of two boys (8) and (15) and a teacup yorkie (1 year). I am a paralegal by day and an obsessive scrapbooker every other minute (and lets just be honest . . . sometimes I find ways to sneak scrapbook projects into my paralegal job). Fortunately, I have an awesome boss who puts up with me and even seems to like me. I live in Aliso Viejo (So. Orange County, in Southern California) and love it here. This is my first experience as a design team member and I am so excited to be a part of this creative group! My style tends to lean towards inky, grungy, vintage . . . but then add glitter. I can’t wait to dive-in and create my first Robin’s Nest project.

 Dawn Barrett

Where most people have a dining room, my house hosts an art room.  Aside from the kitchen, it is the most used common area of our home and open to anyone: kids, friends and adults alike.  I'm a stay at home mom who juggles coaching, volunteering (here/there/and everywhere), and taking care of home-family-community along with ink, paper, scissors, and rhinestones.  Mind you, I'm very careful when I juggle scissors!  I've been told  that "whimsy" or "silly" must be my middle name. (Boy, I thought everyone already knew it was Mercedes!?)  But, who wants to grow up dull and boring? While I enjoy flitttering here and there among various crafting companies, I am glad to have landed in the Robin's Nest and look forward to new adventures with this team!  Try to keep up with me on my blog:  "Sunnyside Up."

 Marilia Lopes

I'm Marilia, mother of Gabriel and Marina, married to Peter.
I am an extremely passionate about life and people, adorooo life stories.
I'm electric, anxious in the extreme and I talk too much!
  I live in a town called Paraisópolis, located in southern Minas Gerais, where the fresh airand nature are present in my daily life
I am a woman who likes simple things!
I love dogs, full house and be around people that make me happy.
I've always done crafts from menina.Sei ... do a bit of everything!
I found the comment to three years and it was love at first sight!
The wealth of materials associated with our memories and our stories have made thecomment my favorite hobby.
Ja made ​​mini albums, I'm crazy about recycling! The idea of transforming what was going to waste on something different and beautiful ... fascinates me.
I have seen my LOs evolve and still have a long way to go, but I think the magic is right there.
I live a different life, I live in a town with my son and my husband and my daughter in another.
Every week there are people who stay and people go!
The comment is a way to relax that became a passion.
I only brought good things ... wonderful friends! "

 Barbara Rankin

My name is Barbara Rankin, and I am so excited to be a part of the Robin's Nest Design Team. I have been a crafter since early childhood... always making things. After pursing many different artistic endeavors, such as sewing, needlework, and Pergamano (embossing on parchment), I found my way into rubber stamping and graduated into becoming a self-taught, mixed-media artist.  I have taught classes at my local scrapbook store, as well as teaching the members of my local stamp club.  I have also been a guest instructor at another out-of-state stamp club on several occasions.  I love making and altering books, and my style is usually vintage with a sprinkling of steampunk whenever possible.  I have been published in Altered Arts Magazine, as well as in a book "Make it in Minutes: Mini Books". I have a wonderful, supportive husband of thirty years and, if I do say so myself, two of the cutest little Yorkie pups you could ever lay your eyes on.

 

 

 Marley van der Heijden

 Im Marley van der Heijden, 23 years old and I live in the (cold and rainy)
Netherlands.
I started to make scrapcards in 2009, about one year ago I also started to
make layouts.
I love scrapping photos, especially photos from our sweet dog Mister wilson,
vintage photos & well, just every picture I have!
I also love to make mini albums, altered projects & cards.
Next to scrapping I also love to read, watch some good movies & series and
ofcourse; Shopping!
Im excited to design for Robin's Nest & I hope I can give you lots of
inspiration with the Robin's Nest products. 

 Erika Taylor

 
Cutting rings of paper to create garland, making ghost gum from glue, and adding a little too much glitter to any heart I drew. The creative bug bit me at a very early age and I've never looked back. Hi everyone, I'm Erika Taylor and I'm a craftaholic!!! In 2008, I decided to start paper crafting and one thing led to another. I’m blessed to have been on numerous design teams over the past few years and I'm expanding my own creative muse to include so much more than just cards and scrapbook layouts. I love getting inked up to create mixed media projects and if I can alter something, I will.
 I live in Southern Alberta with my loving and supportive husband Mark and our 2 boisterous children age 5 and 7. Anything to do with Vampires and the Fantasy Realm gets my attention, and yes that includes Twilight! I love Italian Sweet Cream in my coffee and there is nothing better than Tiramisu. I'm moved by the colors around me, emotions and the media. Creatively, I embrace change and love to try new things and I'm super excited about being a part of this amazing adventure. Grab your favorite beverage and stop by my blog for a visit http://taylordconcepts.blogspot.com