Design Team

      Design Team Members

                                            Aileen Ryan (Creator & Designer)
                                          

                  
Hi I'm Aileen,  I have my own business involving teaching Sign Language and drawing Sign Language graphics. This is temporarily on hold as I am co-sharing the roll of carer of both parents who have dementia and  my daughter with special needs, grandmother, babysitter, card making fanatic. When I'm not doing all that I read.

I love to colour, that is my passion whether its Copics, pencils, paints, Zigs, Inktense Pencils. The majority of my cards have colouring on them. If not colouring then its bright anyway. I don't seem to know the word subtle when it comes to colour, though I do try, sometimes.

I started blogging 18 months ago at Colour and Sparkle and then decided a few months ago I would like to try starting a Challenge.   A Challenge involving flowers/flora. I am obsessed with floral stamps and could blog everyday for a year I think, and not repeat a stamp.

I found a few other blog friends who felt the same way and asked them if they would like to join me in this adventure. I cannot believe the positive responses. Everyone said yes, even though a few of them are on other Design Teams and very busy in themselves.

Now we are all ready to start these Challenges and hope you will enjoy the journey with us.

        Barbara (Bobby) Hagen (Designer)

I'm honoured and excited to be a member of The Flower Challenge team. I live in central Michigan

and am a mother of 4, grandmother of 7 and great grandmother of 2. I also have 3 step-children, 8 step-grands and 10 step-greats. Not a blended family but a busy one.

My paper crafting journey has been a long and varied one. I started with scrapbooking almost 20 years ago using digital images from PC Crafter, and then a Cricut. While researching my Cricut online, I found the card making world and was hooked.

I started my blog almost 7 years ago to share my cards and with inspiration  of other bloggers and challenges, I delved into stamps, inks, embossing, watercoloring and other techniques. I am now on several design teams and the friends I have made there and in Blogland are some of the best, always kind with their comments and support.

I named my blog "Bits and Pieces" because I am also a quilter and used to do mosaic, which means most of my crafting uses bits and pieces of paper, fabric or china.

 Cara (Designer)

   (See blog for more details.)

       Ericka Strange (Designer)

Hey there, I’m Ericka aka Strangely Creative and I’m so excited to be joining The Flower Challenge! I never knew how much I loved coloring flowers until I started making cards. 

I’m originally for Oregon but have lived on the East Coast and now just outside of Houston, TX. I worked in international development but once my husband and I moved to Texas, I became a stay at home mom to two active girls, ages 7 & 3, and two Frisbee loving Border Collies. When I’m not in my craft room, I’m usually outside in the vegetable garden.

I’ve always loved crafting and making things. Five years ago, I started making cards from my daughter’s abstract finger paintings to send to family and friends. But I really got into card making three years ago, a friend introduced me to die cutting and the world of stamping and I’ve been filling and playing in my craft room ever since.

I love working with a variety of mediums and getting inky to creating colorful backgrounds and cards. I started a blog last year and love being part of a crafting community that is so encouraging and kind. I look forward to inspiring others and seeing all of your beautiful floral creations!

 
                              Maria Rodriguez (Designer)

                

                      

 Hello, my name is Maria and I'm originally from Mexico City. I'm a wife of 43 years, a mom of two great, married girls, a grandma of 5 amazing grandchildren, a card maker and an Iron Man Triathlete.

I live in Crown Point, IN. USA, I've been making cards for over 10 years but only ventured into blogging in 2014. Water coloring is my most favorite medium for my cards but I've also like to use Prismacolor pencils with Gamsol or Baby Oil.

 I love making all kinds of cards, I'm always open for learning something new. I love swimming, biking and running to workout my 60+ year old body and making cards keep my brain active too. Love reading and baking, if you must know, I have a weakness for chocolate covered raisins.

 Another hobby of mine is my 75 gal. marine fish tank, I just love it!!! I was thrilled that Aileen asked me to join her in this awesome Journey, being in the company of these amazing crafters is truly a joy!! We are all very excited to start this new venture together and hope you will join us sharing your creations in our gallery. 

Michele Ferguson  (Designer)

Home, in my Michigan craft room, is truly where my heart is happiest - unless I'm on another fabulous road trip with my husband! I'm so lucky he never minds a stop along the way to meet a blogging friend!

I've been making cards, and blogging, since 2014 and I'm still learning! Thanks so much for inviting me to join The Flower Challenge deign team !

Nancy Penir (Designer)

Greetings from California's Central Valley, USA, where anything and everything grows. My name is Nancy Penir, and I love to craft; cards, quilts, painting, stained glass, any and all hand work. I'm a wife, mother of 5 and grandmother to 11 grands.

Currently raising 15 chickens, 7 ducks, one dog, 2 cats and 30+ koi. 

So excited to be joining The Flower Challenge. Did I mention I love gardening too? Plants in doors and out, and a vegetable garden that's a favorite for the chickens.

Check out what's new on my blog, artful-notions.blogspot.com, and Facebook and Instagram under nancypenir.

SathyaKala Sankaran (Designer)

Hey Hi All, This is SathyaKala. I am a Toxicologist by qualification and have a pulsating desire to pursue my Doctorate. Am married to my best friend, a Toxicologist Researcher and we are blessed with a 13 year old son.

Being a child of an oil painting artist, I have loved arts and crafts since my childhood. Started crafting and blogging with Quilling as my passion and participated several times in UK’s Quilling Guild competitions and published in UK Quiller magazine. Slowly I branched out as Stamper, Cardmaker, Mixed media artist, Calligrapher and now enjoy working with Procreate. 

Handmade Flower making using Dies is my absolute favourite in early days of my blogging and it drove me into Floral Colouring, be it Pencil colouring or Watercolouring. My Insta grid speaks much about my love for Flowers.

Learning new art forms keeps my mind fresh and inventive. I find that one passion crosses over the next, gives a different spin to it.

Thanks so much for inviting me to join The Flower Challenge Design Team.

Stef Perry   (Designer)

                  

Hello! Stef here! I started my crafting journey in 2007, and along the way, cards with flowers have long become my favorite creations. While I enjoy dabbling in mixed media periodically, my love is coloring, especially with Copic markers. I am thrilled to be joining The Flower Challenge Design team!

Hope that all works! Thanks for making me feel so welcome, Viv, you're a sweetheart 

Hugs,

Stef

                                     Tae-Eun Yoo (Designer)
                                                    

Hi, I'm TaeEun from New Jersey USA. I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and lived in

Germany for 18 years, before I came over to here in 2013. I'm a happily married SAHM to two kids and a furry baby with a wet nose.

I fell in love with card making as a hobby, as I watched some video tutorial's in 2015 with my little girl who loves crafting too. I'm actually a beginner in crafty blogland and therefore even more excited about the opportunity to work with new crafty friends.

I love coloring floral images and seeing creations made by others. So there couldn't be a better place for me than here ;) I'm looking forward to being inspired by all of you !

                                                                                   
                   

Vivien Hodge (Administrator & Designer)

     

Hi everyone, my name is Vivien Hodge and I live in Norfolk, UK. I am retired now but used to be a hairdresser and owned my own salon. Health issues forced me to retire so I looked for a hobby. I have been making cards and wire jewellery for about 13 yrs now. Happily married with three children and four grandchildren now too.

My husband is also into crafts and makes lovely things out of wood, and now model houses also. I like to make quite simple CAS cards mostly, using stamps, digital images, die-cuts etc. I love my Happy Cuts machine, Copic markers, Promarkers etc. I love using my Distress inks and the lovely effects they can achieve. Watercolouring is my new joy just lately.

I really enjoy messing with graphics and digital things too and have been involved with all graphics here. It's how I got involved with this challenge really as Aileen asked me to design a header and it went from there.

I am really enjoying The Flower Challenge as a fellow Designer, so exciting. What an honour to be chosen thank you so much Aileen ;)