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Announcing Moxxie Muses!

It's finally time to introduce our new Design Team, Moxxie Muses! Just as the mythological Muse was one who inspired, we have 10 new team members who are here to help inspire your creativity! Here they are, in alphabetical order. Click on their name to be taken directly to their blog to see what beautiful creations they have:

 

 Susie Bentz

  

 I am a crafter at heart and have been creating all my life.  I started to scrapbook about 5 years ago and it has truly become a passion.  It is my creative outlet and my therapy!  I am primarily a scrapbooker but I also enjoy making exploding boxes & altering items for gifts and home decor.  My favorite thing to do right now is to play with canvases and dabble in art journaling!  When I learn how to do something new, my first instinct is to share, which is one of the reasons I teach at the local scrapbook store.  I have found so many wonderful friends through scrapbooking. I live in Northern Virginia with my husband of 21 years and our 3 children, a dog, 2 guinea pigs, and a turtle.  One of my favorite quotes is from Leo Buscaglia, “Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.”   My other favorite quote is, “When life gives you limes, slice them up and find some tequila!”  I look forward to playing with Moxxie products this year and creating some really fun projects to share.

 

Patti Hamil

Hi, my name is Patti Hamil and I am thrilled to be on the Moxxie team! I have been scrapbooking for about 15 years and thoroughly enjoy the hobby. I am the Mom to three beautiful grown children, wife, and also mama to a 150 lb. Rottweiler and a precious English Bulldog. We also have a 15 year old outside kitty! I am lucky enough to stay at home and hardly a day passes without me scrapping. I have been blessed with the opportunity to be on a few design teams, design for trade shows and HSN and QVC and have attended CHA for the last 3 years. Besides preserving family memories the best part about this has been the wonderful and lasting friends that I have made.

 

Cathy Harper

 

My name is Cathy Harper and I love everything about the paper crafting industry.  I have been an avid scrapper and card maker for several years now.  In August of 2011, I sold my scrapbook store in Rapid City, South Dakota...so that my husband could take his dream job in Aberdeen, SD.  I had a successful 4 year run in the industry.  I miss my store, friends and customers so very much.  I am now enjoying my free time and creating like crazy!  Love it!

 

Michelle James

My name is Michelle James and I live in Emmetsburg, IA.  I owned and operated a scrapbook store for 11 years and love all things paper, scrapbooking and stamping.  I started making cards about 20 years ago and over the years have added altered art, scrapbooking and digital scrapbooking into my hobby set to name just a few.  I have always been a "crafty" person and love to come up with new ideas or find ideas and create my version.  Sharing ideas has become so easy now with blogging, Facebook and Pinterest, three of my favorite Internet sites.

 

Rebecca Price

Hi! My name is Rebecca Price and I have been paper crafting for eight years. I love the distressed and layered look and I always try to find a way to add texture to my work. I like making pages that are pretty to the eye, AND make you want to reach out and touch them. As you touch the page, see the pretty pictures and products, and read the journaling, the memory comes flooding back that much stronger. That is my goal! I love telling stories and trying new things. I am a proud mother of two. My 7 year old daughter is a diva, and kind of a "mini-me." My 5 year old son is such a crazy boy! They are the main focus of my paper crafting, and they often join me at the scrap table. That makes me happy, and it's why I do what I do!

 

Misty Rushlow

Hello my name is Misty!  I live in Nebraska with my husband of 9 years and our 2 wonderful cats, Gizzy and Louie.  I am currently a designer and teacher at our LSS, A Paige 2 Remember.  First to let you know, I am a paper hoarder!!  I LOVE paper and sometimes so much that I hate using it all up, that's why I buy extra sheets of my favorites!  My passion is scrapbooking and cardmaking, but also enjoy working on altered art projects.  However, lately I have been playing with canvas and I'm really enjoying it!  I find through all the creating it relieves my stress and allows me to express myself.  I am very excited and honored to be here.  It's going to be a GREAT year!!!!

 

Mary Pat Siehl

Hi, my name is Mary Pat.   I am married to a wonderful man who totally supports my addiction to paper crafting. I have 2 children who keep me totally stocked in pictures for a lifetime. I am also a high school teacher and am in my 23rd year of teaching. I began paper crafting over 10 years ago.  I was totally addicted from the start.  I especially love scrapbooking, sketch making, card making, and altered items.  I have been very fortunate to also teach scrapbooking classes at my nearby local scrapbook stores.  I am so honored to be a part of the Moxxie Design Team.

 

Dana Tatar

My name is Dana Tatar and I am a stay-at-home mom. I have two daughters, Claire (5) and Scarlett (3). I married my high school sweetheart in 2003 and have been happy ever since. I graduated from MSU with a B.S. in Biochemistry and worked in that field for about 3 years before I gave birth to my first daughter and decided to stay home full time. I have had many hobbies over the years, but scrapping is the one that really gives me satisfaction. I started scrapbooking to preserve memories after the birth of my first daughter. I love to mix products from different collections on my layouts and I frequently find inspiration in music, poetry and pop culture. I love fussy cutting and flowers and both can be seen on the majority of my layouts. I would say that my dominant scrappy styles are clean and simple and pretty chic, but I do like to mix things up a bit, depending on the paper or photos I want to use. When I'm not scrapping, I enjoy cooking and baking, reading, listening to music and spending time outdoors with my family and basset hound.

Rhonda Van Ginkel

My name is Rhonda Van Ginkel and I live in the beautiful Twin Cities of Minnesota.  I am blessed to be a loving wife to my husband Chuck, and a mom to my two beautiful little boys ages 4 and 3.  My favorite things to create are pages, cards and minis / altered projects.  How incredibly honored I am to be invited to design with Moxxie's beautiful products and be a part of this team!  Thank you!!!

Ange Weisbeck

My name is Angela Weisbeck, I go by Ange most of the time. I have been married for 14 years to a great guy and have four kids; two girls 13 & 10 and two boys 8 & 2. These kiddos keep me really busy with all of their cute antics and fun activities, which is one of the reasons scrapbooking has become a major hobby in my life. I love to sit down with some photos and relive those precious moments in my own creative way. I love the feel of ink and glue on my fingers and don't mind the occasional shine of glitter on my face (it just adds a little twinkle to the eye, right?)

We are so excited to have these talented ladies working with us. Very soon you will see lots and lots of creative samples from them!  I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!

I am a crafter at heart and have been creating all my life.  I started to scrapbook about 5 years ago and it has truly become a passion.  It is my creative outlet and my therapy!  I am primarily a scrapbooker but I also enjoy making exploding boxes & altering items for gifts and home decor.  My favorite thing to do right now is to play with canvases and dabble in art journaling!  When I learn how to do something new, my first instinct is to share, which is one of the reasons I teach at the local scrapbook store.  I have found so many wonderful friends through scrapbooking. I live in Northern Virginia with my husband of 21 years and our 3 children, a dog, 2 guinea pigs, and a turtle.  One of my favorite quotes is from Leo Buscaglia, “Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.”   My other favorite quote is, “When life gives you limes, slice them up and find some tequila!”  I look forward to playing with Moxxie products this year and creating some really fun projects to share.

May Sneak Peek #4

Here is our final new collection for May! I hope you've enjoyed the sneaks.  We should have the product ready to ship after the first week of May, so be sure you go to your favorite LSS and ask them for these lines.

The last collection we are sharing with you is called Faith. A while back, Moxxie released a very popular Faith line, and due to customer requests, we've added to it! Here are the new papers and embellishments!

These elegant colors and designs are the perfect accents for your special religious events. There are papers and elements to coordinate with your Baptism, Confirmation, First Communion photos and more! The new papers will coordinate with the previous Faith and Nativity lines, giving you a large assortment of patterns and embellishments to choose from to create your projects.

 

That's all of them! Sneak peeks are complete!  Now, if ONLY there were something more to blog about...some sort of big news people might be waiting to hear about... ;) OH! I have an idea!  How about if next week, we announce our NEW DESIGN TEAM?!?!

May Sneak Peek #3

Sneak Peek week is fun! (...and kind of fun to say!) I really do enjoy reading your comments and hearing what kinds of projects you think of when looking at the new collections.  It helps to spark my creativity as well!  

Today we have a sneak peek of Midway Madness.  Take a look:

AAAAAAAAHHHH!!  Isn't it adorable? Midway Madness is designed with all kinds of fun outings in mind: carnivals, county fairs, theme parks, amusement parks, and even end-of-the-year carnivals at school! Wherever you can find a funnel cake, you can find a use for this new collection. Looking at it now, I actually know EXACTLY what I'm going to use it for.  I have some great pics of my husband and I and a friend at the famous Santa Monica Pier in California.  This is perfect!

I need to point out my love of the coordinating solids and small patterns included here. (My card-making friends are probably nodding their heads in agreement right now.) I find that these kinds of patterns make the line very versatile and easy to work with.

Well...enough about what I think! Let's hear your comments! Which ones are catching your eye?

May Sneak Peek #2

As promised, we have another reveal for you today on one of our collections being released in May.  Today's highlighted collection is Hole In One!  I think you're really going to like this one.

 

Can I just tell you how excited I was when I first saw this collection?  I am in LOVE with the colors, as well as the masculine, vintage design! The patterns are perfect. There's just the right amount of theme based artwork on the fronts of the papers, and the backs are great patterns for all kinds of projects!  I think the stickers and the diecuts are going to be easy to use as well. There are plenty of options for cute titles or photo quotes, and I even see a few card possibilities in there as well.

Obviously, I'm anxious to get my hands on this line.  What about you? What possibilities do you see in Hole In One?  Go on, share your creative visions!

May Sneak Peek #1

As promised, we will be starting our sneak peeks today for our May releases.  Today I'll be sharing our new camping and fishing lines: Happy Camper and Fish Stories!

 

As you can see, this collection is just the right size for creating layouts, mini-books, and paper crafty projects. The colors will coordinate nicely with your outdoor photos, and the themes on the papers and embellishments highlight all your camping experiences; campfire stories, S'more fixin's, pitching the tent, snuggling in your sleeping bag, or just enjoying your spot in nature.  My personal favorite is the hexagon shape paper with the flies and mosquitoes! (I've had those uninvited guests on every camping trip I've ever taken.) Along with the patterned paper, there are two coordinating stickers and diecuts too.

 

This line is great by itself, but what about adding in the coordinating collection called Fish Stories?

 

Three more patterned papers, plus a fishy themed sticker and fishy themed diecut with fabulous title options and adorable artwork round out this collection.  The masculine patterns and color palette make this a great line for creating a keepsake for Dad this Father's Day, or for highlighting the pictures of a great catch! Mix and match the patterns and solids, and stickers and diecuts from both collections for more options.

I guess I had better go start planning a camping/fishing trip so I have some new photos to scrap!  I'm sure I'll get no complaints from my husband on that. ;)

Check back tomorrow as we will be posting another new collection!

 

ROAD TRIP!

I know all of you are anxiously awaiting news on the Design Team selections, but since we're not finished with it, I thought I'd entertain you with a story of a road trip taken by Jennifer and Peggy to Daisy Lane Scrapbooking & Craft Mall in Mattoon, IL this past weekend.

Back in January, we ran a contest for our store owners to win a Moxxie-sponsored crop. All qualifying orders were entered, and Daisy Lane was our lucky winner!  We realized that they were about a 4 1/2 hour drive from the warehouse, so instead of packing up the prizes for the crop and shipping them, we decided to hand-deliver them. :)

35 croppers were signed up, so we loaded up goody bags and drawing prizes and took off in Peggy's Prius to Mattoon.  We arrived in Mattoon just before 8 pm Friday night, and after checking into our hotel, we decided to swing by the scrapbook store to meet Karen, one of the owners, and check out the store.  While on the way, Peggy realized...they were in desperate need of gas!  Yes, even a Prius can run out of gas! Here's the picture of the "miles to empty" warning that came on the dash.  Jennifer was beside herself with panic, but we made it!

 

Peggy was ready to drive around for another 7 miles just to see how accurate that reading was!

 

We (finally) arrived at Daisy Lane after passing by it several times. Our GPS couldn't quite navigate us to the store, so we used logic instead.  :)  Eventually, we arrived, and what a sight met our eyes!  We had NO idea what we were walking into!

This place was MASSIVE!  The building is large, and 8,000 square feet of it is designated for scrapbooking merchandise.  Aisle after aisle after aisle of paper, stickers, diecuts, SAMPLES, and embellishments awaited the shoppers.  Signage hung above the aisles so you knew exactly where you needed to go to find the items you were looking for! (And yes, we took time to go through each one. It was so fun!) We met a few customers, chatted with Karen, then headed to dinner and the hotel to get a good night's sleep.

Saturday morning brought some NASTY rain storms, but our attitudes were sun-shiny!  We arrived at the store FULL of croppers!

Let me tell you, these gals were FUN!  They were there to get their projects done and have a good time, and we loved being a part of it all. They each got a goody bag stuffed with some fabulous Moxxie products, and we saw many of them using their prizes right away on their layouts!  (I think that means they liked it. Anyway...) We spent time chatting with them, looking at their projects, and just getting to know them.

We also spent time shopping!  (How could we not? Did I mention the eight THOUSAND square foot scrapbooking section?) We found things we absolutely loved.  In fact, we loved some stuff so much, we actually had to hug it.  For Jennifer, it was the ribbon wall:

Spool after spool after spool of ribbon!  She was in love. For Peggy, it was the punch section:

Big punches, little punches, scallop punches, shape punches...BUNCHES OF PUNCHES!  They were just so pretty lined up along the wall. :)

As we shopped and filled our cart, (which, sorry, I neglected to take a picture of) we did some Moxxie spotting!  Check out this cute endcap display full of our "Showstopper" line...complete with adorable sample pages:

The other favorite kind of Moxxie spotting is when we saw croppers shopping...and choosing Moxxie products!  Look who we came across in one of the aisles, and notice what she had picked up to purchase:

Zoofari stickers!  I wonder what she was going to use them on...I forgot to ask.

 

Well, I hope this little antecdote about our road trip to Mattoon, IL kept you entertained!  We had so much fun, and really want to do it again sometime soon.  Maybe next time, we'll even bring our own pages to work on with everyone.

Thanks again to Karen, Mary, Cindy, and Grandma, and all the customers at Daisy Lane.  You made us feel welcome and treated us like old friends.  See you soon!

-Jennifer and Peggy

 

Moxxie Design Team Call!

Have you got Moxxie?  If so, we might be looking for you!  If you love Moxxie products and have oodles of creativity just waiting to be recognized, we need to see what you’ve got. We are looking to put together a brand-spankin’ new Design Team with members who are up to the challenge.  Requirements include:

1. The ability to produce 3-4 projects per month
2. Good photography skills for taking pictures of your projects
3. Projects posted with social media: Facebook, your personal blog, Pinterest, and at least one online gallery
4. Participation in our blog, including writing your own posts
5. Be able to meet short deadlines during release times and show dates
6. Open to US residents only at this time.
7. Ability to participate fully for a 12 month term.

Does that sound fun?  If it does, it’s about to get better.  Here’s what we’ll do for you in return:

1.  LOTS of product sent to you to create projects for us
2. BONUS product chosen by YOU to be sent to you quarterly, as compensation for your projects
3. Special compensation for physical samples we’ll need for our show booths
4. Link from our blog and Facebook page to your personal blog
5. Our undying gratitude and amazement for your creations

What do you need to do to enter?  That’s easy too!

1.  Submit photos of 3 of your most favorite projects that highlight your own personal style, and links to your blog or gallery to peggy@gotmoxxie.com  (Projects do not need to use Moxxie products, but we’d love it if they did!) Please include at least one layout in those 3 projects.
2. Submissions must be received NO LATER than Friday, April 13^th, 2012. Submissions received after this date will not be considered for our DT.
3. Write up a quick bio about yourself, mentioning why you’re interested in being on our DT, what experience (if any) you have with DTs, and why you love scrapbooking/paper crafting/cardmaking.

    4. Wait impatiently as we collect the submissions and choose our new DT members!

XOXO

There's a lot of love flying around here lately. We love that you love the new releases! We love our customers!  We love each other! But mostly, we love sharing. :) 

I know this isn't one of our newest releases, but our love line, called XOXO, is one of my favorites.  It's edgy, young, trendy, and artsy! I wanted to share with you some cute projects using this collection.  Look how versatile it is too. Click on each picture to see it close up.

 

If you know us at all, you'll know that we LOVE Adam Lambert.  What better way to show it than by dedicating a layout to him using the XOXO line?  These pictures were taken from our seats at one of his concerts.

 

The next thing you need to know about us is we LOVE costumes and dressing up!  This layout is highlighting Moxxie's owner Jennifer, and her family attending Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween, dressed as the cast of Alice in Wonderland.  They go all out, don't they?  The roses on the paper were a perfect accent to the theme of their costumes.

 

Ah, young love!  This layout was done by friend and guest DT member, Michelle James.  Michelle took some cute, natural pics of her son and his girlfriend, and used the XOXO line to keep it fresh and young.  I love the pop of green in the background to set off the pink, black, and white.

 

Last but not least, we have a wedding layout done with the XOXO collection.  Go ahead and get a little edgy when using this line.  Tear it, roll it, ink it, and create embellishments with it to make your projects a little more artsy.

Share the love! Got a project using our XOXO collection?  Post a comment with a link so everyone can see how creative you all are. We'd LOVE it if you did!

 

 

At The Beach...aka, where I wish I was right now...

Our new At the Beach line is really awesome.  It made me (finally) get out pictures from a trip my husband and I took in 2010 to southern California.  It then made me think of southern California and how nice it would be to be soaking up the sun on the beach.  Ah well, such is life!  The good news is, I had fun playing with the collection and making a page showing off my hubby's new surfing skills.

By the way, did you know you can click on the picture to see it bigger?  I probably should have mentioned that before.  Anyway...

To be honest, this is my second layout.  The first one I tried was just not working for me, and since I was trying to scraplift from somebody's Pinterest post, I gave it up and grabbed a Pagemap instead.  (LOVE those things!) Once I connected with a design, it was really easy to find pieces that fit.  The page with the little surfboards across the bottom made its own embellisments, so that was easy! I used several diecuts and lots of patterned papers, and it sort of fell into place. 

I also think this line would make some adorable cards, so I might play around with that this weekend.  What about you? Got any crafting plans in the works for the next couple of days?  If so, what are you working on?  If not, what could you possibly be doing instead? :) 

Have a great weekend everybody!

Spring Has Sprung Sample

Continuing our posts of our new collections, I have one today for our Spring Has Sprung line.  This line is so earthy and natural, it seemed fitting to do a layout with a photo that showed the onset of spring.  My parents have a cabin on a lake, and last spring, a mother goose and her gosslings paraded in front of the cabin, giving us quite a good look.  They even stopped and lingered on the grass, waiting for the stragglers of the group to catch up. I went out with my camera and took a picture of the little cuties.  This paper was perfect for complimenting the photo. 

I thought the paper would be great if it was torn, rolled, inked and distressed, and I really like the way it turned out.  The colors are easy to match with Glimmer Mists and flowers, and the artwork speaks for itself! 

I'm hoping to get a few more samples made this week to share with you.  Is there any collection in particular from this release you'd like to see more samples of?  Leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do.