WELCOME TO THE 2018 DESIGN TEAM

MEET THE 2018 DESIGN TEAM

Anita Rodway Owner/Designer

"So you know you're an artist if you go through a glue stick faster than a lipstick!? Well that's me!! Hello, I'm Anita. Graphic Designer / Full-time mummy to one boisterous 4yr old boy & a beautiful baby girl (enjoying every bit of it!!) & married to my best friend, Chris. We live in Tamworth, the country music capital of Australia.

My love of art started at a young age & I had choosen my career path pretty early. I have always loved mixed media & the design process. Never shying away from getting my hands messy. I am lucky enough to say the quote “Do what you love, love what you do” applies to me. I started scrapbooking started about 14yrs ago & I haven't stoppped!! I have however since forgotten all the other basics like vacuuming, cooking etc - but we get by LOL. Paper & paint are like therapy to me! It calms me & satisfies my arty desires. 

I have been on numerous Design & Creative Teams. I am currently designing for Flutterby Designs, 2Crafty Chipboard, Scrap the Boys & Kraft +. I’ve had layouts published in magazines such as Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbook Creations & Jot Magazine. I have made many friends & met some awesomely talented people through scrapbooking, that inspire me everyday. I am truly grateful to have met them all.

BLOG: http://anitarodway.blogspot.com.au/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/anitarodway/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Art-By-Anita-Rodway

Allara Bamforth  Designer 

Hi, I'm Allara and live in country NSW, having moved here 6 years ago from the coast. I have a husband and 3 children 18, 16 and 14 and work full time in health administration. I've always loved being creative having dabbled in all sorts of arts and crafts since high school. Before the scrapbooking bug took hold in 2003 I was very into Folk Art Painting which I think has definitely influenced my love of all things mixed media in the pages I produce now. This love is also combined with a passion for photography and have been working on trying to perfect and be creative with my digital imaging. My style incorporates many elements and is quite eclectic. I'm influenced by so many fabulous creations I see of FB and Pinterest but I would say I don't really have a plan when creating - I just like to experiment with my products and see what they do and match the pictures to them later. I do love retreats - I find I'm so inspired when I attend and can just churn out things quickly but don't get to attend them as often as I would like. I am thrilled to be a part of the Flutterby Design team and hope that I can inspire you too.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/starrlite/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/starrliteart/

Rachel Dutko  Designer

Hi! My name is Rachel Dutko and I live in Adelaide with my husband and our 2 young boys, who are the inspiration for the majority of my scrapbook pages.

I first started scrapbooking about 10 years ago, but after a big break I rediscovered it with a life-changing passion about 4 years ago.

I love the fact that scrapbooking allows me to express my creativity and document my precious memories at the same time.

I'm lucky enough to have had a career in the television industry for the past 17 years, and I am in my craft space most nights for some 'me' time after the daily demands of work and family.

I love using mixed media, texture, and learning new techniques. I think my style is fun, bright, and sometimes messy, 'boy' pages. I mostly create 12x12 layouts, but I also like to create cards, tags, art journal pages, canvasses and      OTP projects.

BLOG: http://www.sequinsandstarsandlittletoycars.blogspot.com.au

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_dutko/

Belinda Spencer  Designer

Hello! My name is Belinda Spencer and I have been scrapping since 2003. I live on a farm in the Adelaide Hills with my husband, two children and a multitude of animals.

I am predominantly a 12” x 12” scrapper but also love to create cards, artist trading cards, project life and the odd mini album and off the page project.

My style tends to include elements of shabby chic, fussy cutting and a touch of grunge, spooky elements and sometimes a swear word or two. I love to include texture and dimension with lots of lovely layers. My favourite technique right now is to create a watercolour effect on my backgrounds using various mists. I would be lost without my Canson white cardstock, craft knife and inks!

I have been published in Scrapbook Creations, Scrapbooking Memories and Somerset Memories magazines. I am currently a Design Team member at The Scrapbook Store, Kraft Plus Challenges, Darkroom Door, Charms Creations, Imaginarium Designs and Seriously Scrapbooking where I teach layout classes and card workshops. Previous teams have included The Colour Room, Purple Pumpkin, White With One, The Dusty Attic and Kaisercraft. 

I am so thrilled to be joining this awesome team and look forward to sharing my love of papercrafting (and sentence enhancers) with you. Hopefully I can inspire you to play with your own Flutterby Designs goodies.

BLOG: http://happyscrapspace.blogspot.com/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/spencerbelinda/

 Tamara Buckler  Designer

Hi, I’m Tamara, a 30 something wife and mumma to two not-so-little princesses. I have been scrapbooking for around 15 years, and love it more today then ever! I would say my style is ‘girly-grunge’ and my layouts can swing from either end of this spectrum. I love to make messy and textured layouts, but can also rip out some paper pieces pretties and be equally happy. I look forward to sharing my Flutterby creations with you this year!!

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tambuck/

BLOG: https://sheplayswithprettypaper.wordpress.com/

Sue Plumb  Designer

My name is Sue Plumb and I am a mum of 3 (daughter Brielle and twin sons Hunter and Kaden) and I come from the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland. I began scrapbooking approximately 9 years ago, shortly after the birth of my daughter. Since that time, my work has evolved from a very simplistic paper-based style, to where it is now - which is far more artistic and often incorporates stamping, mixed media and eclectic elements. (Be warned - I love a good sentence enhancer too!)

Besides Flutterby, I also design for several other Australian teams including Cocoa Vanilla Studio; Colour Blast; and the Scrap the Boys and Scrap the Girls challenge blogs. I was also a 2017 Creative Team member for Scrapbooking Memories magazine.

I am honoured to be back with Anita designing for Flutterby Designs again in 2018, and look forward to sharing my passion for everything Flutterby with you!

BLOG: https://soupie75.blogspot.com.au/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sue.plumb/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sue.plumb.designs

Adele Toomey  Designer

Hi lovelies! My name is Adele but I’m known online as “Inkie Quill” where I post Project Life and traditional layout process videos on my YouTube channel. I started PL in 2013 before moving to traditional paper based layouts...and then I discovered the fun of adding mixed media to my pages and the rest is history! I also dabble in art journaling on my second YouTube channel, Let’s Get Inkie and love getting messy with inks, paints, pens and stencils. I’m always excited to dive into new techniques or products and can’t wait to show you what I come up with in 2018 with the rad Flutterby Designs goodies!

INSTAGRAM: @inkiequill

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/InkieQuill

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/InkieQuill/

Farewell Flutterby Peeps

Hey Flutterby Fans, 

Its come that time that we must part and say farewell. Its been an amazing year as a part of the Flutterby design team, and I've had the awesome privilege to create with some of the some awesome products, alongside an amazingly talented team. 

A huge shout out has to go to the boss lady, Miss Neet, for not only creating some kick ass collections, but for her tireless dedication to brand and quality that is Flutterby Designs. 

Here is my collection of DT works I created this year....

I cant wait to meet the new DT team for 2018 and see what they create. For now, its farwell from me. Thank you for sharing in my creative journey this year. 

Love and light

xoxox

Skai

Shine, by Ros Madley

 Today is the day I share my last page as a Flutterby design team member.  It's been an awesome year with lots of fabulous collections being released and today I'm using what has to be up the top of my list of favourites ♥, We Run the World.

My page started with the Bright Like a Diamond stencil, which is probably my most used Flutterby Designs stencil.

I then thought it was perfect to cut the word 'shine' from the Everyday Etc cards.  I've also added a few shapes among my cluster from these cards.   Topped them off with a flair button.

Some Raspberry Punch Flutter Colour Paint was used to cover the heart from the We Run the World wood veneer bits.

I've added some Tiny Sticky Quotes and another little heart, this time a die cut from the Bits and Bobs pack.

Stencils

Everyday Etc Cards

Flair Buttons

Flutter Colour Paint

Wood Veneers

Tiny Sticky Quotes

Bits and Bobs

I hope you've been inspired.

It's been an awesome year and I've loved sharing with you all.

♥

Family Christmas Traditions & Falala | Belinda Spencer

Merry Christmas Flutterby peeps!!!

I hope Santa was kind to you and you survived the mad present opening frenzy that is Christmas morning.

I am just popping in before my little family and I head out the door to share two Christmas layouts featuring the completely awesome Fair Dinkum Chrissy collection.

This is such a fun Christmas range and so perfect for a hot Aussie Christmas.

'Family Christmas Traditions'

I love this photo I snapped a couple of years ago now. I was aiming for a nice Christmas photo but got this instead. LOL My young son did not want his sister's arm on him. Hahaha. As much as I wanted a 'nice' photo, the outtakes are the ones I love best.

I created a lovely watercolour effect background on my layout just because it is my favourite thing to do. I spritzed my background with a generous amount of water first and then applied diluted Tropicana Teal Flutter Colour Paint using a large soft paintbrush. I kind of just dump the paint on the page and watch the water bleed it out before helping it along a little with my paintbrush.

I then layered on some of the Filler Photo Cards sticking to a teal, black and neutral colour scheme.

The Page Tabs are one of my all time favourite Flutterby products and I love to layer them above my photo.

My layout wouldn't be complete without a sprinkling of sweet little wood veneer pieces and cute die cuts.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Wood Veneer Bits

- Flair Buttons Set 1

- Page Tabs

- Page Tabs Jolly Season

- Photo Cut Outs Frame 24

- Snippet Strips Cool

- Snippet Strips Monochrome

- Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

- Flutter Colour Paint Tropicana Teal

For my second layout featuring a photo of my darling daughter, I have kept to a white, pink, red and kraft colour scheme.

'Fa La La'

How cute is that santa hat and the little reindeer?? They are from the Die Cut Bits & Bobs pack that is chockers full of awesome Christmas die cuts.

I strayed from my usual watercolour background for this one and simply squeezed some Raspberry Punch Flutter Colour Paint onto my layout. I then swiped away at it with a palette knife until I was happy with the coverage. As usual I sloshed on way more paint than I needed. It's typical of me which is why I always keep an art journal handy so I can swipe the excess paint onto a page or two to use later. Tags are good for this too if you have those laying around your desk.

I love the look of pink and red together and with a little kraft added too it's a pretty cool colour scheme.

I really wanted to use the Dear santa checklist Photo Card to go with my photo of my girl but it contained sentence enhancers. Now don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of sentence enhancers and must admit to using them quite regularly in everyday life. However I couldn't bring myself to use them on a layout with a photo of my daughter so I strategically placed a 'censored' sticker and a cute wood veneer present to hide them. It's a cool and creative way of covering up the naughty words if you don't want to use them.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Page tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Flutter Colour Paint Raspberry Punch

Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

- Photo Cut Outs Stars

Well I hope you are feeling inspired by my layouts today and you get a chance to sneak away and play with your own stash of Fair Dinkum Chrissy goodies. I am off to spend the morning at the zoo with my family followed by a lovely casual lunch at home.

Enjoy your Christmas day lovelies!

Cheers

Belinda

Shine Brightly | Tamara Buckler

Hey Hey Flutterby Peeps,

I'm back to share my final layout for 2017 - hasn't this year just flown by?! We have had some massive accomplishments this year, including building and moving into our first home, and our eldest daughter finishing primary school! With all this going on, it's been important for us to remember to take some time out and spend it enjoying our kids. That's what this layout is about, and it's certainly easy to document these moments with the fabulous 'We Run The World' collection!! 

I started this page with some very old (unbranded) paper I had in my stash that looked like an old wooden door, it was very grey so I spread a light layer of gesso across the page to brighten it up and give it a bit of a whitewashed effect. I then watered down some Dylusions paint in Rose Quartz and Cherry Pie (they are a great colour match for the pinks in the WRTW collection) and some Flutter Colour Paint in Grape Soda, and applied this using the package technique and lots of water. 

I started my layers by tearing strips from the beautiful watercolour floral card that is included in both the Everyday Etc Filler and Photo Card packs, and laid them in a 'T' shape across the page. I matted the photo on some black paper from my stash, and another Everyday Etc Filler Photo Card. To create my title, I fussy cut "Shine Brightly" from an Everyday Etc Photo Card. I popped both the photo and the "Shine" up with some foam adhesive and glued "Brightly" down the left of the photo.

To create the cluster to the right of my photo I cut a tag shape from one of the Filler Cards, and then cut out two of the frames from the WRTW collection. I tucked some off cuts form the "Shine Brightly" card underneath to carry this across the page, and used some of the Die Cut Bits and Bobs as well as flair button to finish it off. I love the layers in this cluster!!

 I finished off the page by tucking some black thread on either side of the photo (when will I learn to do this earlier in my process?!?) and splattered some black ink around the page.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout. I hope you have a happy, safe and fun festive season with your family and friends, and I look forward to seeing you in the new year!

Big Loves,
Tam x