Meet Our New Challenge Design Team Member: Suchi Paithankar

I'm excited and proud to announce a new STAMPlorations girl joining the Challenge Design Team: the talented Suchi Paithankar of Suchi's Cardstock! A regular player in our challenges, Suchi has been our guest designer and one of her amazing cards caught Maria F.'s eye that the Inspiration team CASEd it for the November CASEplorations. I've been meaning to fill a spot in the team when Nonni stepped down in August and I kept seeing Suchi's beautiful creations not just in our challenges but all over blogland. The next step was to send her an invitation, hoping she'd say yes. I love Suchi's artsy style...and you'll see below a few of her cards where she used our stamps -- awesome examples of why I think she's a great fit with the girls in the Challenge team.

"Hello, all! I am Sucheta! You will find me as Suchi from Suchizcardstock. I am 27 years old, from India, and have been married to a wonderful guy since 2013. I have been passionately painting and crafting since I  can remember. So, when I was introduced to the world of blogging, I started off without looking back and have made wonderful friends on this creative platform. My style includes CAS, layered cards, mixed  media, and interactive cards. I have been experimenting a lot lately and I am loving it! STAMPlorations has made me feel home since day one and I have been passionately inspired by the talented team! Shery surprised and thrilled me by asking me to join the Challenge Design Team for 2016. Thanks, Shery, for this splendid opportunity! It will be challenging as well as exciting to work along with such a SUPER CREATIVE team! You can find me on my blog, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram."

Please give Suchi a warm welcome and check out her blog. We're so excited to have her on the team and she officially joins us in the February Challenge that starts on Friday. Until then, check out some of the cards she has made -- they're my personal favorites :o)

  

    

Introducing the Challenge Design Team!

We'd like to thank everyone who responded to the STAMPlorations Challenge Design Team call we put out back in November.

In order to come to a fair decision, we asked applicants to create a project using the images we provided and submit a photo of their project with no personal watermarks. We then did a blind voting to come up with the final roster. None of us knew who made which project. After I had narrowed down the list to 17, I asked the current design team members to vote on their top picks. Their votes, David's (the other half of STAMPlorations) votes, and my votes were tallied.

I'm proud to reveal the 6 talented ladies joining STAMPlorations! They officially start their term as challenge design team members in February, and I'm excited to have them sharing their creativity and talents here on the STAMPlorations blog. So here they are. Please welcome each one of them and I hope you can stop by their blogs!