Welcome our new Design Team!!

I think I am only one day behind schedule for a change!!
 I promised to announce the new design team on the 15th!

First, we will be saying goodbye to some very talented ladies at the end of this month, and I do want them to know how much they will be missed, and how much their work is appreciated. 

Amber, Sadia, Karen and Anne are leaving.  I have enjoyed having each one of them on this team and seeing their beautiful work.  I do want to say a special  goodbye to Anne.  Anne has been with me from the start of this challenge, and I am very sad to see her leave, but certainly understand. Two years of emails and getting to know each other, I certainly have found a new friend in Norway!

Thank you to everyone who applied.  I enjoyed looking at everyone's blog. And struggled to make the decision on who to add.

Now on to the good news, here is a full list of our design team, with the new members having a *! (no particular order)

Senior Design Team
Kate Tate - Design Team Leader-http://www.bothsidesofthepaper.blogspot.com/

 Tanya Rudd-Design Team Tutorial Specialist-http://www.trudd.blogspot.com/

Davi Long Reid-http://www.alstromeriaartistry.blogspot.com/

Nancy Holland-http://www.windstarcreations.blogspot.com/

*Tanya Johnson-http://www.little-scrapper.blogspot.com/

*Sharon Harding-http://www.uksharon-colouringforpleasure.blogspot.com/

*Heidi Steinhebel-http://www.heidishappystamping.blogspot.com/

*Audrey Ernst-http://www.hippieaud.blogspot.com/

Junior Design Team

*Francesca Nazzini-Tutorial Specialist-http://www.scripposcrappo.blogspot.com/

Denise Cayce-http://www.kc242designsbydenise.blogspot.com/

Wendy Vanderheeden-http://www.wickdyscreations.blogspot.com/

Kobie Fouche-http://www.kobiescraftycorner.blogspot.com/

*Stephanie Lee-http://www.blog.artycarty.com/

*Denise Gwalter-http://www.densinkyfingers.blogspot.com/

*Tina Keller-http://www.craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/


*Mary Lou Schroeder-http://www.marylouscorner.blogspot.com/

There you are!  Take a ride around blog land and check out their wonderful blogs and projects.   For all the others who applied please contact me if you would like to schedule a week to be a guest on our design team
Have a nice week!
Michelle

The New Pixie Cottage Design Team!!!!

First of all, I want to start out by thanking all the talented people who applied to join us on design team.   I am late making my announcement, and I apologize.  I wanted to notifiy everyone personally before I posted this.  If for some reason you did not get an email and had send me your information, I am very sorry. It seems that I am having some trouble with my emails lately, mine are going to spam folders, and the ones I should be receiving are not showing up.

I would like to say thank you to all of you by offering the coupon code

Thankful

This will be good for 10 percent off any order placed till October 31st in my store, including Pixie Cottage stamps.

Secondly, I would like to say good bye to Erin, who we have had the pleasure of working with for the last six months.  Erin you will be missed!  Some of our senior designers have chosen to step down to junior designers due to time constraints, something I surely understand, and I am just thrilled to have them on board in any capacity.

Now without further ado,  here are the new Pixie designers:

Sadia of Sadilla's Blog

Paola of Paola's Paper Haven

Suzi of Sugar and Spice My Haven of Escape

Lisette of Totally Inkspired

Nanda of Nanda Creatief
Carla of Carla's Corner

I want to welcome these fine artists and look forward to seeing all the pretties they produce.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Michelle

The New Pixie Cottage Design Team!

Hello! I thought I should drop by and let everyone know, we have finalized the plans for our new design team.  First of all, I want to thank everyone for applying, I emailed everyone who emailed me with their information as instructed, and let you know of the results. If you just applied by posting here on the blog and did not email me, I did not have an email to send a personal response too, and I apologize but it would have been just too much work to track everyones email down from each of their blogs.

So without further ado, here is our design team for the next 6 months!

Senior team

Welcome returning members

**Design Team Leader -Katie Tate from Both Sides of The Paper 

*ArTish from All Things ArTishtic

*Anne from Anne's Hobbyblog

*Peggy  from Beautiful Greetings

*Risa from Life's Simple Pleasures

*Pam from Stamps Inc. 

And welcome to all our new members!

Denise  from Stamping with Denise

Sharon from Cards N Greetings

Tanya from Random Acts of Krafting

Katarina  from kamadesign- Confessions of a crafter

*Indicate a returning member

Junior Team

Denise from KC242 Designs by Denise

Davi  from  Alstromeria's Artistry

Erin  from Scrap, Stamp and Be Merry

Tracey   from Scrappin' Trackside

Cheryl  from Cheryl's Creative Cards and ATCs

Adrina from Adrina's Fun 

I think everyone will agree that there is a great amount of talent here, and I look forward to seeing what everyone does with their Pixie stamps in the coming months!
I also want to mention that Tammy and Renata will be moving on due to other commitments.  They will be missed greatly! 

Michelle

Design Team Call Information

The Pixie Cottage Design Team Call
The Pixie Cottage is looking for their very first design team!! We are a new stamp company with a wide variety of stamps. We specialize in whimsical designs, as well as background and accessory stamps that work well with other stamp lines. We are looking for a handful of design team members who are ready to grow with us and show their talent by making cards, altered art, scrapbook pages and whatever else they can dream up with our products.
This call is open to talented artists worldwide.

You will be serve a six month term starting Oct 1, 2009 and ending April 1, 2010.
Deadline for submissions is September 15th, 2009 11:59 pm EST.
Members will be contacted by September 25th, 2009 via email and announced on the 30th of September.
Submit to
ThePixieCottage@aol.com
Your submission will be acknowledged with a return email within 48 hours, if you do not receive an acknowledgement, please send another email. You are asked to post on your blog three recent projects and then provide a link here to that post. It would be nice if you would also post a link to The Pixie Cottage Blog in your thread on your blog. Any papercrafting project with any stamp line is fine for this purpose.

For more information and details and to view some of our stamps visit www.michellesscrap.com
Or www.thepixiecottage.blogspot.com

1. Please submit VIA EMAIL you name, address, phone number, email address, website address and any links to online photo galleries that display your work.
2. Tell us about yourself, what forums on online message boards you frequent, about your life, family, job, whatever you would like us to know.
3. Tell us about any current or past design teams you are on. We are not looking for exclusivity, you are welome to be on other design teams.

4.YOU DO NOT NEED TO SEND ANY PICTURES IN THIS EMAIL, PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH A LINK AS EXPLAINED AND POST THE LINK ON OUR BLOG.

What we will expect from our members:
1. You will need to have your own blog that you maintain and post at least weekly to. You must actively post cards or other projects featuring The Pixie Cottage products. You will be expected to provide a link on your blog to The Pixie Cottage blog and affiliated store (Michelle's Scrapbooking & More) Also you will be expected to provide links to other design team members blogs.
2. You will need to provide us with 4 cards/layouts/projects monthly using The Pixie Cottage stamps in whole or in part that will be posted on The Pixie Cottage Blog. These should be sent via email to me, you must be able to take good pictures.
3.You will be expected to participate in one (or more if you like) challenges a month (of your choosing) using our products. In the event that The Pixie Cottage starts its own challenge you would be expected to participate in that also.
4. During your 6 month term we would like you to provide one
tutuorials for posting on our blog, your choice of what it is and it does not have to be anything too fancy or complicated. It can be as simple as how to tie the perfect bow.
5. Actively participate on other members blogs and any blog hops, and forums such as SCS.
6.You may be asked to mail your actual product to us for use at conventions or other promotions of our product. Your cards/project will be returned to you.
7. We would appreciate your submissions to publications using our products. While this is not necessary to be a part of our team, if you do submit and get published in print you will be paid 50.00 in cash or crafting goodies.
8. You may be asked to design for our retail store and be provided with products to do so. This is voluntary.
9. It is expected that information/photos provided to you remain confidential unless otherwise instructed.

What to expect from The Pixie Cottage
1. We will provide you with a welcome package at the beginning of your term with enough products to get you started.
2. Your name, photo and bio will be published on our blog and possibly other sites affiliated with The Pixie Cottage, if you wish that your last name not be used or you do not wish to provide a photo that is also fine. Whatever you are comfortable with.
3. You will receive a package with new stamps as they are released.
4. 75.00 in cash or paper craft goodies for getting your local stamp store to carry The Pixie Cottage Stamps.
5. 30% discount on all products from The Pixie Cottage that you wish to purchase for yourself. In addition you will be provided with a discount code good for 30% off at Michelle’s Scrapbooking & More online store, good once monthly. You will be made aware of new products and provided with the benefit of preordering new products using your discount.

Any questions please feel free to email me at ThePixieCottage@aol.com or casdanben@aol.com

Or leave a message on the blog.

Thanks so much!

Design Team Call Coming Soon

Just a quick post to let anyone who is interested know that I will soon be putting up a call for design team members. Details coming soon!