This post is part of a series on our blog that will introduce you to the designers and team members that work behind the scenes at Plain Digital Wrapper to make it a fun-loving, digi-family. We would love to get to know you better as well, so if you aren’t already hanging out with us in the forum, please take a moment to say good morning to us, introduce yourself, and find some inspiration from our many challenges!
This week’s spotlight is on Xandra of Starving Artist Designs. Xandra join the PDW team in the spring of 2009. She first joined the team as a creative team member before signing on as a designer. Before delving into the world of digital design, Xandra was both a digital and paper scrapper before designing and has not abandoned her love of paper scrapping. She said she loves using her hands and creating layered, and textured layouts and getting messy by inking, and glittering, and distressing items. You can follow Starving Artist Designs on her blog here.
Here is what Xandra had to share with us:
Were you named after any one? I was not named after anyone, however, in 7th grade Home Ec my mother had to sew a blanket. While making the baby blanket she decided when she had a girl her name would be Alexandra, Xandra for short. So here I am.
Do you sing in the shower/car? Yes. I sing in both the shower and car, I sing like my life depends on it. It is bad. Not pretty at all.
What are your favorite colors. Eggplant, Green, Cream, Black. It’s no wonder those are pretty much my wedding colors.
Wii, Playstation, X-box or No, thank you? I love all three! We have a Playstation 2, and a Wii. I would love an X-box with Kinect though.
What are your hobbies or pastimes? Scrapbooking. Is there another type of hobby?
If you were stranded on a deserted island, who would you want to be there with you? Adam, and our kids, also I would kill for a teleporter so that other family members could come and go, but I wouldn’t have to be stuck with anyone.
What would you do with a million dollars? I would save some for the kids college funds. I would purchase 2 new, problem free cars, Adam his zero-turn lawn mower, and I would pay for our wedding in full, in advance!
What super hero power would you most like to have? I would love mind reading, or flight.
Who is/was your nemesis? Time is the ultimate nemesis
You just inherited the Witch’s Candy House from Hanzel and Gretel, what do you do now? Personally, I would have to turn it over to the FTBI (Fairy Tale Beauro of Investigation), because if she has tried to capture and eat 2 little kids, she has probably done it before. It probably wasn’t her first time making Johnny Stew, if you know what I mean. Once the FTBI made their sweep and found the families of the other ‘missing’ kids, I would probably auction the house off piece by delicious piece and share some of the profits with the families. Then with the rest of the money, go buy a new house somewhere in fairytale world, although where?
Not by Jack–I mean yes, gardens are beautiful, but who wants to look out their window and see a huge chopped down beanstalk with a dead giant decomposing next to it? So that’s out of the question…hmmm Rapunzel? No! Have you seen how much that girl sheds? Seriously she loses one hair and your front yard is covered in a tangled mess.
Cinderella, is up waay too early singing, no one should be THAT chipper THAT early.
Snow White…hmm. . . living with 7 strange men….no comment.
Sleeping Beauty…she sleeps a lot, so its quite, she has a huge thorn bush all around her castle, so its well guarded, there are friendly animals nearby….yes I think I’ve found it! The perfect spot! Far Far Away here I come! Move over, Sleeping Beauty, I’m moving in!
Have you taken any classes about design or scrapbooking you have found beneficial? I haven’t taken any classes about designing. However I take tons of traditional scrapbooking classes. My future mother-in-law and I go to Creating Keepsakes Conventions twice a year.
Do you use a tablet when designing? Oh yes, in fact I just got the new Bamboo Craft Touch. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
What’s the scene when you design? Music, tv, quiet, clustered or organized and comfy? I have to have some type of noise while designing, whether that be music or hulu running on my computer. My desk is so cluttered, I know when I can’t find my tablet it is time to clean.
What one type of element can be found in most of your kits? Frames. That is one of my favorite things about digital scrapbooking, there isn’t a wide variety of 3-D yet flat frames for traditional scrapbooking.
If you had to have one color in every kit, what color would it be and why? Green. Green can go with anything.
Describe your design style. Eclectic.
Who would your dream collab be with and why? Irene Alexeeva, I simply adore her whimsical, fantasy style.
What is your all-time favorite kit that you have designed and why? I love my 11-11-11 Kit. I obviously had our upcoming nuptials on the brain. It is elegant and sophisticated, and so scrumptious, with the rich colors and fabulous textures.
Be sure to visit Starving Artist Designs store to find great products like these: (All layouts were created by Xandra.)
Mother
Poppy Fields
Social Butterfly
So Krafty
Xandra also has little gift for you, which you can grab here and here. (Make sure you grab both parts.)
Thank you Starving Artist Designs for sharing your creative talents and with Plain Digital Wrapper and making PDW your digi home.
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