Show Us Your Backsides Challenge and Big Contest!!

[Terri Hayes]

We are excited to announce our Show Us Your Backsides Challenge and Contest!

We asked 5 of our favorite scrappers to work with the graphic patterns that are (generally) the "back sides" of our papers. (They also had a chance to use our new letter stickers!) They are accomplished designers whose pages have graced almost every scrapbook magazine out there, are know for their graphic style, and show another way to use Webster's Pages on your pages. We want to extend a big thanks to them for participating in this challenge!!

We were also lucky enough to have several members of our own Webster's Pages design team share their takes on this challenge with it. We told them to forget their normal hand cutting and layering and go graphic! We think you will enjoy seeing their take on this.

After you take a look at all of these wonderful pages, we hope you will be inspired to participate in our Show Us Your Backsides Contest which has some wonderful prizes!!

First our special guest designers and their amazing pages:

Vivian Masket

About five years ago I realized the pile of photos of my son wasn't going to stop growing. I googled "scrapbooking," found the Two Peas in a Bucket website, and the rest is history. In the spring of 2006 I became serious about submitting my work for publication. Since then my work has been published by Better Homes & Gardens' Scrapbooks Etc., Cards, Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Scrapbook and Cards Today, and Scrapbook Trends. My biggest scrapping accomplishment to date has been being named a 2007 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame winner. My page designs usually feature clean lines, bold titles, and bright colors, and I often make use of graphic elements and stitching on my pages. I love to scrap about a variety of topics, and enjoy making pages that are serious, funny, and everywhere in between. When I'm not scrapping I can usually be found doing my day job (I'm a social studies curriculum coordinator), hanging out with my husband and my two kids (ages 4 and 7), or paying attention to my other hobby: cooking.

Danielle Layton

Danielle Layton is a physician assistant and military wife. She has been scrapbooking since 2002, mostly her European travels and her dog until the birth of her first son. Now, there are so many things she wants to remember that she scrapbooks on a daily basis. She loves photography and wants to leave behind lots of good photos for her son as she does not have many from her own childhood. She likes to be busy and therefore, scrapbooks and blogs often: www.vtpuggirl.blogspot.com. Danielle designs for Cosmo Cricket and Scribble Scrabble. She has had her work published in Memory Makers, Papercrafts, Simple Scrapbooks and Scrapbook Trends Magazine, as well as some web-based E-zines. Her guilty indulgence is Grey's anatomy, when she isn't doing continuing medical education credits towards her medical license.

Christine Drumheller

I live on the west side of Michigan. I love it here, the winters can be long, but I love the seasons. I have a wonderful and supportive husband named Greg and 2 energetic boys, Nate (almost 7,) and Zach (almost 4). They are my constant inspiration. I left the work force after the birth of our first son and have continued to be a stay at home mom. I have been scrapbooking for about 10 years. I was thrilled to become a Memory Makers Master for 2009! I have had a number of layouts published in Memory Makers Idea books, Scrapbook Trends magazine and Creating Keepsakes magazine. I was also a Creating Keepsakes HOF honorable mention for 2006 and 2007. I am currently on the Cocoa Daisy design team. My background is in fine arts and graphic design, this tends to come through in my scrapbooking style: bold and graphic with a touch of whimsy. I love to have all the elements on a layout support it's theme in some way, and to draw people in and have them take a minute to discover all the little details. My journaling is always honest and from my heart. Being artistic is a driving force in my life - I have to do something creative everyday, whether it's gardening, decorating, sewing or scrapbooking!

Dawn Hagewood

Hi! My name is Dawn Hagewood, I am 31 years old, and I live in Virginia about 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC. I have been married for 9 wonderful years and have two sons, Dawson who is 4 1/2 years old and Dylan who is 3 years old. The two of them definitely keep me on my feet! I also work as a Technology Resource Teacher at a middle school. I began scrapping about 4 years ago when a co-worker brought in her scrapbooks to share. I was immediately drawn to them and knew this is how I wanted to preserve memories for my children. It quickly turned into an obsessive hobby and has lead me to many wonderful friendships, both online and in my community. I love scrapping multi-photo layouts and think my style is fairly linear.

Michelle St. Clair

I have been scrapping for 10 years. I have been happily married to Mike for almost 15 years now. We have 2 sons: Nathan (10) and Andrew (6 1/2). Besides scrapbooking, I am addicted to General Hospital. :) I am currently only on 2 teams: I am the design team coordinator at KMA - www.scrapbooks.com - the sister site for www.scrapbook.com How Much is Too Much Blog - http://hmitm.blogspot.com/ You can visit me on my blog: http://michellestclair.wordpress.com/

A I mentioned we are excited that several of our own Webster's Pages designers decided to take this challenge too. Here are their pages:

Iris Babao Uy

Anabelle O'Malley

Jaz Lee Soo Hui

Audrey Pettit

Contest Information

For the contest we want YOU to show us your backsides!! Here are the rules:

1. Use at least two of these papers to create a page. The page can be any style but we encourage you to use the wonderful pages above as inspiration and try something that might be a little different for you!

- From the A Sweet Life collection:

The names of these papers are: Your Best Life (back), Tweet Tweet (front), Tell Your Story (back), Miracles Occur (back), and Home Sweet Home (back)

- From the Magical Wishes collection:

The names of these papers are: I Believe (back), Beauty (front), Prince Frog (back), Ever After (front), Make a Wish (front)

2. Upload the page to our gallery here. You must include Backsides Contest in the title so we can add it to the correct album.

3. You can enter up to 3 pages for this contest (remember to but Backsides Contest in the title), though you are always welcome to add all pages using Webster's Pages products to our gallery.

4. All entries must be submitted by 12 pm U.S. Eastern Standard Time on May 31

That's it - pretty easy!! Now for the prizes

First Place: The first place winner will have a chance to be our guest designer in September which means they will receive our new summer 2009 CHA releases to work with!!

Second Place: Our second place winner will receive two sets of our new letter stickers and our mid season release Sweet As Cherry Pie (you can see this whole line at our Live chats on May 28th, 9 am and 9pm EST US time)!

Third Place: Third place receives our new trim package!

We can't wait to see your entries!

[Anabelle O'Malley]

LOOOOVE how these all turned out. The guest designers pages are amazing. And how fun that our own DT stepped outside the box a bit. Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. These papers are so versatile!

[Pamela Young]

Sounds fun! :)

[Brandin O'Neill]

SUCH a wonderful challenge! These pages are so much fun & I want to THANK everyone for doing such amazing work. xoxoxoxo

[Dena Coe]

AWESOME JOB ladies!!! It is so exciting to have our the guest designers show us some fun new ways to use Webster's Pages paper. They really showed us how versatile Webster's Pages really is!
Thanks ladies :)

[Audrey Pettit]

What fabulous work, everyone! Thank you all for sharing your amazing talent with us!

[Susan Dupre]

Wonderful work by some very talented ladies! Love how different everyone's work is!

[Eva]

WOW, these are gorgeous!!!

[Tricia Wilson]

Beautiful layouts! I love the way everyone used the papers. Great work!

[Keri Lee Sereika]

Wow those inspiration pages are lovely!!! I really should just take a moment and scrap and do this challenge...I have far too many photos that need a bit of love!!! :)

[ellen]

i love each one of these!
great contest!!!
i have been scrapping with websters
and this is more my style so i love
seeing this

[paperfections]

what a fun challenge to go graphic !

[Patricia Rodriguez]

So much inspiration from these talented ladies!