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Digital Dashboard
Katey Green
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Welcome once more to Digi Dashboard. For this special month of “La Rentrée” – the return to school and work for many Europeans, if not here in the States - we thought we would feature none other than our very own Dora Phillips. Teacher, mother, designer, editor and owner of Scrapstreet….amongst many other roles she juggles with ease. What set Dora on the design trail? Read on to find out…..…
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How and why did you first start to scrap?
I was pregnant and headed to the fabric shop to gather supplies to do up the baby’s room when I accidentally walked into a new Scrapbooking store next door. Just stood in shock at all the pretties—ok, so it was wall to wall stickers and papers—but with my lifetime love of fabric patterns, I was hooked. An excellent clerk took in the dazed look on my face, the cute little 2yo daughter at my side, and the very round belly and had me loaded up with everything I would need to get “caught up before the baby came.”
What made you turn to digital scrapping and do you have a preference for paper or digi?
I turned to digi when I started creating ScrapStreet. I needed digital items to pretty the place up, make new headers, and such. Only took a few days and I was
dying to learn more. I love being able to create exactly what I need to enhance my pictures.
I would say that I have always been a hybrid scrapper, just never knew it. I am more of a storyteller than anything else so I need lots of space for my scrapping. I design pretty much all of my pages on the computer—some stay digi and others go hybrid, mostly depending on my mood.
What set off the creative spark to design your own kits?
Honestly, I get bored easily. Before scrapping, I was a craft junky. I did sewing, quilting, crochet, jewellery making, candles, cross stitch, woodworking—really anything I could get my hands on. With scrapping, I can change around without ever leaving scrapping. Create kits one day, scrap with paper the next, digi scrap another day, alter something the next—they all work to keep me having fun.
Where do you find your inspiration comes from?
Everything. I know it sounds cliché, but I can’t tell you how often I see something and need to work with that color combo or those shapes or that feel.
Do you have a favorite color and what draws you to it?
Red. I love the bold power of it.
What gives you satisfaction with your design work
(both creating kits and layouts)?
When someone says —I love that! Do you create LOs in
different ways or styles when you scrap digitally
compared to paper? Pretty much everything is the same. I
prefer traditional ribbon and stitching probably from my
sewing days. But I prefer my words and frames to be
digital. Hybrid really gives me the best of both worlds.
See Dora’s Designs at the Scrapstreet store
here.
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