Meet our July Guest Designer!  

   

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Describe your crafting style: Bright, colorful, layered, detailed and fun to explore! I scrap 8 x 8, and it can be a challenge to fit everything on the page I want to include, but I sure have fun trying. I like to mix old and new products on my pages. I love to scrap with lots of color and add little surprises to my layouts. I enjoy telling stories on my pages and using elements that will help to tell my stories.

 

Your favorite must-have crafty tool(s): I love my Silhouette Cameo for cut files, but I also couldn’t live without my Fiskars Easy Action Micro-Tip scissors. I use them for fussy-cutting patterned papers, stamped designs, digital elements, etc. My sewing machine is another must-have for adding texture.

 

Something new you have learned recently? I can’t think of anything new related to scrapbooking (I need to get on that!). I learned how to teach online via Zoom, and I learned that I much prefer teaching my students in a real classroom.

 

Something you are scared of trying? I occasionally dabble with mixed media, but I wish I were more confident in this area. I should probably take some classes to learn all the different mixed media techniques people are using. I love the way it looks, but I never seem to be able to get the “messy look” right.

 

What inspires you to create?  I love a good challenge. That gets my mojo going. A good story or a wonderful photograph also inspire me to create. The past few years, I started creating layouts for other people, and I just love doing that. It brings me joy creating pages for other people, especially of children. The last three years I started making layouts to give to my students, and that was really fun.

 

BIO:  Hi! I'm Debbi Tehrani, and I’m so excited to be a guest designer for A Cherry on Top! I live in Frederick, Maryland, with Farzad, my husband. We’ll be celebrating our 39^th anniversary on the 24^th of this month! We have no children, but we have two cats and two bearded dragons. One of the beardies accompanies me to school, where I teach fourth grade.

I've been scrapping since 2000. I scrap 8 x 8, and I love telling stories on my pages and using elements that will help to tell my stories. For me, scrapbooking is a creative outlet and a way to capture and celebrate all the random little things that make life special and meaningful. More recently, I’ve started making layouts for others as gifts.

I love a scrapbooking challenge, and I've been on about a dozen challenge design teams over the years. I’ve also designed for a kit club and 2Crafty Chipboard. I’m currently on the Bramble Fox design team and I’ve just finished up 4 terms on the Paper Issues design team. I founded and create for CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration, a super-fun scrapbooking challenge I created over eight years ago.

Thank you, ACOT, for inviting me to be a guest designer this month, and I hope to provide a little inspiration with some layouts and some fun with a challenge for you!

 

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Check out all of Debbi's projects in her gallery, and see more inspiration from her on Blog, Little Scraps of Magic, Instagram, and her CSI: Color, Stories, Inspriation Challenge!

Stay tuned all month to see what she will create!

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Posted by Jessica.