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The Blue Light Special
by Sandi Tygar (aka Tigger)
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Welcome to the Blue Light Special! Each month
Sandi Tygar will spotlight one of ScrapLove's amazing members! She'll be talking about their design layouts, scrapbooking memories, and will get up close and personal about their friends, family and daydreams. Check out Sandy's most recent special below!
Here we go Princess!!!
Hi Carrielyn!
Thanks so much for what I know will be an awesome Blue Light.
Your brain has taken on legendary proportions on Scraplove, so I plan on picking it for a few minutes!!
Scrapbook Basics 101
Q: How long have you been scrapbooking?
A: Over Ten years.
Q: How did you start?
A: A friend saw one of my journals, filled to bursting with pictures and ticket stubs and the like, and told me their mom did something called “Creative Memories,” and invited me to the next “party”. Now I’ve never really been a CM scrapper, but they got me started! My first album makes me flinch now… I used whatever I could get my hands on… construction paper, rubber cement, and a magnetic paged album! It was a Christmas gift for my mom. I keep asking her if I can fix it, but she keeps saying no.
Q: Do you prefer post bound or strap hinge?
A: Post bound… or a good old fashioned three ring binder!
Q: How has your style evolved from when you first started?
A: Well, I’m DEFINITELY not using construction paper anymore! It stayed pretty much the same for about 5-6 years, pictures and lots of journaling with a few die cuts and stickers thrown if for color. Then when scrapping supplies started to show up everywhere, I started experimenting more and more with the new products. I’m still a fairly clean scrapper focusing on pictures and journaling, but I definitely put a lot more thought into the artistic side of my pages.
Q: What is your FAVORITE embellishment?
A: Cardstock. A lot of people don’t think of it as an embellishment, but there are so many things you can do with it! I love it.
Q: In an average week how often do you get to scrapbook?
A: It really depends, when I’m off work, I would say 10 or so… when I’m working, I’m lucky to get a few hours in. Naptimes are my very most productive, and if I don’t have a bunch to do around the house, that’s my scrapping time.
Q: What is your favorite tool?
A: My computer. I use it for every page. I have a digital camera, and I print my photos from home, so I will lay out a page on the computer before I print the pictures. That way, everything fits perfectly.
Q: Evan is such an excellent subject - he almost seems to know the perfect pose for the perfect layout - have you ever set him up with a layout in mind?
A: Of COURSE! I’d be lying if I said no! A lot of times, as I’m taking the pictures of whatever he’s into at the moment, I’ll have a page idea come to mind, so I make sure I snap some pictures around that idea.
Q: When you sit down (or stand as the case may be) to scrapbook, what is your first step?
A: I’m a sitter, first of all. I usually sit down at the computer, find the pictures I want to use for the page, figure out if I have anything special as far as embellishments or paper, and then start designing the page on the computer.
Time to veer away from scrapbooking for a bit... tell us about YOU.
Q: When is your birthday?
A: April 21
Q: What's your zodiac sign? Do you follow your horoscope at all?
A: I’m a Taurus… stubborn as can be. I don’t generally look around for my horoscope, but if it’s in front of me, I read it!
Q: How did you meet your husband?
A: On a blind date set up by a friend. I found out AFTER the date that Tucker (the friend) didn’t know Mark, and that it was a favor to a friend of a friend type of thing.
Q: How long have you been married?
A: Memorial Weekend of 2001! We met each other October of 2000, so it was pretty much whirlwind romance!
Q: Your job has been the source of a lot of humor for US - tell everyone a little about what you do and what you have to deal with...
A: Well, I actually wear two hats at work. The one I do most often is actually my secondary function, Domestic Sales. I’m the gal you talk to when you call up to book your airline reservations. Even though the main function of the job is sales, we really are the only way the public has of contacting the airline, so we field all sorts of questions. It helps to be a know-it-all. This is also where the very best stories come from.
My PRIMARY function is what’s called Service Recovery, of which I’m a coordinator (gal in charge). When there are flight disruptions (canceled flights, delays, weather or mechanical) my department is in charge of getting the passengers back on track, which usually translates into a lot of calls to a lot of unhappy people. It’s actually a very fun job, lots of problem solving and thinking outside the box type of stuff. It’s a challenge. The paperwork isn’t all that fun, but fixing problems is something I enjoy.
When something like a hurricane or a major snow storm hits, the folks in my department go into high gear, working 40-60 hours in a 2-4 day storm. When all is quiet, we work flights once or twice a week at most, and do sales the rest of our scheduled hours.
Q: How old is Evan? What's his middle name? What made you choose these names?
A: Evan was 20 months on Dec 2. His name is Evan Sern. Evan is the Welsh version of John. On my Mother’s side of the family, every generation has a Jonathan James. Since John is such a popular name, and my brother’s name is James, we looked for other ways to use it, and since her family is Welsh, Evan is what we settled on. Sern is a Scandinavian nickname which comes from my Husband’s family. His Grandfather Gary was more like a father to him than a grandfather. Gary was called Sern because he looked like HIS grandfather, who was called Sern as well. We wanted Evan to be named after Gary in some way, so when we called Gary to tell him about the baby, we asked him if he wanted the baby to be named Gary or Sern. He requested that we use Sern as his middle name. All of Mark’s uncles and aunts call him Sern rather than Evan.
Q: Favorite TV show?
A: Well, up until lately, I don’t know what I would have said, but now, I would have to say Lost, followed closely by Desperate Housewives.
Q: Favorite movie? (hehehe - I know the answer here, 'cause we share the same one)
A: Cadence!!!!
Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: That something will happen to me or Mark, and Evan will grow up with out a Mom or Dad.
Q: What do you consider your greatest accomplishment?
A: Evan. Plain and simple.
Back to scrapbooking... I've chosen MY three favorite layouts in your gallery - tell us a little about each of these:
This one makes me laugh. Ever since Evan was old enough to turn his head toward the tv, he was fascinated by this one local lawyer who’s catch phrase was “One Call, that’s all.” One day, I asked him a question, and that was his response. We were in the kitchen getting lunch, and my camera happened to be sitting on top the microwave, so I grabbed it and started asking him all sorts of questions, each one was answered with “One Call!”
This is Grandpa Gary and Evan’s first meeting. It was the Sunday after Evan was born. Since I already told the story of the name, I’ll tell you about the page! I love this page because it’s all scraps I had left over from other pages. I had about ½ a sheet of each piece, and they all just meshed. It took me along time to do this page, I wanted it to be perfect. It was the last “baby” page I did.
Oh, my silly son! He already knows how to make puppy eyes and get out of trouble! This is one of those “posed” pages. Evan got naked, and drew all over himself while I got ready one morning. I came into the room, saw him and tried to be very motherly and tell him how wrong it was… only to have my punishment met with the cutest little quivering lip, and his first time saying “Preeeee!” I knew I had to take pictures before I washed him off (a good hour in the tub) and stood him up to document the artwork, the whole while he professed how “pree” the drawings on his tummy were.
Thank you Carrielyn - I hope this wasn't too horrible - but I know you'll tell me if it was!!!
Hey, you called me Princess, I’ll do anything for you now!
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