Designers

Greetings from the Designers Garden!

CHANGES IN STAFF
With sadness Becca stepped down from her position as senior co-leader to take care of some issues away from the PC. Natalie, who was co-leader before, stepped up to Becca’s position as co-leader. Ginger has joined the staff as co-leader. There are now 2 new assistants, Shelly and me, Glynis. Shelly has the position of Assistant Head and I’m the Garden Assistant. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how smoothly the “changing of the guard” went.

Natalie already is planning changes for the adoption area of the garden with new adoptions to replace the old ones. She also wants to add pixel adoptions for the Celebration pages.

CREATIVE CHALLENGE WINNERS
Once a month, we have a "Creative Challenge". A graphic or tube is sent and the designers take the raw graphic and create with it. The only rule for the challenge is the use of the raw graphic. The challenge consists of 2 categories. Category 1 consists of cards, tags, globes and scrapbook covers. Category 2 consists of web sets and stationery. The designers then vote on their favorite from each category and the 1st and 2nd place favorites receive a plaque and are acknowledged in the WOSIB Newsletter. Our Creative Challenge graphics are offered for download as limited editions for one month. They will change out on the 23rd of every month.

(~Drum Roll~) And the winners are . . .
Our first place winner for July in category one is Dianne!!! Congratulations to Dianne for creating the winning entry for category one, a beautiful scrapbook cover. You can visit Dianne’s site at http://www.diannedavies.com/ or send her an email at dianne@ourhouse.karoo.co.uk

Our first place winner in category two is Damia with a beautiful stationery background. Congratulations Damia!!!! You can visit Damia’s site at http://serephinastudios.com/ or send her an email at damia@serephinastudios.com

Second place winner in category two was me. Boy, was I surprised! I made a web set. If you’d like to visit my site, the URL is http://gjdesigns.50webs.com/ or you can email me at glynisjj@northwestisp.com

Do you know someone who would like to join WOSIB but they have no website? The Pagemaker team of Designers can build them a starter web site. Are you a current email member who has always wanted a site? Visit the pagemakers and get your site started today! Our pagemakers team is headed by Shelly and you can find information about them and a form to get your site at: .

We have ready-made WOSIB banners at: http://www.wosib.org/designers/wosibbanners/.
Please stop by and grab a banner for your web site.

If you would like to have a banner for the WOSIB banner exchange, we have large and small pre-made that we can add your site name to or you can request one made especially for you at: http://www.wosib.org/designers/bannerrequest/

Also, we have beautiful WOSIB dedication sets if you are looking for gorgeous graphics to build your WOSIB dedication page with. If you need a WOSIB dedication set, stop by and browse around.

Remember if you can’t find the graphics that to need on our site, we will custom make graphics for WOSIB members. You can read our terms and find a special request form at: http://www.wosib.org/designers/index3.htm.

That’s all of the Designer news for this month. Please stop by the Designers Garden to visit us.

Hugs,
Natalie, Ginger, Shelley, and Glynis
WOSIB Designers Staff