Graphic 45 2013 Design Team 30 Finalists Announcement!
Hello G45ers,
It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Today is the day when we announce our 30 finalists for the 2013 Graphic 45 Design Team Call! The decision was not easy! We had so many incredibly talented artists audition this year! We had more international entries than ever before! We received auditions from all over the globe including Thailand, Netherlands, South Africa, Costa Rica, Argentina, USA, Spain, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Belarus, United Kingdom and more! We also had a wide range of women and men of all ages try out for this year's design team, including our youngest applicant ever, an amazingly talented and mature 13 year-old girl from New Jersey! We were amazed by the level of talent and creative spirit spanning the internet! We want to thank all of you for the incredible representation of Graphic 45 on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Flicker, Ustream and all over the blogosphere! We received hundreds of applications and it was so difficult to narrow it down to just 30 finalists today. We laughed, we cried, we were moved by each and every one of your incredible stories, we met your dogs and we thought they were adorable. We were overwhelmed with gratitude to see what your amazing minds and lovely hands (with pretty manicures) have created with Graphic 45 products.
We have so much respect and admiration for all of you incredible G45ers out there. We want to thank all of our applicants for putting forth so much time, effort, talent and heart into their Graphic 45 design team application. We are honored to have such beautiful individuals trying out for our team. You are all superstars in our book! Thank you!
Okay, here it is! The 30 finalists (in alphabetical order) of the Graphic 45 2013 Design Team are...
Click on the hyperlinks below to check out our finalist's Graphic 45 design team auditions!
1. Alberto Juárez – Spain
2. Amy Voorthuis – Netherlands
3. Andrew Roberts – Australia
4. Ann Charoonpaisal – Thailand
5. Anne Elisabeth Rostad -Norway
6. Annette Green – USA
7. Arlene Cuevas - USA
8. Arumdati Wardhani – Indonesia
9. Candy Rosenberg – USA
10. Chie Nakao – Japan
11. Clare Charvill - United Kingdom
12. Denise Hahn - USA
13. Denise Johnson – USA
14. Evgenia Petzer – South Africa
15. Gini Williams Cagle –USA
16. Karen Shady – Australia
17. Maiko Miwa – Japan
18. Maria Cole – USA
19. Miranda Edney – USA
20. Monica Edwards – USA
21. Nichola Battilana – Canada
22. Olga Struk – Ukraine
23. Rhea Freitag – USA
24. Ria Nirwana – Indonesia
25. Romy Veul – Netherlands
26. Patti Senter – USA
27. Sabrina Radeck - Canada
28. Shell Carman – Australia
29. Stacy Rodriguez – USA
30. Susan Lui – Singapore
Congratulations to our 30 finalists! We are so excited to see what the final round will bring! Here are the instructions for what is required for the final round! We are thrilled to see your final projects and we wish you all the best of luck in the final round!
We have another big announcement to make today, G45ers! We are teaming up with Echo Park to bring you Photo Freedom! It's a brand new and fabulous collaboration in the world of pocket scrapbooking! Stay tuned for more details and sneak peeks about this incredible new product!
To kick off the exciting collaboration, we are giving away 4 Graphic 45 and Echo Park prizes (a $35 value)! That's right! We will choose 4 winners in total from the Graphic 45 blog, Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram! We will announce our winners on Monday, April 8th! So many prizes! So much inspiration! So many reasons to smile! Definitely stay tuned to our blog to find out if you are one of our lucky winners!
Well, G45ers, it wouldn't be a normal day here at Graphic 45 without some beautiful craft inspiration! Here we have a gorgeous Secret Garden 8x8 stack book and tutorial by Sharon Ngoo! Enjoy this gorgeous creation that's just perfect for springtime! Take it away, Sharon!
Here's a simple way to transform your 8X8" paper stack into a mini
album. Its a great way to make use of your entire stack! It will work
with any 8X8" Graphic 45 paper stack, but for my tutorial, I used the
lovely Secret Garden collection.
And here's a tutorial to help you have fun making your very own 8X8 stack book! Hope you have fun making your own!
Supplies:
We want to thank you all so much for joining us on today's epic Graphic 45 blog! We had so much fun bringing you the 30 finalists for our 2013 Design Team Call, Echo Park and Graphic 45 collaboration announcement and that gorgeous Secret Garden creation by Sharon Ngoo! We want to again thank everyone who tried out for design team this year! Stay tuned as we announce our brand new 2013 Design Team on Thursday, April 25th. Join us tomorrow as we announce this week's blog prize winner along with more gorgeous Graphic 45 craft inspiration! And don't forget that we will be announcing our 4 Graphic 45 and Echo Park prize winners on Monday's blog as well! Big thanks to Sharon Ngoo for her fabulous work today! And big thanks to all of you for joining us! Have a very happy, crafty day!
Your Pals in Paper,
Team Graphic 45
Congratulations, Finalists! Good luck on the final round. Can't wait to see your stuff!!!!!!
Posted by: Valerie | April 04, 2013 at 05:05 AM
WOOT! Congrats to the amazing finalists :)
Posted by: Jan Hennings | April 04, 2013 at 05:06 AM
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! I'm definitely going to try this! And congrats to the finalists!
Posted by: 2amscrapper | April 04, 2013 at 05:11 AM
Congratulations!!! I see a few names I know and love on this list!!!! Woot to Stacy Rodriguez, Gini Williams Cagle & Denise Hahn!! <3
Posted by: Shannon | April 04, 2013 at 05:12 AM
Congrats to all the finalist and good luck , love the book tutorial easy to follow
Posted by: geordie Morgan | April 04, 2013 at 05:16 AM
Congratulations everyone! Graphic 45 is an amazing company to design for and I wish you all very good luck in the next round!
Posted by: Robin Shakoor | April 04, 2013 at 05:25 AM
Soooooooo exciting!!! CONGRATS everyone!!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | April 04, 2013 at 05:25 AM
congrats to all finalist and good luck! Since I'm Dutch I keep my fingers crossed for Amy!!
Posted by: pitje | April 04, 2013 at 05:25 AM
Awesome, I am so happy for my friend Annette Green.....she is one talented lady! Can't wait to take a peek at each and every finalists!
Posted by: Laurie Allen | April 04, 2013 at 05:27 AM
Oh I see there are two dutch girls on the list so Romy and Amy good luck girls!!
Posted by: pitje | April 04, 2013 at 05:29 AM
Good luck finalists
Posted by: donnetta firster | April 04, 2013 at 05:34 AM
I don't envy your job of having to choose just a few from the amazing designers listed here. They are so creative!
Love the sweet little album. I just got my 12x12 stack of Secret Garden...now I need to go back and get the 8x8! :)
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: auntie em (emily) | April 04, 2013 at 05:39 AM
Congrats to the finalists! Good Luck to you all on the last leg of the challenge!
Posted by: Barb Wagar | April 04, 2013 at 05:43 AM
A huge congratulations to the finalists, great to see some names I know & follow already!! What an undertaking to choose from so much talent...
Great news regards collaboration with Echo Park, how exciting?!
Even a great project today too. Your office must be buzzing! :)))
Posted by: Caroline | April 04, 2013 at 05:45 AM
Congrats to all of the finalists and thanks to Sharon for the great tutorial!
Posted by: Mary Jane W | April 04, 2013 at 05:54 AM
Congrats to the finalists! What a fantastic group. Good luck. Looking forward to the collaboration with Echo Park. Sharon's tutorial was fantastic! Have a great day.
Posted by: Sharon Young | April 04, 2013 at 06:01 AM
Congratulations to all the finalists!
Posted by: Patty | April 04, 2013 at 06:03 AM
Congrats to the finalists...good luck to you all
Posted by: Dorothy B. | April 04, 2013 at 06:03 AM
Congratulations Clare, the only name flying for the UK, looking forward to seeing more of your fabulous work xxxxx
Posted by: Petronella Foote | April 04, 2013 at 06:09 AM
Good Luck to all of the finalists!!!
Posted by: Julie F | April 04, 2013 at 06:17 AM
Wow! what truly amazingly talented & inspirational finalists. Good Luck G45 choosing between them. I know I couldn't.
Posted by: Theresa H | April 04, 2013 at 06:24 AM
Congratulations to the finalists, especially to Anne Rostad! Good luck! :)
Posted by: Solveig | April 04, 2013 at 06:25 AM
Congrats everyone - everything was Fantabulous!!
Posted by: MONICA EDWARDS | April 04, 2013 at 06:27 AM
Congratulations to the finalists! Love the mini and how exciting to team up with EP.
Posted by: Pam | April 04, 2013 at 06:27 AM
Holy cow!!! I cannot believe it!! I am literally crying - I can't believe I made the first round!! Congratulations to everyone in the top 30 - wow - amazing group of incredibly talented people!! Wow, wow, wow, I am shaking right now!! THANK YOU, thank you, thank you!!! Now I've got some work to do .... ;)
Posted by: Maria Cole | April 04, 2013 at 06:34 AM
I, of course, upset ..
But congratulations to all the finalists :)
Posted by: Nataliya | April 04, 2013 at 06:35 AM
Congratulations to all the finalists! What an amazing journey all you wonderfully talented artists are on!
I can't wait to see what the new partnership with EP brings!
Posted by: M-C Graves | April 04, 2013 at 06:35 AM
Beautiful DT. Lots of talent.
Posted by: Shanda Harrington | April 04, 2013 at 06:41 AM
Congrats to all the finalists!! And Ms. Sharon, this album is stunning and genius!!! I am SO going to do this!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Posted by: kelli | April 04, 2013 at 06:51 AM
Великолепная Дизайнерская команда со всего мира !!! Поздравляю !
Posted by: Natalia | April 04, 2013 at 06:53 AM
Incredible talent! Love this creative site! ~~~Vickie
Posted by: Vickie Horsfall | April 04, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Gorgeous project! Congrats to the DT!
Posted by: Alina Igna | April 04, 2013 at 07:11 AM
Congrad everyone and good ;uck on the next step. Todays album is beautiful!!!
Posted by: Brenda Stiltner | April 04, 2013 at 07:25 AM
Congratulations all! Good luck in the next round - looking forward to seeing your creations!
Posted by: karen foy | April 04, 2013 at 07:29 AM
Great project, congratulations to the finalist
Posted by: Cherry Trigg | April 04, 2013 at 07:33 AM
I am sooooooooo happy to see my name on here! This is a huge honor and after checking out all of the finalists blogs , i don't know how you will ever choose Lol! So much talent! Congrats to everone who made it, i am incredibly grateful for this opportunity! I have so many emotions running through me its unreal!
Posted by: miranda edney | April 04, 2013 at 07:35 AM
I so love the Secret Garden collection. This is a stunning book. Thanks. Congrats to all. Have fun.
Posted by: Diane J | April 04, 2013 at 07:57 AM
Lots of wonderful information on today's blog! It's all sounding exciting and the 30 Finalists so far are amazing with their talents and creations! Looking fwd to the final round...:)
Posted by: Sleigh | April 04, 2013 at 08:07 AM
Congrats to the thirty and this Secret Garden book is so stinking cute!
Posted by: Michelle Salazar | April 04, 2013 at 08:07 AM
Congrats to all the finalists! That is so fantastic! Best of luck! :)
Great idea using the 8x8 pad...so clever!
Posted by: Kathy Jo | April 04, 2013 at 08:10 AM