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From the Helm
Dawn Heath, PublisherShip's Captain
Close your eyes and picture the beautiful white sands surrounding Greece, the deep blue waters and the waves lapping gently on the sands... The beautiful landscape with the white houses on the hills, the food...oh the wonderful Greek food and wines as you sit quietly taking in the breaktaking views. What a beautiful summer day with the soft winds from the ocean flowing our white cotten dresses. Thank you for joining us as we continue our virtual journey this month to Greece! Our ship is moored for the month and we're going to enjoy as much as we can of this beautiful country. There is so much to see! We are here too early for the Olympic Games, but the torch will come back to Greece on July 9 and we definately want to see that!
You are going to love our Celebrity Headliner this month! Tim Holtz has come on board for our trip to Greece, you'll probably find him sitting in his favorite adirondack chair enjoying the view on any given day, except of course, when he's busy teaching us new techniques, ideas and regaling us with his silly songs. Tim is telling us all about his Distress Inks and the Adirondack alcohol inks with some fabulous designs to share with you.
Our VIP Lounge guest this month is Aubrey Halverson, Marketing Manager for Wilshire Technologies. This manufacturer has an awesome new product that has come highly recommended to me by Warren and Dee Gruenig of Posh Impressions. When Warren told me about these amazing gloves I just knew it was something you needed to know about! Fortunately I was able to get this information to you right away and you won't want to be without a pair of these gloves!
This month on (Scramping Central) we will be featuring projects and designs using microbeads by Penny Wise Arts. Our design team for Scramping Central have outdone themselves with so many beautiful designs and you'll even recognize some of our own crewmembers on Scramping Central! Chrissy Cooper is the featured artist of the month on the Stamp Club for the project of the month! Mary Garvey is featured as the artist for microbeads in the tips and techniques at the Stamp Club and Martha Myers and Sara Kendrick are featured on Scramping Central showing scrampers different ways to use these awesome microbeads and Mary is featured on the tips and techniques of the Stamp Club so you will get so many different ideas on how to use your microbeads.
Our Designer’s Challenge this month was sponsored by Suzanne of Penny Wise Arts. Suzanne was featured in the May issue in our VIP Lounge! We love Suzanne's micro beads and feature designs by our very own Bead Queen in the Reader's Gallery often! Now you'll have the opportunity to see what our very own professional design crew can do! The crew had a blast playing with these microbeads! So, sit back and enjoy all the great ideas. You can also read Dyan's article on Penny Wise Arts in her column this month, Dyan's Shipboard Romance, and I can tell you, we are all in love with these beads!
If you are a member of our ezine list, or receive our bi-monthly newsletters then you are aware that we had a special t-shirt contest! We are always looking for ways to improve and one idea that was suggested is having fun t-shirts with the SSR logo on them. So, we held a contest with the ezine yahoo list and we received 27 suggestions! Our winner is Cindy Cade from Ohio!!! Cindy's winning quote is: Sailing the ARTic seas with SSReflections I've asked Cindy to tell us a little about herself so that we can feature her on the ezine! BTW, Cindy is also receiving a t-shirt with her quote on it!!
" I have been actively stamping for nearly a decade. After searching for "my" talent, I finally realized I am and always have been a designer. Creating is what I do best. I have taught online for companies such as The Red Castle, Innovative Stamp Creations, Evolving Images, Circus Stamps, Enchanted Ink, Olive Wimple, The Stampsmith, Rubber Trouble, Hearts In Touch, Stubby Stampers, Ma Vinci's Reliquary and I can't recall beyond that. The many friends I have made due to this hobby is overwhelming. Y'all are the best medicine in the world."
Creatively,
Cindy Cade
Thank you Cindy! Thank you for coming on board the S.S. Reflections! BTW, if any of you are overseas and are interested in a shirt, we do ship overseas! Just send us an email at info@ssreflections.com and we'll get right back to you on the best way to ship.
We have a brand new Scrapping Deck Crewmember this month! I'd like to introduce Wanda Troupe to you! Wanda comes to us very highly recommended and when you see her designs, you'll know exactly why! We take great pride in having the best crew and Wanda is a very welcome addition! You will find Wanda in Wanda's Memory Boutique. Wanda will specialize in teaching you how to create advanced pages, she will show you step by step how to go from beginner, to intermediate to advanced. Please write to Wanda and welcome her aboard, her email address is wandatroupe@ssreflections.com.
Now, to tell you what our Stamping Crew has been up to for July! Cindy Roland, our Stamping Cruise Director had to take July off because of a family emergency, our prayers have been with Cindy during this time and we are very fortunate to have Debi Wind fill in for Cindy this month! Debi has done a beautiful feature on acetate that you won't want to miss! Cricket has created some beautiful gift ideas with a July 4th theme in mind that will make wonderful hostess gifts! Robin and Wendy in our Altered Stateroom have come up with ideas for making your own embellishments for your Altered Books and Purnima is teaching us neo-classical mono-printing in honor of our trip to Greece and Elizabeth is showing us how we can even use bottle caps to create art! Snow is teaching us a new take on grid cards and Maria is teaching us how to dye our own ribbon! Suzanne has shown us different ways to use those mini mattes shapes we have all over our craft rooms!
Our Scrapping Crew has also been very busy, Ramie our Scrapping Cruise Director is giving us many ideas for using all that fiber we keep stockpiling in our collection and she did this while moving her family to Spain! Diana has created some awesome layouts using woven labels and Chrissy is continuing her theme on scrapping on a dime. Dru is using paints on her layouts and you won't want to miss this one! Stacie has created ideas to help you with your summer photos and Laura is teaching us how to use old products in a new way. Kelli is giving us new ideas for using our bead collection! You really won't want to miss any of this issue! Sam has used the new Making Memories foam stamps to decorate her walls, frames and even create a new bulletin board!
You won't want to miss our Editorial Deck either! Marlis, our Ship's Doc has the answers to some of your questions and if you have any questions to ask Marlis, please don't hesitate to contact her! Bill and Catherine of our Ship's Studio Suite have some wonderful ideas to help you take better pictures and how to use those pictures to create digitial layouts. Dean is helping you to organize your craft area with various types of furniture and Sharon has written an awesome book review on the latest by Hot Off The Press! Megan has written a special article using quotes in your designs.
Phew! You didn't know I could remember all that did you?? We've got a jam packed issue and you won't want to miss a thing! Our Reader’s Gallery is awesome yet again this month! This design was created by Yara Baird. If you'd like to be in our Reader's Gallery please send us your designs Readers Gallery Submission. We love to showcase all our reader's artwork!
Thank you for coming on board our virtual ship as we travel all over the world. I hope you enjoy this issue and will tell your friends about us! I always ask that you please visit our advertisers, you can find their banner ads on the pages of our articles or you can find an alphabetical listing on our Making Waves page. Let them know we sent ya and tell them how important they are to you! Without them, there wouldn't be the S.S. Reflections.
Happy Sailing,
Cap'n Dawn
publisher@ssreflections.com
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