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Thanks to all those who applied! You are all so so talented, and it was a really REALLY difficult decision! We know you have all been anxiously awaiting the new DT post and here it is!  Drum roll please.... Design Team: Benedicte Raphalen (France) Debbie Sherman (Wyoming, USA) Gini Williams Cagle (NC, USA) Julie Walton (CA, USA) Kim Arledge (TX, USA) Jodi Wilton (Canada) Keely Yowler (KY, USA) Liz Chidester (UT, USA) Nicole Wise (Maine, USA) Rebecca Keppel (AZ, USA) Sandy Ang (Singapore) Karen Taylor (USA) Monthly Guest Designer: Alicia Barry (Australia) Irit Shalom (Israel) Monique Liedtke (Netherlands) Mireille Divjak (Netherlands) Congratulations ladies! You all will be a part of Best Creation's DT from August 2011 through January 2012! We will send you more details regarding assignments via email. Keep checking back as we reveal projects, layouts, and cards created by these talented designers!

Congratulations to Jinny Newlin, winner of the Best Creations sketch contest! Great job, Jinny!  Check out this winning layout! Isn't it gorgeous!?  Jinny will win some amazing papers from the following collections! Thank you to everyone who entered this contest and a big thanks to Becky Fleck!

Ladies! It’s that time of the year again and Best Creation is searching for the next design team! We are looking for enthusiastic and talented crafters who would like to work with the best of the best in glitter paper! The new team will last from August 2011 through January 2012. As a team member, you must be willing to: · Promote Best Creation · Create 5 projects per month (with description of products used and brief tutorial) To apply for a spot on the team, send us the following: · Contact Information (Name/ address/ phone/ email) · Headshot or Photo · Short Bio · List design teams you are/have been on · Resume including any publications · Link to your blog · jpegs of 3 projects (layout, projects, and/or cards) incorporating any Best Creation paper You will be compensated with the latest in Best Creation papers, products from our cross-promotion companies, and promotion from Best Creation on all of our sites! Submissions will be accepted now through ...

Today is the beginning of a Brand New Year and we thought that it would be the perfect day to announce our  New Design Team for 2011 too! We have been pouring over all the applications that we received all week long and spent many, many hours of deciding...  and we are finally ready to announce the team!   All 21 of them are super talented in all areas of paper crafting and we even have a few just to bring you great card ideas.  We hope too in the coming months ahead that we can  share some exciting and fun ideas with all of you with all of our new paper collections and inspire you to create lots of beautiful things  in your part of the world! So lets Toot some Horns and give a BIG shout out  for our New Design Team !!! USA Team Julie Walton- California Nancy Burke-Idaho Kim Holmes- Washington State Debbie Sherman- Wyoming Sarah Mullanix- Indiana Nicole Wise- Maine Liz Chidester- Utah Kim Arledge- Texas Brittny Lejeune- California Int...

Merry Christmas Everyone! There is nothing that our  Kim Holmes loves better than the Christmas Season up in the Pacific Northwest of the USA!  It is a time for celebrating her family  and all the gifts that she has been blessed with and she says there is quite a few!  The Christmas season at her house is all about spending time together, relaxing and enjoying each others company.  They spend days baking, creating and decorating in preparation for Christmas Day. As you can see we have quite a group of children and when you add in all the significant others- the house is really overflowing with laughter and joy! Our second designer today is our Rita Barakat .  She has been married to her wonderful husband for 19 years and before she had children she painted life size murals.  But now she is blessed to be a SAHM to five beautiful children ages 18 and down to 5.  Her talents are all in the fine arts and she also directs a youth choir a...

We are very blessed here at Best Creation to have a wonderful Design Team full of talented and amazing women, wives and moms that create beautiful projects for both us and you to get inspired by each week. So we want to take this week to celebrate them and.... we asked them to share a little about themselves and  a little about what they do in their part of the world to celebrate Christmas to share with all of you!! Our first designer is Katarina and is from Finland where she lives on one of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea Archipelago. She is a teacher in a nine year compulsory school and works with the second grade students and is also the Deputy School Superintendent of the school.  She has 2 children (a boy and a girl) and says that they are her gems in her treasure box!  And of course she has a  husband who supports her in her scrappy world... Katarina says that in Finland where she lives they celebrate 2 kinds of Christmas.  First the little Christmas...

We have had a fun fantastic journey so far this year with our Design Team and are looking to add a few more talented, enthusiastic people that LOVE to craft things out of paper! We have lots of exciting things planned for spring and if you are interested please send the following information to teresa@bestcreation.us * please send full name/ address/ phone and email # * let me know why you would be interested in joining our team and a short bio about you. *List design teams you are on/past teams/and any links to galleries you may have *Attach photos of 3 projects that best represent your style of paper crafting- Best Creation paper is preferred. *Design team will serve 6mo. from Jan 1 to July 31st, 2011. *specific details, responsibilities and compensation of projects will be announced upon being asked to join the team. *finally the applications must be in by midnight PST on Dec 28th. The New Team will be announced on Jan 1st 2011. Dont' forget to check out the winners of...

and a New Special Guest Designer too! Our wonderfully talented guest for December is Sarah Mullanix We absolutely loved Sarahs' style and bold use of colors on her layouts with our Christmas Collection and thought today would be a great day to show her off to all of you! You are going to love the way she mixes things up with patterns, colors and layers and layers of different papers to create her pages.... just gorgeous! Here is a little bit about Sarah that she shared with us! Don't you just love how great all these colors go together? Hello, my name is Sarah Mullanix and I am a stay at home mom to my 3 kids, Becca 14, Emily 10, and Carter 2. I have been scrapbooking for 14 years, have taught scrapbooking classes for almost 5 years, and now also consider myself a card maker. Scrapbooking allows me to find acreative outlet for myself, I just love creating with my hands, while also creating memory albums for my children and family. I find inspiration everywhere fr...

Living in California we don't get to see much of the beautiful frosty powder of the winters snows. But across most of the nation and across the world families are getting the chance to put on their new mittens and boots and go run and sled and play in the first snows of the season.... So from Norway to Canada and even to Minnesota our designers share more of their fun memories of their precious days in the snow! designer: Karen Thind You can never have too many snowflakes on a page. Karen cut out lots of extra snowflakes in glitter and cardstock to put all over her page and even used the negative strip for a decorative piece on the side of the photo. designer: Ann-Katrin designer of both cards: Jing-Jing Nickel Using the perfect papers that compliment each other is the perfect recipe for perfect cards! and using backrounds in the right places can be all that it takes to create a truly great piece of art! designer: Tina Guigui by using the wintery backround on t...