Lauren’s Bite – The Site We Love!

We have had such a great time honoring the lovely Lauren and her blog, Lauren’s Bite as the Site We Love this past month!  Click here to see our recent posts about Lauren and to catch up with the adventures of Lauren’s good friend, Pocket Edward.

And now that the month has concluded, we thought we’d share the images of the prezzies that we are sending to her!   In this slideshow, you will see projects from Tonya, Beth, Eve, Rebecca, Jen, and me, that we are shipping off to Lauren to show her our Twilighty love.

A very big thanks to those members of the Design Team who contributed projects for this, and a HUGE thank goes to Lauren, for allowing us to feature her and her awesome blog for this past month.  It’s been so fun!

We’ll be honoring another Site We Love this fall – stay tuned for news coming on that!

Friday Fragments

It’s been another busy week at Twilight Tuesday!  Our challenge theme this week about Renesmee, chosen by our guest designer Jacquie, was a big hit!  The challenge was featured on The Examiner, including photos of the projects of Margie and Donna – check it out here!  The June sketch challenge has inspired some lovely projects, and there is a new Sookie challenge for this week too.  There are lots of ways to participate, so come along and play with us!

Don’t forget to visit the Site We Love for June, Lauren’s Bite!  We are in the process of gathering up some lovely goodies to send to Lauren and I’ll share photos of those projects soon.

And, finally — you will NOT want to miss what we have coming up next week!  Stay tuned for a special challenge next Tuesday, June 23rd.

Friday Fragments

It’s been another busy week around here!  So much going on – let’s dive right in!

First of all, want to get to know our new guest designers?  Alison, Donna, and Jacquie just joined our team for a three-month spot and we are so happy to have them!  Here are some quick bios about them – check them out, and visit their blog and leave them some love there, too!

Alison: Alison’s Random Thoughts

Alison has been a crafter since her mom first handed her a crayon. She has always had a love for it; it’s in her blood! Her first big passion has always been jewelry making.  Her mom used to take her to garage sales (from about the time that she was 4), buy her old beaded necklaces, cut them up and let her re-string them. It’s been a love affair ever since which eventually grew into an obsession with silversmithing. Her other passion is scrapbooking. She loves paper and all the wonderful things you can do to it. The messier, the better in her mind. In addition, Alison loves to stamp, make cards, draw, paint, and whatever else she can create while getting her hands dirty.

Beyond being a crafter, Alison is the blessed mom to Phoenix and Rhiannon, and the lucky wife to Gene. She owns Scrapaholics, a scrapbooking store in her home town, with her family. Alison loves to read, and that passion was reignited after reading the Twilight Saga last year (she read Breaking Dawn while she was in the hospital after giving birth to Rhiannon-yikes!). She has always loved all things vampire so her craze for the Twilight Saga wasn’t that big of a surprise. Alison is beyond thrilled to be a Guest Designer for TTIC. After learning about the site from DT member Margie, she was instantly hooked (even though computers are not usually her friend!). So, becoming a part of the design team is a dream come true!

Alison graduated from Hofstra University with a Fine Arts Degree and Specialization in Silversmithing.  She lives on Long Island, NY, with her awesome family.

Donna:  Donna’s Diary

Ever since Donna can remember, she has been drawing and painting.  She’s always loved everything about arts and crafts.  Donna started scrapbooking and cardmaking about 6 1/2 years ago, and living in a small country town, she sometimes found it hard to get the things she needed to keep her craft habit going.  Four years ago, she and two friends decided to solve that problem by opening their own scrapbooking store called Scrap ‘n’ Patch.  Apart from managing the store itself, they taught classes.  Donna’s specialty was cardmaking.  Unfortunately, two years ago, Donna’s family needed to move and she had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave the business, which is still going today.

Donna lives in a small town in South Australia, and loves photographing, cooking, making cards, painting the occasional canvas, exercising, and, of course, reading – that’s a given for a  Twilighter!  In August 2008, a friend recommended that Donna read the Twilight saga and she was hooked from page one!  And now, Donna describes herself as a 37 year old mother of two boys….with a crush on a vampire.  Donna says, “the world that Stephenie Meyer created has changed my life is so many ways, and at my age, I am still wondering how that happens!”   When Donna stumbled across Twilight Tuesday a few months ago, she thought she had found her own bit of heaven.  “Finally, people who don’t think I’m crazy when I am gushing about every Twilight!”  When the design team call was announced, Donna was ecstatic.  “Here was an opportunity to work with some seriously talented ladies who love all the things that I do, and..we get to create!  Could it get any better than that?”

Jacquie:  Family and Crafting

Jacquie began her crafting career in late 2007 at a neighbor’s card party.  After that, all it took was a link for a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers for her to be hooked on cardmaking.  Through Splitcoast, Jacquie met some awesome friends and became part of some fun communities of ladies who love stamps.  She eventually she heard of the Twilight series and just had to read them right away in the fall of 2008.  She finished all four books within a week (sound familiar?) and became immersed in the world of Bella and Edward.  She hasn’t looked back since then!  Participating in the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenges allowed Jacquie to work on her two favorite things at once, crafting and Twilight!

Jacquie tells us that, “after following the Twilight Tuesday challenges for so long, I am thrilled to have been given a guest designer position and to be a part of this amazing group of ladies and this amazing site!”

Jacquie spends her time with her family in Minnesota – making cards, and chatting with wonderful friends from all over.

The Site that We Love

And where would our week’s recap be without the Site We LOVE, Lauren’s Bite? Lauren’s blog is always awesome – but you should see it right now!  It is jam-packed with big stuff –

• Lauren is celebrating her 100th post and hosting a giveaway for a beautiful piece of jewelry.
• Lauren was recently interviewed by The Examiner, which is so cool!  Congratulations, Lauren!
• Her recent “Lauren Speaks Out” post (a regular feature over there) will make you laugh out loud.  I kid you not.

Get over there and show Lauren some love!  Tell her Twilight Tuesday sent you!

Friday Fragments – What An Exciting Week!

It has been a jam-packed week at Twilight Tuesday! So much is happening – let’s get to it!

We announced some really big news just yesterday – we have named our three guest design team members!  And they are:

Alison of Alison’s Random Thoughts

Donna of Donna’s Diary

Jacquie of Family and Crafting

Congratulations Alison, Donna, and Jacquie!  We are looking forward to working with you and can’t wait to see your challenge creations!

Another event in our big week – the debut of our new “Sites We Love” program!  Our first honoree – the lovely Lauren of Lauren’s Bite!  Click here for more information on the program and on Lauren.

Many of you who already visit her blog know that Lauren is the owner of the original Pocket Edward!  Her adventures with Pocket Edward are hilarious – if you have not been reading these, you NEED to.  Go. Now. (Or go soon, after you read this post.)  Here are some brief highlights – click on each photo to visit that particular post on Lauren’s Bite:

Cooking with Pocket Edward:

Pocket Edward takes a bath:

Pocket Edward working out:

Pocket Edward at Disneyland:

Trust me – I do not do the adventures of Pocket Edward justice here – you must read more at Lauren’s blog to get the full stories!  (Lauren’s much funnier than I am.)

And, there was a lot more awesome  Twilight stuff this week.  I’m sure you all know that Twilight swept the MTV Movie Awards, where the New Moon trailer also debuted!  My prediction?  New Moon is going to be amazing.

Have a great weekend, everyone!  Thanks to all of our visitors for sharing this great week with us!

Big Announcement! The Twilight Tuesday Sites We Love Program

Big news for you today!  We’re unveiling something brand-new -The Twilight Tuesday “Sites We Love” Program!

We came up with this program to honor Twilighters and sites that inspire us!

We formed the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge and Twilight Tuesday.com to bring people together – to share our love of Twilight and to share our Twilight-related crafts. And we have all made such good friends through the Twilight internet world. Although the Twilight fanbase is enormous, it also can seem like a large community of friends, especially among those of us who are over, you know, 12 years old.

All of that led us to form this program. We’ve met so many amazingly kind, funny, smart, and talented Twilighters online and want to recognize their awesomeness.

The program is simple — we choose one site each month to honor. We’ll promote that site many times during the month, and the month will conclude with presents to the honoree, from us! Can’t beat that, right?

Our first honoree is the lovely, sweet, and talented Lauren, of Lauren’s Bite!

Lauren’s a huge Twilight fan – and she’s hilarious. And she is never lamespice. (it’s a Lauren word.) Lauren has a very large following, bringing lots of Twilighters together with her awesome sense of humor and discussions of the books. And if you have yet to see her adventures with Pocket Edward, you must go and read now!

During the month of June, be on the lookout here for more about Lauren. In the meantime, go and visit Lauren’s Bite and get to know her – you will love her site!