LOD 2022 | February 23 | Kristin Aagard Designs

Kristin Aagard Designs Is Our Daily Crush!




This event isn't a traditional CHALLENGE in that there aren't any real rules. It’s a fun event to scrap with products from a fave designer or try a new (to you) designer. It’s all about having fun and celebrating the uniqueness of all of our Lilypad Designers!

Click the image below to shop her awesome 40% off sale!

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A bit about the Kristin Aagard Designs:

TLP Username: @Kristin Aagard
Newsletter sign-up: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/620c0632e0eda1a0d870ae07
blog/website link: http://digidelights.blogspot.com/
Facebook Friends and Fans Group: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristin-Aagard-Designs/140986752581916
Use the Instagram hashtag #kristinaagarddesigns

Now let's get to know Kristin a bit better - she kindly agreed to an interview!

Me: Hi Kristin! I've been a fan girl since before you came to TLP so it's a pleasure to be chatting and featuring your cute designs today! They are always bright and fun and make me smile!
KA: Thank you Justine!

Me: I'm sure we'd all like to get to know you a little better so for anyone that doesn't know you, can you tell us a bit about where you live and who you share your house with?
KA: I live in the south end of the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. The Wasatch Mountains are beautiful here! I’ve been married to my husband, Alan, for 22 years. He is a residential master electrician. I have three awesome kids! Ashley is 16, Sophie is 14 and David just turned 11. They are all doing virtual school this year, so we are together a lot! They all love virtual school and are getting really good grades. I’m having a hard time trying to convince them to go back to regular school next year.
I also have a 7 year old border collie mix named Dexter. Dexter’s job is to bark out the front window at delivery people, the mail carrier and just anyone walking down the sidewalk. He takes his job very seriously! Currently, we are long term babysitting a 16 year old shih tuz/chihuahua mix named Tiki. We’ve had her since early November and we get to keep her until April or May. She’s a cute little sweetheart! We also have two chickens that are very not creatively named, Brown Chicken and Black Chicken, in our backyard. We only share our house with them when someone forgets to shut the door. And then you will find them happily waddling about the house until they are quickly shewed out!

Me: LOL! Sounds like your house and heart are both full! So when did you start designing and how did you come to be a designer and join the store here at TLP?
KA: I was a paper scrapper starting in about 2002. After my second daughter, Sophie, was born in 2007, I felt like I didn’t have the time and space for all of the paper supplies to be spread out so I started looking into digital scrapbooking. I had been playing with a really old version of Photoshop creating things to add to my paper layouts.I started following tutorials on how to create my own scrapbooking elements and papers. I started sharing them on my blog in 2008 and I was offered a spot in a store in May of 2008. I was lucky to score two designer guest spots at TLP over the years. I got even luckier when I became a permanent part of the design team on the last day of December in 2015.

Me: Lucky for us too! Can you share a bit about your design process and what inspires you most when starting to design a new kit?
KA: I have a really ratty looking spiral notebook that I keep in my purse. When I see something that inspires me I jot it down and add a few ideas. For instance, I have kit called Mack that was inspired by my friend’s red headed, adorable, triplets. One day when we were playing with them, she was singing Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds to them and it struck me that I should make a kit based on them. I jotted down a bunch of their toys and their bedroom decorations and made a kit inspired by them.
I create a typed list of all of the elements and patterns I want to make before I start designing and I cross them off as I go. I design mostly in Adobe Illustrator now and finish things off in Photoshop. I work on the elements first because that’s my favorite part. I start by scanning and extracting all of my realistic elements first. It is kind of a mindless task and I get to watch TV or listen to podcasts or books while I do it. I usually create some of the patterns while I’m making elements as well. I always do my alphas last.

Me: Thanks, that behind the scenes stuff is always interesting to me and every designer seems to be different with their process! Your Christmas kits are some of my faves! Do you have a favorite theme or holiday to design for? And I'd love to know if you have a favourite kit {or top 3?} and a best seller from your store that you can share with us?
KA: My favorite theme to design for is summertime. I especially love summer evening/night kits. They are fun to work on!
I think my favorite kits are Desert, Evening Glow and Jackpot. Those were just easy to work on and I really enjoyed them!

Me: I know I have a few pages with Little Builder - it's a stash staple, and anything you make is cute, with candy canes or not!
Now, just for fun, a few more random questions! If you were stranded on a desert island with an endless supply of a food and a shelter to survive without worrying, what food would you want it to be?
KA: Eek! One food for the rest of my life sounds like torture!!! If I had to choose, I would have to choose bread because I feel like I wouldn’t get super sick of it. But I am really glad I don’t have to choose! I want to eat all of the foods!

Me: If you could have a super power, what would you like it to be?
KA: I think I would want the ability to transport myself and others instantly. I have anxiety about driving and flying so I try not to do either of those. Plus, how fun would it be to pop on over to different parts of the world to have lunch at a second’s notice?

Me:If you had a time machine and could go on 1 trip to the future or a past event, when & where would you go?
KA: I’d love to go back in time and see my parents and my husband’s parents as children. It would be so fun to know that part of them!

Me: Name 5 things that make you happy?
KA: My family and pets, coffee, sushi, puzzles and comedy podcasts.

Me: That's awesome, thanks for chatting with me (& TLP) today!
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Here's a page I created with one of Kristin's recent releases called Puzzled:

But wait there's more!!
If you want to see more cuteness, guess what?!
Kristin has generously made an awesome FREEBIE that is available in the store right now and it toad-ally matches the colors and themes here at TLP!
I'm so excited to share 'Ribbit' with you! (Click here to go 'grabbit'!)


Thanks so much, Kristin!

Now it's your turn!

Scrap a page using any of Kristin's designs.
Meet the gallery guidelines of 50% TLP product
Post in Kristin's gallery here at TLP and share your page in this thread.

Be sure to check out our LOVE Our Designers event daily since you never know WHO is going to be featured when! And who knows, the designer(s) may pop in here and there with special surprises and interactions while we are scrapping!

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