Free weekly kit by Featured Designer: Julie C Designs

 

We would love to welcome Julie C Designs as this week's Featured Designer! Layout out from Our House How long have you been designing? I started designing in 2005, scrapbooking was very new in Australia back then and I hated the mess that those bits of paper made, so I was looking online for some way to use a a computer and I found digital stores, I was amazed at how good it looked and I was hooked. Where do you call home? I live in Queensland, Australia, out in a rural area of the Sunshine Coast.  My yard is very tropical and it reminds me everyday of the place that I will always call home...Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.  I was taken there with my parents when I was 3 months old and lived there until I was married, it holds my heart and it will always be home. What is the best gift you have been given? My parents, they were always there for me and supported me in everything I did.  I miss them so much. What is your favorite childhood memory? Oh there are so many, but one of the best was when we would go to a friend's plantation and on the way home at night there was a patch of huge trees that always had fireflies in it.  Dad would always stop and we would just sit and watch them flying around in the pitch black, one of the advantages of living in an unpopulated area. Who is your hero? My Dad.  He was such a special man.  He lost a leg at he age of 19, but he never let that be an excuse.  When WWII started he wanted to join the Australian Navy (he was a ship's captain) but they would only give him a desk job, so he joined the American Merchant Marines and spent the war taking a small timber boat between Australia and New Guinea, sailing only at night and hiding in rivers by day, dropping off supplies, mail, Coastwatchers and returning with mail, bodies and Coastwatchers.  He is my HERO! What is the farthest you have ever traveled from home? From Queensland to Europe, 14,495 km or 8756.87 miles. To finish off we would love to share some of Julie C Designs' favorite layouts:   Layout out from I Wish You Love Layout out from Land Downunder Layout out from Patchwork World Layout out from Mermaid Dreams Layout out from Monkey See Monkey Do Layout out from Welcome Spring How do you get even more bang for your buck? Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from Julie C Designs for free! *Must use promo code at checkout to receive free kit.   This week's free kit is Don't Worry Be Happy by Julie C Designs.  Whether you love the color blue or if you are feeling blue this kit has a beautiful blue, green, and yellow palette that really embraces nature.  With fairies and cute animals your pages will pop with whimsy and will definitely make you smile!  Normally priced at $6.99, the kit includes 20 papers, 123 embellishments, and 74 monograms. To make sure that you collect your free kit please follow these steps: Add $20 (must total $20 before sales tax) of any of our talented designers kits to your cart, but DO NOT add this kit to your cart! Once entered, the promo code will add it to the cart for you! Enter the promo code May30JCDS (code is case sensitive) in the promo code field on the checkout page. Code will add this kit to your cart and then you can proceed to checkout as usual. This kit will be available for free with a $20 purchase from May 30-June 5, so make sure to get it before this offer expires! Other kits by Julie C Designs: