Nov. 30th, Prompt 12

Well dirty girlz, more new news!! The Design Team search is going well, which means tough decisions for me! So far, I can tell you, I'm not loving the idea that I'll have to choose only three gals soon. Don't feel TOO sorry for me, though. I want you to keep the entries coming!!
Let's get right down to it!! I'm really REALLY excited to share our first honorary gutter girl with you!! Linda Woods, one of the women that showed me the way to the gutter, has created a project with our prompt!! Linda, along with her sister Karen Dinino, are authors of two amazing books about creating and being art. Visual Chronicles, and my personal favorite, Journal Revolution. You can also see and purchase more of Linda's art in her etsy shop.
The PROMPT:
Favorite Four Letter Word
The SONG:
Wendy's Song (from south park)
The TECHNIQUE/PRODUCT:
Red
Here's Linda's page:

Linda sent this along with her project!
"My favorite four letter word is rarely used around women on a diet but is the thing I want after a day filled with words usually reserved for stereotypical sailors and truck drivers. I have no fear of using four letter words and do often! Yet, I find it funny that here in Los Angeles (where a loaf of white bread is hard to find), many women do not shudder at the words fuck or shit but if you so much as mumble cake, a room goes silent.
Cake is my cure for a totally fucked up day and my favorite four letter word. I created this piece with techniques from Journal Revolution. I started with a piece of watercolor paper and used concentrated watercolors, black ink, pencil, water, and charcoal. The dripping colors and pencil scratches represent all the chaos that happens in my day. The red circles represent the layers of the cake." ~Linda Woods
Get more Linda on her BLOG. She's also on Twitter and Flickr!! (and Facebook, which she hates)
Here's what a few of the team did with this prompt!!
Kammie

Rachel

Amy

Christi

Kris

GutterGirlz is Looking for Designers!!

We'll be saying THANK YOU to three of our Girlz next month. Staci, Kristina, and Leah have decided that they should take a step back for a bit, and so that means that we need to find new meat Girlz to take their place! They won't be forgotten though. We'll keep them on as Alumni... and whenever they feel like getting an early start on one of our challenges, we'll post their projects along with the team's. (I hope they get this urge a LOT) Thanks so much, you AWESOME dirty girlz, for all that you did to make the start of GutterGirlz the BEST thing that it was, and for promoting us.

SO If you are interested in becoming a member of the GutterGirlz Design Team, you should read on.

1. By submitting, you will be signing up for 6 months worth of commitment. After that time, you can take a step back, or choose to sign up for another 6 months!
2. The design team members sign up to sponsor a prize once during their time on the team. The prize can be hand made, or store bought. Please keep the prize value at around $10 dollars.
3. Designers should expect to do at least one of the two challenges offered each month. More is fine, but only one is necessary. Designers work a prompt in advance and projects are due 2 days before the prompts. Prompts are posted on the 15th and 30th of every month.
   
4. Be active in commenting and thanking girlz who visit and link their projects in our challenges. We have a Yahoo Group set up that allows me to forward emails to the team at the group, so knowing when a comment has been left is pretty simple!
5. Promote Gutter Girlz in your on line communities as allowed by their Terms of Use, and Promotion of Gutter Girlz on your personal blog at prompt time!
   

Still reading? Then we'd love to have you send your goodies to us! You can send us an email with the following things to guttergirlz at gmail dot com (no spaces, and replace at with @ and dot with a . )

• your name, and a reply email address.
  
• a small description of your personality and why you love the gutter.
• attach three photos or scans of your gutteriest goodness that you've scrapped (or created) in your life. (these do not need to be recent, nor do they have to be scrap pages... ATC's, Mixed Medias are fine too.)
  
• of those three, one should be a project that was inspired by a GutterGirlz Challenge (this can be new if you've never been in the gutter, or it can be your favorite that you've created while playing with us in the past)
• links to your on line communities where you would promote gutter girlz
• links to any blogs or personal sites where we can get an idea about you!
• tell us what the craziest "non scrap" product/technique is that you've ever used.

Submissions are due to the email listed by the 10th of December by midnight!! We'll announce our newest dirty girlz on the 14th!! Late submissions will not be considered. (timeliness is just a pre req for the job, you see...)

Nov. 15th, Prompt 11

Seems like I've been saying this a lot, but it's REALLY TRUE!! So I'm gonna say it AGAIN!
We have all SORTS of BIG NEWS this week!! Our time here on the net is approaching 6 months, and we as a DT try our best to make it out to all of you, and comment when you link to us! We also have a pretty high ratio of participating members on our team with each prompt! So naturally, we take a moment every once in a while to evaluate. That's what we just finished doing... each team member was asked if they wanted to stay on for another 6 months, or if they needed to take a breather and step down from the team. Three of our gals have decided to take a NEW spot as GutterGirl Alumni! We've decided to maintain an open door policy to all our DT Alumni, so this won't really be good bye to any of the gals who will be stepping down. That means three spots will be opening up for NEW designers, and that means good things for YOU! We'll be publishing our design team submission guidelines and expectations on the 20th. Spread the word, and be SURE to submit!

Gutter Girlz is also on Twitter! The team will begin to start posting hints and tid bits about upcoming prompts on Twitter, so be sure to Follow Us if you Tweet!!

The winner of our bonus prize from TallyScrapper.com, put together by our very own Staci...
Rachy said... This is my first entry here (I actually did the last challenge but didnt enter)... Loved doing this one! Thanks for the awsome challenge! My Entry ON
Please use our contact us link to send your mailing information, and be sure to include TALLY PRIZE in your email subject line!

The winner of our Design Team sponsored prize, given to us by Christi...
Bree said... Check mine out... http://www.artsyfartsyscraproom.blogspot.com
Please use our contact us link to send your mailing information, and be sure to include NOV PRIZE in your subject line!

Here's our prize for this month!! Thanks to Staci, for sponsoring us!


SO! Are you READY!?! We thought it would be fun this prompt, to use one of our favorite things on line... BlogThings.com! Blog Things is a web site with all SORTS of fun little "tests" to take. What color are you? Are you a Perfectionist? What desert are you? Just a ton of fun, and amazingly accurate too!!
The PROMPT:
Blog Things TEST... pick any test from the list in this link. Create based on your RESULT!
The SONG:
If You Don't Know Me by Now... by Herold Melvin
The TECHNIQUE/PRODUCT:
Notebook Paper
Here's what the Girlz did!! Thanks, Nikki and Vickie, for your AWESOME Guest Designer creations!!
Nikki

Vickie got digi with it using a kit by Jessica Sprague called Echoes Of Asia!

Shirley

Amy

Rachel

Kristina

Leah

Christi


Speaking of GUEST designers... did you REALLY think I would forget to share our NEXT guest Designer with you!?! Yeah RIGHT. This month, we'd like to invite

EatSleepScrap said... Awesome challenge! Here's Mine

to be our Guest Designer!! Remember dirty girlz, you MUST link to your layouts in the COMMENTS section here on the blog to be entered to be a guest designer, OR to win a prize!! (plus, it helps us know to go LOOK at your awesomeness...)

and the BOOBY prize goes to....

THANK YOU SO MUCH, ladies, for your donations to the Susan G Koman foundation!! We, as a group, raised over $100.00 toward research and prevention through the foundation!! As promised, we have chosen a winner for our donated goody!! Thanks, Tanya!! It's a AWESOME gift!! So, LAURA JEAN!! Please give us an email with your mailing information!! Be sure to put BOOBY PRIZE in your subject line!!