Elizabeth Kartchner worked as a stamp artist at Close To My Heart for two years, becoming Head Stamp Artist before she left to be a stay-at-home-mom (superwoman) and be with her little girl Avery. She's been on the design team for Rusty Pickle and is currently on the design team for Pebbles in My Pocket. Add Green Grass Stamps to that list. :) Such a talented girl! More about Elizabeth...
Listening to: Coldplay,
Frou Frou, Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban, my little brother's local band
Obsessed with: The beach, scrapbooking, running, photography, yoga,
anything my little Avery does
Childhood ambition: To be
an art teacher
Scared of: Thunder (When I’m
home alone, I call my husband, and if he doesn’t answer, I call my mom)
Guiltiest pleasures: "The
Office", fruit snacks, cinnamon rolls, E News, PJs
Biggest challenge: Not
stressing over little things
Inspiration: For
scrapbooking, magazine ads and Garden Girls; for life, my Dad who passed away
Last purchase: Yesterday
it was Fancy Pants Chipboard Baby Girl Album, and a James Christensen
print called "Men and Angels"
Can't scrap without:
Pictures of people that I love
Elizabeth stamped the little images on bright cardstock in black, then added some shimmer with Diamond Glaze. She added highlights with a white American Crafts pen and stitched the pieces in place along the top.
Size: 5" square
Star, chick and cupcake stamps: Holy Tomoli
Thank you stamp: Card Greetings
Dotted lines stamp: Card Greetings II
Black ink: StazOn
Light ink: Brilliance (Pearlescent Orchid)
White pen: American Crafts
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
And also: Diamond Glaze
Oh yeah, I'm on the team too, huh? I am 25 (actually 26 today -- so that makes me officially past the 20's mid-point ... mixed feelings about that) and I have a one-year old son named Jack who just makes my life a million times better than I ever could have hoped. I'm married to Jeramy (ignore the bratty blog comment, he thinks he's so funny), a really talented designer who works at Struck in Salt Lake City. If you're wondering, no, I design the stamps, although I'm trying to get him to do a sheet sometime. We're moving up there soon so we can actually see each other sometimes (we live an hour away right now). I work for a scrapbooking magazine from home and do this Green Grass Stamps thang in my spare time, which is getting less with every milestone Jack reaches -- most recently, climbing, oh save me. Here's the Am-Ex style list then a card I made:
Listening to: Neko Case, Jenny Lewis, Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins
Scared of: Give me snakes any day of the week, but I cannot handle spiders. (Unfortunately, neither can my husband, so guess who gets to kill them anyway?)
Childhood ambition: Ballerina/nurse, perhaps an ingenius combination of the two...
Guiltiest pleasure: The Bachelor, although I don't actually feel all that guilty about it, to tell you the truth. Food wise? Cookie dough. Definitely cookie dough.
First job: Cashier at Great Harvest Bread Co. in Austin, TX. Mmm, fresh bread smell all the time!
Perfect day: Some fun shopping, some accomplishment like cleaning / organizing / exercising, hanging out with Jeramy & Jack
Inspiration: Domino, Real Simple and Blueprint (they have a way cool blog, btw)
Size: 4.25w x 5.5h"
"thanks" stamp: Card Greetings
Flourish stamp: Flourishing
Patterned cardstock: Chatterbox
Green ribbon: Making Memories
White waxy flax: Scrapworks
Ink: No idea, Stampin' Up! maybe?
Other: Scalloped scissors
Becky's homespun style is so refreshing. I love it. And she is an amazing photographer. Dag, yo. What I wouldn't give... Anyway, here's a be-a-utiful layout by Becky about her granddaughter. (I know, she doesn't look old enough to be a grandma, huh? Some people... ;) ) First, a little more about the talented Becky Novacek:
Listening to: Regina Spektor, Joy Williams
Obsessed with: Photography, decorating my house, and the obvious -- paper art
Can't scrap without: Patterned paper, my sewing machine, floss, buttons, trims
Perfect day: All of my family at home, cooking, hanging out by the pool, eating together
Favorite movie: You've Got Mail -- love Meg Ryan's apartment!
Inspiration: Visuals -- magazines, window shopping, art and photography websites
Size: 8.5 x 11"
Letter stamps: Back to the Futura
Red patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket
Blue dotted paper: Paper Salon
Ribbon: Wal-Mart
Button: Vintage
Journaling spot: Jenni Bowlin Studio
Lauren is a stay-at-home-mom with three kids,
Alexa, Noah and Amber. Alexa was born with Down syndrome and a heart condition
that required open-heart surgery, then last year was diagnosed with Leukemia. Thankfully,
she has a good prognosis and her chemo treatments have settled down; the family
recently went on a trip to Walt Disney World for her Make-A-Wish. Stamping has
been Lauren’s stress reliever for the past three years, and she looks to her
daughter for inspiration; Alexa helps Lauren challenge herself and get past thinking she can’t do something.
Obsessed with: Chocolate, coffee, shopping,
stamping, ribbon, Primas, anything that sparkles!
Scared of: Heights and all reptiles, especially
snakes
Fondest memory: When I looked at each of my
children for the first time after their birth—those are moments that
are burned forever in my memory. Also the way my husband first told me he loved
me: an amazing romantic letter than I’ll cherish forever.
Can’t scrap without: My ATG gun!
Biggest challenge: Scrapbooking! It’s not enjoyable
to me, so I find it hard to do. Give me a card or a 3D item and I’m a happy
girl. Ask for a scrapbook page and, um, not so much.
Have never: Liked the color green, until two years
ago. Now I LOVE green. [Phew! –Tammy]
Perfect day: Sleeping in past 8 am. A warm sunny
day on the beach.
Favorite movie: Far & Away with Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman
Shoot for the Moon
This is why having a design team is cool. I never would have thought to turn that cloud around and use it as a rocket blast, not ever. Well maybe if Krispy Kremes were hanging in the balance. Wait...no, not then either. I love how creative these ladies are!
Lauren used a Cuttlebug decorative stars embossing folder to dry emboss the stars, and a We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile to punch the holes. She colored in the "congrats" star and outlined the stars and clouds with a Sakura glitter pen to add some sparkle. 
Size: 6" square
Rocket and cloud stamps: Holy Tomoli
Ink: Stampin’ Up! (Basic Black, Almost Amethyst, Certainly
Celery)
Glitter pen: Sakura
Blue cardstock: Bazzill Basics (Breathtaking)
White cardstock: Stampin’ Up! (Whisper White)
Patterned paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug (Seeing Stars collection)
Grosgrain ribbon: Stampin’ Up! (Celery)
Silver star brads: Stampin’ Up!
Hardware: JoAnn Craft Essentials
Punches: Stampin’ Up! (Key tag and horizontal slot)
*Bonus project: Pac-Man Hello
That little guy really does look like Pac-Man, huh? Hee hee. Lauren stamped him on Limeade cardstock, colored in the eyes with a gel pen and mounted him with Stampin' Dimensionals. 
Size: 6" square
Big letter stamps: Essential Monograms
"Pac-Man" stamp: Holy Tomoli
Ink: Stampin' Up! (Basic Black, Almost Amethyst, Brocade Blue)
Blue, green cardstock: Bazzill Basics (Breathtaking, Limeade)
White, black cardstock: Stampin' Up! (Whisper White, Basic Black)
Patterned paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug (Seeing Stars collection)
White gel pen: Signo
Glitter pen: Sakura
Star brads: Stampin' Up!
Other: 3/4" circle punch, Crop-A-Dile
I did a stamp contest awhile back and Sherry Cartwright was one of the winners. I've loved her stuff ever since -- she uses the stamps in really creative ways, it's cool. Here's a little more about this Hawaiian-Japanese-who-claims-to-be-Texan who got married on the 4th of July in a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas (according to plan) and who coined the term "scramping" (scrapbooking + stamping).
Listening to: My daughter scream at the top o' her little lungs from the
other room ("my dooooce is weeeeeeeakin"—her juice cup was leaking),
the dishwasher and some old Devo the hubby left on LimeWire
Obsessed with: My hair (and it keeps getting shorter!), patterned paper,
buckets
Childhood ambition: I drew a picture in elementary school of myself as an
ice skater; I was smitten by Dorothy Hamill and loved watching her
skate. The funniest part? I couldn’t/can't
skate at all—not ice, roller, rollerblade.
Fondest memory: Family times growing up—picking weeds and rocks around
our property, going bowling every Saturday morning. Such simple times.
Guiltiest pleasure: The dollar store. I love that place and have found
some awesome stuff there.
Biggest challenge: Finding guilt-free creative time amongst all the day’s
chores and activities.
Have never: Jumped from an airplane, rode in a helicopter (but work with
them every day), had a facial or watched American Idol
Perfect day: Toes sunk in the sand, waves crashin' the shore and the sun
shining—the beach!
Last purchase: Besides my haircut this afternoon, I stopped at the grocery
for cold cuts, cheese and rolls for sub sandwiches. Scrappy—yesterday I
purchased some Heidi Grace Papers and some more grid papers.
Favorite movie: Grease. Ha, that is cheesy, I know, but I can remember
loving that movie in my teen years. Loved it.
Size: 4.25w x 5.5h"
Monster stamp: Li'l Monsters (back in stock May 4)
"You're so cool" stamp: Card Greetings (discontinued, imperfect sheets available Wednesday)
Black ink: StazOn by Tsukineko
Watercolor pencils: Staedtler
Glitter paint: Duncan
Green ric rac: May Arts
Green mesh: Dottie Ann Lime by Magic Mesh
White cardstock: ColorMates
Laura Mendoza! I met Laura a couple of months ago at a crop and let her know about the DT tryouts -- thankfully, she entered. I love her style, and she is one cool chica. Here's some more info about Laura, "American Express ad" style:
Listening to: Kanye West, John Legend, John Mayer, Beyonce,
Hootie & the Blowfish (the best of Hootie)
Childhood ambition: To be a mother and also a Dallas Cowboy
Cheerleader
Can't scrap without: My Cricut
Scared of: Dear husband taking my wallet
Guiltiest pleasure: Buying shoes
Proudest moment: When I graduated from college and my
parents waved to me from the stands
Have never: Broken a bone
Last purchase: Nick Bantock Prussian Blue Ink, Imaginisce
Let's Pretend Smartypants and Ka-Pow paper and a little 3x3 brown paper bag mini
album. The alarm went off on my phone telling me it was time to pick up my son
or I would have bought more.
Favorite movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Inspiration: Billboards, ads, store signs, other
scrapbookers, a great photo
