It has been grueling for myself, as I have received an enormous amount of submissions.

However, I planned on selecting a LARGE design team of 12 designers, and quite frankly, there have been some entries which just stood out and completely wowed me.

These 6 very talented ladies,  are those designers, whom have submitted a variety of projects, some mixed media, some actual paintings, and some that have completely gotten what we meant when we said CREATE GREEN!

And I want to introduce those ladies now and show you why we were WOWED!!

1. Cyndi Pfeiffer

2.  Amy Duff

3. Lida Garcia

4. Ivy Wong

5. Susan Daly

6. Jackie Laing

Please check out their amazing entries!

Its always been some sort of a play on words to see if it is possible to create green as scrapbookers, as our main supply is paper and the whole concept of “green” and “environmental impact” is becoming something that no industry can ignore.

Which poses this question to me, is it really easy to be green in the scrapbooking industry?

While most scrapbook companies will swear that the easiest way to be “green” is to switch into that digital world, I myself am torn. While I love the idea of digital scrapbooking, I am a paper artist, I like to use paper, I like my books to be real, and I like to design on th floor of my apartment with a cup of coffee, and a glass of wine, and somehow being digital means I need a computer to scrapbook, so not my style!

Of course, many digital scrapbooking advocates will be happy to tell you that digital is the ultimate form of green scrapbooking. Since there are no physical products to manufacture, package, and ship (we’ll skip discussing the impact of computers themselves) the environmental impact is minimal especially if pages aren’t printed out. But since dedicated paper scrapbookers are unlikely to give up their beloved hobby and go digital just for the sake of the environment,we’ll stick to discussing the paper scrapbooking market for the purpose of this article.

Just an FYI- last years theme at  CHA-Winter 2009 trade show & convention in Anaheim in January was “It’s Easy Being Green: Discover The Possibilities”. CHA wanted to help its members start moving to capture a share of the growing “green” market. Despite CHA’s initiative, in the time I spent on the show floor, I didn’t see very much at all being done by scrapbook companies to appeal directly to that market.

Past that, when I walked the floor at CHA, I couldnt find one single recycle bin on the entire show floor to dump the water bottle I had been holding onto for 2 hours????? There wasnt a single recycling bin at any of the make n take booths to discard/save left over scraps? So while we are all looking to be green, we might consider this ( scrapbooking has always been a consumer driven industry, why arent we driving these companies to be accountable?)

We can do better!

With todays economy, and the cost of our beloved hobby just increasing, there are ways to reduce, and to cut the costs of  our supplies. Recycling and being green isnt just about bottles and cans. There are quite a few companies getting on board with the green intitiative, and we plan to bring them to you!

We also plan to explain what we choose and why we choose them. Not eveything we carry is going to be 100% recycled, but we do plan to show you companies which are unique, and have made a promise to do what they can to be green.

How can we as consumers drive our industry into what really means to be green?

That’s a question I will constantly ask myslef when I choose products to be included in our store and on our site.

Published in an article written by Wenona Napolitano for ECO CHILD PLAY. You can read the entire article HERE!

I truly cant wait to give this one a try! For only 19 cents a print, are u kidding me, thats ano brainer!

We want to see your layouts, altered projects, cards, bags, tags, mixed media, and your STYLE!

What does Creatively – Green mean exactly?
We want to see your upcycled, recycled, and creative projects using “green” or recycled supplies. Trash to treasure projects, any style, any theme, we just want to see how CREATIVE you are!

Responsibilities:

1. As a DT member you will be part of our team for one year.

2. We are asking that you post regularly in our message board and gallery.

3. We want you to create projects using supplies we will carry in our store.

4. We will feature a “Monthly DT Project Kit” which will be for sale in our online store. Each designer will be responsible for creating 1 project which we will then feature as DT kit for the month.

5. We cannot stress this enough: we know everyone can create amazing layouts and projects, but what we are focusing on is “BEING GREEN” – so what we want to see is how creative you are with scraps, recylcling, repurposing projects. How do you conserve when you scrapbook?

6. A full description of your responsibilities will be given to those selected.

Benefits:

1. Featured write up on our design team page as well as a brief bio and photo.

2. Special Gallery & Message board on our site dedicated to just our design team.

3. Free Art & Craft Supplies from our monthly sponsors. ( This is in addition to our monthly kits)

4. Free Monthly Kits

5. Opportunity to teach at large conventions.

6. We will also pay our dt members for any project that is published in any magazine ( scrapbook, art, craft, any media) which mentions either our products, or our website.

7. A chance to CREATE GREEN! PLUS MORE!

To submit yourself for DT consideration please e-mail submissions by August 10th :

Be sure to include your first and last name, email you wish us to use, and a brief explanation why you think its important to Create Green.

Send submissions to
DTSUBMISSIONS@creatively-green.com