Sophie Schoenhentz – Guest Designer from France

We love our Guest Designers! We love having visitors over at our blog and getting inspired by their amazing and very different artwork. Let’s face it, you can give the same stamp set to 20 people and not two projects will look the same.

This month we are thrilled to welcome Sophie Schoenhentz to our team. Sophie lives near Paris, France, with her husband and 3 kids. She’s been a passionate card maker for many years. Her style can definitely be defined as clean & simple. Sophie loves dots and stripes and papers with graphic designs. Her favorite products are stamps and brads, which you will find on most of her projects.

Here are Sophie’s answers to our nosy scrapping questions:

1. What got you hooked on scrapbooking and card making?

I’ve always loved paper crafting. I started making cards for Christmas more than 10 years ago and gradually for any other occasion. I make even more than I can send ! I like using all those scrapbooking products and many blogs are very inspiring.

2. What does your work area look like?

Unfortunately, I don’t have much space. I work on the dining room table which is continuously cluttered with papers, stamps, embellishments… Nevertheless, I have fitted a little storage room up with drawers for my stamps and little embellishments, shelves for my papers, jars for my buttons… ( you can see  it on the 2 photos below). My dream is to have a REAL scraproom !

3. Do you have a favorite colour combination for your creations?

I love kraft and white and often use them together with another colour, I think any matches. I rarely use more than 3 colours on my cards and my style is clean and simple.

4. How much time do you spend on papercrafts every week?

I’m a full-time worker and mother of 3 children so I can’t spend as much time on paper crafts as I would like but I try to plan 2-3 hours a week.

5. What is your favourite dessert?

My favourite dessert is fresh fruit salad. It’s changing according to the season and I love all these colours!

These are my cards, made with “Colourful Companions” butterflies and “Splash me a lot” alphabet stamps.

With such big letters, you can easily create short messages.

I love unity – so, in the upper red strip, I punched the same holes as on the butterfly’s wings.

There’s no need to put a lot of things, a stamped butterfly, 3 buttons, a sentiment…that’s it!

These cards are lovely, Sophie! We love your colour scheme, clean and fresh, and your sense of proportion and positioning. Very simple and beautiful. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Sophie will be back later this month with a tutorial for all of you. Stay tuned!

Now try your hands on some clean and simple cards.

Happy stamping, love, Bettina