It's Kelly Day!

It's Kelly Day!!!

Over the course of 3 days, I'm going to showcase each of our new Designers!

Here's Kelly's winning card:

I am always drawn to her interesting color combinations and fun use of stamps!

Here's her winning Embellish Magazine Entry:

If you get a chance to read kelly's story that went along with this card, you should! Very inspiring!

She Designs for a challenge called Everything But The Kitchen Sink:

The challenge is to use TOILET PAPER!!!! LOL! Look how awesome she makes it look!

You can follow Kelly and Torendi on twitter!

Don't forget about The Torendi SALE going on right now through the 16th!

15% off all Japanese imported items and 30% off all Japanese stamps!

$5 shipping on ALL ORDERS TOO!

Without Further Ado...

The BIG news you have been waiting for! We had some bumps along the way but we are ECSTATIC to announce our new Torendi DT members! It was so hard to choose, I honestly wish I could have a spot for everyone who tried out. I know so much time, thought and effort goes into everyone's cards, layouts, and projects and it's never easy to hear you didn't make it (I know from experience).

NOW PLEASE WELCOME

Kelly Marie Alvarez

Our Card-Making Champion

Heidi Myers

Our Awesome Scrapper and Papercrafter

Beth Ranney-Thomas

Our Product Focus Guru

Ok, I know what you are thinking, there were only 2 DT spots available! I told you we were having a tough time making decisions so we made an extra product focus spot. Please leave the ladies some love here or on their blogs. To see their bios, hop on over to the Torendi DT page!

Of course we couldn't forget our blog readers during all this excitement! To help us welcome the new DT Torendi is having a week long sale! 30% off all imported stamps and 15% off all other imported products. We have made all sale items easy to find on the new SALE page! There is also a NEW ITEMS page on the Torendi Store as well! Don't forget NO TAX and $5 shipping at Torendi!

We wanted to leave all of you with some insight from Julie Comstock at Cosmo Cricket. When she was deciding on her newest DT for Cosmo Cricket she wrote THIS POST full of kind words and insight for all those interested in ever being on a design team. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.

November Means.....

A new KIT, a new Torendi Setter of the Month and changing your clocks (don't forget)! I'm happy and excited to announce that Clouds Shadler of "Clouds' Color Garden is our November Torendi Setter. She has such a fun, modern and bright style, we know she will fit right in! Head on over to her blog to see a project with "POP" Torendi's November Kit AVAILABLE TODAY!

Meet Clouds!

"POP" close up!

"POP"

This kit includes:

3 pieces of American Crafts Cardstock

2 12x12 sheets of American Crafts Post Patterned Paper

1 12x12 sheet Bam Pop! 8 Bit Pop Patterned Paper

1 12x12 piece Bam Pop! High Voltage! Patterned Paper

1 package American Crafts Hocus Pocus White Glitter Thickers

1 City Scape Stamp from the Shinzi Katoh NY Stamp Set

2 pieces of American Crafts "Tunes" Flair

3 Feet Black Paper Twine

1 Foot American Crafts Pink Ribbon

5 Various Pieces of Cosmo Cricket Black Board

Multiple Pink, Black, Grey and White Prima Flowers

1 Foot Silver Wire

A "POP" card from Tiffany

Tiffany has 4 MORE "POP" cards to share on her blog today!

Happy Halloween!

Hi Everyone! Sadly, it's Maren's last day as our guest "Torendi Setter". I wanted to share a few of her torendi cards today and let her know just how much we appreciated having her on the Torendi team! Maren, YOU ROCK! Stop by her blog and leave her some torendi love!

A card using "Joy"

Cutest monster ever in the "Taste of Torendi" kit (now on sale!)

A prefect masculine card using this and this!

Today is also the last day to receive an E.A.D gift certificate for ordering our "Joy" kit. Sign up today and get a $5 gift certificate or sign up for 6 months of Torendi kits and get a $10 gift certificate and a lowered kit price!!!

Come back tomorrow to see who the November Torendi Setter will be and also "POP" the November kit!

The Poll has been taken over...

and will be taken down!

It has come to mine and Jenn's attention by our very honest competitors that there are indeed ways to cheat the system, tech savvy ways to cheat the system.

I am completely saddened and disheartened as are the designers and their fans.

It all started this last round.

We will be taking the poll down immediately and have been brainstorming ways to pick our 2 designers. We will keep everyone updated!

We apologize to everyone that has been fair throughout this whole competition and shame on those that found ways to cheat. This is not the presidency...we shouldn't need ballot booths. This was supposed to be a friendly competition!

Okay....I'm off my soap box!

Thank you for all your votes and thank you to all the designers for their talent.

Now, comes the tough decisions.

People's Choice Design Team Competition Part 3:

Hello and welcome back!

It's the FINAL week of our Design Team Competition!!!

Just vote for your favorite project in the poll (it's going to be a tough decision) and the two designers with the highest amount of votes will be joining the Torendi Design Team!

Here are the entries:

Beth Ranney-Thomas

Heidi Myers

Kalyn Kepner

Kelly Alvarez

Tina Fussell

Good luck everyone!

Week 2 Results!

The polls have been crazy!!! We managed to wrangle in well over 1,000 votes!!!!

This week we say farewell to Deb, Deborah, Shauna, Sarah, and Vicki.

Deb, Deborah, and Shauna all emailed me having decided to bow out of the competition ever-so- gracefully. I understand their decision and wish them the best of luck!

Sarah and Vicki, thank you ladies for sticking with the competition, I know how difficult it was!

But, I know it isn't the last we'll see from these talented individuals :)

Congratulations to Kelly and Tina for picking up the most votes this week!

And, now we're onto the final round

in WEEK 3 :)

Thank you everyone for your votes and participation!