Amanda Carlson

Staff Designer. Digital.
www.AmandaCarlsonDesigns.com/blog

Amanda is a 29-forever, stay-at-home mom of 1. She found digital scrapbooking 5 years ago through a parenting forum she used to frequent. She quickly became interested in designing her own digital scrapbooking products and began selling her designs over 4 years ago. Though, Amanda loves designing she is taking a much needed hiatus from designing and focusing on spending time with her family, catching up on homework, doing a little freelance web design, and crocheting random things. Scrapbooking and crocheting random things are Amanda's favorite things to do but she also enjoys reading paranormal romance novels and watching bad reality shows.

Ami Godfrey

Staff Designer. Paper. Altered Art.
www.basicallyami.blogspot.com

Ami's style could best be described as "whimsical eclectic," perhaps a variant of freestyle. She loves layering, doodling, clustering, inking and distressing. She also loves adding the unexpected to her creations and scrapping all aspects of her life, from the happy moments to the challenges. Ami especially loves scrapping the everyday.

Amy Hadley

Candy Rosenberg

Editorial Director.  Paper and Digital Designer.
www.LivingTheAlteredLife.com

Candy was told she was born with scissors in her hands and when she found glue and paper, that is when the fun began. She has been paper crafting for over six years now and can spend hours cutting intricate paper patterns, it is very therapeutic. 

Her style is vintage, extremely layered and tends to be deep browns, sepia and oranges. She collect vintage items, dress forms, buttons, ephemera, little product boxes and advertisements and sharing product and companies with our readers.

Cathy Dippolito

Staff Designer. Hybrid.
http://scrappycath.blogspot.com

Crafting has been a way of life for Cathy for as long as she can remember. Her mother taught her to sew, her grandmother introduced her to paint and decoupage and her aunt passed along a passion for stitchery and antiquing.  Roll all of this together with her love of photography and Cathy has become a mixed-media artist that loves to weave memories into everything that she makes.  Paper crafting with both traditional and digital supplies has been the backbone of Cathy's art for the past several years. While she loves to work in the digital world, her addiction to scissors and glue has helped her grow as a hybrid artist. When she is not busy creating, she spends her time supporting families that live with autism and spreading the word to raise awareness.   She is married to a super supportive husband and is mom to 3 busy teenage men. They also have 3 cats, 2 dogs and a bird.

Christie Bryant

Staff Designer. Paper.

Christie Bryant is thrilled to be a part of the Scrap n' Art team! She lives in Idaho with her husband and two children. She first started scrapbooking in 1996 but you could say that she has always been scrapbooking. For as long as she can remember, she has been collecting memorabilia along with photos and placing them in albums. Scrapbooking is second nature, it makes her happy!

Joana Studer

Staff Designer. Digital. Hybrid.
www.JoanaStamps.blogspot.com

Joana has been paper crafting since 1995 and creating digital scrapbook pages since March of 2010. While she loves the neatness of digital scrapbooking, she still likes to cut and glue and enjoys mixing printed digital papers with traditional paper crafting items such as buttons, ribbons, and rhinestones. Before she became a mom, she was a wedding photographer and an IT liaison for a restaurant company. She is married to her best friend and stays at home with their two children full-time. She dabbles in other crafts: sewing, knitting, crochet, and jewelry making, but preserving her memories of and for her family is her passion.

Judi Kauffman

Guest Author.  Artist.

Judi Kauffman is a nationally known designer, teacher, writer, product review columnist and product development consultant.  Her expertise includes rubber stamping, paper crafting, scrapbooking, collage and mixed media, embroidery, needlepoint, knitting, crochet, weaving and fiber arts.  She has written and produced three videos and is the author of five books. Judi taught studio art, graphic design and illustration for over 3 decades, most of it at the college level. For the last 20 years she has worked freelance in the craft industry. She earned a BFA in printmaking from Cornell University and an MFA in fibers from Antioch University. You can reach Judi at judineedle@aol.com (she does not at this time have a blog).

Kas Mello

Staff Designer. Paper. Altered.

Kas does not remember a time in her life when she was not doing paper crafts or sewing.  After working as a recording engineer and video editor in LA, her work has become very eclectic. She especially loves working with vintage and recycled items. She is happy to currently be using her craft skills to work with charities. She is the co-founder of Offbeat Studios. They will be selling crafts for local artists and teaching art/scrapbooking classes.

Kenneth Rougeau

Guest Reporter. Digital Collage Artist.
www.paperstreetsupplies.com

Kenneth Rougeau is an artist, poet, musician and computer enthusiast. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Ken has created numerous digital and traditional collages, including two series’ of images designed to illustrate the Lewis Carroll stories 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'. He is also the founder of PaperStreet Supplies, one of the world’s leading suppliers of printable digital collage sheets.

LuAnn Spang

Staff Designer. Hybrid
www.livelaughcreate-luann.blogspot.com

 There has never been a time that LuAnn hasn't enjoyed crafting and making things.  It all started back when she was about 5 or 6.  They were camping for the week and the campground offered a daily morning crafting class for kids.  The first project she remembers making was one where they lit wooden matches, quickly blew them out, and then glued them in layers on a shaped piece of paper to create a beautiful cross.  This lead LuAnn to joining the 4-H which blossomed into sewing and knitting.  When she first was married, she took classes for cake decorating and stained glass.  LuAnn found digital scrapbooking in 2005.   She has been paper crafting with scissors and glue since 2003. 

LuAnn is married and works full time as a nurse (which cuts into her creative time!).  She and her husband  have 3 kids - Justin and Andrew and a daughter, Taylor.  They also have 2 four legged kids (cats) named Boo and Charlee.

Melita Chow

Michelle Vocke

Editorial Assistant. Staff Designer. Paper.
www.michellevocke.com
 

Michelle has been passionate about art and crafting since childhood. In fact, she remembers getting in trouble when she was seven years old because she kept catching paper on fire while trying to heat emboss on the gas stove. Now, she has better tools and feels very blessed to have a truly amazing husband and a wonderful and talented son that continue to encourage her creative passions. Her scrapbooking style is classic with sprinkles of trends and techniques that intrigue her thrown in the mix. She enjoys teaching classes and watching the creative spirit come alive in others. She is the National Scrapbooking Examiner and DC Paper Craft Examiner for Examiner.com, a Certified Ranger Educator, and an Endorsed Educator for Basically Bare.

Rebecca Boyer

Editorial Team Member. Paper Designer.
rebeccaboyer.blogspot.com 

Rebecca is a marketing coordinator by day and covert scrapper by night! Having always been a lover of all things paper, once she discovered scrapbooking, her world was turned upside down. She’s also an obsessive blog reader, Pinterest pinner and interior design fanatic. Nothing makes her happier than combining those three things with scrapbooking!

Rebecca Price

Sherrie Piegdon

Digital Editor.  Digital Designer.
www.thepixelgypsy.com 

Sherrie first discovered scrapbooking over 11 years ago while pregnant with her first child. As the wife of a techy “computer” guy and a self-professed geeky girl, when she found digital scrapbooking 6 years ago, it was an instant match made in heaven.

Sherrie has been designing and selling digital scrapbooking products for 5 years. She is also the digital scrapbooking writer for About.com. When she’s not creating digital products, writing about creating digital pages or actually creating her own pages, Sherrie enjoys spending time with her family, reading, seeing movies, gaming and traveling. Together Sherrie and her husband have 3 children (ages 16, 11 & 10), 3 cats and a dog.

Sherry Mendoza

Technical Editor. International Staff Designer & Reporter.
http://sherryscreations.blogspot.com

Sherry lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a proud Air Force wife and has four children and a furbaby. She has been scrapping and crafting for over 10 years. She also teaches, designs and has work in the industry for the past five years. Most recently, she was the Technical Editor for Scrapbooking Memories Magazine (Australia). She loves to try new techniques and products, which is why she is so passionate about teaching in the industry. She is the owner of ‘Your Creative Journey’ and works as an agent for Educators and Artists in the creative industry bringing them to teach workshops in Australia from all over the world.

Tania Shaw

Staff Designer. Digital
www.PixelsnGlue.com
Tania began scrapbooking in 2005 and although she likes to get messy with scissors and glue, digital scrapbooking is her true crafting love. She's designed pages for many digital artists as well as several large digital stores. Scrapbooking, for Tania, is all about telling a story and it's not unusual to find more journaling than embellishments on any given page. When she's not scrapbooking, Tania can be found knitting and needle felting for her Etsy store, maintaining and designing websites for clients, driving her kids to this activity and that, eating the delicious food her awesome husband makes, and trying to learn to use her camera better. In between all that, she works as a Project Coordinator for a not-for-profit company with some of her favorite people in the world.

Terre Fry

Staff Designer. Paper.

http://terresscraptherapy.blogspot.com/

Terre has been married to her husband, Michael, for 21 years. She has a 25 year old daughter, Dominica, and a 7-year-old grandson, Ryliem who just happens to be the love of her life. Her own little ray of sunshine. Her "OMGosh am I crazy" addition to her life, Leahandra Danylle, just turned three and Terre truly believes she will keep her young. The family spent their early years together in the United States Air Force, stationed in Arizona, Florida and Michael spent a year in Korea. Terre misses the military life but does not miss her husband being gone for a year at a time. Terre is very passionate about what she creates and is always willing to help when someone is in need of some inspiration. Terre loves life to the fullest and her cup is always half full.

Vivienne Oestergaard

Staff Designer. Digital.
www.vivaartistry.blogspot.com

Vivienne is 1/2 of the ViVa Artistry team (selling at the DigiChicks).  She is American but currently lives in Denmark (following her husband's job!).  She found digital scrapbooking by accident while living in Japan in 1997, and not being able to find any paper scrapbooking supplies.  From time to time, Vivienne still does papercrafting and mixes it up with digital. She used to edit the Bella Online Papercrafts site, and is an English language copywriter in real life.

Whit Pilcher

Staff Designer. Digital
www.WhittyWhit.blogspot.com

Deadly with scissors and glue, Whit gave up hope of ever being crafty in any form, but when she discovered digital scrapbooking 6 years ago it was a match made in heaven. No more pictures tragically lost to a battle with scissors, nothing glued to furniture or body parts.

Whit loves to capture and scrap the craziness of every day life with her husband, 3 kids(ages 6, 8, and 13), 3 cats and 2 dogs. When she's not scrapping, Whit enjoys a good book, catching a good movie with the family, gaming, and, always, taking photos.