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Meet Kathleen Kathleen is the founder
and true inspiration behind Scrappygiraffe Kits. Her diverse scrapbooking
background allows her to put together classy and beautiful kits that
incorporate both the latest in scrapbooking supplies and timeless staples
that never go out of style. She became interested in the world of paper
crafting with the birth of her son, Griffin, and has since evolved from
strictly scrapbooking to various more artistic forms of the craft, such as
altering, mini-albums, and home decor. She lives on Long Island with her
son and two extremely large dogs, Daisy and Zane.
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Meet Jessica Jessica is a busy working
mom of three gorgeous kids, who has been married to her husband Roy for
the last 10 years, they live in beautiful Gresham, Oregon. She has been
scrapbooking for the previous 8 years, back when scrapbooking wasn’t yet a
household name. Most days she can be found sitting at her scrap table, or
online enjoying many online communities and message boards. She has made
incredible friends through this hobby, and plans to make even more this
next year.
Besides scrapping, Jessica enjoys riding on the back of her
husband’s motorcycle, photography, vacationing in Las Vegas and running
her kids around to various activities. Her favorite color is red, and her
favorite foods are mashed potatoes and any form of pasta! She is also a
huge talker, and can be counted on for posting daily on the SGK message
board. Although she has many online friends she prefers to scrap at home,
by herself with all her goodies surrounding her (she says it’s because she
can stare at a blank page for days before anything actually goes on it!).
Her very favorite adhesive is liquid Tombo and good ole’ glue
stick, with glue dots running a close second. Her favorite technique is
inking, or adding bling to her pages, although she is trying her hand at
doodling, and hopes to improve upon that this year. You can find examples
of her work at her SGK gallery. Jessica has been published in online
magazines and serves on several club Design Teams.
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Meet Stephanie Stephanie currently resides
in Hampton, Virginia, with her husband and three children. She attended
Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, majoring in Business.
Stephanie is a professional merchandiser and floral designer with
ten years experience in the design field. She especially enjoys reading,
macro-photography, bird watching and gardening.
After the birth of her third child, Stephanie received a
scrapbooking kit as a gift and has been hooked on the art and community it
builds among women ever since. Her favorite adhesives are Zip Dry Glue and
Glue Dots and her favorite technique is aging/distressing with inks and
paints.
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Meet Kristi Kristi is
a Navy wife of almost 10 years. She and her husband, Dennis met in
Mississippi where she is from and have since had four children - ages 3,
6, 7 and 9. They have three girls and a boy.
Kristi considers herself lucky to be able to stay home with them as
a stay-at-home mom and being home all day with her children is why she
decided to start scrapbooking. Having a hobby that keeps her busy and a
way to unleash her creative outlet helps her be a more relaxed mom. Kristi
likes a really full page with a lot to look at, but will occasionally
throw in a rather simple page. She enjoys working on pages for her
children's albums, but also for her Book of Me. Working on her own Book of
Me has been a voyage into learning more about herself.
Currently, they are stationed in Fernley, NV, but are soon leaving
for Bremerton, WA, and have also been stationed in San Diego, Yokosuka,
Japan, and Pensacola, FL.
Kristi is also a Design Team member at Kat's Stamping and
Scrapbooking.
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Meet Alicia Alicia is an Australian
scrapbooker who recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, with her husband
Michael and her two year old son Kyan. Alicia is a primary school teacher
but is enjoying her life as a stay at home mum for the moment.
Alicia has been scrapbooking for more than 5 years and has been
published a number of times. Most recently she recieved two honourable
mentions for her entries in the Australian Scrapbooking Memories Masters
competition. She has also beeen published numerous times in Scrapboking
Memories(Austrailia), Scrapbook Creations (Austrailia), and Up2scrap (New
Zealand). Alicia has also had work published in the Basic Grey online
gallery.
Alicia is on the Design Team for Scrapbook City in Austrailia, and
spent most of 220 producing work for advertisments in the Australian
scrapbooking magazines for BumbleBee Crafts, an Australian wholesaler.
Scrappy Giraffe Kits is Alicia's first American Design Team position.
Alicia's favourite adhesives are Xyron and double sided tape. She
also uses lots of glue dots for all her dimensional work, one of her
favourite techniques. She also loves to layer elements on her pages and
enhance her page with hand stitching. Alicia loves to be able to document
aspects of her family's life throough scrapbooking, especially all the
cute but fleeting things that her son does.
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Meet Cathy Cathy is very excited to
be a part of this talented team of artists here at Scrappy Giraffe. She
very proudly hails from Manitoba, Canada, where she lives with her husband
of 14 years, their 3 children: Mica (8 1/2), Cale (7) and Egan (5), and
Bean (a basset/beagle cross puppy). Cathy is a stay-at-home-Mom who
babysits in her home to allow her more freedom and time with her family.
She began scrapbooking and card-making about 3 years ago because
she wanted preserve the memories of her family and not just have a photo
album full of pictures that didn't say anything. Considering she's loved
all-things-paper since elementary school it shouldn't have come as too
much of a surprise that it took about 1/2 hour for her to fall in love
with this craft. She tries to spend some time each and every day in her
scraproom - even if it's just a few minutes and finds that staying active
there helps her stay creative and happy in other areas of her life as
well.
Some of Cathy's work has appeared, or will appear in such magazines
as: Scrapbook Trends, Paper Trends, CARDS, Simple Scrapbooks, PaperART,
PaperWorks, Scrapbooking & Beyond, Scrap & Stamp Arts, Scrapbook
Answers, Canadian Scrapbooker, Scrapbook Memories (Australia) and
Scrapbook Magazine (UK) as well as some idea books by ST and Cantata
Books. She also teaches card-making classes at her local Scrapbook Store
and will be teaching a mini-book class at Manatoba's annual Scrapbook
Convention (this year a charity event for Children's Hospitals).
Cathy's adhesive of choice is currently Scrapbook Adhesive (the
strips in the red container) and glue dots for non-paper items and there
is very little in her scrapbook room that escapes either ink distressing
or sandpaper. One of her passions is using found items in her scrapbooks
(from jewelry to clothing tags to office supplies) and she has a
self-proclaimed weakness for all ribbons and patterned papers. She is most
comfortable with a cup of coffee (heavily laced with hazelnut creamer)
steaming beside her and a friend or two across the table with paper,
adhesive and ink flying in every direction.
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Meet Molly Molly has cropped
for most her life, long before she owned a traditional scrapbook.
Nostalgic to a fault, she has stories for all her things, especially
photos, and this hobby has been her passion for over a dozen years.
This loquacious scrapper enjoys crops with friends and attends crop
weekend getaways in her spare time. She is a full time wife to a devoted
husband and a mother to two daughters and a son ranging in age from five
to fourteen.
Molly Stevenson credits the hobby with providing the opportunity to
meet other creative women with whom she has formed a deep bond. She often
says of the scrapbooking subculture: “Scrapbooks take time and require
effort. By default, this usually means that scrapbookers are inclined to
be nurturing and considerate by nature. Playing with papers and glue with
like-minded girlfriends. What could be better?”
Beautiful weighty papers, Kokuyo permanent adhesive as well as the
written word are, after the wonderful people she works and plays with, the
root of Molly’s passion for scrapbooking media. Molly's favorite aspect of
the SGK collection is how the collections are so well coordinated without
being boring. he relishes this opportunity, her first experience as a
design team member. and looks forward to getting to know the members of
the SGK message board community.
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Meet Leah Leah is married to the love
of her life, Doug. They married in 2002 and have been together 11 years.
Currently residing in Roanoke, Virginia, Leah is the mother to 3 gorgeous
children. She used to deliver newspapers and gave that up to stay home to
raise her children full time. After the birth of her son in February 2006,
she found scrapbooking and has been hooked ever since! She struggles with
keeping her house clean chasing two little ones around, and has decided
that creating layouts is much more important than a spotless house!
Leah loves hanging out on message boards chatting it up with her
friends. Her family lovingly refers to her as being silly, funny, loving,
caring, and a tad bit crazy. She loves relaxing at night with her hubby
while watching TV shows such as Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Medium, and
Shark to name a few. Her favorite scrapping technique is ever changing,
right now it is inking and her favorite adhesive is Duck. What she loves
most about scrapping is the story it tells. Leah doesn’t want to forget a
thing so she records some interesting topics, nothing is too bizarre!
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Meet Pamela Pamela is a
39-year-old--red-headed, opinionated, truly moody, mothering, creative,
purple-loving, jack-of-all-trades--Cancerian. She has been a process
oriented artisan all her life, was a graphic designer and illustrator for
5 years, and has been working as a full-time high school art teacher for 7
years now. Also, the mother to one gorgeous and creative little girl named
Josie, step-mother to two beautiful and intelligent young women named Nina
and Lucia, and wife to one passionate, poetic Leo named James, she often
finds herself wishing for more hours in the day-- hours to create more
art, play with her daughter, and cuddle with her husband.
Pam is a scrapbooker because it is a very satisfying and
challenging way to combine the many art forms she loves--photography,
paper arts, stitching, painting, stamping, mixed media, and
design--allowing her to make the best use of every "free" minute she has,
and to chip away at her huge collection of beloved products and supplies.
Because she has both formal and informal art training, Pam is always up
for a new experience using a myriad of materials and techniques. Believing
everyone has innate creativity, this natural "teacher" adores finding new
ways to use old tools and media, and showing others how to "play and
embrace their mistakes", so they can "discover their voice".
Hard pressed to decide on her favorite products, tools, and
supplies, Pam finally admitted she couldn't live without her Tombo tape
runner, Scotch Tacky glue, endless collection of chipboard, acrylic paints
and inks, foam and acrylic stamps, Bazzill cardstock, sewing machine,
punches, and abundant ribbons and flosses.
Pam's enthusiastic anticipation, for receiving her first
Srappygiraffe Kit, is matched only by the complete acceptance she has
experienced, from the incredibly awesome community of talented and
supportive art goddesses she has become friends with here at SGK!
Considering herself to be truly blessed and 100% honored to be a part of
the SGK community, Pam knows that each and every new day at SGK is an
undeniable INSPIRATION to be savored, by one and all!
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Meet Sonia Sonia is a 42
year old mother to Amanda and wife to Scott. She’s a transplanted Long
Islander living in New Jersey, and she’ll get used to that any day now
(native new Yorkers just don’t DO New Jersey…). She has a Masters in
Social Psychology from Rutgers, which she parlayed in to a successful
marketing research consulting career spanning about 20 years. Now she’s a
stay at home mom, and busier than ever, schlepping Miss Amanda to her
various and sundry activities.
Sonia is an avid sports fan – OK…she’s certifiable. Her love for
the New York Yankees (and requisite hate of the Boston Red Sox) is rather
legendary. She participates in fantasy football leagues…and occasionally
wins, much to the chagrin of her male league mates. She also enjoys skiing
and golf. However, her love of sports is a distant second to her love of
scrapbooking.
She started scrapbooking in May 2000 at a Creative Memories home
party. She was hooked, even though at the time patterned paper was
virtually non-existent. In just a short time she began teaching
scrapbooking at her local scrapbook store, for Memories Expo and for Dream
Events (the SDV people). Her favorite part about teaching, besides when
people ACTUALLY showed up for class, was being able to share all the fun
new things she discovered or learned along the way. Her classes tend to be
VERY technique heavy, taking seemingly advanced scrapbook and general
craft techniques and making them easy and available to the masses.
Her favorite scrapbook supplies are cardstock (because you can do
ANYTHING to it), spray paint (any paint for that matter) and Glue Dots.
She would seriously die without her X-acto knife and don’t even think of
taking her see-through quilting ruler. And she has a seriously unhealthy
attachment to Ranger products, especially her Melting Pot.
Sonia has been published in Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Ivy
Cottage, and several books from Krylon and Cantata Books. She is also on
the FiberScraps Design team.
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