Get To Know Guest Artist Amy Heller

Hi Pink Paislee Fans! My name is Amy Heller and I am SO thrilled to be here!! I’ve been an artist all my life. Drawing cartoon characters from a very young age, then becoming interested in paper crafting in middle school. I remember embellishing a report with all sorts of colorful designs cut from construction paper and glued on with a glue stick – I was mesmerized with paper.

Throughout high school I collected stationary, studied calligraphy, typography and graphic design. I loved boxed note cards and often dreamed of becoming a stationer. I knew with certainty I wanted to pursue design as a career, which I did. I studied art and design in college and worked as a graphic designer soon after graduating. I worked in the industry for 8 years before having my daughter and becoming mostly SAHM and freelance designer.

My design and creativity primarily took form on my computer. That was until 2004. We moved cross-country from Washington state to Connecticut for my husband to attend graduate school. At that point I became a full-time Mom and my freelance work was put on hold. At my husband’s school, I met a group of women that held a monthly scrapbooking group. I LOVED it instantly. The products were beautiful and this new hobby gave me the ability to document our growing family, while providing me with a much-needed creative outlet. However, it wasn’t until 2008, after my son was born, that scrapbooking became my true passion and obsession. Then in 2009 I discovered cardmaking and blogging. At that point it was all over, I was completely hooked and my design “office” officially became my craft room!

I’ve been fortunate to have been published in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbook Trends, CARDS, and Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazines. I love experimenting with paper techniques and tend to have a fun, whimsical and colorful scrapping style. I love to layer, mix color and patterns and play with my title work and letterforms.

I live in a small town in Connecticut with my wonderful husband of 11 years, our daughter, 8, son, 5 and our super dog, Cody, 11.

I am absolutely thrilled to be here this month with Pink Paislee and hope you enjoy my work!

Amy’s designs for pink paislee (featuring the hometown summer collection)

H20 Washout

Fourth At Home

Berry Fresh

Summer Fun Card

YUM! Card

Once again we are completely thrilled and honored to be able to show off our guest artists’ work to our fans and blog readers.  Amy Heller created so many gorgeous projects with our Hometown Summer collection that we are left without words to describe how amazing she is!  Her stitching is perfect, her layout designs are extreme “eye candy” and we love how she misted our wood letters!

Thank you Amy for giving us the inspiration we needed to create these fun summer projects. With the 4th of July holiday right around the corner we can honestly say that you have “sparked” our creativity!

To learn more about AMY just visit her fabulous blog HERE…and be sure to tell her Pink Paislee sent you!!