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!!

Hi Pink Paislee Fans!  My name is Diana and I work full time as an Information Security Officer at a local bank. It was here that I was introduced to scrapbooking by a coworker in 2004. I have always loved being crafty and scrapbooking quickly became the perfect creative outlet for me to express my thoughts and feelings on paper. Several years later, I feel so lucky to have had some of layouts published in magazines as well as to have had the pleasure to design for manufacturers and kit clubs

My main scrapping love is 12×12 layouts but I also like to dabble in cards and altered items when inspiration strikes me. My style is simple with some shabby chic thrown in for good measure. I have two little girls, Aryanna and Jaina, who are the main subjects of my layouts. I make a guest appearance in them from time to time as well but my daughters are just so much more fun to scrap!

Diana’s Designs for Pink Paislee (featuring the Butterfly Garden Collection)

2 Hearts

2 Hearts – Detail

When we say it is the designer details that make a difference we really mean it.  Not only did Diana capture the sweetest photo of her daughters on Valentine’s Day but she reinforced the journaling by adding the punched paper hearts to create a focal point on a solid background.  Using the text stamp in our Butterfly Garden set over those paper hearts was another clever use of product that adds so much!

Bike Ride

Bike Ride – Detail

Seeing this layout just confirms what we already knew!  Our papers and embellishments are so universal that you really can use them for any layout no matter what the theme might be!  Diana successfully turned a vintage garden inspired collection into a fun layout that focuses on bike riding.  The vintage bike image is included in our Ephemera Pack.  So fun!

Cookies

Cookies – Detail

Adding a butterfly border punch to this layout – genius!

Coffee

Coffee – Detail

This is so vintage and soft we are just in LOVE!  The wood shape looks amazing and rich just like a cup of coffee!  And oh my….those ephemera die cut pieces again have us swooning.

Diana proved that you don’t have to get locked into one theme when using your scrapbook supplies.  Use the design elements to reinforce and connect your photos to your story!  We are so thrilled to be able to feature Diana’s work here on our blog and we hope you have enjoyed our featured artist inspiration this month!

Be sure to visit Diana’s blog to see more!  (which by the way is totally full of even more eye candy…..)