Where do you call home?
a small rural area in Southern Illinois
Tell us a little about your family…
My husband and I have been married for 21 years. We have three adult children, one grand baby and two fluff balls with claws and an attitude (Cheeto & Oreo).
When did you join Sweet Shoppe Designs & what’s your favorite thing about being a member of the team?
Sweet Shoppe Designs was my first home as a scrapbooker back in 2008. I lived in the forums and waited each weekend in the chatroom to see what beautiful things would be released each week. After starting my design career, I was away from Sweet Shoppe Designs to work on growing and evolving my craft. I found myself back here in a designer capacity and felt blessed to be back home. I then departed again to work on growing as a designer and am so happy to be back home again in January 2025. Sweet Shoppe is filled with so much talent from the design team to the Babe team, it’s an honor to be among them. The amount of support given here by everyone whether you are a designer, Babe or community member is amazing.
How long have you been designing?
I have been doing designing in one form or another for over 14 years. But I officially started digital scrapbook designing in 2010.
What inspires you?
Anything and everything. It can be something from my own personal life to just wanting to illustrate a cute critter I love.
Tell us a little bit about your design process…
A lot of times my whole process revolves around my illustrations. I feel inspired to illustrate certain animals or other things, and then create the whole concept around that. I like to use things in a way that aren’t necessarily “Hey, I have an alien illustration and this is a space collection”. I can have an alien illustration and this collection is about believing in yourself. The characters I create basically become the mascot of whatever theme I feel they represent. Once I have the illustrations figured out that I want to create, I work on the color palette. Figure out what colors will best suit the types of illustrations and theme/vibe I am going for. Then I start with making the illustrations come to life. After that I do my patterns (my second favorite thing to create), dimensional elements and move on down the line.
What is something we may not know about you?
That I also design physical products for other stamp and crafting companies.
