Please welcome the fabulous Lisa Swift to our Design Team. Well-known for her beautiful cards and layouts, she's going to be a fabulous fit to our 2014 team.
Where do you Reside?
New York, USA
Where can we find you:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisarukin.swift
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/lswift1110/
Share your favorite Echo Park Paper collection to date:
If I have to pick just one, I'd say "A Perfect Summer." But the "Here & Now" collection is definitely another favorite. There's just something about the vibrant colors mixed with chalkboard elements in this collection.
Do you have a craft room or special place where you create?
Yes. When we built our home, it was with the intention that the “formal” dining room would be my craft room. I have a photo tour of my craft room on my blog HERE if you'd like to see some additional photos.
Are you a card maker, scrapbooker, altered artist or a combination of these three?
I like to dabble in all three, but first and foremost I'm a scrapbooker, then a card maker, then an altered artist.
How would you describe your style? Sophisticated, playful, clean, detailed?
I'd say I best fit in the detailed category. I love mixing and matching bits and pieces, and I do a lot of layering on my pages. It's a rare page that doesn't feature some kind of stitching, whether it be by hand or machine. The embellishments you see on my pages were chosen to help tell the story.
Tell us about your family/yourself:
I am a transplant from Massachusetts now living in upstate New York with my husband, Tom and middle school-aged daughter, Alexa. I also can't forget to mention sweet Butterscotch, Alexa's cat, who appears as the subject of some of my pages. I've been paper crafting since 2001 when I was presented with an empty 12x12 album as a baby gift. After staring at it for six months, I decided it was time to figure out what all of the hoopla about scrapbooking was about. It took only one class at a local scrapbooking store and I was hooked! When I'm not scrapbooking or chauffeuring my daughter around, I can be found puttering in my garden, reading a book, cooking up a new recipe or taking photos that will later be committed to paper for all time.
Tell us one scrappy tool that you can't live without.
That would be my trimmer since I can't cut a straight line to save my life.
Here is a sample of Lisa's amazing work. You're going to learn a lot from Lisa about layering and choosing beautiful color combinations throughout the year. We can't wait to share them with you:
