Scrapbooks, Stamps and Crafts - OH MY!

Brian Tippetts, P Kelly Smith and Sarah Hodsdon

Our first guest is Brian Tippetts Editor-in-Chief of Creating Keepsakes magazine and author of a new book, Get Creative with Type. He has been employed with CK for over 9 years and worked with Lisa Bearnson even before she founded Creating Keepsakes magazine. Brian has been a professor at Creating Keepsakes University (CKU) where he taught classes on typography and design and has a monthly column in Creating Keepsakes magazine called Brian’s Top 5 Cool Things.

Our second guest is Kelly Smith, Paper Crafts Magazine's Online Editor. She contracted the paper crafting bug 10 years ago and so far she’s found no cure! Her interests to include scrapbooking, card making and rubber stamping. Now if she could only stop giving her creations away! Kelly graduated from BrighamYoung University’s print journalism department, and has worked both for Entrepreneur and Adweek magazines. She recently became the proud mommy to an Italian Greyhound puppy named Lexus.

Our third guest is Sarah Hodsdon an internationally recognized Mixed Media Artist, award winning Designer, Author and Instructor. Her work has been published in Home Companion, Somerset, Stamper\'s Sampler, The Rubber Stamper, Scrap and Stamp Arts, Expression Arts, RubberStampMadness, VSN, Creative TECHniques, Crafts n Things, The Card Maker, Indie Arts, as well in a number of books, industry publications, online galleries and advertisements. Many thousands of Sarah's handmade notecards have found their way around the world and her Fine Art Collages are hanging in prominent places in private collections, businesses and galleries.

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Partial Guest List: Heidi Swapp - Owner, Heidi Swap Designs; Curtis Platte - Founder, Craft Locker and Crop-In-Style; Dee Gruenig - Owner, Posh Impressions & HGTV Celeb; Suze Weinberg - Owner, Weinberg Design Studio & HGTV Celeb; Stacy Julian - Founding Editor, Simple Scrapbooks; Judi Watanabe – Owner, Judikins,  Jeanette Lynton – Founder, Close to My Heart,  Karan Smith - Owner, Magic Mesh; Renee Pearson - Digital Scrapbooks, Simple Scrapbooks; Lisa Bearnson - founding editor of Creating Keepsakes; Becky Higgins - Contributing Editor, Creating Keepsakes; Sandi Genovese - DIY Scrapbooking host; Kristi McFadden – Editor, Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine, Ali Edwards - Contributing Editor, Creating Keepsakes; Michelle Hill - Creative Director, Li’l Davis Designs; Tera Leigh - Award-winning designer and author; Stacy Croninger, Editor-in-Chief, Paper Crafts Magazine; Thena Smith, Author, "Where's Thena..."; Jan Mollet Evans - Editor of "Scrap Your Stuff"; Wendy Smedley - Creative Editor, Simple Scrapbooks; Dawn Heath - Publisher, SS Reflections Vicky Breslin - Founder, Cut-It-Up; Linda LaTourelle, CEO, Bluegrass Publishing Inc.; Ana Cabrera – Designer for Purple Cows.

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