Renee Pearson


Listen Now Š 2007 Flawless Brands, Inc. Ali Edwards is Creative Editor for Creating Keepsakes scrapbooking magazine and author of A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking series of books, Ali's unique creative approach focuses on celebrating the everyday joys and challenges we all face in our lives. "I started scrapbooking in 2002 as a way to organize all the stuff I collected after the birth of my son. It has become so much more than an organizational process for me - it has let me find my own personal passion and voice." Ali shares cool concepts, design, and project ideas in her monthly Creating Keepsakes column: Studio A. Ali enjoys conducting workshops around the county and internationally, encouraging scrapbookers to tell their stories and enjoy the process. She maintains a blog about life and art (and the concept of "life artists") at aliedwards.typepad.com Ali lives in Eugene, Oregon. She enjoys travel, reading, and spending time with her husband and son.	Listen Now Š 2005 Flawless Brands, Inc. Angie Pedersen started scrapbooking in 1998; her first page proudly featured photos cut into every shape imaginable, as well as several decorative edges. Her vastly improved work has since appeared in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, PaperKuts, Memory Makers, Ivy Cottage Creations, Better Homes & Gardens' Scrapbooks ETC, Personal Journaling, and FamilyTree magazines. Angie is the author of The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Yourself, Growing Up ME: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories, and The Book of US: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Relationships. Angie is also the creator and editor of two websites, ScrapYourStories.com and OneScrappySite.com. Angie grew up in Kansas City, attended University of Wisconsin-Madison, and returned to make her home in Kansas City with her husband and two children.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Barbara Carroll is a contributing editor to Simple Scrapbooks magazine. In addition to her scrapbooking work for that publication, she writes a column about photography. She began taking pictures at age eight, when her parents gave her a Brownie camera. Photography has been a passion ever since. Barbara began scrapbooking in 1999, after innocently wandering into a scrapbook store in Tucson. Motivated by her sons high school graduation, she began her first album and hasnt stopped scrapbooking since. A week of scrapping can include heritage layouts, pages documenting her children when they were young, travel albums, and numerous current subjects that interest her. Barbara scraps non-chronologically, is happy with a minimum of materials, and enjoys every moment of it.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Becky Higgins is a Contributing Editor for Creating Keepsakes. She is known for her clean style and scrapbook sketches. She has written Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking, Creative Cards, My Creative Companion, Scrapbooking Secrets and The Art of Creative Lettering. Her unique lettering styles are featured on Creating Keepsakes The Art of Creative Lettering CD and the Creative Clips and Fonts CD. Beckys newest book, Our Family Scrapbooks, is being released in June 2005. She loves photography, card-making, exercising and spending time with her family and friends. She lives with her husband and son in Cleveland, Ohio.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Beth Proudfoot, frequent contributor to Simple Scrapbooks magazine and teacher at bigpicturescrapbooking.com, began scrapbooking in 2000 after the birth of her first son. However, its only in the last year or so that Beth has discovered and embraced her scrapbooking style. She designs simple, graphic layouts and loves to experiment with color. If she could keep just one item in her stash of scrapbooking supplies, she would, hands down, pick her tall stack of Bazzill cardstock. Through scrapbooking, Beth has become more aware of the connections people share and the moments that make life full. She considers herself a storyteller and feels lucky to be able to document her stories with paper and photographs

Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Brenda Arnall is a Contributing Editor for Creating Keepsakes, where she writes and contributes to feature articles. A member of the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Hall of Fame in 2002, shes known for her excellent photography skills. Her work was showcased in the 2004 book Hot Looks for Scrapbooks, and she was one of 10 featured artists in the Elements set of books released in 2005. Brenda gets inspiration from her sketchbook full of magazine clippings, color schemes, quotes and sketches. In addition to scrapbooking and photography, Brenda loves golf, gardening and traveling. She lives with her husband of 38 years in Pace, Florida. They have two sons and a granddaughter.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Candice Stringham is not only a gifted scrapbooker but a talented photographer, Candice Stringham is a frequent contributor for Creating Keepsakes who was inducted into the CK Hall of Fame this year. An experienced photography instructor and commercial photographer, Candice has authored several photography- and scrapbooking-related articles for CK and was a contributor to Tracy Whites book, Photography for Scrapbookers. She also enjoy's teaching classes for Creating Keepsakes at Creating Keepsake University. Adventurous, but down-to-earth, Candice loves to read, watch old movies and musicals, and create fun projects and traditions with her family. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her two sons and actor husband.	Listen Now Š 2007 Flawless Brands, Inc. Cathy Zielske is the creative director for Simple Scrapbooks magazine and Digital Scrapbooking magazine. She helps guide the direction of the two publications, as well as writes articles and designs layouts on design theory to help scrapbookers create savvy pages with better flow and balance. A graphic designer by trade, she transfers her time-tested design concepts to the scrapbook page for her classes at national consumer scrapbook shows and at Creating Keepsakes University. Cathy believes that stories carry equal weight with photos. She strives to help scrapbookers find their authentic voices, have fun in the process and make layouts with visual appeal. She is the author of Clean&Simple Scrapbooking, and Clean&Simple Scrapbooking, The Sequel A native of Everett, Wash., Zielske currently lives in St. Paul, Minn., where there are no mountains, with her husband, daughter and son	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. C.D. Muckosky of Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada is the Creating Keepsakes magazines 2006 Scrapbooker of the Year This interview takes place at the Memory Trends tradeshow in Las Vegas, October 11 were Muckosky was awarded $10,000 in cash, as well as approximately $10,000 in sponsorship prizes from HP, KI Memories, Ellison Design and Legacy Crafters the largest prize amounts ever awarded to a scrapbooker.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Elizabeth Dillow is a contributing writer for Simple Scrapbooks magazine and a 2006 CK Hall of Fame inductee. She was destined to be a scrapbooker from an early age due to her love of cameras and pretty paper. Her outdoor photography has been exhibited in galleries in the western U.S., and she has taught both photography and scrapbooking workshops since 2001. Elizabeth taught high school social studies, speech and debate before her daughters were born; she now spends her days chasing after two little pixies.

Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Elsie Flannigan describes herself as a free spirit. In her new book, 52 Scrapbooking Challenges, Elsie shares her passion to be free and enjoy the journey of creating and capturing family memories! Elsie is a frequent contributer to Creating Keepsakes Magazine, a member of the KI Memories Design Team and a teacher for Creating Keepsakes University. In her spare time Elsie loves to hang out with her family, paint and make jewelry.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Erin Lincoln is a regular contributor and the new online editor for Creating Keepsakes, Erin Lincoln has been scrapbooking ever since she received a digital camera for college graduation. She became a member of the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Hall of Fame in 2002 and most recently authored Supply Saavy Scrapbooking (Creating Keepsakes, 2005). Erin finds inspiration by talking with her family and listening to their everyday stories. Erin has a college degree in Animal Science and enjoys reading, watching movies and cooking. She lives in Frederick, Maryland with her husband, and is the proud owner of three cats.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Jennifer McGuire is a 2002 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Famer, Jennifer has been scrapbooking and stamping for about five years, during which she has had numerous designs published in Creating Keepsakes magazines and idea books. Her work can be seen each month in CK's Tool Time article, where Jennifer shows the many things you can do with one tool or product. Jennifer also works as a designer for Hero Arts Rubber Stamps and the Autumn Leaves "Designing With" book series. Jennifer lives in Cincinnati. Almost 4 years ago, Jennifer left her job as an engineer in order to scrapbook full-time. Her family includes her dear husband, Ken, step-daugthers, Kay (11) and Audrey (9), and new son, Colin (8 months).	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Jessica Sprague started scrapbooking in 2004, and instantly fell in love with paper and pictures and glue, and the process of preserving memories. She won the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame contest in 2006, and in July 2006 became a contributing editor to Creating Keepsakes magazine. A web designer by trade, and an admitted Photoshop and computer geek, Jessica regularly contributes digital layouts, "hybrid" layouts, and Photoshop tutorials to the magazine, as well as a weekly Photoshop tutorial called Photoshop Friday on her blog.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Lisa Bearnson is the Founding Editor for Creating Keepsakes. Lisa has been a guest on Oprah and appears regularly on the QVC Shopping Network. She also travels throughout the United States attending Creating Keepsakes University where she teaches scrapbooking concepts, design and techniques. She is the author of Moms Little Book of Photo Tips, Baby Memories: The Big Idea Book, Joy of Scrapbooking, Moms Little Book of Displaying Childrens Art, Scrapbooking with Lisa Bearnson Vol. 1, Scrapbooking with Lisa Bearnson Vol. 2 and Our Family Scrapbooks, co-authored with Becky Higgins. Some of her favorite things are Scrabble, soymilk, bubble baths, American Idol, getting mail and playing with her family. She lives with her husband and five children in Alpine, Utah.

Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Molly Newman is an associate editor at Simple Scrapbooks Magazine and the author of the popular series of special issues, Digital Scrapbooking Vol. 1-5. The fifth edition of Digital Scrapbooking will be on newsstands in early May. From her home in Western Colorado, Molly also contributes to Scrapbook Retailer magazine and teaches classes at a local crop center, Scrapbook USA. She's been married for almost eleven years to her incredible husband Jim and has two sons: five-year-old Rhys and almost seven-year-old Fisher. She loves to hear what readers and scrapbookers think of her work; you can get in touch with her at her Web site, mollynewman.com.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Rebecca Cooper lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband, two children and their dog Buddy. In 2002 her first page was featured in Creating Keepsakes magazine. Most recently she has joined the Simple Scrapbooks Editorial Board. She also recently finished working on the book Beautiful Basics (released by Simple Scrapbooks), and is currently working on a book of her own, scheduled for release some time in June 2007. Along with scrapbooking she loves to read, play the piano and spend time with my family. I enjoy wakeboarding, snowboarding, taking naps, camping and just being outdoors in general. She has her own photography business specializing in babies/children and small family groups.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Renee Pearson is contributing Editor to Simple Scrapbooks magazine and a member of the founding board of the exciting new publication, Digital Scrapbooking by Simple Scrapbooks. This established star in the digital scrapbooking world broke new ground with her bestselling book, Digital Designs for Scrapbooking, now in its third printing. Renee is currently working on a sequel to that book due out in Spring 2007.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Samantha Walker has been scrapbooking for about 4 years now her favorite subjects are her two children ages 4 and 8 months and her husband of 10 years. Her family has had the opportunity to move around quite a bit living in Japan, Colorado, and Washington Statethey now reside in Lehi, Utah and hope to stay there indefinitely. Her pages have been seen in Creating Keepsakes magazine, Memory Makers Magazine and books, Cantata Books, two different books put out by Chatterbox, and has created several products samples for Plaid Enterprises. Just recently, Samantha was chosen to be a finalist in Creating Keepsakes Magazine Scrapbooker of the Year Contest, she says that this is one of the most exciting things that has happened to her since getting hooked on the hobby	Listen Now Š 2005 Flawless Brands, Inc. Stacy Croninger is Editor-in-Chief of Paper Crafts. Stacy acquired her love of crafting as a young child. She has happily explored tole painting, cake decorating, dried flower arranging, and scrapbooking. As Editor-in-Chief of Paper Crafts, her latest passions are handmade cards and anything made with paper. Stacy loves to learn new techniques and share by teaching others. She enjoys coming up with new ideas and watching them come to life in her creations. In her free time, Stacy loves to read, fish, hang out with friends, and get kisses from her fur babies, Barkley, Cleo, and Mabel (one Springer Spaniel and two Basset Hounds).

Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Stacy Julian As the Founding Editor for Simple Scrapbooks, Stacy Julian has seen the scrapbooking industry grow and change. She was introduced to world of scrapbooking at a rubber-stamp party and soon after signed up as a consultant for Close To My Heart. Stacy represented Creating Keepsakes for three seasons on the PBS show, More the Memories with Deanna Lambson and has contributed to and authored countless publications for Creating Keepsakes and Simple Scrapbooks. Outside of scrapbooking, Stacy enjoys spending time outdoors, spending time with her children and organizing and decorating her home. And when Stacy said she enjoys organizing her home she isnt kidding even her fridge has labels designating where each item should go! She is able to find scrapbooking inspiration all around her, especially at Target. Stacy lives in Liberty Lake, Washington with husband and four sons.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Tara Whitney works as a contributing editor for Simple Scrapbooks magazine. She is also a professional photographer who shoots on location. View her work at tarawhitney.typepad.com. When she isn't scrapbooking or proofing photos on her computer, Tara can usually be found doing laundry or trying to keep up with her four active children. Tara lives in Southern California and is happily married to her high school sweetheart.	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Tracy White joined Creating Keepsakes in 1997 and as editor-in-chief, White has overall editorial responsibility for Creating Keepsakes, its book and special-issues divisions as well as its vast line of ancillary products. White offers inspiration for journaling, photography and innovative scrapbooking techniques in her articles and workshops that are offered internationally. She teaches at Creating Keepsakes University, consumer scrapbook conventions and other international events. White began with Creating Keepsakes as a regular columnist contributing articles on various scrapbooking topics. In 1998, she became editor of the special interest publications, a division that annually produces four to five publications a year, such as The Scrapbook Idea Book and The Scrapbook Hall of Fame. In December 2002, she was named editor-in-chief of the magazine. A resident of Salt Lake City, White is a graduate of the University of Utah and holds a masters degree in communications from Westminster College.	Listen Now Š 2005 Flawless Brands, Inc. Wendi Speciale is a designer/artist that resides in Texas with her husband, Mike, her son, Tate and her two dogs, Bailey & Lef T. Speciale started scrapbooking in 2002 and was quickly dubbed the "Digital Diva" by Simple Scrapbooks Magazine. Her work has been featured in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Making Memories, Family Tree Magazine, PaperKuts, Scrapbook Trends, Ivy Cottage Creations and several idea books by various companies. In 2004, Speciale took the plunge into the other side of digital...creating her own line of paper arts items. In 2005, Speciale launched Wendi Speciale Designs, with her first phase of offerings being over 200 rubber stamp designs. In addition, she launched a patented product, called "MagMounts", of which Donna Downey has called this mounting system, "The best I have seen yet".	Listen Now Š 2006 Flawless Brands, Inc. Wendy Smedley is the creative editor for Simple Scrapbooks magazine and works with Editor in chief Lin Sorenson to direct and develop content. She also manages the Use section which focuses on teaching readers how to successfully purchase and use scrapbooking products. In addition to her work with the magazine, she has been involved in the development and production of a series of DVDs for Simple Scrapbooks as a co-host with founding editor Stacy Julian. Wendy also represents the magazine at many consumer scrapbooking conventions and industry trade shows and on local television stations across the nation.

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