3 Birds Design Product Development, Design Team Lead and Design Team Member
Hello there friends! I am Chasity Sivanick, from 3 Birds, and I am really excited to be a part of the blog this month! Here at 3Birds Studio I do Product Development. I have been an avid scrapbooker for 17 years, and joined 3 Birds 7 years ago. When I had the rare opportunity to combine my passion with my job, I knew I was both very lucky and blessed. And I just happen to have the best job on the planet! It still gives me goose bumps when a new product comes in to the studio, and I get to see it for the first time. I’m like a kid in a candy store! But we made the candy! I truly hope you guys are enjoying the new products from 3 Birds Studio!
Design Team Coordinator, Social Media Coordinator, and Design Team Member
BLOG: Juliana Michaels - 17turtles
My love for art and creating began at an early age thanks to my creative mother who loved to paint, sew and draw. She also loved to photograph our daily lives and kept all of our photos chronologically organized in albums. This early appreciation of art and photography helped form the base of my future love of scrapbooking and papercrafting. When I was younger, I tried nearly every craft you could imagine, including bead making, cross stitch and crochet. It wasn’t until 1997 that I finally found my true passion in paper crafts and scrapbooking, thanks to a dear friend, Carrie Anne. I can thank her for introducing me to the amazing world of scrapbooking.
Color, texture, trying new techniques and playing with new products are what I love. The products are almost always what inspire me to create whatever it is that I make, whether it be a card, a scrapbook page or an altered object/home decor item. I also get inspiration from nature, art, and home decor. You can always visit my blog (www.17turtles.com) to see my latest creations.
I have been a project designer in the paper craft and scrapbook industry since 2007 and I have been fortunate to work for many top manufacturers including: Bo Bunny, Bella Blvd, Provo Craft, and Jillibean Soup. My projects have been published in a variety of magazines and idea books and I have had projects displayed at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show.
When I am not creating, I am a wife to my best friend and the love of my life. I am also “momma” to our four legged children, Woody, an American Paint horse and Milo, a Golden Retriever. I have a fondness for coffee, Dr. Pepper, Mexican Food, turtles and antiquing. In my spare time I enjoy working out, cooking, gardening, and reading science fiction and historical fiction. I also work part time as a physical therapist at a local nursing home.
Design Team Member
BLOG: Katrina Hunt - Paper, Scissors and Glue
Hi! I am Katrina and I live in Midwest USA. I am currently owned by four Cardigan Welsh Corgis, who appear in my layouts from time to time (or A LOT of the time)! Higgins, Ella, Jetson and Sheldon are their names and their personalities fit those names perfectly. Two of the dogs, Higgins and Ella, are certified to do pet therapy thru a local organization here. We do a couple of different visits. One is to a Pediatrics floor at a local hospital. The other is to an Alzheimer’s care facility at a nursing home.
I’ve discovered as an adult that I love to create and craft. During the day I work for a non-profit agency that helps senior citizens in our area. At night is when the crafty side comes out. I was never the artsy type while growing up, unless you count cutting my doll’s hair. It started with finding out I loved to cross-stitch. Then I tried knitting (epic fail)! Don’t ask me about cooking, that is a fail area also. Except I CAN bake, that’s different than cooking.
I have been scrapbooking since February 2009, when I decided to make a mini album for a friend. I discovered that I loved it! Well, let’s just say after that I went nuts with the paper, scissors, and glue. I love color, the more the better. To define my style is hard, as I do what makes me happy. I like to scrap everyday life and you never know what the subject of my project might be. I like to show that you don’t have to have kids to love scrapbooking. Although, you will see some adorable ones in my layouts from time to time! I am lucky that I have some friends that I can “borrow” subjects from!
I have been so blessed in the short time that I have been scrapbooking to be on some fun and amazing teams. Former manufacturer teams include -The Twinery, GCD, Nikki Sivils, and Basically Bare. I have also guest designed for Little Yellow Bicycle, Making Memories, Lily Bee Design, Jillibean Soup and American Crafts. My current teams include Imaginisce, Therm O Web Adhesives, WorldWin Cardstock, CREATE magazine and a contributor to PaperHaus magazine.
Design Team Member
BLOG: Mary Ann Jenkins – I Rock Paper & Scissors
I’m Mary Ann Jenkins from sunny Southern California. I have 3 awesome boys, 1 sweet little princess, and a wonderful husband that are the subjects of many of my scrapbook layouts. I love recording the memories and stories we create in our everyday lives.
I’ve been scrapping since 1987, when I heard a commercial on the radio about learning to preserve family memories. A few patterned papers and decorative scissors later I was hooked, and never imagined scrapbooking would become a passion, or that I would have a room in my home dedicated to the hobby.
I have been fortunate to have my projects published in the top scrapbooking magazines, idea books and manufacturers catalogs and have had my work displayed at the Craft & Hobby Trade Show, I love sharing my ideas and inspiration!
When I am not in my studio making a mess I enjoy flea markets, spending time with my family, shopping for hours at Target, taking my camera everywhere I go, and bracelets. A girl can never have too many bracelets!
Design Team Member
BLOG: Robbie Herring – Just The Scrap
Growing up, I wasn’t crafty at all. I was the girl who took Art because I needed the credit and there wasn’t anything else to take. Same with Home Ec. In fact, if they had a category for ‘Most Likely To NOT Be Crafty’ my senior year, I feel sure that I would have won! No one was more surprised than me when I started sewing, painting and finally paper crafting.
Over the years, I’ve dabbled in several crafts. I’ve sewn, made jewelry and even tried cross stitch. Of course, as usual, I came to scrapbooking late. My daughter’s senior year, a friend and I decided we wanted to make a scrapbook for our kids’ graduation parties. We teamed up with another couple of friends who were scrapbookers, to get started. I didn’t even go along to purchase my first supplies. I just let my friends pick up what they thought were necessities, wrote a check and showed up to have my first introduction to paper crafting. Well, little did I know that I was going to find my perfect fit! I loved that I was getting pictures in books, telling the story of my daughter’s senior year and doing a hobby that I loved. That one senior book turned into 3 books, my son’s senior book, Eagle Scout books and a whole lot more.
When it comes to style, I find it hard to describe mine. You are just as likely to see bright colors as well as muted colors on pages. One thing that stays consistent is my love for embellishments. I’m pretty sure that I’ve never met an embellishment that I didn’t like. I probably love ribbon and flowers the most. In fact, you will rarely see one of my pages without a ribbon or bow somewhere. I would put flowers on everything, too but my son prefers his pages without them.
I’ve been married for 26 years to a wonderful guy and we were blessed with 2 children. Our daughter is 25 and our son is 23. I was very lucky to be able to be a stay at home mom. I might have been a bit late to the party, but the timing was perfect for me. Scrapbooking is a wonderful hobby that allows me to be creative and helps keep me busy now that our children no longer live at home. My skill set has definitely improved over the years, but I still love to look back at those first pages. They might be really simple and wouldn’t win any design contests, but each page tells a tiny bit of our story.
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