The Simple Scrapper Team
Editorial Team
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Jennifer Wilson Editor of Simple Scrapper Jennifer S. Wilson is a writer and creative entrepreneur living in the heart of the midwest with a husband, a baby girl, two stepsons, a cat and a dog. She is passionate about helping people find more time for creativity through her Create More Media family of sites. As a relative newcomer to scrapbooking and memory keeping, Jennifer launched Simple Scrapper in Fall 2008 as a way to chronicle her learning process. Find Jennifer: Twitter |
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Samantha Piette Assistant Editor Samantha has been crafty for as long as she can remember, but in the last five years it has really become her passion. She enjoys scrapbooking, cardmaking, sewing, beading, and knitting, and is constantly adding to her list of hobbies. She loves reading blogs and discovering new crafty people around the world. She lives in Minnesota with her wonderful husband and enjoys traveling, sunshine, photobooths, and cupcakes. Find Samantha: Blog | Twitter |
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Aaron Morris Contributing Writer Aaron Morris, more commonly known as Sir Scrapalot, is a teacher living in Massachusetts with his wife and two beautiful daughters. He started scrapbooking three and half years ago, and quickly made the switch to digital scrapbooking. Aaron enjoys creating whimsical, fun layouts that celebrate the memories he and his family make. Aaron shares his thoughts on scrapbooking, life, and the ongoing challenge of time management on his blog. Find Aaron: Blog | Twitter |
Design Team
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Jean Manis Team Leader and Contributing Writer Mother of two college-aged sons and married for almost twenty-five years, Jean thrives on routine including daily walks with her golden retriever, Ginger, rain or shine. Jean combines her interests in photography, storytelling, and design in scrapbooking layouts that preserve memories of and for her family. Born in Texas, grew up in Colorado, married in Boston, Seattle is her current home. Find Jean: Twitter | Gallery |
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Ronnie Crowley Ronnie Crowley is an English girl living in Texas with two kids, two guinea pigs and a husband for company. As a “Stay-at-Home Mum” with a part-time job in association management and a full-time job as a volunteer at both her kids schools she keeps busy. Scrapbooking has been her major hobby/stress management tool for over ten years now and she collected a room full of supplies and gadgets before transitioning to exclusively scrapbooking digitally for the last eighteen months. Her scrapbooks record her family life “warts and all”. Ronnie’s layouts have been featured on the Daily Digi blog, Big Picture Classes blog and the Log your Memory blog. She was recently also a guest on the Digi Show podcast. Ronnie is currently also a creative team member for Chelle’s Creations and Dianne Rigdon Designs. Find Ronnie: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Jess Forster Jess Forster is a self-proclaimed creative junkie who gave birth her daughter, Rowan, in November. When she is not changing diapers, doing laundry or drinking too much coffee, you can find her working on hybrid layouts for the Simple Scrapper Design Team or blogging about her everyday life with her husband, Aaron, and dog, Charlie. Find Jess: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Michele Holcomb Michele Holcomb lives in Northern California with her husband, two daughters, and a little chihuahua mix named Shiloh. Michele’s obsession with paper & glue started when she was just about 5 years old and she has’t looked back since. She started traditional scrapbooking back in 2000 and slowly made her way into the cardmaking world in 2008. When Michele’s not scrapping or taking an insane amount of photos, her guilty pleasure is reading young adult books, watching TV, and hanging with her family. Find Michele: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Margrethe Aas Johnsen Margrethe is 26 years old and from Norway. She started scrapbooking four years ago after being persuaded by a friend and reassured it was not a hobby for “older ladies” only. Her style has been described as graphic. During her everyday life, Margrethe works as a high school teacher. Having a MA in cultural studies (and BA in sociolinguistics and literacy), she teaches Norwegian, English and Social studies. She is currently doing her teacher certification, too. At home, she has a husband, three cats and a lot of cat hair. Find Margrethe: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Julie Kelley Julie Kelley is a twenty-something Southerner living in the suburbs of Boston with her very charming husband. A hopeless travel addict, she has been scrapbooking her adventures and memories for at least half her life. Over the years, Julie has evolved into a hybrid scrapper: she combines her joy of editing pictures, scrapbooking, making cards and invitations, and creating small design elements for her pages to bring a playful sophistication to her layouts. She is also a firm believer that the world needs more porches and ice cream. Find Julie: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Amy Kingsford Amy Kingsford is a happy wife and blessed mother from Northern Utah, who has been scrapbooking for more than 10 years. She started out as a paper scrapper and now enjoys the wonderful worlds of digital scrapbooking, photography and hybrid projects as well. While Amy’s style and inspirations continue to change, her passion for memory keeping remains the same as the day she first started. Amy is a contributing writer at Get It Scrapped and a base teacher at Masterful Scrapbook Design. She also shares scrapbook ideas and inspiration at her own site AmyKingsford.com. Find Amy: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Aimee Maddern Aimee is a past owner of a scrapbook boutique who has a passion for paper & has way too much of it! She is a So Cal native who loves the sun, lattes, shopping, her boyfriend and 2 dogs. Aimee works from home, which allows her to travel with her parents and their racecar. And while doing all of the above she ends up collecting bits & pieces along the way. Find Aimee: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Brianna Marshall Brianna Marshall is a proud military wife to her high school sweetheart and stay-at-home mama to three amazing little girls. Moving often, Brianna currently resides in Maryland; she was born and raised in the lovely state of Maine. Brianna loves all things crafty, but her main passions are photography and scrapbooking. She also has a deep love for music, Starbucks white chocolate mocha espressos, hot baths, home design, walking barefoot (preferably in the spring), and meeting new scrappy friends. Find Brianna: Blog | Gallery |
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Jennie McGarvey Jennie McGarvey is a stay at home mom of 3 boys, aged 10, 8.5 and 4 living in middle America after a recent move from Southern California. She has been scrapbooking in the current style (acid free and with thought!) for over 10 years, but has been making scrapbooks her whole life and is enjoying getting more involved with other scrapbookers! In addition to the Simple Scrapper team, Jennie is a design team member for Ella Publishing’s Take Twelve team, Vintage Street Market, and Paper Issues. Aside from team work, Jennie has also been published 14 times in different print scrapbook magazines this past year. Find Jennie: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Mandy Ross Mandy Ross was introduced to digital scrapbooking in 2005 when looking for inspiration for what we now call hybrid scrapbooking. She has dabbled in crafts her whole life, mostly focusing on jewelry making and papercrafts. Mandy is a work at home mom of 3 creative children. They are constantly on the lookout for new projects, which means she’s constantly on the lookout for new projects. Mandy enjoys scrapbooking their explorations, personalities and everyday lives as well as scrapbooking herself as a sort of therapeutic art journal. Find Mandy: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Celeste Smith Celeste lives in Connecticut with her wonderful husband, Terry and their two cute boys, Adam and Sam. They are her primary scrapping subjects and sometimes unwilling models. Scrapbooking is her creative outlet. As a full-time competitive analyst at a large insurance company, her days are filled with details and numbers. her evenings are filled with patterns, color and design. A real stress reliever! Her style has been consistently clean and graphic with a bit of funkiness thrown in for good measure. She loves clean straight lines and lots of color. Celeste currently designs for Design House Digital, Jillibean Designs, Sweet Shoppe Designs and write.click.scrapbook. Find Celeste: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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Krista Wells Krista Wells is a young woman who has just recently settled down and bought a new house in St. John’s, Newfoundland with her wonderful husband of 2 years. A teacher by day, she spends her evenings and weekends at her scrapbooking table playing with paper and embellishments and surfing the internet to discover new ideas for her favorite past time. Krista has worked in a number of retail scrapbooking stores and been a teacher and design team member in a number of places in Canada. She has taught beginner scrapbooking classes to both adults and children, aiming to get them hooked on a new hobby! In addition to her duties here at Simple Scrapbooker, Krista is also a member of her local scrapbooking store’s design team, promoting local business and working with kits monthly to inspire customers. She has been published in a number of scrapbooking magazines including Scrapbook Trends & Canadian Scrapbooker. When she’s not scrapbooking Krista can be found running, traveling the world with her husband or curled up with a page-turning book. Find Krista: Blog | Twitter | Gallery |
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