Design Team

   • Emily  Bond
   • Kaylee Bond
   • Chris Cuthbert
   • Deb Watkins
   • Janine Berlin
   • Lisa Jackson

Design Team Questionnaire—Lisa Jackson

1. How long have you been scrapbooking?
   I made scrapbooks back in the day when we used albums made out of manila paper and glued things down with rubber cement. I started scrapbooking as we know it in 2004, and was just going to make one album. I wasn’t going to be one of “those” scrapbooking women. And now I am!

2. What are your favorite products?
   Patterned paper, chipboard, buttons, and ribbon.

3. Who are your favorite manufacturers?
   Jenni Bowlin, Making Memories, Anna Griffin, Autumn Leaves, Sassafras Lass, Doodlebug, Webster’s Pages, Graphic 45, Scenic Route, 7 Gypsies, October Afternoon. I’m really drawn to anything that’s vintage or that’s whimsical.

4. How would you describe your style?
   Linear, playful, with lots of paper piecing, hand stitching, buttons, and ribbon. People usually tell me that my pages look like a quilt.

5. What are your favorite colors and combinations?
   Red, turquoise, aqua, brown, orange, apple green, and pretty much any shade of blue

6. What type of projects do you usually make?
   Mostly 12x12 pages, but I’ve made lots of mini-books as gifts. My favorite thing I’ve ever made was a family recipe book that I gave to my whole family as a Christmas gift.

7. What’s your favorite scrapbooking tool?
   Tonic scissors, Heidi Swapp petite paper piercer, Basic Grey rub-on tool, needle, embroidery floss, border punches

8. Where do you look for inspiration?
   Of course I scour magazines, online galleries, and quilting patterns, but my biggest source of inspiration is my son and our family. More than anything else that I do, I consider myself a storyteller. Scrapbooking is the medium I use to tell my son about our life together and about all of our hopes and dreams for him, as well as about the richness of our family’s traditions.

9. What advice do you have for beginning scrapbookers?
   Scrapbooking should be fun. Make projects you love. No one’s going to notice if there’s a “mistake” on your pages. All they’ll notice is the time, effort, and love that went into your creations. You’re preserving your family’s history.

   • Sandra Shaw
   • Sandy Parrott
   • Traci Severson