Teachers
| Shelli Allen was born in Taylor, Arizona but grew up in the Gilbert area. She has lived in Queen Creek for about eight years now. She is married to Matt Allen and has three adorable boys; David, Jason, and Braydon. When she isn’t scrapbooking she enjoys reading, camping, quad riding, and sewing. She also likes a good nap…don’t we all? She describes her personality as being easily irritated, overly emotional, highly protective, and borderline anal…want to be her friend? Shelli is very down to earth, and easy to talk to. She truly cares deeply for others. She gets most of her scrapbooking inspiration from magazines. She has been scrapbooking eleven years, and what she claims the “right” way for about eight. She loves Heidi Swapp’s products, but still enjoys using the basics. She can’t live without her paper trimmer, fine tip scissors, and Quickuts. Her style of scrapbooking is very clean, simple, and quick. Shelli lives by the quote, “I’m creative, you can’t expect me to be neat too!” |
| Heather Miner was born and raised in Texas. She has lived in Arizona for five years now, and the Queen Creek area for six months. She is married to Clint Miner and they both have great, fun-loving families. When she isn’t scrapbooking, she finds herself wrapped up in photography, cooking, interior and floral design. She describes her personality as crazy! A little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. Heather has been scrapbooking and crafting when she was in junior high. She is inspired through fashion and nature. Her favorite scrapbooking celebrity is Cathy Zilske. Her scrapbooking specialty is cards and altering. Heather’s favorite scrapbooking product is Cat’s Eye Chalk Inks and Crate Paper. She lives by the quote, “ROCK ON!” |
| Leslie Herbert is from Morenci, Arizona but has lived in the Queen Creek area for seven years. She has been married to Jim Herbert for 11 years, and between them they have three kids, and two grandchildren. Eric (27), Stephanie (28), Zach (14) and granddaughters Taylor and Madison. She likes to be outdoors when she isn’t scrapbooking. Leslie describes her personality as a little shy, little nerdy, helpful, friendly, sensitive and a big worrier. Leslie is a wonderful and loyal friend. She cares for others and does all she can to help anyone she comes in contact in. She has been scrapbooking since ’99 but got serious about it in ’01. Her specialty is mini books, she has even been published! Lately found a passion for altering. Her favorite scrapbooking celebrity is Ali Edwards and her friends who scrapbook and create. She is an idea book junky, and gets most of her inspiration from the books she has collected and from fellow scrappers. Her scrapbooking style is simple yet vintage. Leslie’s favorite scrapbooking product is ribbon-you can never have too much- and Crate Paper. She lives by the quote, “If you want to be happy- BE!” |
| Barbara Allen has lived in Arizona her entire life; she raised her family in Lehi-Mesa, and still lives there today. She has been happily married to Dave Allen for fifty years! She has five wonderful children; Shirley, Shelly, Clay, Leslie, and Daryl. From which she has fourteen grandkids, and is the great grandmother to four. From experience, we know she is a GREAT grandma. Aside from spending time with her family she enjoys knitting, quilting, cooking, beading, and all sorts of crafts. Anything that seems challenging, she enjoys attempting, and always succeeds. She is a very loyal and loving friend. She LOVES to shop, going out to lunch, and spending time with others. She is a great teacher, and enjoys helping others. She is inspired by others and their work. She has been crafting since she can remember, and can do just about anything. Her favorite scrapbooking celebrities include Chris Randall, Allison Tyler Jones, and Ellen Brownlee. Her absolute favorite products are Seven Gypsies, Crate Paper, Cosmo Cricket, Daisy D’s, My Mind’s Eye, and Tim Holtz. Her style of scrapbooking is altered, distressed, unique, and detailed. Barbara’s scrapbooking specialty is bookmaking. She lives by the quote, “Live the dream that keeps coming back.” |
| Jessica Barnett was born and raised in Arizona. She lived in Mesa growing up and attended Dobson High School. She has been married for five years to Glen Barnett. She has four cute boys; Brenden (11), Carter and Parker (41/2), and Tucker (1). In her free time she likes sewing, quilting, knitting, and cake decorating. She describes her personality as wacky, funny and easy going. Already we have learned Jessica is a lot of fun to be around, and is very easy to talk to. She is inspired through magazines, and surfing the net. Ali Edwards is her favorite scrapbooking celebrity. She has been scrapbooking for a little over five years, and has been a teacher/designer for about two. Jessica loves working with acrylic albums and embellishments. Her all time favorite company is Hambly Studios. Her scrapbook specialty is mini books, acrylic albums and simple pages. The quotes she lives by is, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” and “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” |
| Molly Penrod was born in Mesa, Arizona and grew up in Queen Creek totalizing nineteen years. Her family is important to her; she describes them as being out of control, happy and lots of fun. Molly enjoys shopping and hanging out with friends when she isn’t scrapbooking or going to school. She has a bubbly and friendly personality with a little sass; she’s the baby after all. Her favorite scrapbooking celebrity is Chris Randall, and is inspired by idea books and other’s work. She has recently taken up scrapbooking as a hobby and loves Basic Grey, Crate Paper, and Heidi Swapp. Molly’s scrapbooking specialty has become mini books and kids classes. She lives by the quotes, “If life were easy, it wouldn’t be hard.” and "I may be a lefty, but I am always right." |
| Eva Flake has been married for 15 years to her hubby James. Together they have 5 kids. 3 boys and 2 girls. Their ages are 13, 11, 9, 8 and 3. They moved out to Queen Creek 3 years ago from Mesa . They LOVE it here and are thrilled with the growth taking place. She loves to tinker on the computer. She also loves photography. Eva said she realize that these are not related to scrapbooking, but eventually, all of her interests seem to point back to her love of scrapbooking anyway! She would like to say she is a creative mess. She loves being creative and the mess seems to follow. She would say she is pretty easy to get along with. Eva loves to visit with friends and hang out. She has many guilty pleasures like Diet Dr. Pepper, Reality TV, Cable News, (now she has revealed too much, oops!). Eva is inspired by things outside the scrapping world. She loves to take field trips (at least thats whats she call it) to Target, the mall, really anywhere she gets to see fresh new ideas for color, design and trends. Eva claims you can't go wrong with a great stash of adhesive, cardstock and a cutter. Throw in some killer patterned papers and ribbons and she is one happy camper! Eva has been teaching in this industry for over 7 years. She has taught for CKU's and trade shows all over the country. Teaching is a passion of Eva's and she loves sharing knowledge of this industry with others. Her favorite class to teach is computer classes. She loves the light bulb moments that happen in every class! KNOWLEDGE is POWER! When she first started teaching, her specialty was distressing and aging (think tearing and chalking), but over the past 3 years, Eva has really enjoyed jumping into the computer arena. Even though she teaches how to use the computer for your projects, the projects to stay trendy and fun! Eva lives by the quote, "Enjoy the little things, for one day you look back and realize they were the big things." |
| Caroline Miller has been married to Kale for 8 years with two little girls; Grace 7 and Ava 3. She describes her interests other than scrapbooking as, "I'm such a girl, I LOVE shopping especially at thrift stores, antique stores, and the good old mall. I love to travel and I dream of going to exotic places, I love to read, and create all kinds of art. I am also interested in medicine. In another life, I would have been a doctor. I am currently trying to get a nursing degree because that's as close as I'll get." Caroline describes her personality as, "I am the oldest of eight children therefore I am bossy, controlling, responsible, energetic and usually need to have things my way. On the good side, I like to "get things done" and am very organized. I am loving, kind and friendly." She gets a lot of inspiration for her projects learning from others. Caroline frequently take classes from many other artists, read lots of art magazines and "surfs the web". Her favorite products right now are chip board because you can manipulate it however you want and most importantly, its cheap! She also loves using wax! Wax is a new fav for Caroline, she has taken a few classes from Tim Holtz and this medium is amazing! She currently teaches at Mystic Paper and has been for eight months, she has been scrapbooking since she was 15, that equals fifteen years,yes, she is 30 so she has seen a lot of trends come in and out. Caroline just loves creating and documenting her family's life and making beautiful things. She loves taking old "things" and somehow turning them into a book. For example, altering encyclopedias, childrens board books, finding various objects and mounting them to the cover objects such as, clocks, compasses, and letters. Caroline lives by the quote, " Live in every breath." |