Designers

Audrey Neal

Audrey Neal has a very great eye for design and composition, and uses her unique perspective to create digital kits people want to use.

Audrey is the co-author, with May Flaum, of Paper + Pixels: Scrapbook Layouts, a book about hybrid scrapbooking. While her digital kits reflect a variety of styles, Audrey's primary purpose is to create digital kits that help you to get your stories scrapped.

Audrey has been scrapbooking for years and has worked on several manufacturer design teams including My Mind's Eye, Urban Lily, Around the Block, and others. She has had numerous articles and layouts featured in many paper and digital publications.

Audrey lives in a small college town in western Kentucky with her husband Chris and two daughters, Cassidy and Cami. Both she and her husband work for the same university, which makes for nice lunch dates on a daily basis.

Audrey has a B.A. in English and Secondary Education, with a minor in Creative Writing; she just completed her Master's degree in Secondary Education.

You can visit Audrey's blog and gallery to check out the uniqueness that she is bringing to DHD!

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Carina Gardner

We're happy that Carina Gardner has found her new home at Design House Digital! DHD is so lucky to have her. She was formerly a digital designer for Two Peas in a Bucket, and her style can be described as design chic.

With an M.A. & Ph.D. in Design from the University of Minnesota, she definitely knows what she's doing. She has even taught graphic design foundations, typography, design theory, and packaging design for five years at the University of Minnesota.

Currently, Carina is teaching an introductory Adobe Illustrator course at Jessica Sprague.com. Carina is a busy girl and also designs paper for My Mind's Eye and fabric for Northcott. You can see some of her fun designs at her Studio site.

Carina lives in Salt Lake City with her two little girls and husband Josh, who is an attorney.

You're going to love all the amazing elements that Carina brings to the site. Carina is also releasing kits under the "Design 365" label, so be sure to check the Design House Digital shop for those!

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Deena Rutter

Deena Rutter is one of the most talented illustrators in the digital scrapbooking and paper scrapbooking community. She has recently released 3 paper lines through My Mind's Eye called Abbey Road, Penny Lane, and Love Me Do.

Her designs are fresh, fun and incredibly unique. She has been designing for the craft industry since 1999 and has worked for several companies including Provo Craft, Crate Paper, and MME.

For those of you who are familiar with the Cricut, she designed the Storybook & Stand and Salute Cartridges.

She has been also involved in digital scrapbooking, selling her digital designs through PCLayers.

We're so glad that she now calls DHD her home! We are all so lucky that she is able to harness her amazing talent into such lovely papers and accessories so we can get our grubby little hands (and mouses) on them!

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Jen Allyson

Jen Allyson has worked for My Mind's Eye as a designer and art direct for for 7+ years. Jen has designed many many sheets of paper: so many that if you were once a paper scrapper, we can pretty much guarantee you've used some of her designs.

Jen's newest line is called Be-loved and its an adorable Valentine's Day line. At CHA in January 2010, MME is launching an adorable line that she designed along with the lovely Zoe Pearn called "Quite Contrary."

Jen started as a digital designer in February 2009, so she's a young one, but has had so much fun and met so many talented and amazing people that she feels like she's been doing it forever!

Jen also has digital kits for sale at Two Peas in a Bucket, but all kits designed after January 2010 are for sale at DHD!

You can check out Jen's blog, The Project Girl, for more info and some fun projects and downloads too!

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Kate Teague

Kate has been involved in scrapbooking for 11 years ago when she started to scrap her wedding album. She even received an honorable mention for CK's Hall of Fame - twice!!

Kate got into digital scrapbooking when she has a relapse with MS and her right hand went numb - paper scrapping was too hard, but digital kept her sane and really got her addicted.

Kate is incredibly artistic and even got a college diploma in design and painting (way back before photoshop and illustrator - when everything was done by hand!) so becoming a digital designer was a natural transition.

Kate started out designing for Designer Digitals and then Two Peas in a Bucket. She's created some amazing digital kits and has even designed stamps, paper, and stickers for Fontworks. How cool!

In addition to designing for DHD, Kate teaches 2nd Grade part time, and is a wife to Tim her software engineer hubby, and Mother to Mackenzie her ballet-figure skating kiddo. She's also on the Shutterfly Advisory Team and loves it!

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MaryAnn Wise

MaryAnn has been scrapbooking for 9 years and designing digital kits for 5 years. in 2004 she even won the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame!

She was also once a Garden Girl and digital designer at Two Peas in a Bucket. MaryAnn has also designed product for Carolees Creations and Autumn Leaves. She's a very busy lady!

She married her high school sweetheart 25 years ago and has 3 kids in college and one in the 4th grade. She loves to be at the beach and watch the sunset and is a California girl at heart but lives in texas.

A few fun facts about MaryAnn are that she loves to listen to Jackson Browne, she sells Silpada Jewelry, and she has watched every single season of Survivor, because human nature amazes her.

MaryAnn's products are sophisticated and artistic just like she is.

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Melissa Esplin

Melissa Esplin is the cutest thing ever! If you doubt this, go check out Melissa's blog. You'll love it and fall in love with her sense of style and amazing calligraphy.

Melissa is new to digital scrapbooking design, but not design, She graduated in Painting amp; Drawing in 2007 from BYU, but design is what got her through school:

"I got 4 years of graphic design experience by the time I left college, and towards the end of my schooling my work looked more like a designer's than a painter's. My BFA show was created entirely in Illustrator."

She also says, "My love for illustrator and Adobe's Creative Suite runs deep. Illustrator is like my bestest friend, like the one that knows exactly what you're saying when you're not saying anything."

If you've already checked out her amazing blog, you would know that she also loves things like photography, painting, bookbinding, sewing, blogging, bike riding and being a mama. This girl is one talented lady!

Melissa is excited to be designing for DHD and we are excited for her to be on our awesome team of designers.

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Sara Schmutz

Sara has always been interested in Graphic Design and Scrapbooking, but never realized the two would meet up down the road of her life. She attended UVU as a graphic design major while working various Design freelance and part-time jobs. She finally ended up full time for pcCrafter as a typographer - and was introduced into the wonderful world of digital scrapbooking.

Always on the lookout for a new adventure, Sara quit her day job soon after her daughter was born and went on to continue her love affair with scrapbook designing from home. Sara has designed for pcLayers, a Provo Craft Cricut Cartridge, and, most recently, has had two kits from Imagainisce release in the CHA Winter 2010.

Her love for digital scrapbook design has taken a back burner in the past year. But, after moving her family twice and finally settling down in the damp and gray northwest, Sara is finally ready to pull out her skills and start digi designing once more.

And, when Sara is not designing, she can usually be found either with a camera in front of her face chasing her daughter around the house, or working on, yet another, craft project or home decorating scheme. Feel free to visit Sara Schutz's blog for more of a taste of her life.

Sara currently resides in the upper-upper-northwest with her full-time-medical-student of a husband and a very lively and rambunctious two year old daughter -Ashlyn.

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Spencer Nugent

DHD would not be complete without a man designer or "mansigner." We're so excited to announce Spencer Nugent has turned to the "light side" and started designing digital scrapbooking kits!

Spencer has always been an artist and studied Industrial Design at BYU. Soon after graduating, he launched a website, IDsketching, dedicated to helping art students hone their sketching skills. He does video tutorials and the most recent feature "sketch-a-day" to help keep us all inspired.

Spencer grew up in Jamaica and loves the color red and pretty much all bright colors. He is married to the adorable Jen Allyson and together, with their kitty Archibald Von Nugent, live in sunny El Dorado Hills, California!

Even though he is a trained and professional Industrial Designer, illustration has always been his true love. Spencer has a lot of creativity up his sleeve and brings his own unique styling to all of his kits.

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Tiffany Tillman

Some of you may know Tiffany from her induction to the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame in 2005. Since then, she has contributed page designs to hundreds of periodicals, books, DVDs, and creative projects around the world.

She was formerly designing for Little Dreamers Designs, and she is currently teaching intermediate Photoshop and Photoshop Elements courses at ReneePearson.com.

Tiffany attended Old Dominion University, studying Fine Arts & Graphic Design. She lives in Virginia Beach (awesome) with her diva-daughter, and is a beach-gal at heart. She even loves to play the PS3!

Tiffany's style is uniquely her own. Her work is clearly professional and shows she is a master of design and composition. She is somehow able to combine cutesy and modern to create scrapbook perfection. We're so happy that she's showcasing her soul and flair at Design House Digital!

Check out Tiffany's blog for more information on all that she's up to.

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