I have always enjoyed experimenting with different crafts but found myself drawn to scrapbooking, stamping and cardmaking. I am so pleased to have found paper crafts as a way of being creative and artistic. I have enjoyed paper crafts for several years but became a fanatic almost 2 years ago. I have had/will have layouts published in Scrapbooks Etc., PaperKuts, Memory Makers, PaperCrafts, Stampit!, Scrapbook Trends, PaperWorks, CardMaker, Simply Sentiments and Legacy Magazines as well as a variety of idea books. I am absolutely thrilled and honored to be part of this team!

Hello! My name is Miki Benedict and I live in Modesto, CA with my amazing husband Keith, my 7 year old son Tyler and our dog Pip.  I started scrapbooking in 2000 but really became obsessed about three years later and haven't looked back since!  Not only do I enjoy creating layouts but I love making cards and tags too.   I love the challenge of playing with new products and trying new techniques.  Most of my scrapping revolves around my family and I love the layouts that really capture those everyday moments of our lives. 

Hi!  My name is Anabelle O’Malley.  I live in Hockessin, Delaware with my wonderful husband Fran and our two year old son, Ryan.  Before Ryan was born, I taught elementary school for sixteen years.  Now I am a stay at home mom and scrapbooking and cardmaking addict! I have always loved paper crafts. As a child, I made cards for all of my family members. In college, way before scrapbooking trends started, I would cut out phrases from magazines and put them in those magnetic photo albums along with my pictures. 

During the late 90’s I dabbled with scrapping, but never really got into it since I was so busy with my career.  Then, in the summer of 2004 , I decided to start scrapping all of the baby pictures I had collected of Ryan.  I began buying materials and reading everything I could get my hands on.  I was hooked!!! Cardmaking and stamping soon followed.  When I’m not working in my scraproom (is there such a time?) I can be found playing at the park with Ryan and Fran, spending time at the beach with my family, cooking and hanging out with my mom or my girlfriends or watching reality TV. (Yes, I’m a junkie and proud of it!) 

I’m thrilled to be a part of this team and to be able to work with all of Paper Salon’s beautiful products.

Hi my name is Sherry Wright and I live in West Branch, MI with my husband Jim of 12 years, two year old son Brandon, 3 cats, and one dog. They are the focus of my layouts along with my other loves: flowers, animals, and nature. I also work part-time in the healthcare field and along with paper crafts spend my free time doing landscaping, gardening, camping, boating, and enjoying all the beautiful beaches in Michigan!

I grew up with a very crafty mother and have always done some sort of arts and crafts. I was given a scrapbook at my baby shower and started working with it after my son was born. Once I saw all the possibilities I was hooked and started expanding into cardmaking, stamping, and altering any and everything. I've had the honor of being published in several magazines and enjoy sharing my ideas with others. I am elated to be a part of the talented Paper Salon team and work with such beautiful and unique products.

I have to admit, my love of paper is lifelong, to the point of my mother naming my obsession "papercitis" at a very young age. So to say that I feel that I have found my niche is an understatement. I have been scrapbooking and papercrafting passionately for three years now, since my youngest son went to school. My work has been seen/ will be seen in Paper Crafts, Paper Trends, Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbook Answers, and Woman's Day, as well as on idea sheets at Joanns stores. I also teach a monthly class at my local scrapbook store as well as facilitate our bookclub meetings.

Besides being obsessed with paper, I volunteer at my children's school. I also love sailing (coming from growing up on the Great Lakes) and world travel.

I'm very excited to be on the Paper Salon team with such immense talent.

Hi, My name is Kelly Anne Grundhauser. I live in Woodbury, Minnesota with my husband Don and my 2 sons (twins) Nicholas and Jacob. Before the boys, I decided to go back to college and get my Nursing degree, I did. Shortly into the second semester, however, I found out I was pregnant and 5 1/2 years later I graduated.

Now my boys will be starting kindergarten and I will be getting a job outside the home. I loved every minute I was able to spend with them at home and feel so blessed to have had such an opportunity.

I started playing with stamps right before I got married about 9 years ago and then went back to school and my passion slipped to the wayside. Needless to say it is no longer a passion but a full fledged obsession. I love to stamp, paint, alter, and of course scrap. I love to take something that is plain and make it something wonderful.

I am very excited to be a part of the Paper Salon Design Team.

My husband and I live in Southern California - we have lived here for over 20 years but both of us were raised in Tacoma, WA. We have raised four great kids - today we enjoy our five grandkids whenever we get the chance. They also supply TONS of my inspiration in scrapbooking.

Since Jr. High - I have tried my hand at about every craft that has come around over the years and when I found rubber stamping, more years ago now then I can even remember, I was sold! I loved what could be accomplished in a short period of time . whether it was decorating an envelope or making a card. I can't even say I have a favorite technique because I love to experiment with about everything.

About 9 years ago, I finally decided to try my hand at scrapbooking - at first to incorporate my stamps with scrapping. I really can't say I have a favorite in scrapping either since again, I seem to LOVE trying and using about everything!

Cindy Smith

Hi, my name is Cindy Smith and I live in Maryland with my husband, Chance, my son, Benji, and my daughter, Emma. I am fortunate to be a Stay at Home Mom and work out of my home.

Although I've been stamping and cardmaking for over 10 years, I discovered scrapbooking after my son was born in 2001. It soon became a passionate hobby and I'd be lost without it. I spend countless hours making layouts, cards, altered projects, mini albums, and so much more.

I enjoy submitting my work to publications and I am so thrilled to have been published by Simple Scrapbooks, PaperCrafts, Memory Makers, Paperkuts, Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbooks Etc., Rubber Stamper, Legacy, and more!

I am SO honored to join such a wonderful company as Paper Salon and work on this talented team!

Ruth Akers

Hello all. My name is Ruth Akers and I am the 24 year old mother of 3 children. Mikey (4) Aubree (2) and Charity (1).

I am stationed in Clarksville TN, yet end up in various places in between due to an Army Husband, (and a serious issue with being alone.) I started scrapbooking with the usual shape templates and scissors when I was 19, right after my son was born. It took a little time, but I can say I've finally found my niche with embellished layouts and stamping.

I love diet coke, Target, food, dancing to loud music, and photography.

I enjoy all aspects of this hobby, but am most fond of the memories and friendships I make. I am thrilled to be working with everyone here, and am honored to be where I am in this industry

Julia Sandvoss

Hi! I'm Julia Sandvoss and I live in Oakville, Missouri, a suburb in St. Louis County. I am a busy mom to three children, Connor, Haley and Parker and married to Scott, my husband of 14 years! We round off our family with a box turtle, Lady and a very mean fish, Jack.

I know I will never forget the day I was watching a craft show on QVC and saw a scrapbook kit advertised. I don’t think I could have dialed any faster to order it and from the minute I received it and the magazine that it came with, I was hooked. Life has never been the same again and you know what…I wouldn’t want it to be. Through scrapbooking I have met amazing friends, had the opportunity to teach at local stores and conventions and see my work published in magazines such as Paper Crafts, Cards Magazine and Scrapbook Answers. The true icing on the cupcake for me is now being apart of different design teams. This has opened a whole new door that I would have never dreamed up. To get to work with beautiful products on a daily basis is just a wonderful position to be in!  Now if only I lived on a beach that overlooked the ocean...that is my next wish!

Melanie Douthit

Hello! My name is Melanie Douthit and I live in Northeast Louisiana.
I’m a work-at home mom of one pre-schooler, one jr. high schooler and one silly dachshund. I’ve been married to my very supportive husband, Jeff, for 18 years.  I'm a freelance artist (the kind where you paint on paper or canvas) and somehow morphed into a paper artist (the scrapbook "scissors and paper" kind). I love taking photos of my family and love scrapbooking because I can do my art ‘thing’ with the photos.

Kim Hughes

Hi, my name is Kim Hughes AKA “mescrapgood” on scrapping message boards. I am 35 and enjoy scrapping in some way every day.  I began scrapbooking when my daughter was born in 1999 and believe it was meant to be.  I became serious about my passion in 2004 when she entered into Kindergarten for "guilt free" scrap time.  At that time I began submitting and set very high goals for myself. I pride myself in keeping my style unique with every page and going above and beyond. 

I have been published in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Paper Crafts, Paper Trends, Scrapbook Trends, Memory Makers, Cantata Books and Making Memories Paper Cachet Idea Book.

I live in Roy, UT with my husband, Wade, our son, Mitchell, daughter, Alayna and our Dachshund, Moxy who are all my favorite subjects to scrap.

Jessica Witty

Hello!  My name is Jessica Witty and I am a southern girl through and through… perfectly happy to call Dallas, Texas, “home.”  My husband, Brian, and I are the parents of one little boy named Eli who we consider to be both the sweetest and most mischievous child ever. 

By day I work from home as both a mom and a script editor for an internationally broadcast radio ministry; by naptime and free time I “work” as a paper artist!  My first artistic love is rubberstamping.  I was introduced to stamping four years ago and still remember the feeling of amazement that even though I absolutely could not (and still can’t!) draw, I could still create art!  I’ve been an addict ever since.  I always sit down to stamp with the goal of creating an all-new, fresh design and love, love, love it when I’m able to see a design idea come to fruition.  My focus tends to be on cards, cards, and then some more cards, with gifts, wall hangings, and other various paper projects in the mix, too. 

Audrey Neal

My name is Audrey Neal. I'm married to a wonderful man named Chris and have two beautiful daughters: Cassidy (9) and Cameron (4). I teach middle and high school English, and I'm also the coordinator and teacher for my local school district’s Gifted and Talented Program. In my spare time, I love to read, watch movies, and listen to music.

Fiona Carter

My name is Fiona Carter. I live in beautiful Sydney, Australia with my husband Paul, our gorgeous daughters Emily, age 10 years, and Phoebe, age eight years, and our adorable bunnies Bubbles and Butterscotch. 

I’ve dabbled in many crafts since I was a child. There has, however, always been a consistent interest in “cutting and pasting” – anything that included papers, pens, pencils, glue and creative lettering. As a little girl I would beg my mum to buy me new pencils, pens and sketchbooks so I could draw and sketch. Now I have two daughters of my own whose favorite shopping trip is a visit to Officeworks (an Aussie office supply chain) so they can stock up on… you guessed it, new pencils, pens, markers and sketchbooks.

In 2000 I was introduced to scrapbooking, and was instantly hooked on the idea of preserving the stories of my family in such a creative way. Six years later, I’m still “cutting and pasting”. I love to tell a story on my layouts and use lots of photos of our everyday life. I hope in many years that we can look through our albums and laugh as we remember the fun things we did. My work has been published regularly in Scrapbooking Memories and My Reflections (both Australian publications) and the Australian Edition of Creating Keepsakes.

Kelly Purkey

My name is Kelly Purkey; I am a single 24 year old living in Chicago, IL and loving every second!  During the day I work for a magazine called "Living Without" (a lifestyle guide for people with food allergies and sensitivities) and at night I indulge in pizza and scrapbooking.  I graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Media Arts.  When I'm not at my desk scrapping, I love to get out of the house and enjoy the city… shopping, trying new restaurants, and spending time with friends.

I feel so lucky to have found scrapbooking, and enjoy all the opportunities and friendships it has brought me.  I'm so honored and excited to be working with Paper Salon alongside this great team!