Carla was a customer at our store at one of our very first crops when we opened back in 2007. We immediately fell in love with her bubbly personality and her laugh. She gets the trophy for juggling multiple projects at once for sure! At any given time you will find her cutting vinyl on her Cameo and making shirts, stamping and making cards for the next card swap, editing hundreds of photos at a time…and while they are printing she can even spit out several fun scrapbook pages!! She brings that same enthusiastic energy to the sales floor at The City. You better watch out when shopping under Carla’s watch…she’ll have you buying the complete set of Copic markers that you didn’t know you ‘needed’ when you came in only for adhesive, LOL. She loves to help customers find the perfect paper and embellishments to go with their pictures. If you can catch her for a moment it will be on the weekends or at crops as she’s a 1st grade teacher during the week. She has a precious family that is always on the go…I swear I don’t think she sleeps. Her beautiful children are Olivia, Nathan & Luke and they love hanging out at The City while she works in the summer. She is a loyal City Chick all the way and I am proud to have her on my team.
~ City Chick Hall of Fame ~
Trish has been a huge part of our store from practically the first week of opening! She was one of our first customers and came by to visit and shop on a regular basis and was always asking how she could help out. Her boys would always be with her and loved hanging out at the store with my boys. We quickly became close friends and she has been by my side since. Trish amazes me with all her talents.... she is an amazing 'SuperMom' , fabulous designer and crafter, a Spanish teacher @ CAK, a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, baseball fan of her boys, the best cupcake baker, spoiling aunt to her nieces, business woman, and so much more... She has such a love and pride for Scrappin' In The City and has devoted a huge amount of time, thought, energy, sweat and tears. She's been my go-to chick and she's my personal cheerleader too :) I just smile every time I see her.
Trish is no less amazing in our scrapbooking world. Before we even had a Design Team, we began displaying her layouts throughout the store. She is the most enthusiastic scrapper I know and truly gets giddy over new product lines. She's that kind of scrapper that you are sooo jealous of and want to copy everything she does! :) Guess that's why she quickly became known for the most scrap-lift-able designs. She's always completely organized and has her kits prepared with embellishments, paper, sketch and picture while I'm still trying to pick a picture to print! Forget eating and sleeping at a crop....when Trish is cropping its die-hard scrapping....all night long! She has a massive Thicker collection, the best punch assortment, she's addicted to Stickles and Liquid Pearls and is always looking for that next cute boy line. Her newest love right now is her Silhouette Cameo which has led to an awesome Etsy shop ThisCraftyChica.
Thank you Trish for all your years of dedication & support. Scrappin' In The City would NOT be where it is today without you. You have definitely left your mark on the store and continue to be our customers favorite Chick! I will forever be grateful to you and look forward to spending more 'down' time scrapbooking with you again.
I’ll never forget Dixie coming to me and saying how much she loved my shop and that she didn’t know how yet, but that she wanted to be a part of The City. I jumped on that offer and knew exactly where I would put her!! She now leads our Design Team with challenges, inspiration and direction. Carrying the title of Lead Designer is a lofty job... she's always teaching at the store and sharing her knowledge of new products, tools & gadgets with us all. She's the star of almost all of our YouTube videos and tutorials AND she's the writer to the majority of our blog posts! She’s been my travel buddy to a couple CHA shows and she's always coming up with bigger and better visions for our shop. I love that she challenges me to stay 'in the know' and on the cutting edge with new products. She has an eye for looking at new products and instantly thinking of what she could do with it. She brings in the most beautiful cards, tags & projects into the store and we are all always oohing and aaahing over her designs.
She gets the prize for the most kids of our group…FIVE!!! shew… can you say wonder woman?!... and she has even homeschooled them all! That makes me tired just thinking about it! Jenna is away at college in Provo, UT @ BYU. {since most of the scrapbooking companies are based in Provo, I think Dixie & I need to go visit Jenna and all of our vendors!} Jayce just went away on a mission in Indonesia! Dallin, Seth & Catherine are all still at home with her. When does she find the time to craft you might wonder? - you could probably find her late at night after all the house is asleep, down in her craft room. Again, I'm grateful that I get just a piece of Dixie and I’m so thankful to have her on my team…she’s full of inspiration, love and a lot of creativity!
Amy has been with Scrappin’ In The City since 2013 and has been in the scrapbooking industry for many years now. She will admit she’s an avid collector & lover of all things crafty. She started with us on our Design Team sharing her beautiful & detailed scrapbook pages, which later evolved into Project Life pages and now she dabbles more in stamping, Copics and card making… but don’t worry, she still collects the paper like we all do! Amy has a knack for setting up displays with the merchandise at the store. She can take an empty display and turn it into such a happy space making you just want to buy it all and she can really work her magic on new product shipments. I can always tell when Amy has been working, because I walk in and everything looks so nice - every display is perfect and fresh. Maybe you could say she’s a little OCD… just a little :) I fully expect to find my cabinets & drawers labelled one day after she’s worked! LOL
She is also a doting wife to her hubby and she’s an amazing mother to her 2 children, Molly & Matthew. Like any mom, she stays busy keeping up with her family. She Homeschools both of her children and is also the caregiver to her grandmother. I’m thankful that I get a little piece of her at The City and blessed to have her on my team.