The Team
Artfull Crafts has grown from a home-based business into a fully fledged commercial business, running out of the small city of Timaru, New Zealand!
OWNERS
Liz and Graham Gregory
Liz is a retired school teacher and long-time craft enthusiast. She has a lovely supportive husband Graham (who spends many evenings working on this website!). Liz is the Creative Director and Team Leader of Artfull Crafts.
Liz has been making hand-made cards for many years, but has also developed a strong interest in scrapbooking and beyond the page projects. Her designs are colourful and creative, and exude the energy and joy that makes up her personality.
Liz and Graham have a strong faith in Jesus Christ and love to share the good news of the gospel.
EMPLOYEES
Vicki Howey - Office Administrator
Vicki has a husband and 2 children and lives in Temuka. She used to own a scrapbooking store in Temuka for a couple of years - so she has a wealth of product knowledge and excellent people skills!
Juanita Patrick - Shop Manager
Juanita is married and also lives in Temuka! She LOVES scrapbooking and card-making and her work is always done with great care. She enjoys helping people select the perfect products for their projects!
Diana Steven - Website Administrator
Diana is a talented lady with her finger in all sorts of pies! She's been involved in musical shows, management, teaching - and now she's going mad on crafts. She has 5 beautiful children - plenty of inspiration for scrapping. Diana organises the loading of products on the website the weekly email.
Lowri McNabb - Marketing Manager
Lowri is the Design Team Manager of Artfull Crafts - organising the blog schedule, themes and ensuring that you are kept up-to-date with the craft happenings at Artfull Crafts. She is also taking reponsibility for our Facebook Page and other marketing opportunities.
Ella Ramage
Ella is a student at Timaru Girls High School and she has a love of photography. She's now hooked on scrapping and she works Saturdays in the shop and some afternoons. It could be dangerous for her!!
DESIGN TEAM
Sandy Ang
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Sandy is based in Singapore and has a love for Crate
Paper, Pink Paislee, Glitz Designs and Teresa Collins. She's a talented crafter
and designs for the manufacturer Ruby Rock-It, for an Australian scrapbook store
and a Malaysian kit club. Sandy is also a talented photographer!
Being engaged creatively is high on the list of what makes Sandy happy. She enjoys learning,trying new techniques and styles. She also believe in sharing with others either through tutorials on her blog or through little scrappy giveaways. Connecting with other crafty people regularly gives her a wonderful sense of community. Take me to Sandy's Gallery. Check out her blog at http://angsandy.blogspot.com/ |
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Lindsey March
| Lindsey lives in Tauranga NZ and brings to the Artfull Crafts Team a
wealth of crafting knowledge. She's dabbled in knitting, crochet,
cross-stitch, applique, patchwork
and quilting! However, nothing
has hooked her as much as scrapbooking has. She loves Echo Park, Basic
Grey, Prima, Tim Holtz, Jillibean Soup, Cosmo Cricket to name a few.
She's also addicted to paper, paper, paper and also flowers, punches,
ribbon, buttons, lace, inks,
chipboard, paint - yes - just about everything. She is inspired by her three adorable grand daughters and she loves the way that scrapbooking is a brilliant way to combine her love of taking photos and her desire to tell her family's stories. Take me to Lindsey's Gallery. |
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Louise Forsyth
| Louise lives in Dannevirke, NZ and she's about to have another baby! She
creates mostly cards at the moment and is a DT member for a few other
Teams. She creates fabulous cards which are filled with lace, flowers
and coloured images. Louise and her friend Tracy set up the Southern Girls Challenge Blog a couple of years ago and they love encouraging the NZ and Australian craft community to share their creations. Take me to Louise's Gallery. Louise has her personal blog at punknscrap2@blogspot.com. |
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Lisa Skinner
| Lisa loves to create and enjoys spending time scrapping or working on
projects in her spare time. She loves Kaisercraft, Bo Bunny, Webster’s,
Echo Park, October Afternoon, Crate Paper and Girls Paperie. Like most
of us she loves paper, but she also loves to play with ribbons, string,
flowers, brads, tags & all the cute little bits out there! She has a husband & two gorgeous children, Emily 13 & Joel 9. She works casually at her local scrapbook store in Victoria, Australia. Take me to Lisa's Gallery Check out her blog at http://mypassiontoscrap.blogspot.com/ |
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Christine Bonifacio
| Christine comes from a diary farm in Temuka, NZ and has a grown up
family. She's been a keen crafter for many years and enjoy both making
cards and scrapbooking. Christine loves using dies, embossing folders
and stamps and she pays careful attention to the details on her
creations. She loves to check out the blogs and is always interested in
the new items that come to the market. Luckily Christine lives locally - and so we'll enjoy working closely with her! Take me to Christine's Gallery. |
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Lowri McNabb
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Lowri is a busy mother to three small children and lives on a vineyard in Blenheim, NZ. She enjoys many types of papercrafting and loves making BTP projects, mini albums and other gifts to give away. Lowri has a clean style of crafting and in 2011 was asked to create for Echo Park, Little Yellow Bicycle, Kaisercraft and Making Memories. Take me to Lowri's Gallery. |
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Betsy Clark
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Betsy Clark lives in Geraldine, NZ with her husband. She has grown-up children and enjoys being a grandmother. She's a respected member of the South Canterbury community - involved in her local church and in teaching craft classes. Betsy's cards are exquisite and much-admired. She's kind and generously puts her cards on display in the Artfull Crafts Store - and she's agreed to be on our Design Team! She loves using Martha Stewart Punches, Spellbinders, Just Rite Stamps and enjoys searching the Internet for the newest products. Welcome Betsy! Take me to Betsy's Gallery. Check out her blog at http://bestofbetsys.blogspot.com/ |
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