Community Forums Username: lauriemartcohn

Blog Address: lauriemartcohn.blogspot.com

When not cropping, I am a rabid, I mean avid, baseball fan. My 12-year-old son is one heck of a pitcher, and I LOVE to cheer his little league team on to victory! I teach Theatre Arts at a high school near Portland where I most recently directed the musicals Jekyll and Hyde and Les Miserables.

I have been scrapping since 1995, and my scrapbooking style is like fashion. From go-go boots and mini skirts to power suits and pumps, my fashion and scrapbooking styles change with the times. When I first started this wonderful craft, I was “one” with white pages, stickers and die cuts. In the late 90s, I was all about paper piecing. In early 2000, I used my own handwriting and I became shabby-chic. Now I love layering embellishments, exploring different textures and using Bazzill, Making Memories and Heidi Swapp products.

If I were stranded on a remote island I would take Rob Lowe for inspiration(!) along with my Canon EOS Digital Rebel camera with continuous shooting mode, Bazzill cardstock, my Making Memories Paper Trimmer, my Crop-A-Dile, Mini Glue Dots, and Tim Holtz scissors.

The emotional impact of a creating a gift scrapbook for friends or family members makes this craft deeply meaningful for me. And, on the lighter side, I adore shopping for supplies! In the spirit of good fun, my two friends and I travel all over the Northwest to shop at scrapbook stores.We call ourselves The Snippets, and we cheerfully rank all stores with 1-5 snips for curb appeal, inspiration, product, and customer service.

I love to journal and I am inspired by photos. Right now, I am making 8x8 theme albums for Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, etc. (It’s fun to display them on holidays!) And each year I make an everyday moments book. Recently, I took some graduate education classes and learned to make books and boxes. I have adapted these book arts techniques into scrapbook projects that I want to share with web readers.

It is such an honor to be chosen for the 2009 Craft Warehouse Design Team. I look forward to meeting Team Members and fellow scrappers on the Craft Warehouse Community Forum!

JUDGE'S NOTES:

Ummm……………………….WOW! Impeccable. Inventive. Inspiring. Interesting. Ingenious. Intelligent. Incredible. This girl has FLAIR, and WOW she is such a CREATIVE designer. I’m in awe, seriously, I’m looking at Laurie’s work for like the 10th time here, and I’m still in awe. The layouts are so full of texture, the project is so amazing, and the cards are incredibly inventive. Love the paper and element pairings. Love that she lets the ‘white space’ breathe. So excited to see what she will come up with next!