Meet the Creative Team

Hi! I'm Amy Sotolongo from Southern California! I'm a junior high special education teacher by day and a creative soul by night. I love living a full life and making new memories. I also love scrapbooking them! My husband and I love to travel and enjoy crossing baseball parks off our list (our goal is to see each one!). I also love to bake and always have a new recipe ready to try. I am very excited to be creating for I Heart (ippity) and look forward to all this team is going to share. 

My Blog: http://amysoto.blogspot.com

Hi there! I'm Candace Pierce. I'm a Child of God, a Mississippi girl, a wife to Andrew, and an 8th grade English teacher. My joy for paper-crafting began in 2007 with scrapbooking, but about a year later I discovered stamping and card-making. Now, I never buy store-bought cards because I just love making someone smile with a handmade card. Paper-crafting has opened lots of doors for me, and I've met so many wonderful people because of it. I'm so thankful for the many opportunities I've had. When I'm not in my craft room, I love spending time with my family, shopping, baking, and making a feeble attempt at learning to cook. I am so excited to be on the first Creative Team for I Heart {ippity}! You can read more about me at my blog - www.candid-candace.blogspot.com.

My name is Jeannie DeGruccio. I am so excited to be part of the” i heart ippity” team. To tell you a little about me, I am a mom, I have 7 kids, ranging from 19 down to 3 years. My hubby and I have survived, so far through 22 years of marriage. I have been Scapbooking/Stamping /Paper Crafting through it all. I started crafting as a young mom to decorate my home on a very tight budget. From there I got into scrapbooking and card making and moved onto various forms of art and crafting as the trends changed. Today I have about 20 years of crafting experience. I started stamping in the early 90’s and laugh now at what I thought were great handmade cards. I love most all stamps and when I saw the ippity sets, I knew I wanted to work with them. I can’t wait to start showing you some fun things to do with your stamps.

If I had to describe my style, I would say that I am a whimsical paper crafter. I love bold, bright, cheery and cutesey type things. I can DO any style, but I do default to my whimsical style when I am given no boundaries. I am in love with crafts of all forms. Paper is my passion, my therapy. Cards, scrapping, home decor? I love it all. I have never met a piece of paper I can't tame! I love to help people realize their own design potential and love to share shortcuts, hints and doable ways for people to do what I do. I do not feel I have more talent than the person standing next to me, I just feel like I am not afraid to try new things and techniques. Now, I say enough talking, let’s get stamping! Agree??

My Blog: http://polkacabana.wordpress.com/

 Hello, my name is Shellye McDaniel and I'm glad to be a part of the team!  I live in NE Texas with my husband of 20 years and our three kids: two boys ages 17 and 13 and my baby girl, age 9.  I have been a nurse for 18 years and currently work part-time in Labor & Delivery.

I've pretty much been known as a 'crafty' person my whole life...I love making stuff!  When I discovered scrapbooking in 1997, I knew it was for me.  Since then, I've expanded my love of paper into card-making, stamping, alter-art projects and more.  My style may range from clean and conformed to shabby and distressed...I like it all.

I look forward to spending time and sharing with all of you!

My Blog:http://www.paperedcottage.blogspot.com

Hi y’all! I’m Mary and I am delighted to be here! You can find me nestled in the heart of Eastern Kentucky 

diving my time between my family, church, scrapbook room, homework, oh, and work! On any given day, 

you will find me doing any combination of those activities, and on some days, all of them, but I wouldn’t 

have it any other way! I am truly blessed. I love to share my love of paper-crafting and hope you enjoy 

what you see! God Bless!

My Blog: www.softangelkisses.com