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Amy Hurley believes that everyone has a talent. Her talent just happens
to be scrapbooking, a craft she’s been doing for about eleven years.
Amy, like many, began scrapbooking because of her children—she
wanted to preserve their childhood and different memories. Starting with
construction paper and stickers, she has evolved into a scrapbooker with
her own unique, eclectic style. “I like to pull in a bit of everything—simple
clean lines, collage, shabby chic, cute, etc.” she explains.
It was this style and talent that brought Amy into professional designing
in 2001. She began by designing displays at a local store called Scrap
It All in Tigard, Oregon. Today Amy still works for Scrap It All doing
displays for product lines, but she’s also busy in other areas.
Currently she’s working with scrapbook.com and Teresa’s Northwest
Design Studio to create her own line of scrapbook products.
This line will focus on hard to find products such as transparencies,
paper, stickers and cardstock that relate to children with special needs.
It’s an area close to her heart, as all three of her sons have special
needs. Two of her boys have Autism and a third is Bi-Polar. All three
have been diagnosed with Sensory Integration Disorder.
Amy’s children take up every bit of her time and energy, but Amy
still finds the time to focus on scrapbooking. “Scrapbooking is
a great way for me to connect with my children,” she says. She feels
that her product line will help others connect with their special needs
children as well.
Each time she sits down to create a layout, it’s a fresh new challenge.
Amy loves that there are no limits to the imagination and views scrapbooking
also as a way to express herself as a woman, rather than as a worker,
a wife, etc.
Inspiration comes from everywhere for Amy—a coffee cup, a billboard
sign and especially from product. She has an absolute love for product
and also for using unexpected items. Amy is known for using anything from
rubber bands and paper clips to items from her purse and even her grandmother’s
crocheted pillowcase on her pages. She even admits to having 12 fish and
tackle boxes full of embellishments stacked on her desk in her workspace.
“Everything but the kitchen sink,” she says, “that’s
me!”
This month Amy shares one of her favorite pages with us.
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