Welcome, Debi and Allison!

Now it is time to welcome our new Heart 2 Heart Design Team Members!  We are so excited to have these talented ladies on board with us for the rest of the year!  First up is Debi Barber.

Debi says:
I am a single mother (and soon to be first time Grandmother) of two beautiful daughters.  As a tax professional by trade I need a creative outlet and paper crafting and scrapbooking is my medium of choice right now.  I’ve been paper crafting for most of my adult life, and began the art of scrapbooking about 10 years ago.  Coincidently (or perhaps not) I have also been a Close To My Heart consultant for 10 years.  I joined CTMH as a venue to meet people when I found myself single again and I have succeeded in that venture and more.  I love to experiment with various crafting supplies and have found my passion is then to share with everyone the end results of my experimentation.  I am excited to join the Heart to Heart Challenge team and hope I can inspire everyone with their paper crafting projects.

We would also like to welcome Allison "Allie" Kostiuk to the Design Team!

Hi! My name is Allie Kostiuk. I live with my wonderful husband and teach grade 3 in the beautiful Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. I was first introduced to the world of stamps and scrapbooking by my aunts at our summer cabin while I was in elementary school. We had all seen rubber stamps and played around with them before, but it was that summer when we started creating our own cards with stamps. It wasn’t until I was in high school when I created my first scrapbook. Going off to college and university and meeting so many amazing new friends encouraged me to scrapbook my experiences each summer. My aunt introduced me to Close To My Heart products during this time and after graduating university, I decided to become a consultant as well. I am so pleased to be on my first design team ever with Heart2Heart and look forward to the challenges ahead :)!