I am excited to introduce you to another one of my paper team members. Alicia will share a little about herself, but first I want to show you the darling project she made with Holiday Style, one of my paper lines with Bazzill Basics Paper.
So now that you have seen her project...meet Alicia!
Hello! My name is Alicia Hedrick, and I am very excited to have the opportunity to finally guest post for the Quilted Fish. I first met Amanda 2 years ago at the Long Beach Quilt Show, and instantly fell in love with her and her unique style. I honestly stood in her booth talking her ear off for almost an hour, just oogling over everything she had in her booth. Her style was something I rarely saw at the quilt shows, but one that was very similar to my own. With that said... let me tell you a little about myself.
I am 24 years old, live in Southern California, I am married to a wonderful man who comes from a long line of quilters, and have a beautiful 4 year old daughter, a bun in the oven, and 2 wild and crazy boxers. My life is a bit crazy, often bordering on chaos, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. In regards to my crafting skill, I am a self professed hobby horse to the fullest extent of the term. I crochet, knit, quilt, sew (as in clothing), paper craft, and am a pretty fabulous cook, who has a love affair with baking! If there is a craft out there, I will learn and conquer it, if I happen to see something of that craft that strikes my fancy. My personal style runs very girly, lots of pinks, greens, creams, as well as very romantic and shabby chic. I live for embellishments! I do not believe in doing anything simple, plain jane, or ordinary. I believe in mixing mediums, using crochet with my quilting, and quilting with my scrapbooking. I love buttons, and bows, and ribbons, and lace. (Have you figured out why I fell in love with Amanda yet??) For the most part, I just love to live outside of the box.
When Amanda first got in touch with me and said that she would like for me to be a part of her scrapbooking team, I was ecstatic! I had the wonderful opportunity of working with her at the beginning of the year, using her Sweet Divinity fabric line, and had the time of my life. I was able to create a darling patchwork dress, and then to top it all off, had the pleasure of posting that tutorial onto Riley Blake’s “Cutting Corners” blog. Now, with her cardstock line, Amanda uses the same prints from her Sweet Divinity fabric line, so I was very excited to get my hands on it, and work it using this new medium. I immediately started thinking about all the “non-conventional” things I could make with her paper. My idea of paper crafting is boxes, and bows, mobiles, and lamps, wreaths, pocket books, etc. Basically, I like to take something ordinary, and turn it into the extraordinary.
In light of upcoming Holiday season, which seems to be approaching insanely fast this year, I thought it would be fun to create some cute holiday gift boxes to get you all ready for your holiday shopping. The first gift box is small, just to introduce everyone to the basics, and is accompanied by a gift tag, which I designed to compliment Amanda’s “Holiday Style” paper. The box is very simple and easy to create, and is a darling way to package up your gifts this holiday season. I hope you all enjoy this first taste of what I have to offer, and I look forward to posting my next project soon! In the mean time, you can visit me at my blog www.kayliescloset.blogspot.com, or check out my other crafts at www.kayliescloset.etsy.com. Till next time… Happy Crafting!
If you would like to make the gift box you can download the pattern here: Download Mini Christmas Gift Box (1) (file updated on 11/13)
