eleonor. She's Clipper Street's Stamping Guru! Eleonor's teaching style is half parts casual and crazy - but she will always leave you inspired with new techniques and creative confidence. Look for Tita E's cards in up-in-coming issues of Paper Crafts Magazine and Stamp It Magazine... Congrats E!!! Name 3 things in your fridge on a regular basis... Ketchup, strawberry jam, cream cheese What's in the trunk of your car right now? Jumper Cables What TV series do you record? Amazing Race Describe your favorite shoes. Don’t have a fave shoe – if I had my way, I’d wear slippers everywhere Describe your purse. Dark navy so I won’t have to worry about getting it stained Do you cook? What’s your specialty? Only sometimes, so my specialty is take out What’s the strangest listing in the directory of your cell phone? I’m a tech geek, so I don’t even know how to program my cell directory. Currently I think it is empty. I don’t’ even know and that’s sad.

Name the top 5 musicians/groups you have been listening to lately.

John Legend, Feist, India Arie, Justin Timberlake, Micheal Buble

Favorite book?

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

What’s hanging on the walls of your workspace?

Stuff I’ve made myself and pics of my family

The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is…

Look at the clock on my night stand

What do you like on your pizza?

feta cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, green peppers (I like veggie pizza)

When I’m stressed I want to…

Get on a plane and travel (Italy would be nice to visit again….)

My favorite paper craft projects are…

Handmade cards, but anything to do with paper and stamping ink is fine

The first thing I do when I have a creative project is….

Show it to other people.

I collect…

Nothing. I ’m busy enough as it is, don’t have time to collect anything!

Favorite quote and why…

”It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice” -- this was my tag line on all my emails for years – so much so that a good friend had a rubber stamp with that saying custom made for me (which I’m mad now, cause I can’t find it!!….) I just think being nice is so easy to do, and it brings out the best in everyone and everything. As far as being important goes, the only people who I’d like to be important to are my family.

How many years of experience do you have as a professional crafter (teaching, creating for sale, selling, etc)?

Feels like forever, but about 10 years now.

Who do you consider “responsible” for getting you started scrapbooking?

I can’t name anyone in particular. After seeing many scrapbook pages online and in mags, the desire to capture my own family memories just naturally took over.

Tattoos & piercings?

Are you crazy – I’m too chicken – just my ears, that’s it

Name of your favorite shade of lipstick.

Mauvelicous (what a tacky name, though...)

What colour scrapbooking cardstock do you use the most?

Earthones – anything earthy – mosses, brownsumbers paired up with a neutral like white, vanilla or cream. Gotta have that neutral for balance.

What do you buy a lot of? {craft related}

Scrapbooking adhesive

Proudly published in the following books/magazines:

• Paper Crafts (January 2009/February 2008)
• Paper Crafts (July 2008/November 2008)
• Stamp It

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