Lisa Truesdell

Lisa Truesdell lives in Omaha, NE, in a midtown neighborhood filled with big trees and old houses. When her mother started scrapbooking, Lisa was surprised to see how far the hobby had come, and quickly fell in love with a craft that allowed her to experiment with color & patterns, words and photographs. She's now been scrapbooking for 5 years and her pages are detailed and whimsical. She loves to mix and layer bits of patterned paper with lots of sewing. Lisa finds inspiration in quilt patterns and decor magazines, and loves to record the small moments in her family's life that would otherwise be forgotten.

Lisa has been married to Matthew for 12 years and is a stay-at-home mom to their three boys - Alex, Ben and Sam. When she's not making pages or chasing her boys, she is slowly teaching herself to use her sewing machine on fabric. She also subscribes to too many magazines and is useless from the moment she starts a new book until she finishes it.

Lisa was a Creating Keepsakes Honorable Mention winner in 2006, and has had her work published in BHG Scrapbooks Etc, Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Scrapbook Trends and Cards Magazine. She is currently on the design team for Fiskars.

According to Lisa:

When I was a child... I loved visiting my grandparent's farm. Lots of places to explore, a basement fridge stocked with Capri Sun, and a BIG box of art supplies to play with. Does it get much better?

I can't imagine my life without... my boys. The big one that loves me unconditionally and supports me in anything, and the littles that keep me laughing and inspired (and maybe a smidge crazy at times!)

I would love to win a shopping spree to... Anthropologie! But it had better be a BIG shopping spree, because my wish list there is impossibly long. ;)

If I could be anywhere, I'd be... at a BIG crop, with all of my online scrapping friends. I've been lucky to meet some amazing people through this hobby, and I wish I could see them more often!

My least favorite chore is... putting away dishes. I don't mind doing them (or loading the dishwasher) - but for some reason, I can't stand to put them away!

If a mystery package arrived on my doorstep, I'd hope it would be... there is NOTHING like a good package. I love good mail days and just about anything could be inside that box and it would make my day. =)

My guilty pleasure is... McD's diet coke. I indulge in it way too often.

You would never guess it, but I... was a competitive baton twirler for most of my childhood (from 5-15!).