Mom Takes Her Designing To A Higher Level

Deseret Morning News:

For Kristy Lee, scrapbooking isn’t just for her kids. That is, keeping her photos of her babies and tracking her family’s life.

It’s a career and a showcase opportunity for her creativity.

Lee is a scrapbook designer with five children, two Internet jobs and a bunch of magazines that feature her ideas.

She designs for the Web site www.creativexpress.com on its night design team and hosts its Webcast “The Nth Degree.”

She also does designs for “We R Memory Keepers,” taking new products and incorporating them into original pages and keepsakes.

“It’s still like a dream that I get to work for them,” she said. “I just applied. I’m a very lucky girl to be able to make some sort of incoming doing something that I love.”

She’s assigned to come up with two project ideas every month. One month she was asked to include statistics; another required that she use five photos and long strips of material. Next month she’ll do cut-outs and shapes and a horizontal layout.

“The possibilities are endless,” Lee said. “For a while, I was chronological in my approach, everything had to be in order. When I gave that up, my creativity blossomed.