Designer Week- Get to Know Heather & Loes!

This week is "Designer Week" here on the Authentique Paper blog! We want to showcase all of our amazing designers and we thought our fans may want to get to know the people behind the amazing projects featured on our blog. 

Heather Conklin

Heather has been a member of our design team since the very beginning. She's pretty amazing, that's why we keep her around! Not to mention, we absolutely love her! 

10 random fun facts:

1. I can say the alphabet backwards.
2. I love coffee. All of the time.
3. I think driving manual transmission cars are fun, even though I don't own one.
4. I've never lived outside of Washington State.
5. I have to write everything down in order to remember it.
6. I watch TV while I craft, but only for background noise.
7. I cannot watch scary movies, or read scary books, but have watched every episode of Supernatural.
8. All of my house walls are super neutral in color, even though I love bright colors.
9. I'm a total Art History nerd.
10. I am constantly losing my phone and have to use FindMyiPhone to find it at least once a week.

5 must have tools for crafting:

• Xyron 9" Creative Station
• sharp, pointy scissors
• lot's of glue dots and dimensional adhesive
• Silhouette Cameo
• Gridded mat

3 of My Favorite projects created with Authentique Paper products:

Heather's Crafty Space:

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Loes de Groot

Loes has also been a part of our team since close to the beginning. We met her at a fairytale event that we attended in the Netherlands. We knew then that she had to be a part of our team! Her work is simply amazing and she's an all around beautiful person. 

10 random fun facts:

1. I love the smell of paper, my scrapbook papers or a new book

2. I can not resist new things in the paper craft industry, I buy too much and when it does not work for me, I sell it

3. I talk too much ( ask my children)

4. I love it when I go crafting now and people know me. Maybe you don't know, but I am a dutch and it is a very small country.

5. I talk to myself when I am crafting

6. I always keep one of my kits of the projects that I create ( I teach workshops too )

7. I am a very chaotic person, that's why I always have to clean something up

8. I love quality time with my family, I love to break the week in the middle on Wednesday, and to celebrate the weekends in, and after church on Sunday to eat with each other

9. I love my glass of wine!

10. I am a crazy mom and grand mom :-)

5 must have tools for crafting:

• ribbons and lace…. I can not imagine I created something without them
• tape dispenser
• paper trimmer
• my favorite papers from the moment I saw them the first time  ……

• my cupboard full of ideas ……. when I am empty in my head I only have to open this cupboard 

3 of My Favorite projects created with Authentique Paper products:

Loes' Crafty Space:

We want to offer up a little prize pack to a lucky fan! Simply come back each day this week and get to know more of our design team, leave a unique comment and you are entered to win!