CraftEire - Tutors

Amber Harrop-Johnston started scrapbooking in 2004 after stumbling across a site by accident, she was soon hooked and wanted to share her love of this craft with others.
Amber has taught classes at the Knit & Stitch event in the RDS in November 2006 and at Crafteire 2006 and 2007. She currently works for two design teams and has been published in both Creative Scrapbooking and ScrapBook Inspirations magazine in the past and in Creating Keepsakes Magazine in the USA in 2007. She is also honoured to be a member of the Collectively Yours dares girls and a teacher with The Design Collective. I love to use colour and shape on my pages and enjoy stepping out of the album by altering items to keep my family memories alive.

Hi there, I'm Eva Birdthistle. I began card making a few years back and loved the instant results, however when I was introduced to scrapbooking over two years ago at the first Irish Crop I was addicted to it instantly. Scrapbooking has re-introduced me to what is now another passion of mine, photography! Capturing the personality of family and friends through photographs and creating LO's to reflect this personality is what I love doing most.

I currently work full time in a job I adore as a Marketing Manager, however I dream of winning the lotto (or finding a sugar daddy) and opening a bricks and mortar craft shop, where I can be creative all day, every day! You can find some of my work on my Blog and I am proud to be a member of the Scrap West team. Looking forward to meeting everyone at Crafteire 2008.


29th February - 2nd March 2008 - Tullamore Court Hotel - Co. Offaly
Amber Harrop-Johnston started scrapbooking in 2004 after stumbling across a site by accident, she was soon hooked and wanted to share her love of this craft with others. Amber has taught classes at the Knit & Stitch event in the RDS in November 2006 and at Crafteire 2006 and 2007. She currently works for two design teams and has been published in both Creative Scrapbooking and ScrapBook Inspirations magazine in the past and in Creating Keepsakes Magazine in the USA in 2007. She is also honoured to be a member of the Collectively Yours dares girls and a teacher with The Design Collective. I love to use colour and shape on my pages and enjoy stepping out of the album by altering items to keep my family memories alive.	Jane Dean discovered scrapbooking in 1999 and since then her work has been published in idea books across the UK & US. Jane has also taught at numerous workshops in the UK & US and has appeared on Ideal Worlds "Create & Craft" channel as well as BBC's Breakfast News. She is currently a design team member for the ScrapBook Inspirations magazine and Scrapgenie. Jane loves trying out new techniques and products but her favourite parts of scrapping are the colour and patterns, mixing and matching papers to create layouts for her albums.
Hi I'm Linda Kelly. I started making and selling cards 7 years ago and soon became addicted. I love using gorgeous scrapbooking papers, ribbon and embellishments on my cards and was thus tempted into scrapbooking. I especially enjoy creating paperbag books and other types of mini albums. I started Kelly Paper Crafts to produce and sell blank mini memory albums in a variety of styles and shapes, ready for decoration and sell my products directly to crafters and through my ebay shop.	Hi, I’m Annamarie Redmond. As a keen photographer and papercrafter, I became addicted to scrapbooking after discovering a website devoted to it on the internet. I was completely enthralled by the colours and designs of the papers and the detail in the embellishments. I’ve been running TheScrapbookStore.ie since 2005 and I get to surround myself with stash every day of the week and sometimes get some scrappin’ done! I teach monthly scrapbooking workshops in Dublin and Drogheda where I get to have fun and meet some great people, I am also a member of the Scrap West blog.
Hi there, I'm Eva Birdthistle. I began card making a few years back and loved the instant results, however when I was introduced to scrapbooking over two years ago at the first Irish Crop I was addicted to it instantly. Scrapbooking has re-introduced me to what is now another passion of mine, photography! Capturing the personality of family and friends through photographs and creating LO's to reflect this personality is what I love doing most. I currently work full time in a job I adore as a Marketing Manager, however I dream of winning the lotto (or finding a sugar daddy) and opening a bricks and mortar craft shop, where I can be creative all day, every day! You can find some of my work on my Blog and I am proud to be a member of the Scrap West team. Looking forward to meeting everyone at Crafteire 2008.