When I was in elementary school, for every holiday I made some kind of craft project. Like an origami turkey diorama for Thanksgiving, hand illustrated wrapping paper, and yearly hand made cards.

Come middle to high school, when MySpace and social network sites started up -- the kind that you can actually type in an HTML code to design your site. This is when I taught myself how to use Photoshop and HTML to design original pages. From high school in the States, I moved to Japan and entered fashion school, where fashion illustrating and color theory classes were my major strength -- incorporating the idea of Photoshop layers into fashion collages, using tracing paper to change transparency, and putting on card stock what I did with the mouse and a white digital canvas.

Since graduating fashion school, I had a few opportunities to make wedding paper items for friends and family, which reminded me of how I loved making cards and putting my thoughts and wishes for others into a visual form.

It was after my wedding in 2012, where along with our paper items, I designed and sewed my wedding dress and 6 bridesmaid dresses, that I was asked to design and create wedding paper items professionally. I still continue to make custom wedding orders -- making anything from wedding bow tie dog collars, draw string gift bags, welcome boards and guestbooks (and of course paper items) -- but here on my Etsy shop, I bring to you my original creations on paper and fabric.