Keisha Charles
Meet Keisha Charles, a paper crafter from a suburb near Atlanta and the owner of The Papermint. She started crafting in 2005 and got more serious about her card-making hobby in 2006, when she was making cards mostly for friends and family. As her love for it grew (and her old craft room shrank), the hobby blossomed into a small business — and a much-needed studio of her own.
Keisha loves making cards for all of life's special celebrations: weddings, birthday parties, and baby announcements. She believes beautiful paper should be used to mark life's special moments, and her colorful, endlessly organized studio is built to do exactly that.
In Her Words“Cheerful, colorful, craft space.”
Q&A with Keisha
1. What is your favorite type of paper crafting project to make?
Scrapbooking, mini-albums, and cards.
2. What year did you start paper crafting as a hobby?
2005.
3. What's the one craft product you can't live without?
Barring the obvious scissors and paper, it would be stamps and ink.
4. What are you passionate about personally? What do you really enjoy?
Crafting: Paper — plain, patterned, textured, smooth. I loved paper long before I truly started crafting.
Personal: This takes a little explaining… Crafting has been part of my family life since I was a girl. I come from a line of talented women — sewing, knitting, crochet, painting — and even the men in my family were good with their hands; my grandpa was a carpenter by trade, my uncle is a mechanic. Family and crafting are synonymous to me. Travel is a passion I share with my husband. I've always been curious about far-away places, and there's nothing better than sharing the experience of a new place with someone you love and creating a memory. I capture those memories through photography and share them in scrapbooks and photo journals.
5. Describe your studio in three words:
Cheerful, colorful, craft space.
6. What is the best reaction you've ever heard from a visitor to your craft studio?
[Speechless.]
7. What other paper crafters have inspired you over the years?
Anna Griffin, the Stampin' Up family of crafters, and a legion of generous individuals on YouTube who share their talents each day.
8. How would you describe your project design style?
I play on both ends of the spectrum: decadent and detailed, or streamlined and striking.
9. What is your favorite color?
They're all my favorite color… that's the problem.
10. What other hobbies do you have?
Photography, cooking, and gardening.
11. Can you settle the intense internet debate: should paper be stored vertically or horizontally?
I've had more success storing paper horizontally — but I'm always open to a good solution if someone can share a better way.
12. What was the best part of the Stamp-n-Storage visit to your studio?
Seeing the response of the Stamp-n-Storage team to the role their products played in making the studio a functional, beautiful space. They were probably the only ones who had as much excitement about the end product as I did.
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