Meet the Maker Feature: Colleen

Want to larn much astir our whimsical and amusive model displays? Meet the Maker and behind-the-scenes creator of our eye-catching displays successful the month’s feature. Colleen is not lone crafting her vocation astatine Paper Source, but besides shares her heartfelt hobby with america here: 

Paper Source model displays gully our customers successful and invited their originative ingenuity with curiosity and wonder.  Who is the prima down these beauteous assets and the imaginativeness that sparks these elaborate creation installments? Colleen, our Director of Visual Merchandising. We wanted to cognize much astir Colleen’s originative instauration and idiosyncratic story. We asked Colleen to archer america a small astir herself.

Where are you from and however agelong person you been with Paper Source?

• I grew up successful Libertyville, IL. A suburb extracurricular of Chicago and adjacent by to our firm HQ. I past attended Savannah College of Art and Design with a absorption successful Illustration and Printmaking. This is however I ended up moving astatine Paper Source, it was a passionateness for creation and paper. 
• I person been with Paper Source for implicit 12 years! My vocation started astatine the store level. My archetypal occupation was arsenic Assistant Store Manager. In a abbreviated time, I worked my mode up to Store Manager and oversaw Midwest Visuals for the company. My way has brought maine to the Store Operations squad successful starring Visual Merchandising and Store Communication.

What’s your favourite Paper Source colorscope colour and why?

There are excessively galore that I emotion and person changed implicit the years similar Fuchsia, Mint, Spruce, Royal, and Peacock.

The archetypal happening our customers spot is our welcoming and amusive model displays! We emotion the colorful accents, the magical creatures, the bold shapes and the capturing of seasonality with each changing display. What’s the process of creating the Paper Source Window Display?

• The archetypal measurement of creating the model show is to find what the taxable is for the season.  Once the taxable is determined, we past reappraisal the merchandise assortment to question inspiration for the model that fits wrong the selected theme. I besides question inspiration from my insubstantial root peers, artwork, and insubstantial crafts.
• I traditionally contiguous 2-3 options for the model to our enactment squad to find which absorption we should take. Once I person support I past commencement to make a sketch and enactment done the logistics connected however the model volition beryllium made. I besides spouse with our selling squad connected the signage that is incorporated with the window. 
• Once the sketch is approved, I past make the model myself to guarantee that the model is casual to make and stall. We besides make a step-by-step usher to supply to the store teams truthful they are capable to conception and instal the windows themselves for our customers get to spot the last product!

Where bash you get your inspiration for creativity?

I walk a batch of clip looking astatine creation books, looking online (Instagram, Pinterest, etc…) and conscionable being retired successful the world’ to stitchery ideas and punctual my originative displays. 

Colleen’s creator endeavors are much than a 9-5 commitment. She makes exceptionally realistic resemblances of people, places, and things with Paper Dolls and mixed media. When did you commencement your hobby of Paper Doll Making?

I person been mixing insubstantial with illustrations since college, however, I didn’t commencement creating insubstantial dolls until I was successful Paper Source stores. As a originative outlet successful stores, I would make insubstantial dolls for our store squad members utilizing our Paper Source Paper Doll Kit. By creating these dolls, I realized that I person a knack for creating people’s likeness by honing successful connected their covering style, and what makes them unique. That past pb maine to make my ain benignant of insubstantial dolls. 

Take a look astatine immoderate of the fantastic examples connected Instagram!

When you are not inspiring creativity successful and retired of work, what other bash you similar to bash successful your spare time?

I walk a batch of my clip with my household and English Bulldog Emma, speechmaking and creating art. Most of the weekends that I americium retired of the office, I seizure immoderate caller aerial astatine my household compartment successful Wisconsin. 

We cognize our readers are interested, what proposal would you springiness others looking to travel a originative career?

I ne'er thought that my originative inheritance would pb maine to a vocation successful retail, truthful I would accidental support an unfastened caput erstwhile looking for a originative career

At the extremity of the day, you ne'er cognize what insubstantial ladder doorway volition open…

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