We are pleased to introduce you to our New Design Team Member: Sasha Reade. CraftStash did an amazing competition where three lucky people were chosen to become part of our Design Team. Sasha, Pauline and Sandi were the very well-deserved winners, and we wanted to share with you a little bit about our lovely Sasha. It was great to meet her and talk about her interests, crafting background and much more! We are sure you will love her as much as we do.

Read Sasha’s story…

She is a chatty Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta. She moved to the UK in 2008 when she married her husband who is from Manchester. She also has 2 children, Rosalie (6 years) and Elias (5 years) and a cat called Lenny. Sasha has been creative her whole life.  As a child, she used to ask for craft kits for birthdays and Christmas, and hoard stickers like they were gold. In fact, she still has some of those precious stickers that she could never come to use! She started out in the cardmaking world with Stampin' Up. She got most of her initial supplies from them and used to run card classes. Towards the end of her time with them, she started up her Youtube channel, and she ensures that she has so much fun teaching people all across the world from the comfort of her home! Having lovely subscribers who leave her comments make all the hard work so worth it, it is pretty much a dream job - she said.

About our lovely Sasha

Sasha loves movies and the cinema: action, thrillers, comedies, scary, anything pretty much except drama. In fact, her perfect evening is getting a takeaway, having some red wine and watching tv! Her family is still in Canada, and she misses them loads but she does really love the UK. Her favourite place to go when they visit home is the Rocky Mountains, nothing feels more huge and amazing than being at the bottom or the top of one of them. We asked Sasha to share with us something she created that she is most proud of, and for her, the pride comes in the form of a happy heart when she gives that something she made to someone else and they love it. She recently made an album of their trip home last summer for her daughter. It took her 3 weeks to make, but her daughter loves it, her reaction was what gave Sasha joy in creating it. Some of her top favourite brands are Tim Holtz, Apple Blossom (beautiful clear images, very versatile), We R Memory Keepers (for their huge range of punches and boards that are like magic), and Tonic is her most recent favourite. In addition, Sasha loves dipping into everything from standard stamping to 3D to mixed media. One of her favourite types of card to make though is a shaker card! Finally, we asked her what being on the Design Team at Craftstash means to her. She said is a dream come true. She has been shopping with us for a few years and she loves the huge range of brands and products that we provide. We are also glad to have the opportunity of enjoying her knowledge and creativity in our team!