I’m a hands-on Creative Director, Art Director, Illustrator and Maker with over twenty years of professional experience and a track record for creating thumb-stopping social creative and developing high-performing teams. So yes… I’ve been around the block a few times; and starting my career post-grad in a small town and exhausting all the creative roles there meant that I learned a lot—but the job titles I had never matched what I did. I led all Creative for Dippin’ Dots, Inc. for over five years—and helped develop “Minion Madness Cookie Dough” as a co-branded tie-in with Illumination Entertainment when the first “Despicable Me” came out—but my title there was only ever “Designer.” I’ve driven initiatives for scalable digital creative solutions in addition to leading custom social content and video productions that resulted in double-digit sales increases. My career began in print design and gave me a strong grounding in production specs and “doing work right the first time” to avoid costly reprints. I’ve championed the power of social and new media; leading the launch of Facebook for Dippin’ Dots, Inc. (2007) and TikTok for Arby’s (2018) and The Home Depot (2022). I empower and challenge my teams to think strategically—not just creatively—as we work to elevate the brands we touch and make content that resonates with our audiences. I enjoy passing along what I’ve learned and teach new shooting, editing and software techniques to my teams on a regular basis to help everyone develop new skills. I’ve worked freelance, long-term contract, in-house and agency-side as a single contributor on a larger Marketing team as well as a Creative team leader and mentor—hence the number of titles that don’t accurately reflect the job I was hired to do. I identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and proudly bring my whole self to every role. I’ve won awards for my work, including a Cannes Silver Lion and a Shorty Award for Art Direction; but the one that means the most to me is the HOW Design award for the wedding invitations I created for my husband and me in 2014.

“Define: Dancing” Egg

April 14, 2022

Another Bombshells ATL Egg Hunt submission!

Wall•e and EVE are blasting off in one of my favorite sequences from the movie wall•e when EVE asks wall•e to "Define: Dancing" and they have a beautiful dream sequence in the sky. I had SO. MUCH. FUN. creating this one.

Wall•e and EVE are made entirely of paper and card stock; there is a wooden egg as the base and a single 28-gauge wire running from wall•e's fire extinguiser to the egg base for support to help him fly. The entire piece is covered in a coat of matte Mod Podge for protection.

Wall•e on the ½" grid cutting mat to show scale

Wall•e and some of the "crafting carnage" and tools I used

Detail of wall•e's back showing the paper texture taken after the first night I worked on him

Wall•e and the wooden egg before I drilled the hole in the egg and settled on the wire shape

Wall•e with his trail (all individually-punched circles) and the finished "galactic" texture on the egg (achieved with layers of torn tissue paper)

EVE has joined the party!

I debated making two eggs; one wall•e and one EVE and turning them in as a set.

However, time was not on my side; so EVE was added to wall•e's egg.

Full turnaround of the egg rotating counter-clockwise

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