Meet Your Hostess, Abbi Owner Of Abbi Kirsten Collections

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Meet Abbi. Fondly known as the Queen of Paper Flowers & the Cricut Craft Fairy!

Hey there! I'm Abbi. 

My bucket of creative ideas is always overflowing, and spreading the joy of crafting is truly why I love what I do!

My mission at Abbi Kirsten Collections is to nurture the creative magic inside your soul by bringing you fun, easy-to-learn DIY projects and quality template designs that make your creativity come to life.

I'm here to be your craft bestie, hold your hand, and have fun with you as we play with color, discover new crafts, and educate our creative side.

That's why after 10 years of crafting with my Cricut machines, and teaching more than 100,000 crafters how to use theirs, I've set out to create a one-of-a-kind learning experience for Cricut crafters of all skill levels to enjoy!

Meet Your Speakers

Amy Romeu

How To Make Butterfly Earrings With The Cricut Joy

Amy is a lifelong jewelry maker and crafter. She loves creating fun and fashionable jewelry designs that can be made with a Cricut cutting machine. Amy enjoys sharing her passion for jewelry making and crafting with crafters everywhere on AmyRomeu.com.

Charynn Olsheski

How To Make A Vinyl Decal Starbucks Cup Wrap With The Cricut Explore Air 2

Charynn is a mom of 4, designer, pineapple lover, and Disney enthusiast! She loves to share SVG designs for Cricut, Glowforge, and Silhouette machines, plus printables, stickers, and great cocktail recipes. You can find her designs at pineapplepaperco.com and diyvacationshirts.com.

Naomi D. Garcia

How To Make Personalized Canvas Shoes With The Cricut Maker 3 

Naomi is a crafting coach in West Texas.  She’s a wife, mom, and teacher who loves to help and share.  Cricut is her jam, and she’s got you covered with Design Space and coaching for specific skills and projects at ejsfuncrafting.com

Lucy Foxworth

How To Make A Paper Fairy House With The Cricut Maker 

For most of Lucy's adult life, she was a physician taking care of children in the Pediatric ER; but her entire life she has always loved to make things. So the last few years of her official career she fell in love with papercrafts. And not just any papercrafts, but making little houses. She just loves to make little houses and to share how to create 3-D projects from paper materials. You can find more of her designs at https://paperglitterglue.com

Katherine Peck

How To Make A Slimline Card With The Cricut Maker

Katherine is a long-time crafter.  She started her Cricut journey when the Cricut Expression machine was first introduced.  She enjoys sharing her designs and tutorials with fellow crafters to inspire them to try new things with their Cricut.  You can find her designs and tutorials on her blog kpeckscreativecafe.com.

Blaire Fujimoto

How To Make A Puppy Keychain Pouch/Bag Dispenser With The Cricut Maker

Blaire is a craft content creator and photo stylist aspiring to spread joy and encourage creativity through her art. Her vibrant imagination and knack for color and style shine through in all of her client work and fun projects on her blog, FreshlyFuji.com

Sydney Andersen 

How To Make Infusible Ink Gifts For Every Occasion With The Cricut Maker 3

Sydney is the face behind Tastefully Frugal. What started out as a fun hobby blog almost 10 years has turned into a full-blown obsession with crafting! She started crafting with a Silhouette in 2014 and made the switch to Cricut in 2016. Sydney loves sharing simple, easy-to-follow tutorials for Cricut users, sublimation designers and has even started dabbling in 3D printing. She would love to have you join her crafty community at tastefullyfrugal.org and share your crafting journey!

Jen Swift

How To Make Engraved Infusible Ink Keychains With The Cricut Maker

Creative & crafty, Jen loves to help you own your creative self through tutorials, workshops, FB groups, and her YouTube channel. She teaches Cricut crafts like engraving and making stickers, as well as how to use the app Procreate to design for Cricut. Jen is from MN and also loves her mini Goldendoodle, coffee and a walk down by the lake, and watching the Great British Baking Show. You can find more of Jen's designs at wellcraftedstudio.com

Jennifer Sanderson

How To Screen Print With Vinyl Using The Cricut Maker

Jennifer is an avid crafter who loves adding a creative and personal touch to every project. She enjoys sharing project ideas to inspire crafters to explore screen printing with vinyl. You can find more fun projects from Jennifer at pigskinsandpigtails.com

Sarah Christie

How To Make Easy Print Then Cut Stickers With The Cricut Maker

Sarah is a UK Blogger who shares craft tutorials, cut files, recipes, theatre, and travel reviews.
She lives in the Lancashire countryside with her gorgeous family and dogs and loves nothing more than creating new projects and designs on her Cricut and sharing them with her community at extraordinarychaos.com

Nick Lupu-Karayanis

How To Make Scenic Shadow Box Cards With The Cricut Maker

Nick, aka The Bearded Housewife, is a lifelong crafter who loves creating beautiful things that craft a house into a home. His passion is in easy card making and paper crafting with his Cricut machines to brighten anyone's day or life event! You can find more designs from Nick at thebeardedhousewife.com

Cori George

How To Layer Adhesive Vinyl To Make Home Decor Signs With The Cricut Explore Air 2

Cori is the creative mind behind the blog heyletsmakestuff.com and digital shop Hey, Let's Make Stuff! Based in the Pacific Northwest, she loves inspiring half a million readers every month to make their lives more fun with easy Cricut and Glowforge crafts, sublimation tutorials, and digital SVG and printable downloads. When she’s not crafting, she loves reading, strong coffee, and spending quality time with her husband and adorable twin boys.

Alice Smith-Goeke

How To Make An Easy-To-Sew Cutwork Zippered Pouch With The Cricut Maker

Alice the Fabric Ninja makes sewing easy and fun. Her patterns are super detailed; even beginners can make them. Her video tutorials will make you laugh, as you sew along with her and create practical projects at fabricninja.com

Gina Cortez

How To Make A Layered Paper Mandala For Spring With The Cricut Explore Air 2

After many years of designing, Gina reached her expertise once she owned her first Cricut! Her specialty is creating SVG cut files for her fellow crafters. She strives for creative easy-to-use cut files. You can find more designs by Gina at ginaccreates.com

Melanie Habibzadeh 

How To Make Reusable Stencils For Home Decor, T-shirts, Doormats, And More With The Cricut Explore Air 2

Melanie, the creative mind behind Simple Made Pretty is also a wife and mom to 2 loving, creative children.

At Simple Made Pretty, you'll find home decor ideas, DIY projects, craft ideas, printables, home solutions, and Cricut project tutorials created using a Cricut Explore Air 2, Cricut Joy, and the Cricut Maker Machine. You can download free SVG files on her blog simplemadepretty.com and purchase Cricut digital files in her shop.

Emily Minor

How To Make A Birthday Explosion Box With The Cricut Maker 3 

Creating and teaching paper crafting is a form of therapy and creative outlet for Emily. She helps crafters make amazing, personal paper creations for special people and occasions. You can find more of Emily's designs at minorDIY.com

Stephanie Paxman

How To Decorate Long Pants With Smart Iron-On Using The Cricut Maker 3

Stephanie lives in Washington State with her husband and their 3 kids. Her blog started back in 2011, and her love for crafting, design, and blogging inspired her to go back to school and earn a degree in web design. Visit craftingintherain.com to find gift ideas, Cricut projects, free SVGs, and more.

Kelsey Sergi

How To Make A Shaker Cake Topper With The Cricut Maker

Kelsey is an avid paper crafting mama! She began Cricut Crafting in June of 2020 and became addicted. Kelsey currently lives in South Florida with her husband, son, and two dogs. She enjoys making 3D paper crafts, mandalas, and of course shakers! You can find more of Kelsey's designs at dinosaurmama.com

Angie Holden

How To Make Easy Projects Using Vinyl And HTV Scraps With The Cricut Explore Air 2

Angie has been crafting with her Cricut for over a decade and loves helping people to get started with their machines. You can follow her blog thecountrychiccottage.net or YouTube channel to learn all about Cricut crafting as well as sublimation!

Laurie Clayton

How To Make Personalized Easter Basket Ornaments With HTV Using The Cricut Maker

Laurie is a seasoned crafter who loves sharing her designs and tutorials with others that have a passion of creating. She loves providing free and custom SVGs for her subscribers at  CraftRoomTime.com 

Amy Pelzner

How To Make Easy DIY Painted Signs Using The PVPP Method With The Cricut Maker 3

Amy is a retired Optometrist turned DIY and craft blogger living in Northern California with her husband and 3 children.  She loves to teach people of all ages that they have a creative side!  Amy's blog leapoffaithcrafting.com and YouTube channel offer step-by-step detailed tutorials on all things Cricut, crafts, and DIY!

Heidi Kundin

How To Layer Infusible Ink With The Cricut Explore Air 2

Heidi is the founder and creative director of HappinessIsHomemade.com where she shares easy craft tutorials, free printables and SVG files, party ideas, holiday fun, and creative inspiration for the entire family!

She lives in Northern California with her husband, their three energetic sons, and two totally adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies.

Tisa Jackson

How To Make A Personalized Rhinestone Tumbler Using The Cricut Joy

Tisa is the creative enthusiast behind This Is Tisa & Confetti University. Selling colorful stationery + gift items and sharing all things crafting. Creating everyday things to make you smile...everyone could use a little HAPPY.  Visit her blog thisistisa.com and you can come away learning quick and easy crafts anyone can create, even if you don't consider yourself a crafter.

Follow her on Instagram and follow along with her not-so-perfect beautiful life.  Tisa has worked with Michaels, Beacon, Groove, HP, Cricut, and more.

Natalie Desrochers

How To Repurpose Your Wine Bottles Into Etched Glass Lanterns Using The Cricut Maker 3

Natalie is the crafty girl and creator behind the website NeliDesign.com and YouTube channel. She is on a mission to help crafters like you create beautiful and useful DIY and craft projects with confidence.

Natalie loves to laugh and firmly believes that there are no problems only solutions. She still learns every day from crafting mistakes and she shares them with you so you don't make the same ones! She's here to simplify your crafting journey and get you creating with confidence.

Tara Wiley


How To Make Mugs With The Cricut Maker And Cricut Mug Press

Tara is the creator and owner of craftaracreates.com. Her site is full of ideas, inspiration, tutorials, and cut files to help you get the most from your Cricut machine. She loves to share her unique Cricut projects along with crafting tips and tricks. Tara's favorite Cricut projects are paper crafts (banners, cake toppers, and shakers), faux leather earrings, and mugs with the Cricut Mug Press.

Debbie O’Neal

How To Make Custom Print Then Cut Labels With The Cricut Maker

Debbie loves helping others unlock the “secrets” of using Cricut machines and Design Space to successfully create projects they will love. Through her tutorials and classes, she helps her students create fun projects and build crafting skills and knowledge that they can use on other projects again and again. Debbie’s students become “Crafting Divas” with her as they create amazing projects out of various materials with Cricut. You can find her blog at scrapmequickdesigns.com

Gjoa Crandell

How To Make A Home Sign With Wood Cutouts Using The Cricut Maker 

Gjoa is a self-taught designer and lifelong crafter. She has always loved to help others be creative and learn new crafts. In addition to her designs, she works full-time in an analytical role, so her design and blog are a creative outlet. You can find her blog at specialheartstudio.com.

Abbi Kirsten

How To Make A Paper Flower Shadow Box with the Cricut Explore 3 

Abbi Kirsten Collections is a place to nurture the creative magic inside your soul and bring that bursting imagination inside you to life. You will discover fun yet easy to learn DIY projects and quality template designs that will have you crafting a storm of “wow, you made that?!” praise!” You can find all of Abbi's crafts on AbbiKirstenCollections.com

Becky Dykes

How To Etch A Mirror with Glass Etching Cream by Creative Fabrica

Creative Fabrica is the largest digital platform for crafters, with digital designs, crafting tools, and online classes. Get access to Creative Fabrica's entire platform for just $1 for your first month! Creative Fabrica is one of the Cricut Craftfest's official sponsors!

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