Amber Ries

A slightly obsessive crafter, Amber has been scrapbooking since 2002. When her daughter was born in 2005, she had to give up the paper life for lack of space and time. Thankfully, Digital Scrapbooking was making it’s big emergence around then and she flipped over and hasn’t looked back! Besides, getting digital supplies from the internet, is a whole lot simpler (and cheaper!) than having paper supplies shipped from the U.S. to Germany, where she lives with her two half-German/half-American children and German husband. When not busy biking her two kids from German Kindergarten to English Kindergarten, to gymnastics, to music and to playdates, Amber enjoys sewing, cooking, and scrapping with some blogging and photography mixed in, time allowing. Just don’t drop in unexpected, because cleaning is last on her list of things to do and if it doesn’t happen, well, it’ll just get messy again anyway, right?

A 2005 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame Inductee, Amber has contributed to multiple Creating Keepsakes Publications, Simple Scrapbooks, and Making Memories. She is currently creating at Oscraps as a Cheery-O, and is on Creative Teams for Anna Aspnes, Krista Sahlin & Amy Wolff. She was a contributor to the books Every Little Thing and Embellishing with Alphas. To get to know more about Amber, visit her blog: Welcome to Grouchland.