Creative Papercrafts : About Us : The Staff

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Angela Otsuka - President, Founder


	Angela is a credited teacher in most of the paper arts, originally starting with Paper Tole, transfer art and true decoupage. She has introduced many new ideas, techniques and guidelines used in the Paper Tole industry today. She is a Certified Product Demonstrator through HIA (Hobby Industry Association) based in the United States and a local teacher near Toronto, Canada for the paper arts. She is an avid stamping enthusiast, decorates all the wedding invitations she receives with Quilling and frames them for gifts, but her true hobby is scrap booking. She sees her Memory Albums as THE legacy to leave of a life she enjoys. Card making is a constant challenge to present new ideas since she can no longer buy anyone a card - it must be "created". She attends the Annual Trade Shows in the United States - The CHA Shows - held in February and July yearly. These Trade Shows offer the latest products, ideas and techniques from around the world available in the market place today. Angela has also appeared regularly on The Life Channel's Craftscapes with Sue Warden, demonstrating paper crafts from Paper Tole with silicone texturing (this technique was developed by Angela) and feathering, to wax seal impressions for card making. Angela is now retired and enjoying a little bit of everything in her life now. She will be attending once a month as a Guest Instructor on a Saturday morning.

Wes Otsuka - Treasurer, Co-Founder


	Wes has been a CPPF (Certified Professional Picture Framer) for over 30 years and is the expert in framing Paper Tole. He served on the Board of Directors for the CCHA (Canadian Craft & Hobby Association) for several years. We all know his first love is music and he plays trumpet in 3 local concert bands.

Jane McLeod


	Jane is in her 27th year with Angela's Craft Centre. Jane now manages the store and web orders. Coming to the business as a qualified florist with a wealth of knowledge in the crafts, she too was a Paper Tole teacher for many years prior to joining the company. Jane also has been most helpful in creating and developing new techniques that truly set our work apart and has pioneered invaluable ideas. Jane is our most active scrapbook teacher. You will often speak with her is you place a telephone order with the sales department for www.creativepapercrafts.com and is a favorite with our French-speaking customers being that she is bilingual. Enter Jane's home and you enter an absolutely classy craft showcase in home décor.

Johanna Crozier - Customer Service Staff


	Johanna started working with us over 15 years ago and has seen many changes in products and concepts in the store. Following a bout of ill health towards the end of last year, Johanna is taking time at home, but always on call, to recover and is doing nicely. Johanna is married to Chuck and has 2 grown daughters, a son and 6 grandchildren. Johanna is still very active in stamping and scrapbooking and owns a large range of products to play with at home. Hailing originally from Germany, Johanna not only offers a friendly face and a helpful hand but can converse with our German customers. Thankfully she thinks she is only semi-retired so we keep imposing on her freedom.

Kal - Design Team


	Out of the Box starts and ends with Kal. He is our Star in creative detail. We try to book Kal in for at least one Demonstration session per month. Watch our Classroom schedule, and enjoy time with one of the best truly talented paper crafters in the industry today. He is absolutely willing to share his patterns with you (available only during class) and earnestly makes every attempt to ensure you can re-create his work. Expect the finest of folding, the cleverly created, the boxes, the purely magical cards. If you can fold it, if it's different, clever and stirs the imagination, it's Kal's.

Brad Otsuka - Founding Web Master


	Brad is our original computer genius who was talented enough to create a web site beyond our hopes and dreams. We have been actively selling on the web since 1996 and we have evolved to offer more services that will serve our customers more efficiently and offer greater product presentation. Brad enabled us to keep pace with the web technology of today's marketplace. On a more personal level, he was the ultimate sports achiever in the field of baseball, basketball and football. Today, he is a full time Information Technology man and what little free time he has, he spends it on the golf course (he still plays a great game of football and played on two baseball teams this past summer)! Fortunately, he was able to find a talented young assistant in Anthony who was given the responsibility of creating this new website. Anthony is now our full-time Web Master. Brad married Tasha in April of 2006 so we do have to leave him with some time to himself. His family now includes two lovely cats, a Siamese and a Himalayan.

Anthony Ouwehand - Web Master


	Anthony took over our web site management from Brad when he was a student at McMaster University here in Hamilton. He worked for us throughout his education at McMaster and our staff and customers greatly enjoyed his visits into the store to work on our computer and maintain our web site. Our Web site fully evolved under his management and he is continually urging us forward to offer more and more on our Web site. He graduated in 2007 and after several months of traveling in Egypt, Jordan and Europe he was "snapped up" by Dunn & Bradstreet, accepting an English speaking job in Rotterdam, where he now lives. Anthony is a very talented man and we can only be very appreciative that he still maintains our website from afar. He would be very difficult to replace as his in-depth knowledge is absolutely essential to our website success. We are very fortunate to have such a talented and patient Web Master. His interests include knitting, beer brewing, guitar playing, and long walks on the beach (for all those ladies out there)! We miss you, Anthony.