After a successful career climbing the corporate ladder, marketing high-tech start-ups and brands like IBM and Animal Planet, Traci left Silicon Valley to pursue her passion for art. 2011 marks the ten-year anniversary of launching her creative business endeavor, treiC designs. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, she worked as a graphic designer, event planner, marketing director, professional cheerleader, elementary art teacher, fashion designer and Web designer, just to name a few. Experiences that she gained through these positions, coupled with her innate drive to explore and create without boundaries, are what contribute to her success as a mixed-media artist. She teaches mixed-media workshops worldwide on handmade books, art journaling, collage, art marketing and surface design.
Traci is a mixed-media artist, designer and author of the best-selling book, Collage Unleashed. Her art has been featured in over fifty art and mixed-media publications, numerous blogs, and HGTV and DIY networks. She designs licensed product lines, Collage Pauge adhesive and {kolLAJ} paper crafts. Follow her creative musings at www.treicdesigns.com, or at her blog, creativityUNLEASHED, at http://kollaj.typepad.com.