We are so excited to announce the 2026 Brass and Bliss Craft Co Design Team!
We are very excited to share the Brass & Bliss Craft Co Design Team members . These talented creatives bring you all the inspiration and ideas on our blog and we feel blessed to have them all as part of our family. Scroll down and get to know them all!
Kittie Caracciolo is an Associate Designer, who constantly inspires our die-cut products; she even has her own line of dies within the Brass & Bliss Shop. After a four decade career in Medical Administration, Kittie is now enjoying being home with her husband and her two aging cats and two young ACTIVE dogs. She loves having lots of time to spend playing in her craft room and sharing her creations with you. Fun Fact: her mother was a florist and she learned so much about floral design from her. When dies and die cutting machines were introduced, Kittie completely fell in love with using her floral design skills to create dimensional floral designs as well as dimensional scenes. WOW! That’s is such a beautiful way to honor her mama! Kittie has served on many design teams over the years and is thrilled to now work exclusively with Brass & Bliss. Kittie says “They make me feel like part of the family.” We love you, Kittie!
Meet Diana Banash, our Associate Designer who makes the most beautiful die-cut cards! Diana is a native East-coaster, now residing in the Pacific Northwest with her furbaby Sam. She is drawn to the immense natural beauty and landscapes of that region and finds it inspires her creativity more and more every day. She began card making in 2013 and immediately discovered her love of Copic coloring. She’s been naturally crafty since she was very young and love getting her hands into anything she could express herself through. Her loves are jewelry making, creating fine cuisine, cake decorating, sewing and her biggest love of all, die-cutting! Diana has stepped up recently and has had a hand in helping us design new dies. We love sharing her creativity within this community! Welcome back for the 2026 year!
Julie Warner is an Associate Designer who creates many of our stunning projects and is actually the artist behind the coloring of our product artwork for packaging. Julie is a Texan now living in northern Georgia and says she HAS to always in creative mode with art, music, decoupage, knitting or any other fun creative activity. Julie started stamping “way back in high school art class” where she carved her own stamps out of erasers and linoleum blocks! She started her own rubber stamp collection before anyone really knew what to do with them and rest is history! Julie says the only downside to her ever growing collection of creative goodies is that she wishes the space to store everything would expand along with the supplies themselves!
Check out Natasha Polite, our vibrant designer whose projects really WOW! Natasha lives in Austin, TX and is married to her college sweetheart and has 2 beautiful children. She began seriously papercrafting about 7 years ago and has been hooked since. She gets excited to learn new techniques and experiment with different mediums and textures. Using florals and layering die cuts makes her happy! She considers herself to be a craft collector because she dabbles in all of the things. If she is not playing with paper, you can find her with thread (as she sews and embroiders), cutting wood on the laser, or printing up some fun 3D makes. Natasha say’s her goal is always to inspire, so she is looking forward to sharing projects that she hopes will do just that as a member of the Brass & Bliss Design Team. We are jazzed to have you and your talent aboard for the 2026 year; Welcome!
Meet Maurilia Albonetty, our newest designer who is a Massachusetts native and lifelong New Englander. She is a proud wife of 17 years to a loving husband and a mom to two amazing daughters, a high school junior and a
middle schooler in her final year. Maurilia has been a passionate cardmaker for the past five
years, finding joy in creating handmade pieces that celebrate life’s special moments and
brighten someone’s day. She loves how rewarding it is to create something beautiful and heartfelt from simple materials and says it’s truly her favorite creative outlet. She is so grateful for the incredibly supportive cardmaking community that continues to inspire and uplift creators every day. Outside of the craft room, you can find her in the kitchen experimenting with sugar-free and gluten-free recipes, blending creativity with healthy living. We are so very excited to add such awesome talent to our team this year. Welcome, Maurilia!
Check out Donna Perisic, our newest designer who is a lifelong crafter. Donna traded European roots for sunny Florida living many years ago, and it’s been home ever since. Donna is married, a mom to two pretty great teenagers, and a cat mom to two little criminals (because they stole her heart), who insist on inspecting every project she makes. Donna says, “Crafting has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, especially paper crafting and cardmaking, where I love mixing color, texture, and a little bit of whimsy.” When she’s not in her craft space, she’s a pre-K teacher, spending her days encouraging curiosity, creativity, and lots of early learning. Donna is excited to share her work, connect with creative people, and hopefully inspire others to make something they love. We are so happy to have you on the team this year Donna. Welcome!
Meet Kassi Hulet, our amazingly talented new designer, whose watercoloring skills are a work of art! Kassi was introduced to scrapbooking when she was in her early teens, but found a passion for it while recovering from a car accident when she was 19. Over the years she has shifted her focus from scrapbooking to cards, then mixed media, then back to cards again, and finally her current obsession- watercolors. When she isn’t in her studio painting, she loves exploring the beaches and forests near her home, baking fancy breads and cupcakes, or curling up with a good book. She’s a girl after our own heart!! We are truly honored to work with you this year. Welcome to the 2026 team, Kassi!
Say ‘Hi’ to Kendra Sand, our brilliant designer from Wisconsin! Kendra lives in Wisconsin with her high school sweetheart and their two active kids!! She is a SAHM in winter and work landscaping in summer (how fun)! When she’s not spending time with her family at sporting events or playing games, she has a passion for flowers as well as crafting! She started scrapbooking 25 years ago as both her husband and her raced at a local race track and she wanted to keep track of their wins through photos! From that her love for papercraft grew into a HUGE obsession! She loves inspiring others, as well as being inspired by fellow crafters!! She love papers, dies and cute stamps, and is excited to design for us this year. Be sure to peep her cards on the blog, she is truly amazing at creating interesting folds and 3D designs for her handmade cards, and we are obsessed. Welcome back for another year with us Kendra!
Check out our fabulous video content designer, Karidan Kaye who simply goes by Kaye as it is easier for people to remember out here in the social world! She just joined this cardmaking community about 3 years ago but has been in the crafty world a little longer as a scrapbooker! She says, “I love making cards and I think it brings so much joy when they open their mailboxes! One of my favorite parts of cardmaking is actually decorating the envelope! You can find me a lot of the time live over on Tic Tok where I have grown such an amazing little community and would love for you to join!” Kaye has two boys, one that just graduated and one that keeps her on her toes, both bring her so much joy! We are looking forward to seeing all of the amazing videos Karidan will be bringing our way this year. Welcome back to the 2026 team!
Say Hello to our marvelous team member, Marla Harris. Marla admits that she did not grow up a crafty girl, instead she spent as much time as possible on the beach. While growing up in S. California, she met her high school sweetheart and eventual husband. In their 40 years together, they have lived in Germany, Kentucky and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Currently, they spilt their time between winters in Southern Nevada and summers exploring the Black Hills of South
Dakota. It was the longer winters in Colorado that drew Marla into the crafting world. A Christmas gift from her youngest of two sons, a Silhouette Cameo, sent her down the rabbit hole of scrapbooking and ultimately into card making. She considers herself an eclectic card designer because she can’t be boxed
into one style or medium. When she’s not creating, she is spending time hiking, camping, traveling and best of all loving on some of her favorite people, her granddaughter, grandson, great-niece, and great-nephew. We are so thrilled to have Marla on board for another year.
Meet our vibrant designer, Shelly Kurth from the Sunshine State! Shelly is a wife to her husband of 20 years and a stay at home mom to their four kids.- three kids are homeschooled and two are working. Shelly says, “when I’m not teaching our kids or taking them to work or taking day trips or doing a million other things, you will find me in my little corner crafting away.” Shelly started scrapbooking back in 2004 but shortly found out that card making was her passion. Her style is typically clean and simple. Though, she does like to play around and try new and different things. Her hope is that her creations can inspire you and make you smile. :) We are so thrilled to work with her this year. Glad to have you back for another year, Shelly!
Meet Amy Tsuruta, our peppy designer who lives in the beautiful state of Washington with her husband who is a hobby pilot. She has been part of the papercrafting community for over 20 years, originally starting off with scrapbooking. Amy loves working with colors that include kelly green and always likes a great pastel combo too. One of her favorite themed projects is anything that has to do with caffeine. We have loved working with Amy over the years as she hosts the Caffeinated PaperCrafters Blog and Coffee Hops! We are thrilled to have her stay on for the 2026 team.
Say ‘Hi’ to our amazing designer, Megan Daves, who has been wowing us with her quick and easy cards and Reels this year! Meg began paper crafting over 25 years ago, as a way to unwind after working 24-hour shifts as a paramedic. That opened the door to all kinds of crafting, but there is nothing like making a card. She loves the ripple effect that card making has, from creator to recipient, there is a solid path of joy! What she loves even more than crafting is teaching others how they can create cards. Whether someone just needs an idea to get started, or needs to learn a skill to help them feel more confident, she loves being a part of that. Meg loves bright colors and whimsical styles the most – and she absolutely adores polka dots! As recent empty nesters, her and her husband have started weekly date nights again. They been married 21 years and find it’s really fun reconnecting. We are excited to have Meg continue working on videos for us this year and feel honored to have her as part of our 2026 team!