Spring Creek Design

Hello from Central Montana...

Spring Creek Design was created in the spring of 2007 by Kristin Rutten, a 40-something work-at-home mother of four living in the heart of Montana with an avid interest in “all things creative.”

A lifelong photographer, writer & scrapbooker, Kristin has been a fan of graphic design & desktop publishing for as long as she can remember. This interest grew substantially during her five years working for the Lewistown News-Argus, her community’s local newspaper. Though hired on as a reporter, Kristin quickly saw an opportunity to lead the transition from cut-and-paste layout to full computer pagination, teaching herself QuarkXpress, Photoshop, InDesign and basic print shop skills along the way. She was eventually promoted to Managing Editor, then shifted into a part-time page designer position before leaving the newspaper altogether to pursue other interests.

A few years (and a couple babies) later, she started working from home under the business name Spring Creek Design to enable her to spend more time with her family. In addition to newsletter design and layout, she provides basic Web site maintenance services for a local non-profit and is a contract grant-writer for Snowy Mountain Development Corporation, local community economic development firm. Under the Spring Creek Design umbrella, Kristin started Log Your Memory in the fall of 2009 and launched Scrap Assistant in August 2011, both devoted to the scrapbooking and memory-keeping audience.

Kristin is active in the online scrapbooking community, with her own family’s layouts posted in various galleries around the Web under the username “krutten.” She and husband Jacques Rutten, current publisher of the News-Argus, live in Lewistown, Montana, with their four children – Karstin (16), Kody (13), Skylar (5), and Danica (3). When not scrapbooking, tweeting (KristinRutten) or chatting with her digi-scrapping friends on Facebook (Kristin Gunderson Rutten), she can generally be found shuttling her kids to one of their many sports, musical or outdoor activities. You can get to know her better through her family blog, All Things Creative, as well as her personal blog, What Makes Me Tick.

For more information about Log Your Memory, Scrap Assistant, Spring Creek Design or just to say hello, please contact Kristin at kristin@springcreekdesign.biz.

Capture your everyday real life...

Log Your Memory is committed to helping real people document their everyday lives for later remembering…

The busier & more full the life, the more there is to scrapbook … and the less time to get it done. Rather than hoping stories will be remembered or relying on an unorganized collection of calendars, notes & memorabilia, Log Your Memory offers a system for ensuring memories get documented – easily and consistently.

Our one-of-a-kind Memory Logbook, online layout gallery, community forum, blog, Challenge Team and more are here to help you get started…

Helping you manage your scrapping time...

If you are a scrapbooker who participates on one or more scrap-related teams, chances are you have your hands full trying to keep up with team-related scrapbooking tasks and could use a little (or maybe a lot) of help getting it all organized.

After all, you want to spend your creative time scrapping, right? Not trying to manage all of those deadlines, to-do lists and other tasks that come along with being on an active scrapbooking team.

Here’s the good news… Scrap Assistant is here to help you do just that!