04/07/2025
Say hello to Craft Castle Rock's Member of the Month, Vanessa Antonsen! Vanessa owns V and A Creations and will co-host our 4/17 happy hour 🍹Read our interview with her below!
Craft: Can you tell us a bit about your business?
Vanessa: V and A Creations is a combination of designing, making and teaching paper crafts, specifically greeting cards. As a professional paper crafter one task accomplished is I design, make, and sell greeting cards. Purchased by businesses for use and resale. From my office, as well as in craft shows. A majority of my work is for classes. I teach others to recreate the designs I make and use many techniques of art and craft for greeting card making. There is so much more that can be created with paper. For example, I've designed and made paper dresses for fundraiser events and window displays. The paper dresses have been worn by models who walk fashion runways.
Craft: What inspires you and your work?
Vanessa: Color is the basis of most of my design inspiration. Which is found everywhere, colors are very much part of daily life, thus giving consistent inspiration. They also have psychological references which are quite interesting and often get interpreted differently depending on culture and preference.
Craft: How does working at Craft help fuel your creativity or productivity?
Vanessa: Having an office space in the Craft community is incredible. A space to keep supplies, consider ideas, plan projects and meet with clients is thumbs up. Lastly but most appropriate is the name of the co-working space: Craft, it's perfect for my business.
Craft: What's an exciting project you're working on?
Vanessa: Having the creative freedom of owning a craft business there are always exciting projects in the works. Currently I've been leaning into the sassy/sarcastic world of greeting card making with a vintage look. They are beautiful, funny, rich and well sassy. It's a style I secretly adore. They always sell out at craft shows and events, which surprises me every time! If you're interested, stop by my office 231 to buy or make a few.