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 (14), 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 .