Traci Bautista, creative director and owner of treiC Designs, travels across the country and internationally to offer workshops and classes on handmade books, art journals, mixed-media collage, and surface design. Join Bautista and start making your own exciting projects. Bautista earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Woodbury University, with a major in Graphic Design and Marketing. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, Traci Bautista held jobs as a graphic designer, event planner, marketing director, professional cheerleader, elementary art history teacher, fashion designer, Web designer, and tradeshow manager — just to name a few. Experiences Bautista gained in these positions, coupled with her innate drive to explore and create without boundaries are what contribute to her growing success as a collage and mixed-media artist. Combining her love of making clothes, doodling and lettering, Bautista creates vibrantly colored handmade journals, custom handbags and paintings that are layered with rich textures of stained papers, painted sewn fabric, “girlie glam” ink drawings and free style lettering. Her artwork has been featured in Somerset Studio, as well as in many books. Look for her book, Collage Unleashed!

Traci Bautista has one DVD workshop, Retro Rags: Funky Fabric Books with Creative Catalyst Productions.