Hello! My name is Chelsea Barton, and creating lovely things and teaching are my jam.
As a former classroom art teacher, wedding photographer, and editor-in-chief originally from the States, I find joy in making life more beautiful through my work and teaching others to inspire themselves with their own creative spark. Life has given me a lot of diverse professional chapters, and the thread connecting each one has always been creativity and community. After I moved to England to be with my British husband Robert, I had the ultimate challenge of rediscovering who I was as an individual beyond my successful editorial career and what my purpose was in my new home country. I found both of those through crafting, and specifically through the Cricut UK community.
From 2016, I loved working with Cricut in the United States as a freelancer through online wedding content creation, representing the wedding niche at media events in New York City, teaching at the 2018 Mountain Make-A-Thon conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, supporting and helping at City Events around the U.S. in 2017, and hosting local in-store activations for new Cricut products. It's been a really fun adventure that I'm excited to continue here across the pond now with the Cricut UK Ambassador team. In conjunction with in-store demonstrations at Hobbycraft and John Lewis as an Ambassador, I also host my own artful Cricut and craft workshops under my Make with Chelsea brand.
In my past professional life, I have been featured for my industry insight and wedding DIY expertise in Martha Stewart Weddings, Southern Living Magazine, Pioneer Woman, She Knows, Travel Channel, Hello! Middle East, Professional Photographer Magazine, and more. I absolutely loved speaking at local, national, and international workshops and conferences and happily shared my career experience as a leading niche wedding publication for over 10 years.
When I'm away from the craft room, I love to read romantasy and historical fiction books, travel with my best friend who also happens to be my husband, seek out the best gluten-free food (particularly desserts!), and quietly relax at home with our cats, Pickles Barrington and Juniper McIntyre.
If you're looking for content creation sponsorship opportunities and to see the portfolio of brands I've worked with over my creative career, please reach out via my wedding media publication, Tidewater and Tulle.
