Meet our 2025 Creator Crew!
We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Tombow Creator Crew Team! This year, we’ve expanded the team from 10 to 12 members, a change inspired by the incredible talent in this year’s applications. Each creator was carefully selected for their unique skills, fresh ideas, and passion for all things creative. This team represents a diverse range of artistic styles and perspectives, and we’re excited to see how they’ll inspire the Tombow community in the year ahead.
The Creator Crew is at the heart of Tombow’s mission to encourage creativity and innovation. These talented individuals will showcase the versatility of Tombow products through tutorials, artwork, and projects designed to engage and connect with the broader creative community. Whether you love brush lettering, illustration, crafting, or exploring mixed media, the 2025 team has something special in store for everyone.
This year, we’re bringing YouTube videos back into the mix and have an exciting calendar of engaging projects planned for you, our audience. From step-by-step tutorials to collaborative challenges, there will be no shortage of inspiration to fuel your own creative journey.
For questions about the Creator Crew program or how to get involved, feel free to reach out to Audrey Hayes, Tombow’s Social Media Coordinator, at social@tombowusa.com. We’re always here to help and can’t wait to share this creative adventure with you.
Join us in welcoming the 2025 Tombow Creator Crew Team and stay tuned for an incredible year of artistry, community, and innovation!
Ali LePere
Ali LePere is an artist based out of northeast Ohio. She specializes in illustrations, hand lettering, and loves to make her own color palettes. She’s a wife, mom to twins, an audiobook enthusiast, and her favorite Dual Brush Pen color is currently 026.
Follow Ali at: Instagram | YouTube
Ammie Williams
Ammie Williams is an artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is primarily known for her ceramics and work within the Paint Your Own Pottery industry, designing bisque shapes and supplies for pottery studios worldwide. After graduating with a BFA in Art Education, Ammie has spent the last decade honing her personal art style. She loves bold color, textured mark-making, strong black outlines, and lettering of all kinds. When she’s not working, you can find Ammie reading at the bar with her girlfriend, watching Real Housewives, or playing in her art journal.
Follow Ammie at: Instagram | Website
Andrea Lake
Hi, friends! I’m Andrea Lake, a passionate memory-keeper from Venezuela, living in the U.S. since 2016 with my family and two dogs. I love creating mini albums and scrapbook layouts to capture life’s moments and setting goals in my colorful planners. Being with my crafty friends, making beautiful memories, is where I feel most at home!
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Carola Sallis
Carola is a Sri Lankan-Canadian artist who loves painting and drawing in her unique abstract style to create intuitive art. On her blog and social media, she shares her joy of creative hobbies, stationery, and journaling while inspiring others with her artwork and creative process. When she’s not playing with stationery, planning, or journaling, she’s hiking around Vancouver mountains in Canada.
Follow Carola at: Website | Instagram | YouTube | Pinterest | Substack
Daniela Martinez
Daniela loves creating colorful lettering with whimsical designs, a craft she was introduced to seven years ago! She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and an Entrepreneurship minor at the University of Kansas. Her hometown is Dallas, Texas! While hand lettering is her artistic passion, her other creative outlets include crocheting roses or adorable plushies and making DIY presents or decorations! She is a coffee enthusiast, particularly making lattes at home with Peet’s coffee beans, and she loves watching rom coms or Marvel movies.
Follow Daniela at: Instagram
Emma Chin
Hi, everyone! I’m Emma Chin and I am so excited to be apart of the 2025 Tombow Creator Crew. I’m originally from Miami, but I study graphic design at UCF! Some of my hobbies include thrifting, getting coffee and studying with friends, and singing! Since I was 10, I’ve always loved everything artsy including painting, drawing, calligraphy, and bullet journaling. From the beginning of my art journey, Tombow’s products truly shaped how I grew as an artist, and it’s such a dream to be able to create for them. Nice to meet you, I can’t wait to share a little piece of me to everyone!
Follow Emma at: Instagram
Isal Torres
Hola! My name is Isal, I’m 25 years old living in Ontario, Canada 🍁. I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, so my mother tongue is Spanish. My hobbies include Penpal and Junk Journaling, and in 2023 I decided to open an account to connect with this community of fellow crafters. Find me @penpal.isal on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Follow Isal at: Instagram | TikTok | YouTube
Katie Smith
Katie is a multi-passionate artist and sticker designer who loves anything and everything creative – from art journaling to drawing and painting canvases. If it’s creative, she loves it! If she’s not in her studio making things, she’s probably outside hiking with her Shepsky, Fury, planning her next adventure, or gathering inspiration for her next project. Katie is a published artist in multiple magazines and books.
Follow Katie at: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | TikTok
Kayla Meadows
Kayla Meadows is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Fort Worth, TX. She specializes in hand lettering and playful, uplifting illustrations that she enjoys incorporating into surface patterns, greeting cards, stationery, motion graphics, and more. When she’s not creating art, she enjoys watching films, reading, trying new coffee shops, traveling, and spending time with her loved ones.
Follow Kayla at: Instagram
Sara Hynes
Sara Hynes is a Minneapolis, MN based artist. The purpose behind Sara’s art is to spread positivity and joy to others. She is known for her fun, happy and relatable illustrations along with inspirational quotes and bright colors. She is obsessed with golden retrievers, cats, and spending time with family and friends.
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Shea O’Connor
Hey! I’m Shea. I’m an illustrator and designer currently creating in Atlanta, Georgia. Using quirky color palettes, expressive linework and stylized silhouettes, my designs aim to blend a vintage style with modern values. While the subject matter of my art isn’t always serious—there’s always a lovel of whimsy or playfulness—I take my artwork very seriously. It’s of the utmost importance to me that my art’s message is kind, inclusive and positive. When I’m not drawing (a very rare occurrence), you can find me whistling, singing to my pets, dressing up, and gardening.
Follow Shea at: Website | Instagram | TikTok
Viv Ruwala
Hi! My name is Vivia, but feel free to call me Viv! I’m 22, and I just recently graduated! A few things I love doing include going out on a walk on a pleasant day, sitting on a field with my friends, and napping— all alongside journaling and meeting new people!! so excited for the year ahead ! 🫶🏼
Follow Viv at: Instagram