Woman with long red hair and red lipstick in sunlight, wearing a black sleeveless top, standing against a wall with shadows and dried flowers.

HI FRIEND!

I’m Vada Morrison, artist, designer, photographer, and founder of Scandinative, a multidisciplinary creative studio rooted in color, storytelling, community, and making life feel a little more magical.

Scandinative started way back in my Tumblr era when I was a deeply online teenage girl trying to come up with an artsy username that sounded cooler than I probably was at the time. The name is a mashup of “Scandinavian” and “Creative,” inspired by my Nordic and Gaelic roots and, apparently, my lifelong need to make things.

What started as an internet creative outlet slowly evolved into a full creative universe. Throughout the 2010s and early 2020s, I worked at creative agencies while simultaneously building Scandinative on the side. During those years, I spent an alarming amount of time making beauty content for Instagram and YouTube, painting my own face in my bedroom like it was a full-time job, photographing weddings, designing brands, creating art, hosting events, and slowly building an online community centered around color, creativity, and connection. Ironically, the beauty influencer era is actually what first led me into the wedding world.

In 2025, I was unexpectedly laid off from my agency job, which ended up becoming the push I needed to finally go all-in on Scandinative full time.

Somewhere along the way, Scandinative became less of a personal brand, and more of a fully fledged creative studio. Today, my work spans branding, illustration, photography, immersive events, murals, art + goods, and creative direction for colorful brands and communities who want their world to feel more alive.

No matter the medium, everything I create is connected by the same thread: bold color, emotional storytelling, femininity, nostalgia, internet culture, human connection, and the belief that creativity should feel exciting, welcoming, and deeply personal.

I’m inspired by girlhood in all its forms: feminine rage, queer joy, flowers, therapy, magic, pretty skies, obsessive interests, fantasy books, women, scenic mountain drives, vintage interiors, cooking from scratch, grandmothers, ADHD, color, babies, female friendship, and the ongoing lifelong project of trying to become a softer and more evolved person than the adults who raised you.

I’m also deeply inspired by characters like Matilda, Lilo, and Vada Sultenfuss, and by the kind of stories centered around people who feel out of place, feel everything too deeply, or refuse to accept the life they were handed. “A man can change his stars” from A Knight’s Tale has lived in my brain for years. So has the belief that creativity, love, community, and sheer determination can completely reroute a person’s life.

These days, Scandinative exists as both a creative studio and an ever-evolving art world of its own. A place where branding can live alongside paintings, where photography and events become immersive experiences, and where creativity is viewed as something deeply human. I believe everyone is an artist in some capacity, and that the way we dress, decorate, cook, gather, love, create, and move through the world is its own kind of art form.

I’m really happy you’re here.

Young girl at a birthday party with a tiara, sitting in front of a birthday cake and a balloon overhead.
Young child with serious expression in a pink patterned shirt.
Young girl with long hair smiling at the camera, sitting on the floor with an open art set. Surrounding her are toys and art supplies, with a wooden crib in the background.

As you can see, I’ve always been really into art.

Truths & Lies

Expand each fun fact to see if it’s true or not!

  • This is completely true. Unfortunately. I was probably 9 or 10 years old at the city pool and completely broke off my teeth on the bottom. Probably should have had some goggles so I could see where I was! Thankfully the dentist was able to put my teeth back together and you’d never know by looking at me!

  • This is also completely true. I told him I had to use a fake name so no one at school would know and that I could live a real life as a normal kid even though I was actually a famous movie star. I let him believe it for a week before I broke down and told him the truth. It helped my scheme that I had really curly bushy hair.

  • Or 13 siblings? I can't actually remember the real number. But there's a lot! Growing up it was just me and my dad though. And the step mothers. and the Foster families. And the friends families.... I went to 5 different elementary schools and moved more times than I can count. I met one of my sisters when I was 16, and another when i was 26. I knew both of those sisters existed but my dad either put them up for adoption or left their mothers before I was even born so I didnt grow up with them. Most of my brothers grew up in southern California and were in and out of foster care themselves, and then I had one little brother who visit sometimes on the weekends. For the most part though, I was completely alone as a kid since my dad worked and often didn't come home until late.

  • Surprise! They are all true.