Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop :: Day 01 with Angee Carter

Welcome everyone to the first day of our blog hop with Petaloo.

Today I'm sharing this layout I made recently about my little pup Teddy. My DAD is a big dog fan and he absolutely fell in love with Teddy-Boo. Since the theme of our blog hop is Dad's and Grad's I decided to make this layout for my dad's office. He has quite the collection of my handmade goodies in his office now.

Teddy is a liver pepper schnauzer and I got him from the breeder when he was 9 weeks old. He was the tiniest ball of brown fur in the beginning (and super hard to photograph hence the blurry picture) then slowly his fur changed to a chocolate milk color. You can kind of see the change happening in this picture. Teddy isn't so little anymore. He's actually almost 8 now but I found a few pictures of him from when he was a pup and I just had to make a layout (or a few...How many dog layouts are too many??)

I use this negative cut out on the layout from an alpha set. This left over has been in my stash for years....YEARS. I added a bit of ombre' paper in the background. The outline of the "i" and "u" and little pink heart were last minute touches. I think it added the perfect finishing touch. 

These have to be my favorite flowers from Petaloo. They have so much texture, color, dimension, and nooks and crannys. They added the perfect softness to the layout and remind me of Teddy's fur. 

A few additional details. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today. 

Make sure to stop by Petaloo's blog for more inspiration and creativity and check back daily for the rest of the hop. 

Supplies: 

Patterned Papers - Marion Smith Posh Collection

Kraft papers - Old Paper Studio paper pad from Michaels

Flowers - Petaloo

Embellishments - Target Dollar Spot, Studio Calico PL Kits

Friends, Football, Family Layout by Angela Carter

My husband is a huge football fan. Really, he's a sports fanatic. He loves everything football, basketball, and the Olympics. Admittedly, we are both very obsessed with the Olympics. 

With a sport obsessed husband you can imagine we spend lots of time around stadiums, in uncomfortable seats, with hundreds and thousands of strangers. It's a blast every time and we love it, albeit one of us more than the other. 

I had this picture from a game I attended with the husband and his entire family. It was Alcorn State University's game here in Houston, TX and it was a great time to be had at the NRG stadium. The best part is that my long time friend Michella was in attendance with her husband who happens to be my husband's cousin. So now not only are we friends, we are family as well. 

BTW - I take full matchmaking credit for their union. 

Today I'm sharing a layout using my favorite Marion Smith Designs Collection, POSH. In my mind Marion created this collection just for me. For this layout I mixed a few PL Cards with this background paper (Chic Lace) as well as the beautiful teal lace paper (Rose Tea) from the POSH collection. Here you can see a close up of that gorgeous background paper. 

These flowers are so dimensional with pops of red, orchid, fuchia, and purple. The purple PL card works to bring that purple out as well.

 I brought in a bit of yellow for a pop of color and sprinkled that around the layout. The grey PL card on the bottom of the journaling cluster helped to bring in the yellow. 

My favorite wood-grain patterned paper serves to anchor the picture and embellishment cluster to the center of the layout. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

Have a great weekend. 

Angela

Biker Chick Layout by Angela Carter

I've learned so many things as a wife these past 3 years. It was the one area of my life that I was concerned the most that I wouldn't be very good at since I didn't grow up seeing my mom fulfill that role. One of the teachings I hold dear is that to be supportive you don't always have to agree and sometimes you need to disagree quietly instead of with a roar. 

When my husband told me he wanted to buy a motorcycle I was instantly against the idea. No, Nope, Absolutely not, is what I mind said. My actual reply is, "Tell me more about that." I'm a fast learner. 

Over the next few weeks packages arrived containing motorcycle jackets, gloves, boots, and other things. My husband looked like a kid waking up on Christmas morning every time our favorite delivery guy showed up. The more we talked the more my worries subsided until one day Dear Hubs asked me to try on his motorcycle helmut. From that moment on, I became a biker chick. My next question was, "Does it come in pink?"

From sequins, to hand stitching, to wood veneer and washi tape, this layout includes everything that I love about paper-crafting. It was easy, quick, and with the use of the pocket scrapbooking cards (which covered up a multitude of crafting sins) I think it turned out quite well. 

Secret Cover-up: I'm not a huge fan of my handwriting but I typically like it. That left 4x6 journaling card covered up a serious white-gel-pen-handwriting-catastrophe! Thank goodness for my huge collection of journaling cards it was an easy fix.

Thanks for stopping by.

Angela

Marion Smith Designs Supplies Used

Nirvana Collection: Family Record Patterned Paper

Motley Collection: Collage Patterned Paper

Meet the Design Team | Angee & Aneta

Meet our first two members of the new design team: Angee Carter & Aneta Matuszewska!!!

Angee Carter

DT Coordinator

Many many years ago I saw a creative woman on Youtube making videos of the most incredible crafts; altered canvases, incredible scrapbook layouts, and gorgeous mini albums. I admired her for years for her creativity and inventiveness. She was able to take something so insignificant and turn it into something so beautiful.

Today that woman, Marion Smith, calls me her friend and I am beyond honored that she has again chosen me to be apart of her design team.

In my professional life I am a teacher of 7th & 8th graders in Houston, TX. I am so fortunate to be able to do a job that I love every day and that challenges me in so many ways. Personally, I am the wife of Cordell and we've been happily married for 3 years. He is my biggest supporter and willingly looks th either way when I purchase scrapbooking supplies. Definitely a keeper! I have two angel babies watching over my family and three fur babies who are spoiled rotten. They even have their own blog. 

My artistic style has been refined in recent years. As I learn more and more about art, and design, my style changes to adapt to what feels and looks "right" to me. I'm a big fan of learning techniques and adapting those to fit my style of crafting. I'd describe my style as evolving with a focus on graphic pattern and color. I'm most often inspired by photography, texture, and unique color combinations.

I'd love to connect with you via social media. Send me a message, Tag me, Tweet me, and Follow @alwaysangella. I'm so proud to be included in this fabulous group of talented international designers and I can't wait to be inspired by them and you.

You can find me here:

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Aneta Matuszewska

Senior Artist

I am a 37 year old Polish crafter and I have been living in Iceland for 13 years now. I work as an Icelandic teacher.

My scrapbooking fascination started about 3.5 years ago and I have been deeply preoccupied with that for the last three years. 

I love light pastels, vintage and shabby chic, nevertheless I feel comfortable in any style.

For me everything is dependent on the kind of paper I see on my desk, the topic of the card and finally my mood. 

I am a responsible and conscientious person, open to new challenges and opportunities. Marion, thank you for this one.

You can find Aneta here:

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Announcing the 2014-2015 Marion Smith Design Team

Hello Everyone!

Choosing a design team is so incredibly hard! Seeing all the wonderful talent that was showcased these last few weeks was amazing. I was inspired with every new email that I received and I was so honored to meet so many amazingly talented artists. I loved getting a peek inside your creative world. 

It was a huge undertaking to select a new design team and I am so sad that I can't have all of you on the team. I understand that some will be disappointed but please know that it was your beautiful art that made it a very tough decision. We loved seeing all of your awesome creations, and hope that you will continue to share them with us. 

Please help in congratulating the newest members of the

 Marion Smith Designs Team. 

Formal introductions will come later this week as we showcase each member and their talents. 

On Tuesday, we will start with the familiar faces, Angee & Aneta. 

On Wednesday, you will get to meet the new senior artists, Irene & Keri. 

On Thursday, you will meet Sandra & Erica. 

And on Friday, you will get to meet Yasmin & Jelissa.

We are so excited for the upcoming year and can not wait to see and be inspired by all our artists. This year you will see cards, scrapbook layouts, and mixed media projects, along with art journals and so much more. We also plan to focus on tutorials a bit more this year because we all love to learn new techniques, right?

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you comment and subscribe to show your support. 

Angee Carter, Texas USA

DT Coordinator

http://www.alwaysangella.blogspot.com

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Aneta Matuszewska, Iceland

Senior Artist

http:://www.artisant2.blogspot.com

http://www.mytildasworld.blogspot.com

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Irene Tan, Malaysia

Senior Artist

http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com

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Keri Sallee, Arkansas USA

http://thecreativelifear.blogspot.com

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Erica Houghton, Virginia USA

http://ericahoughton.blogspot.com/
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Sandra Przybylska, UK

http://sandrap2206.blogspot.co.uk/

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Yasmin Tolche, Norway

www.yasminscrapperier.blogspot.com

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Jelissa Cheng, Singapore

http://jelibeanz.blogspot.com/

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Did you breeze past those beautiful faces and forget to link up with us via social media? Don't worry. You will have another chance when you meet the new artists later this week. 

Don't forget to link, friend, and follow for awesome giveaways that will be happening all year. Also we can't forget our fearless leader; Follow Marion on her social media accounts @marionsmithdesigns to keep up with all the brand happenings. 

See you all later this week. 

Angee Carter

Handmade Flowers | Marion Smith Design Team Farewell

Today for our very last post together we wanted to showcase the Bloom Impression Tool and Dies to create these gorgeous handmade flowers. From altered projects, to layouts, and cards...if you've struggled to make handmade flowers as I have then you will love the Bloom Impressions tool. 

Peggy Baker

Angee Carter

Colette Nederhoff

Tonya Gibbs

Thank you all for your sweet comments and Facebook messages. 

We appreciate your friendship and support. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Hope your having a great week. 

Angee Carter