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

Mini Albums | Marion Smith Design Team Farewell

It's been a wonderful year with the very 1st Marion Smith Design Team.

We have formed a sisterhood like no other. These ladies have demonstrated their exceptional talents for an entire year and we are so proud and honored to have these ladies showcase the Marion Smith Brand! They have left big shoes to fill for the incoming group of designers. They will always be remembered as the first. 

Today we are sharing one of Marion Favorite projects: Mini-Albums! 

Click on the DT Members names to view details of the projects. 

Tonya Gibbs

Peggy Baker

Colette Nederhoff

Aneta Matuszewska

Thank you for stopping by. We will be back tomorrow with more.
Also our new design team will be announced this week. 

Angee Carter

2013 - A Year In Review by Maggie Armstrong

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”

 -Excerpt from Twilight-

And so my year on the Marion Smith Design Team concludes.  It has been my immeasurable pleasure and honour to be amongst those hand picked by Marion to showcase her inaugural collections.

Not only have I loved creating with her paper designs, but it’s been so exciting to see the development of her complimentary products such as the never ending gorgeous Junque Gems, the intricately designed stamps and of course the Bloom Impressions tool.

I am sure Marion will continue to forge her success in this industry,  supported by her fabulous, fit and equally talented husband Garett, and I know that I will continue to enjoy her collections, both past and present. 

So I’d like to leave you with a short video of the Marion Smith Designs projects I have enjoyed creating over the last 12 months.  Thanks to you all for your inspiring comments left on the blog and your own support of Marion’s products.  Xxx

Time Flies when You are having FUN

Today marks my last post on this blog as a design team member!  I can't tell you what a fun blessing this has been to me and I have loved creating these inspirations using Marion's wonderful collections!  I will keep making things and enjoying these collections and embellishments, but the New Design team is on it's way to provide more new ideas and projects!  Thank You all for your support and for visiting this blog to see what we have made!
Today's project was inspired by another one of our team members, Sarah Bargo!  She had made one of these frames in a project I saw online, so I had to try one of my own!  For this project, I used the "Mad Tea Party" line and made a fantastic Large flower using the Bloom Impressions tool.  Marion has done a great tutorial on her tool and it is found on Youtube.  If you search on Youtube for Marion Smith Bloom Impressions Tool, you can learn how to make these gorgeous flowers with whatever paper you choose!


My daughter and her husband on their wedding day last August!  We are almost ready to celebrate a big Year anniversary! There's lots of lovely details on this project including the resin roses and the gorgeous pearl button and resin frame.  I got my clipboard stand at Hobby Lobby and sprayed it black to begin. I love making home decor with my photos.

The papers are so perfect for this theme! 

Here's the beautiful large flower I made.  I cut my petals from my Cricut and using the Bloom Impressions tool, I made gorgeous petals.  After you make the petals, I used a 2 inch glue dot to stick my petals in place and here is the finished product!  Fun and EASY!

Supplies:
Junque and Gems

Mad Tea Party Collection

Hope you are inspired to go make a clipboard frame!!  Thank YOU again to Marion and Garett and all the team members for being amazing to work with!  God bless you all the Thanks for this fun year of opportunity!!
Colette Nederhoff