Announcing : Art Glitter Design Team 2013-14

Help us welcome the 2013-14 Design Team!

 

 

  

Design Team Lead/Social Media Director
Kristi Parker Van Doren has been creating since age 12 when her parents gave her a rubber stamp and ink for Christmas. 38 years later she is still creating, designing, writing, teaching and more! Kristi loves to create and has been on several design teams including: Spellbinders, Northwoods, Worldwin Papers, Luminarte, Coronado Island and several others. She served three years as a writer for Scrap & Stamp Magazine, as well as having articles published in books and magazines, most recently in Zentangle 6. Kristi was also honored with being the featured mixed media artist in Scrap n’ Arts online publication in March of 2013.  Kristi has served on several teams in the last year including USArtQuest, The Robins Nest, Dreamweaver Stencil, and is now our Design Team Lead at  Art Institute Glitter along with the  Connie Crystal  & Holly Berry House Orignials. When Kristi is not creating she is hanging out with her kiddos, friends, cooking or working at one of her other jobs. Check out her blog at www.kristiscreativecafe.blogspot.com 

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Clare Buckingham Dempsey has been an avid paper crafter for 14 years, sewn for 33 years and loved all types of crafts since childhood. She is happily married with two boys.  She has a fashion design and art background and still makes sewing patterns and quilts.  She has been a member of the Art Glitter Guest Design Team and The Robin's Nest Design team. She loves digital cutters and designing her own cut files.  She teaches classes at her local scrap booking and paper crafting guild and loves to blog too!   She enjoys making her own scrap book and fashion embellishments with Art Glitter and Art Glitter glue!  You can find Clare at her blog www.cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com/

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Georgia Sommers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her very supportive husband Michael and has two grown daughters, Ashley and Rachel. Georgia has loved crafting since she was a young girl. Her mother was always coming up with some project for her sisters and her to do. Georgia did major in art but did not want to do the starving artist thing, so she became a dental assistant instead. She started teaching Tole and Decorative art which she taught for about 10 years.  When her youngest daughter was two she was introduced to Stampin UP and here card making career began. Georgia’s favorite materials to work with are; Dreamweaver Stencils, Copic Markers and of course Art Glitter.  She loves glitter, sometimes she feels kind of like the dogs in the movie UP except instead of squirrels,  she is drawn to sparkles. Georgia is lucky to be able to teach in some great stores in California and always seem to carry with her some glitter & bling! www.sommrstamping.blogspot.com

 

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Heather A. Hudson lives in Pinckney, Michigan with her two teenage sons, hubby and two kitties.  She is a Registered Nurse, working with ventilator dependent teens.  Heather currently works full time, and designs for Gecko Galz, Really Reasonable Ribbon and Sugar Creek Hollow.  In the past she has designed for Bella Creations (closed now) and Pro 31 Designs.  Heather also was on the Design Team at her local scrapbook store Scraptales.  That is where she met Linda Neff (Art Glitter Design Team Member 2012-13) , and Art Glitter Team Member Laura Drahozal. Heather has been interested in paper crafting since 2010. She enjoys painting, pottery and of course digital images and paper!  Her ambition is to work with more mixed media! www.heatherhudson.blogspot.com

 

 

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Laura Drahozal cannot remember a time when she was not creating. Art Glitter is thrilled to have Laura back for a second term of glittering fun. As a former art teacher, she has tried almost every traditional medium. She looks for inspiration all around her and loves to combine various products and techniques to achieve what she had previously thought of as impossible. Laura is currently serving on design teams for Dreamweaver Stencils, Globecraft Memories and Connie Crystal. Laura formerly served as a member of the Twisted Sketches Team and as a Guest Designer for Art Glitter. She loves all things glittery! Check out her blog at www.rememberinglifesmoments.blogspot.com.

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 Lynette Daniel, Owner of Scrap That Moment. Lynette is an accomplished graphic designer and photographer. Lynette’s artwork has been featured in 8 different trade magazines, 7 state publications, 4 published books, 5 local city and county newspapers, and 2 international magazines in Great Britain and Australia. Lynette is known for her scrapbooking projects but brings an exciting artistic style to Art Glitter. On the home front, Lynette is a busy mom with 2 beautiful active teenagers.  When she is not working she is volunteering, teaching classes and giving back to the community. She has been on the Board of Directors for Pop Warner Football & Upward Sports and has coached soccer and cheerleading/drill team for many years. Lynette donates time and money to raise awareness for youth programs in her area. Her goal is to offer children the opportunity to acquire better skills, self-confidence, and even scholarships in whatever they love to do. Lynette enjoys music, traveling and always has a camera around her neck. Follow Lynette on her store website gallery, professional and personal blogs all at www.scrapthatmoment.com and on Facebook.

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Missie Todd’s paper crafting journey began more than a decade ago when she was introduced to scrapbooking.  Over the years her love of crafting has grown. Now it is more of a way of life than a hobby!  She is a proud member of the Art Glitter and Connie Crystal Design teams.  Her crafting resume includes teaching scrapbook classes, leading workshops, independent scrapbook and stamping sales, and customer education and demonstration using Provo Craft products- including the Cricut Expression, Cricut Cake, and Gypsy.  In May 2012 she was a featured artist for Papers and Pixels Magazine.  She has also been featured as a guest designer for Graphic 45!  Missie enjoys traditional and digital scrapbooking, card making, custom t-shirt design, and loves to dabble in other creative outlets like sewing and jewelry making. 

In her life outside her scrapbook room Missie is a wife, mother, and student.  Her boys, Blake age 6 and Ian age 4, enjoy “helping” her craft and making their own creations.  As a family they enjoy travel which always gives Missie a lot to scrapbook.   For the last few years she has been working towards becoming a nurse and is in a full time RN program.  As you can see busy is just a way of life, but Missie says crafting is her sanity and helps to keep her grounded. www.createdbymissie.blogspot.com

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Peg Rounds has been creating since she was a young girl.  She was always interested in art and any type of craft projects she could find.  As she got older, she stopped to go to college and then to raise a family. It wasn’t long before she’d pick it up again.  Today she is still creating as much as she can and enjoying it.  She is always wanting to learn new things in the world of crafting.  Her free time, when not spending it with her family, is used to create her latest works of art.  She has designed for many companies over the years some of which include Altered Pages, The Robin’s Nest, Amazing Mold Putty, Your Next Stamp Guest Designer and Keep In Touch Guest Designer, as well as many others.  She currently designs for Just For Fun Stamps and is an Invited Guest Blogger at USArtQuest.  She is, also, the Card Making and Scrapbooking Contributor for Create For Less.  She’s been published in Scrapbook News and Review and on Scrapbook.com and was a writer and proof reader for Oh Scrap Online Magazine.  Peg also enjoys teaching classes and is  working on setting up  classes online and you tube videos.  Be sure to check out her blog at:  www.pegscraftingcorner.blogspot.com. 

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Tabitha Collins Jones has been creating paper crafting projects since 1996 when her sister showed her a friends album. Tabitha knew that she would be hooked and has been ever since. Tabitha has had a love of paper and glitter since she was in Jr. High school. She loved creating the spirit banners for the teams. When the craze of scrapbooking became all the rage, she had to be a part of it. Tabitha loves to design and has designed for many companies including; Scrap That Moment,Claire's Cottage, Black Paper Society, Apron Strings and several other blog sites and kit clubs. She also served as Lead Design Team Coordinator for Eyelet's Etc. Tabitha has been published in online magazines as well as Canata Magazine and the Joy of Scrapbooking. Tabitha has also been a featured designer for Steema ( Masterpiece Studios) along with Bound+/Detrmined at CHA. When Tabitha is not creating she is spending time with her four children and husband  and loves to bake, cook and crochet. zippity-do-dah-tabitha.blogspot.com 

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A huge "Thank You" to all that applied.  Keep an eye out for some new fun promotions and opportunities in the upcoming year! We look forward to everyone joining us for a fun journey in 2013-14.  Thank you for your continued support and love for all things Art Glitter!