Designers

Agnes Biro

Agnes started digital scrapbooking in the summer of 2009, when she planned to create her very first photobook for her father as a gift. It was a challenge to edit that book without any PS knowledge. lol, but she's a stayer, She wanted to do that and then did it.

Agnes learned how to use Photoshop step by step, and as she sank into its tiny details she became an addict. Yes, she admits she's addicted..:) She loves to edit her photos and designing.

As she looked around on the web about this photo book subject, Agnes found beautiful scrapbook galleries. She was dumbfouded and decided she wanted to do something like that as a hobby. Since than, she has created several scrapbook pages, photo books, and hybrid projects. She loves to preserve her family's bigger or smaller moments in this way.

Last year, in 2010, Agnes applied for the LDD's Apprentice program just because she wanted to learn more. She was so surprised when Michelle wrote back, "You're In!" After a 5-week competition, she won a designer spot at Little Dreamer and started her exciting journey as a scrapbook designer.

In her real life, Agnes is a pharmacist. She graduated from Semmelweis University in Budapest. Now she's a stay-at-home mother of two little boys and their father who is her right half (age: 1,5 and 3,5 and 34 years old) LOL

She started her home small business in January. She works with a laser engraver, making stamps, engraved wooden pictures, and industrial signs, but these are just a few examples.

They live in Hungary, in the suburb of Debrecen.

Agnes loves to be with her family. They are her life, her everything. She loves sewing, gardening, cooking, riding horses, running, loves her flowers, spring...she simply loves her life and appreciates every tiny beauty in it.

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Audrey Neal

Audrey Neal has a very great eye for design and composition, and uses her unique perspective to create digital kits people want to use.

Audrey is the co-author, with May Flaum, of Paper + Pixels: Scrapbook Layouts, a book about hybrid scrapbooking. While her digital kits reflect a variety of styles, Audrey's primary purpose is to create digital kits that help you to get your stories scrapped.

Audrey has been scrapbooking for years and has worked on several manufacturer design teams including My Mind's Eye, Urban Lily, Around the Block, and others. She has had numerous articles and layouts featured in many paper and digital publications.

Audrey lives in a small college town in western Kentucky with her husband Chris and two daughters, Cassidy and Cami. Both she and her husband work for the same university, which makes for nice lunch dates on a daily basis.

Audrey has a B.A. in English and Secondary Education, with a minor in Creative Writing; she just completed her Master's degree in Secondary Education.

You can visit Audrey's blog and gallery to check out the uniqueness that she is bringing to DHD!

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Angie Hinksman

Although she was born and raised in the US, Angie moved from California to the UK after falling for a lovely British Man who was on holiday visiting a mutual friend back in the 1980s.

They quickly became friends and after 18 months of keeping in touch through the ancient art of letter writing, Angie moved to England.

They've been married for many years and have a son and two daughters.

A quirky fact about Angie: She went to a High School in Los Angeles where lots of famous people went, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. However, the thing that always seems to impress people is that the Video for Brittany Spear's 'Hit me baby one more time' was filmed there (hehehe).

Angie discovered Digital Scrapbooking by accident during a shopping trip to her favourite Craft Shop. She picked up an issue of a digital scrapbooking magazine and thought that it would be a really cool way to brush up on her digital graphic skills. As she was lecturing in computer graphics at the time, she hoped it would inspire her young female students to see the creative side of computing! From the moment she opened the pages of this now 'well thumbed' magazine she was hooked!

Soon she was creating digi-albums, cards, calendars and gifts to print and give to friends and family. Angie has been on several Creative Teams, creating mainly Hybrid items. She's also written articles for various online craft magazines about how she made her digital creations. This naturally led to designing both digital kits and hybrid items. Angie loves seeing what others come up with when they use her designs!

Angie is an experienced Computing, Business and Digital Design Lecturer. She currently divides her time between working as a Marketing Officer for an Exclusive Golf Club, writing articles for The Artisan Notebook and Designing Digital and Hybrid Scrapbook Kits. She loves learning new things and will try her hand to anything crafty!

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Celeste Knight

Celeste graduated with a BFA in graphic design from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR in 2001. She is a mother to two, a wife to an amazingly supportive husband and a freelance designer who designs in her spare time, because she just can't stop-she loves it that much.

Her love of pattern and surface design began a few years ago while designing for the popular scrapbook company Basic Grey. Since then, she has loved any opportunity to combine her graphic design experience and love of anything paper crafty. Digital design is a great way to do just that. She is thrilled to be able mix her passion for pattern, design and craft with the wonderful flexibility of having it all be digital. Celeste loves the excitement of seeing how her products are used and how others creative spark is expressed with them.

In her spare, spare time Celeste enjoys watching movies ( lately BBC Classics- she is a sucker for anything Jane Austin), baking, hiking, reading (anything Jane Austin), gardening, all things paper crafty, shopping, and most of all spending time with her amazing family. Oh yeah, and of course designing.

Always on the look out for art and crafty inspiration she is so excited to be starting this new endeavor. You can find out more on her website at SweetCarolineStudio.com.

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Dana Zarling

In 2003, Dana's husband gave her a copy of Photoshop and she started googling digital scrapbooking. After buying a few kits, she figured out that she could learn how to make the same thing so off she went to Google for tutorials. From freebies to selling in her first store in January 2004, the rest is history!

Her grungy look has evolved to a softer, textured feel with unique patterns and color schemes. She has designed several paper lines for Bo Bunny and has created exclusive kits for Scrapper's Guide.

Designing is her way to de-stress after a long day. She finds that her greatest pleasure comes from seeing layouts that others have made with her products. She takes pride in knowing that she has had a small part in preserving someone else's memories.

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Deena Rutter

Deena Rutter is one of the most talented illustrators in the digital scrapbooking and paper scrapbooking community. She has recently released 3 paper lines through My Mind's Eye called Abbey Road, Penny Lane, and Love Me Do.

Her designs are fresh, fun and incredibly unique. She has been designing for the craft industry since 1999 and has worked for several companies including Provo Craft, Crate Paper, and MME.

For those of you who are familiar with the Cricut, she designed the Storybook & Stand and Salute Cartridges.

She has been also involved in digital scrapbooking, selling her digital designs through PCLayers.

We're so glad that she now calls DHD her home! We are all so lucky that she is able to harness her amazing talent into such lovely papers and accessories so we can get our grubby little hands (and mouses) on them!

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Gennifer Bursett

Gennifer Bursett has always loved art, and began scrapbooking in high school. After doing traditional scrapbooking for over ten years, in 2009 she sat down with an old version of Photoshop Elements and started experimenting. She was hooked right away! A couple of upgrades and hundreds of layouts later, she decided to bring her talents to the designing table.

Although Gen is new to digital designing, she's not new to Design House Digital. She loves all of the 'behind the scenes' work she's involved in here, and couldn't possibly give that up!

With no formal graphic design background, her unique style is based on the scrapper's perspective. Her tendencies toward bright color schemes and bold, graphic patterns provide for fun and funky kits.

Gennifer lives with her husband, Steve, and their four kids near Park City, Utah. When she's not creating on the computer or working at the family business (4 generations!) she loves to read and watch movies.

And someday, she'll totally live in Ireland.

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Jen Allyson

Jen Allyson has worked for My Mind's Eye as a designer and art direct for for 7+ years. Jen has designed many many sheets of paper: so many that if you were once a paper scrapper, we can pretty much guarantee you've used some of her designs.

Jen's newest line is called Be-loved and its an adorable Valentine's Day line. At CHA in January 2010, MME is launching an adorable line that she designed along with the lovely Zoe Pearn called "Quite Contrary."

Jen started as a digital designer in February 2009, so she's a young one, but has had so much fun and met so many talented and amazing people that she feels like she's been doing it forever!

Jen also has digital kits for sale at Two Peas in a Bucket, but all kits designed after January 2010 are for sale at DHD!

You can check out Jen's blog, The Project Girl, for more info and some fun projects and downloads too!

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Karen Funk

Karen was introduced to the world of scrapbooking when she was only 12 years old. Although the styles and trends have changed a lot since that time, her passion has not. In addition to spending thousands of hours on her own albums, she's also created hundreds of layouts for others, and has taught many scrapbooking classes and workshops.

Karen started digital scrapbooking in 2008, after getting frustrated with all the "stuff" everywhere. She has served on several designer and store creative teams, including being a decorator here at Design House Digital. She began digital designing in early 2010.

Karen attended Utah State University, where she studied graphic design and journalism. It was there that she met her husband. They now live in Southern Utah with their four beautiful children. In addition to digi-scrapping and designing, Karen enjoys running, swimming, hangin' with the family, and all things crafty.

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Karla Dudley

Karla Dudley came upon digital design by chance. She never thought she would be designing digitally and now she adores everything about it! She started traditional scrapbooking in 2006 and then in 2008 she began to design and create with digital kits and can't imagine her life without it. She's been an artist since she was young and applies her love of drawing and design to each kit she makes.

Karla has designed for several kit clubs and manufacturers like: Collage Press, October Afternoon, and Crate Paper. She attended Winter CHA in 2008 and considers that to be one of the highlights of her scrapbooking journey. Karla is a self-taught graphical designer and uses those skills to create cutting files for the Silhouette. She is open to growth and is always trying new things.

Karla Loves to share and help others tell their stories in creative ways. She takes pride in kits that are universal and modern with a graphic twist. Her goal is to help others easily release their creativity by making kits that anyone can use whether they be a traditional, digital, or hybrid scrapper. You can always find inspiration, tips, and laughs on Karla Dudley's blog, "Create Your Story".

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Kate Teague

Kate has been involved in scrapbooking for 11 years ago when she started to scrap her wedding album. She even received an honorable mention for CK's Hall of Fame - twice!!

Kate got into digital scrapbooking when she has a relapse with MS and her right hand went numb - paper scrapping was too hard, but digital kept her sane and really got her addicted.

Kate is incredibly artistic and even got a college diploma in design and painting (way back before photoshop and illustrator - when everything was done by hand!) so becoming a digital designer was a natural transition.

Kate started out designing for Designer Digitals and then Two Peas in a Bucket. She's created some amazing digital kits and has even designed stamps, paper, and stickers for Fontworks. How cool!

In addition to designing for DHD, Kate teaches 2nd Grade part time, and is a wife to Tim her software engineer hubby, and Mother to Mackenzie her ballet-figure skating kiddo. She's also on the Shutterfly Advisory Team and loves it!

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Lori Whitlock

Lori grew up on a family farm. In all her spare time, she developed a love of all things creative from her mother. Lori attended BYU and received her degree in graphic design. After several years of experience in the design industry, Lori found her true love and passion developing product for the crafting industry. She has worked for many manufacturers in the industry such as CK Media, Lisa Bearnson, Crate Paper, etc.

Lori has a very supportive husband and three beautiful children. She loves spending time with her family, quilting, sewing, photography, scrapbooking, and pretty much anything creative. She also enjoys running, exercise and living healthy.

Lori currently designs products for Echo Park Paper, Becky Higgins, Silhouette, and Riley Blake. Lori is excited to partner with DHD to bring outstanding digital scrapbooking designs to you.

You can learn more about Lori and see what she's up to at www.loriwhitlock.com.

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Robyn Meierotto

Robyn Meierotto has been a designer for the scrapbook industry for over 7 years with the company Reminisce before recently starting her own design business, pink trike design. Robyn has been a paper scrapbooker for over 11 years & has had her layouts featured in scrapbooking publications before finding a new-found love in digital scrapbooking.

Her goal this year was to start designing digital products & is loving every minute! You can find out all about Robyn on her website {www.pinktrikedesign.com}, where you can read her blog & see what else she may be up to.

Robyn has a BA in Art & Design from Iowa State University.

Robyn lives in a {mostly} restored farm house in southeast Iowa with her husband Dan & two sons, Collin & Evan & daughter Lydia. Robyn spends her days being a work at home mom, designing between tea parties, homework & housework.

In her spare time Robyn loves spending time with her family, working on her home with her hubby, lazy afternoons on the porch, searching for new design inspiration & has an obsession with Target.

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Sara Schmutz

Sara has always been interested in Graphic Design and Scrapbooking, but never realized the two would meet up down the road of her life. She attended UVU as a graphic design major while working various Design freelance and part-time jobs. She finally ended up full time for pcCrafter as a typographer - and was introduced into the wonderful world of digital scrapbooking.

Always on the lookout for a new adventure, Sara quit her day job soon after her daughter was born and went on to continue her love affair with scrapbook designing from home. Sara has designed for pcLayers, a Provo Craft Cricut Cartridge, and, most recently, has had two kits from Imagainisce release in the CHA Winter 2010.

Her love for digital scrapbook design has taken a back burner in the past year. But, after moving her family twice and finally settling down in the damp and gray northwest, Sara is finally ready to pull out her skills and start digi designing once more.

And, when Sara is not designing, she can usually be found either with a camera in front of her face chasing her daughter around the house, or working on, yet another, craft project or home decorating scheme. Feel free to visit Sara Schutz's blog for more of a taste of her life.

Sara currently resides in the upper-upper-northwest with her full-time-medical-student of a husband and a very lively and rambunctious two year old daughter -Ashlyn.

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Shannon Hegarty

Shannon's love affair with scrapbooking started when she was in junior high. Her mom, Scotty, gave her a stack of leftover trip photos, a few sheets of cardstock and a pair of decorative scissors - and an obsession was born. Shannon and her mom scrapped side by side every weekend for 5 years until she left for college at SCU.

After losing her mom in 2004, Shannon took a break from scrapbooking. It wasn't until after graduate school at SCAD for graphic design that she felt the need to return. A lot had changed in her five years away and she was intrigued when she heard about people using Photoshop for digital scrapbooking - and was obsessed yet again.

While working with Donna Downey on her 2010 Prima Marketing Collections, Shannon was inspired by Donna's artistic entrepreneurial spirit to create her own designs. In May 2010, she opened her own digital scrapbook shop on Etsy and the customer response was her beyond expectations! Her brand name, Scotty Girl Design, honors her mother and the wonderful hobby they shared together.

Shannon lives in San Francisco with her fiance and dreams of the day they can get a dog. You can check out her Scotty Girl Design blog for design and craft tidbits along with slices of her daily life.

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Tiffany Tillman

Some of you may know Tiffany from her induction to the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame in 2005. Since then, she has contributed page designs to hundreds of periodicals, books, DVDs, and creative projects around the world.

She was formerly designing for Little Dreamers Designs, and she is currently teaching intermediate Photoshop and Photoshop Elements courses at ReneePearson.com.

Tiffany attended Old Dominion University, studying Fine Arts & Graphic Design. She lives in Virginia Beach (awesome) with her diva-daughter, and is a beach-gal at heart. She even loves to play the PS3!

Tiffany's style is uniquely her own. Her work is clearly professional and shows she is a master of design and composition. She is somehow able to combine cutesy and modern to create scrapbook perfection. We're so happy that she's showcasing her soul and flair at Design House Digital!

Check out Tiffany's blog for more information on all that she's up to.

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