We are pleased to introduce the Little Black Dress Design Team! Our Design Team creates the beautiful scrapbook, card and altered layouts you see throughout our site. This is a group of very talented designers, and we hope you'll be inspired as much as we are everytime we look through their gallery of work!
We challenge our Design Team to work with LBDD's latest and greatest products including our top-selling items such as Un-Buttons, Lip Smackin' Ribbons, etc. The layouts, cards and artwork presented in the Idea Gallery demonstrates what you can create with our essential items for every crafter's closet!
To see their featured artwork, please visit our Idea Gallery - Design Team section for ideas and art that are sure to inspire!
All positions for the Design Team are currently filled; however, we are still accepting applications for future Team positions. If you are interested in applying for the Team, please click here to submit an online application.
The following list makes up our Design Team 2006:
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Traverse Mountain, Utah
Roxanne has been scrapping for around 15 years. She is a stay at home mom to 2 boys and lives in Utah with her husband of 12 years. She enjoys photography, painting, reading, cross stitch, and spending time scrapping with her sister and other friends. Roxanne is a member of various message boards and you may also know her as HauteRox.
Roxanne is also a designer for Prima Marketing.
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Utah
Lisa is a Utah native and has been surrounded by some of the best stores and companies scrapbooking has to offer. She started scrapping in 1995 just before her first child was born. She quickly discovered a joy in the art of scrapbooking and her other hobbies vanished instantly. She is the mother of 4; 3 boys and a girl as well as an overgrown puppy. She will be celebrating 13 years of marriage to her best friend Shawn, this summer. Online she is also known as LadybugLBB or Ladybug, a nickname given to her by her dad. She is also a design team member for Around the Block. |
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Syracuse, Utah
Natalie is a 29 year old stay at home mom of three very active kids. She is happily married to her darling husband, Ben and lives in Syracuse, Utah.
Natalie finds that her creative juices flourish when the Dr Pepper is flowing and the house is dark and quiet. She has been scrapping for 6 years now, and her current obsession is ribbon.
She has worked for Primedia, DJ Inkers, Provo Craft, Rocky Mountain Scrapbook and Blackberry Paper.
Currently Natalie is also on the Blackberry Paper design team.
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Raeford, North Carolina
Marilyn is a 55 year old grandmother of 4 wonderful grandchildren. She has been scrapbooking for about 3 years, and is as addicted to scrapping as she is caffine.
Her favorite thing to do is wear her sweats, get her hot tea and retreat to her scrap room. Of course her best critic is her husband of 17 years.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Becky has four wonderful children: Tyler (16), Laurel (14), Chloe (13) and Carter (10). She has been married for 19 years to a great guy who is very supportive of her crafty ways. With two cats and a spoiled dog added to the mix, her topics to create scrapbook pages and projects for is endless!
She began scrapbooking about ten years ago and has just recently become more involved in the industry. Her other hobbies include tennis, skiing, hiking and of course shopping for more supplies with her sister!
Personal Blog: Life as a Three Legged Dog
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Draper, Utah
AKA Scrapbookdesigner or Primagirl, Lara lives in Draper, Utah with her husband Bryan and 2 children-Erin age 15 and Shawn age 13. She also has 3 fur babies: Patches(Lab/Pit bull), Koa (Cocker spaniel/Pomeranian) and Yoda(Chihuahua). She is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. Lara has been scrapbooking since she got the one of the first original CK magazines back in 1995.
She is excited to be on the LBDD team again this year and looks forward to helping create some great designs. She has been designing for Prima for the last year as the sole designer. She has done most of the catalog and booth samples for the last year and is now the lead designer and DT coordinator for Prima.
She does both scrapbook pages and altered items. She has been published in both CK and MM. She has also been on DTs for Creative Imaginations and Provo Craft.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Cindy started scrapbooking in 1995 when there were just a small handful of companies around.
She’s a stay at home mother of 2 children and 1 four legged child; Mason 12, Paige 9 and 3 year old Golden Retriever named Arleigh Burke. Cindy has been married to her soul mate Brian, a Military man, for almost 15 years.
Cindy enjoys scrapbooking and has a room full of scrapbook goodies she retreats to any chance she gets. She is passionate about photography and capturing candid shots of her dog & 2 children, working hard to find the sweet personality of her handicapped daughter in every photo she takes.
Recent publications: February 2005 - Paper Crafts magazine
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Pensacola, Florida
Michelle, aka “trendyscrapper” in the online community, is 31 and lives in Pensacola Florida. She and husband Jim, have a three-year old son, James, with another one on the way! She has a degree in Psychology but chooses to be a stay at home mom and loves it. Her son keeps her very busy but gives her every reason in the world to scrapbook! She started scrapping in 2004 when a friend introduced her to Creative Memories. In 2005, she discovered the art of scrapbook design and was instantly hooked.
For Michelle, it started as a way to showcase her family photos in a more unique way and tell the story behind the photos. It has evolved into much more than that for her now! It is her creative outlet - she is an eclectic shabby chic scrapbook designer and she enjoys thinking out of the box. Her staple supplies include patterned paper, metal, textile, and flowers.
She is excited and honored to be a part of the Prima, Little Black Dress, Spellbinders, Mermaid tears, Outrageous Daisy, and Great Balls Of Fiber Design Teams. She has been very blessed in her success as a scrapbook designer.
Recent publications: Correspondence Arts: Jan /Feb issue, Legacy: My roses May/June and Embrace Life July/August issues, Memory Makers 502 idea book: Friends Who Share a Dream and Complete Idiots Guide to Scrapbook Illustration: various titles.
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