DT article: Marianne Design

Hi Everybody!

After long summerbrake we are starting fall with new ideas and full of inspiration. We got wonderful dies and stamps from Marianne Design and started to make projects with them. Here's some info about Marianne Design.

About Marianne Design

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer and wholesale supplier to craft retailers around the world. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. Our products are available in 18 countries around the world. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.


The history of Marianne Design

Marianne was trained as a craft teacher and in 1989 she started writing creative books. Her first book was of making ornamental dolls of fabric and threads. This was a big hit and she sold over 1 million craft books in the years that followed. At first she started to make books and products for other companies, but she wanted to do more and started developing her own products. In 1994 she founded Marianne Design B.V. and started developing new crafts and adequate products to go along with it for the Dutch market. To this day she still coaches authors who write crafts books. Marianne: “It is fantastic to see how creative people are and how crafts can excite them!”.

In recent years Marianne Design has grown to a mature production company which is still on top and in demand. The company has concentrated on supplying customers and consumers with the highest level of products and inspiration. For this Marianne still leads the company herself and she has surrounded herself with a passionate and experienced team. Marianne Design is a much loved brand. Since 2010 Marianne Design started to develop cutting- and embossing stencils to use in different machines. This turned out to be extremely successful and the Marianne Design Creatables dies have reached a cult status in the craft world. The products of Marianne Design are becoming more known and have started settling in other countries beside the Netherlands. The company continues to make beautiful designs and products, there are many ideas and inspiration for the future. 

These are the projects we made with Marianne Design dies and stamps:

Maissi

I've used in this card Snoesjes stamp and vintagestamps.

In this christmas card and in the card below I've used Creatables dies and vintage stamps.

Malin

I made a decoration for my little car! This cute -front and back- car dies fits perfectly in it!

And I made a christmascard of Marianne Designs adorable stamp and christmas dies.

I got a gorgeous music stamp set,so I made two mini paintings.

Lene

I've made a small thank you card where I've used the dies "thanks" and

"boat"

 On this card I've used an adorable stamps from Snoesjes

and the dies"Just for you". On the background I've used some ticket stamps.

 The last card I've made, I've used dies"just for you"and "sailboat"

and on the background I've used ticket stamps.

Åsa

Made some flowers with dies and colored up the lovely stamp.

Made a tag and stamped with different vintage stamps.

A clean and simple card with some Happy Birthday dies.

Minna

On my first card I have used cute stamp from Snoesjes collection called "Boy with kitten", stamps from "Paris" set and die "Just for you"

On my second card I have used stamps from "Paris"

And here is my last card:) As you can see I do love this "Paris" set and have used stamps again:)) On this card I have also used Craftables die-Ivy circle.

Gitte

Bag-card.

I have used picture and Tag-die behind the picture from Marianne design.

The flowers are also made with die from Marianne design.

We want to thank you Marianne Design for these gorgeaus stamps and dies!

Winner of the Dies Challenge

 

 

 

There has been an overwhelming start this fall and our challenge.
We started with a straightforward task,

where you would make a card where you used dies..

 

 

The winner will receive a great prize from
Marianne Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner of this competition is:

 

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NR: 28 MERKKU -congrats alot!!!

 

She has made this beautiful card:

 

 

 

Please email us at stampartic@gmail.com to  claim your prize!!

 

 



We are back- A challenge

We are back from our summer break, and ready to an exciting fall.

We are looking forward to get started, 

and we hope you will find useful tips and inspiration.

AND the best of all....

we start with a CHALLENGE:O))))))

but first....

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We have some new members at StampARTic and we're

proud to introduce our new DT:

Line:

Line from Norway is a versatile artist with many hobbies .. She makes

beautiful cards, make beautiful layouts and can also knit great products

Take a look at her blog:

 http://www.lineshobbykrok.blogspot.no/

Gitte

Gitte from Denmark is a happy, social, and a creative person. She love to sit with the paper. She probably most to Vintage, the romantic and the more raw look.

She makes sooo adorable cards.

Take a look at Gitte's blog:

http://gittescrap.blogspot.dk/

Linda:

Linda from Sweden has been scrapping since 2007, started with layouts, and after six months, it was also cards and altered. She make a lot of beautiful cards!!

Take a look at Linda's blog:

http://citronlimespyssel.blogspot.com

Christina:

Christina from Sweden has been scrapped in about 6 years ..She started with cardmaking and began to slowly mix with scrapbooking. 

 She is also make soooo beautiful cards.

Take a look at her blog:

 http://scrapkammaren.blogspot.com/

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And now- THE CHALLENGE

This time we will have you to make

cards where you use DIES!!!

(We just loooooove to make cards with dies...)

You need to join us BEFORE

Friday 24.august Stampartic time

The prize are from Marianne Design

..and let's get startet; here is some inspirations from all of the DT's

Lene

I've used different dies on my card.

Corner dies from Lifestyle crafts 

Fence from Magnolia

I've cut the motif out with spellbinders

Flowers dies from Magnolia.

Swirl from Magnolia

Inside I've used spellbinder dies.

Flowers from Tim Holtz and Magnolia

Butterfly from Magnolia

 Alphabet from Tim Holtz. 

Gitte.

I have used dies from Spellbinders, Cherry Lynn and  Memory Box.

Christina

I have also used different dies on my weddingcard, just dies and no image.

I have used a butterflie die from Magnolia and the flowerswirl is also from Magnolia.

Quickutz-heart

Alphabet from Quickutz

Malin

I have used dies from Cherry Lynn (corner dies), Magnolia (flowers and leaves), Tim Holtz (fence), QuicKutz (swirls) and Spellbinders (scalloped circles).

Linda

 

I have used dies from Tim Holtz/Sizzix; caged bird, clock and hardware findings. 

Maissi

I have used dies from Sizzix (tree), Spellbinders (square) and Magnolia (mistletoe).

Line:

Card is cut from Spellbinders Grand Label one,

Spellbinder Mega Ovals around the image.

Label is "grommet Tag" from Spellbinder.

"leaves" is from Marianne design,

and swirl from Cheery Lynn.

Letters are from Quickutz ( Chick-a-dee)

Åsa
I´ve used Spellbinders and Magnolia border dies on my card.

Minna

I have used dies from SIzzix-Tim Holtz Bird Branch,

gate from Memory Box, fence and leaves from Magnolia