Introducing our 2015 Creative Team

Hello everyone! With 2015 fast approaching, it’s the right time to reflect on some highlights from this amazing whirlwind of a year. 2014 has definitely been a year of growth for Studio Calico. In addition to partnering with Ali Edwards and A Beautiful Mess and bringing Big Picture Classes into the SC family, we’ve moved to bigger offices, expanded our behind the scenes team and welcomed four new babies. WHEW. Through all of the changes, we’ve strived to inspire by providing products we’re proud of and maintaining committed service so that everything that falls under the SC umbrella lives up to our standard of excellence. We’re so glad you’ve grown with us and supported all the changes. It’s awesome to be a part of such a tight-knit community of makers who are willing to share and learn from each other. Trust us, we know how important it is to take time to create something. We feel lucky that you’re sharing that time with us.

It’s been quite a year for our Creative Team, too. There have been babies and marriages, new jobs and moves, personal triumphs and struggles. And through it all, they’ve found time to share their lives and their talent with us and with all of you by delivering top notch inspiration to our gallery, classrooms and blog. We could not be more thankful for them, and are amazed at how they transform our kits into such beautiful projects. The endless cups of coffee and late night crafting sessions of these gifted women have been worth it on so many levels.

Now, here we are at the close of another year and it is time to reveal the 2015 Creative Team. How is it that time already? As this business evolves, so does the talent pool within this amazing industry. We worked very hard this year to find individuals who bring unique strengths to the gallery each month and constantly amaze us with their skills.

With all of this in mind, we’ve revisited how our Creative Team works. In 2015, we’ll be working with a smaller team who will bring you inspiration each and every month. In addition, we also will continue to showcase all of the crafters you know and love on our blog, in the Calico Classroom, and through regular guest appearances in our gallery. This will give our team members more flexibility, and allow us to mix things up to keep the work in our gallery and on the blog varied and fresh each month. The list you see below is just a start – we are looking forward to have the opportunity to feature even more talented crafters here at Studio Calico. Maybe you’ll be one of them? ;)

Agnieszka Malyszek | Allison Waken | Anna-Maria Wolniak | Catherine Davis | Céline Navarro

Dana Fleckenstein | Geralyn Sy | Ginny Hughes | Jamie Waters | Jenn Picard

Keisha Campbell | Kelly Noel | Lisa Spangler | Lisa Truesdell | Maggie Massey

Marcy Penner | Nicole Reaves | Stephanie Bryan | Tracy Armstrong

And introducing our contributing Creative Team members :

Amanda Caves, Amy Tan, Becky Novacek, Carissa Wiley, Cathy Zielske, Deb Duty, Elizabeth Kartchner, Emily Branch, Gillian Nelson, Julie Campbell, Kim Stewart, Leena Loh, Lilin Fang, Loredana Bucaria, Maggie Holmes, Melanie Louette, Natalie Elphinstone, Paige Evans, Robyn Werlich, Stephanie Baxter, Suzy Plantamura, Tina Aszmus

We also have a handful of crafters who have chosen not to contribute in 2015. We'll be featuring them next week - while it's never easy to say goodbye, we do want to celebrate everything they've done for us.

Please join me in saying THANK YOU to our amazing 2014 Creative Team – and to welcome some new faces to the 2015 line up. I think we’re in for an inspirational year!

Are you interested in contributing to the Studio Calico blog this year? Submit an example of a project and a post to us through a conversation. We want to hear from you!

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37 comments

  1. pinksoup says…
    11/28/2014

    Congratulations to all you talented, inspirational ladies! I appreciate every creative design you post.

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  2. sillypea says…
    11/28/2014

    No Susan? Awww. Will miss her.
    Good to see Kelly staying though. And the more Gillian the better, just saying. :-)

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  3. Msaula says…
    11/28/2014

    Fantastic team...looking forward to another wonderful year of inspiration!

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  4. Bellaa75 says…
    11/28/2014

    What's the difference between the creative team and the contributing team members? I hope Natalie, Paige, Elizabeth and Amy in particular will still be doing their layouts every month? Please tell me yes :)

    Ps great to still see Maggie M and Kelly in the team, yah!!! And congrats to the new girls :)

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  5. gluestickgirl says…
    11/28/2014

    @bellaa75 - the creative team members will have a gallery each month & the contributing team will be working on a more flexible schedule. we'll have lots of opportunities to feature all of your favorites throughout the year!

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  6. Bellaa75 says…
    11/28/2014

    Thank you @gluestickgirl.
    Of course glad to still see you in there too! I missed your pages at reveal this month :)

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  7. emmatandy says…
    11/28/2014

    No shanna Noel that makes me really sad :(

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  8. Rockermorsan says…
    11/28/2014

    I am so so sorry not to see Melanie and Tina on the main team. Just broke my heart. I've been thinking about quitting by scrapbook sub, and this made me decide. So sorry to let it go.

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  9. samanthas says…
    11/28/2014

    @Rockermorsan both Melanie and Tina needed a little flexibility this year and we're excited they will still be regular faces. Tina also still has a ton of product in upcoming kits (and will continue to) so stick around! It will be worth it!

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  10. Jill_S says…
    11/28/2014

    Congratulations, everyone! Thanks, SC, for continuing to provide us with so much inspiration!

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  11. TaraElias says…
    11/28/2014

    Congratulations to everyone! This is always a bittersweet time, there are many faces I'm sad not to see and so many faces I'm so HAPPY to see!! Looking forward to another creative year at Studio Calico!

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  12. juliee says…
    11/28/2014

    Congratulations to all. So much talent in that group!

    But I am sad to see smaller roles for some of my favorites and cannot imagine life here without Shanna Noel.......

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  13. confettiheart says…
    11/28/2014

    So, does this mean the "contributing Creative Team members" will contribute on a regular basis or just every now and then?
    I already know Lory, Paige and Natalie will be terribly missed :(

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  14. melanielouette says…
    11/28/2014

    @rockermorsan As Sam mentioned, I made the difficult decision to take a lesser role this year, as life is crazy busy for me and I'm not able to give 100% to the team. I'll still be posting my layouts in the gallery and contributing to the team on a semi-regular basis, so I really do hope you'll rethink your decision & stay with us! Thank you for the support. :) xo

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  15. ShellyJ says…
    11/28/2014

    It's always nice to see fresh faces! But I will miss some of those that we won't be seeing often in the coming year. Congrats to the new team and best wishes to those who are leaving.

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  16. penny says…
    11/28/2014

    @NicoleS??? I must be missing something in the list. I need more Bright Ideas!

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  17. Magoosangel says…
    11/28/2014

    I am glad for the ones returning and kind of happy there are not so many for next year. It was a bit overwhelming to me to have so many galleries to look at.

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  18. nailgirl says…
    11/28/2014

    oh nooo! i don't see shanna noel :-(

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  19. sweetsierra says…
    11/28/2014

    Wow....I can't believe this list. Sooooooooo many favorites gone. :(

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  20. writerlady says…
    11/29/2014

    Um - congratulations to the design team and thank you SO much to the outgoing team. What exactly is a contributing creative team member? I'm so disappointed that Paige is not on the design team!!!

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  21. ISing says…
    11/29/2014

    Congrats!!!

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  22. welobellie says…
    11/29/2014

    Congrats to all the new & returning members!! I'm so sad to see that some of my favorites won't have a gallery every month but so excited to see this new CT format in action. Sounds cool!!

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  23. DinCA says…
    11/29/2014

    Some of my favorites have joined the team and some of my favorites have left! Such a bittersweet time of the year. That said, I'm thankful that many are still going to contribute as they can.

    Congratulations to all of the new girls!

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  24. Bellaa75 says…
    11/29/2014

    Oh no I just noticed there's no @ljbridges either, argh!!!! I'm going to miss her :(

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  25. lory says…
    11/29/2014

    @confettiheart oh my thank you for your super sweet and lovely words:) you are a doll! thank you so much. I'll be always here making a lot of Scrapboking pages and minis and Pl spreads hihihih like a stalker haha;) Ill be a regular contributor but with more time because of the arriving of the baby but be sure I'll be here :) hihihih love you

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