Introducing a NEW Senior Design Team Member!

Hello everyone! I hope you've been keeping crafty while we are keeping our BIG SECRET! Yes, only a few more days until our NEW DESIGN TEAM is revealed! And you won't want to miss it! We'll have giveaways lasting all day long with a new designer announced every hour, on the hour! August 2nd is the big day - can't wait!! We have NINE incredibly talented designers joining our team and another new addition - but to our Senior DT!


I am so pleased to announced that Julie Ranae of Julie's Open Window will be joining our Senior Design Team! Julie is a sweet, knowledgable and all-around crafty girl whom I'm absolutely honored to have aboard!

Julie Ranae comes from The Forest City of Rockford, Illinois. She has been married to her British-import husband Paul for 20 years and is the mother of two children and is expecting her fourth grandson in July (any day now!).

Her professional background in retail marketing & consulting eventually led into her opening the largest rubber stamp and paper-crafting store in Illinois.  She has gone on to organize paper-crafting events and workshop and retreat weekends which have drawn crafters from all over the world.  She is currently a Creative Consultant for A Muse Studio, a wonderful line of rubber stamps that were once sold in her retail store, but are now only available through independent consultants.

In June 2009, she began a new journey with her creative blog Julie’s Open Window.  It quickly became an outlet for her passion of creative writing and a place to share her work.  Nearing its 2-year ‘blogaversary’, she is honored that nearly 700 people have become followers and participate in a variety of blog hops, challenges and fun when they visit.

She is the creator of the very popular weekly color challenge, The Play Date Café. Her newest challenge, which features the Clean & Simple-Style, is CAS-ual Fridays . She is also the Design Team Coordinator for The Twinery and Lil’ Inker Designs, designer and newsletter editor for The Craft’s Meow and is looking forward to be joining the Market Street Stamps design team.  Her work in the rubber stamping industry has been featured in a variety of trade publications and her designs have been featured in Scrapbook News & Review, Paper Craft Planet, CARDS and Moxie Fab World. 
She has recently become acquainted with Skype and can now be seen in front of the mirror, checking her makeup on an hourly basis...just in case someone calls!

Welcome to the Market Street Family, Julie!! This is the ador-a-ble card Julie made for me when she came to the Milwaukee Stamp & Scrapbook Expo! Love it! She used Follow Your Heart.

Thanks for stopping in, be sure to leave a little love for Julie over on her blog, and join us tomorrow where we'll introduce you to our LAST Senior Designer and start the countdown to our HUGE DT announcement!! Can't wait! xo Angelica