Get To Know Pam MacKay

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us. We started a new feature last week that we are continuing with today on the Blog.  Over the next several weeks, we will be giving you a closer look at our designers.  It's  a "get to know the design team"  and today we are featuring Pam MacKay. 

To introduce myself here is a little background info. I was born in Akron, Ohio.  We moved down to the Dayton area when I was in high school. I went to Ohio University and got my teaching degree. I married my high school sweetheart who happened to live right across the street! We moved cross country to Oregon, Washington and then settled in Southern CA for 38 years.  I taught in Laguna Beach until I retired. After hubby retired we moved to South Carolina to be closer to family. 

 

I have been stamping for over 20 years. I got really hooked when I went to a card making class with a friend. My wallet became very light from that day forward! I enjoy all styles of card making. I can’t really put my finger on my style but I will say I usually like lots of layering. I have taught a number of card making classes.  And I have been on a number of design teams. I can spend hours in my woman’s cave making cards but I do have to feed the husband on occasion!

 

I am really enjoying being a part of the Scrapping Cottage Design team.  The dies are wonderfully detailed and the cards that I make with them are so cute that it is very hard to send out. I just want to keep them all to myself!  Here are some of my favorite CottageCutz creations and to tell you the truth it was hard to pick just a couple of them.

Get to know Lois Bak

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us. We are starting a new feature on the Blog today. Over the next several weeks, we will be giving you a closer look at our designers.  It's  a "get to know the design team"  and today we are featuring Lois Bak. 
 

I moved with my late husband Tom to sunny Florida 49 years ago from eastern Pennsylvania with two of our three children, both boys (Doug and Scott).  My youngest child, a daughter named Kathi, is my only true Floridian.   My three children have given me eight grandchildren and a couple of grand-pets.  

I worked for many years as a bookkeeper for an association management company, where I kept the books for up to 14 not-for-profit associations.  I retired several years ago and devote much of my spare time making cards, having served on several design teams over the years. 

In addition, I do volunteer work at my church once a week.  My other passion is reading . . . mainly detective novels. I love roller coasters and celebrated my 73^rd birthday several years ago with my son Doug and his wife Alex by riding the Rip Ride Rock-it roller coaster at Universal Studios Theme Park in Orlando.  Alex told me that her co-workers think I’m the coolest mother-in-law in their office!

Like many stampers that I’ve met (in real life or in cyberspace), I’ve gone through the gamut of crafts:  embroidery, crewel, counted cross-stitch, macramé, ceramics, plastic-canvas needlepoint.  But all of that ceased when I discovered stamping at a Stampin’ Up workshop hosted by my BFF.    My first order was one stamp set, some cardstock, and a couple of ink pads.  These simple items have mushroomed into a very large inventory . . . but I still have that first set, Fishy Friends!   

Several years ago I started using die-cuts on my cards as well as stamped images.  That was an eye-opening experience, and I have come to love using dies – in particular the detailed ones that CottageCutz produces.  And, I am delighted to be on their design team, showing others how these dies can be used.

 

I was fortunate enough to have many of my cards published in CardMaker magazine including the current Winter issue. I was honored several years ago by being selected for the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen.  I am also a DT member for the Scor-Pal  company. 

I enjoy making fun-fold cards and “projects.”  Here are several of my favorite CottageCutz creations.