Name: Valerie Courtney
Job Title: Associate Crafts Designer
Date started at company: Started freelancing with the company in June ’07, became full time as the Editorial Crafts Assistant in February ’08. A few months later I joined the crafts product design team.
First product design you saw on shelf: Halloween 2008 treat bags, scrapbooking paper, and stickers at Michael’s craft stores
Hometown: Piscataway, NJ
Education: The Fashion Institute of Technology, BFA in Packaging Design
First Job: Counter girl at a gourmet café/market
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Personal crafting/artwork: dotsmakediamonds.typepad.com and http://loveteenie.etsy.com
Things you collect: 1950/60’s dishware and cookbooks/household guides (I love the charming illustrations inside) and anything with polka dots
FAVORITE . . .
Color: turquoise
Holiday: Halloween in June! This has become an annual event for my friends and I. We celebrate my boyfriend’s birthday by going out in costumes like it’s Halloween in June. For the first official holiday I dressed up as a horse jockey and my boyfriend went as a superhero called “Birthday Boy!”
Pizza topping: I like my pizza topping free– it’s perfect as is
Kind of Fabric: Houndstooth
Dessert: Ice cream (cones, pops, sandwiches, you name it)
Source: Parcel (shopparcel.com)
Martha Stewart Craft: I am a designer for the MS Craft line– I design products that I myself would like to buy (www.marthastewartcrafts.com). Some of my favorite craft ideas include: matchbox gifts and homemade snow globes
My Design Director, Megen, told me about Spacecraft, a crafting boutique in his neighborhood and it got me thinking about crafting communities.
Spacecraft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Stella from Spacecraft sent us some images from the shop. Check out the adorable package they came in!
In addition to selling crafting supplies and materials, Spacecraft hosts classes, workshops, and parties. …
Thank you for the overwhelming response to the Punch Around The Page (or PATP for short) punches. We’re so happy that you seem to be as excited about them as we are! If you’re having trouble aligning the punches, here are some guidelines and measurements that will help you get it right every time. Just …
I am so excited to finally be able to introduce our new “Punch Around the Page” punch to you! The MSC team developed a system of edge punches that correspond to matching corner punches. They enable you to punch a continuous border around a page.
You start by punching the corners of a square …
I am in love with rosettes these days… Our awesome intern, Hyun Ju, helped me craft these 4th of July rosettes using our MS Crafts products.
The uses are endless– rosettes can be used as award ribbons, cupcake toppers, garlands, brooches, or even earrings! I think they look impressive no matter how you fashion …
It’s always such a treat to see what people create using our crafts products, and the age of the blog-o-sphere has really opened up the channels to find these people. Last week, I happened upon a Brooklyn-based photographer/street artist’s blog, Color-Me-Katie. Katie punched colored masking tape with our MSC heart punch and created …
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will be hosting a holiday craft sale in New York City on December 5th.
