{"id":6754,"date":"2011-09-12T16:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:06:43","slug":"getting-to-know-marie-di-raimondo-creative-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/getting-to-know-marie-di-raimondo-creative-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know Marie DiRaimondo {creative team}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=500&amp;ppuser=14\">marie di raimondo&#8217;s gallery<\/a><br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hi all! It&#8217;s time to feature another of our long-time Creative Team members&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=500&amp;ppuser=14\">Marie Di Raimondo<\/a>. She was the winner of our first ever digital layout contest back in 2004 and has been with us ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Marie&#8217;s art is vibrant and full of life, with a style uniquely hers.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/getitfr2da.html\">get it framed 2 danglies<\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/naskjo11.html\">journals 11<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/plhapapak.html\">plum haze<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s a peek into Marie&#8217;s life&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tell us a bit about your family&#8230;<\/span><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grown and raised near Clifton, New Jersey, I come from a  rather small family. It was just my brother and my mother, and most importantly,  our Siberian Husky Maximus. There are no children in my family at all so I have  to come up with unique and different ideas for photos for my  scrapbooking.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">What are your favorite hobbies&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s easy.  Digital &amp; traditional art &amp; scrapbooking, photography, dancing, reading,  writing, designing jewelry and general papercrafting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">What do you like most about digital scrapbooking?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are no  supplies overtaking an entire room! It&#8217;s easier to create art anywhere my laptop  is. I can also use my favorite items over and over again just by changing a  shade of color or re-sizing it.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/buwi5papak.html\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">What type of camera do you use?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two cameras I use  regularly are a Nikon D70 body and a Nikon D3100 that I interchange lenses  between. My favorite lens right now is a Nikkor 35mm f\/1.8. It&#8217;s amazingly  consistent in any situation and no flash is needed!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Do you work outside of the home?<\/span><br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I do portrait work as a side job at my  home where I converted a bedroom into a photography studio.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">What is your f<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">avorite type of digital scrapbooking product?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/phto.html\">Photo  Art Blends<\/a>. I can&#8217;t live without them when doing photography, personally or  professionally. What a difference they can make, from a slight enhancement to a  totally different look! Frames and ribbons are my next favorites. I can&#8217;t get  enough ribbons. I also enjoy the ephemera elements, such as vintage pins and  postcards. Anything that looks like it&#8217;s from an older time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">What d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">igital technique would you like to explore more in the coming year?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think I may have  tried everything at least once! I will wait until I see something new and then  admire how it&#8217;s done and see how I can incorporate the idea into my next piece.  I really enjoy using different blending modes over old favorite photographs to  bring new life into them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">Thanks, Marie, for sharing your beautiful art for the past seven years!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\" lang=\"EN\">Michelle<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>marie di raimondo&#8217;s gallery Hi all! It&#8217;s time to feature another of our long-time Creative Team members&#8230;Marie Di Raimondo. She was the winner of our first ever digital layout contest back in 2004 and has been with us ever since. Marie&#8217;s art is vibrant and full of life, with a style uniquely hers. get it framed 2 danglies, journals 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-team","category-team-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7063,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/7063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}