Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Mary Angela Garibaldi (Angie) has been a designer since she could hold a crayon, creating colorful images and patterns on everything from the neighborhood sidewalk to her bedroom door.

Angie graduated from the University of Alabama, Summa Cum Laude, with a degree in Art and Information Science. Using her skills, Angie worked on stationery layouts and pattern designs for new albums under designer Stacy Bloomston of Stacy Claire Boyd, Inc., a stationery designer/manufacturer in Birmingham, AL. After several months, homesickness brought Angie back to her family in Memphis, where she took a marketing job with a local retailer. She missed the freedom and fun of designing patterns. To fill this void, she started working for a local artist, Julia D. Azar, making cards and stationery out of her watercolor paintings. It was then that Angie was inspired to explore some options of her own.