Premiere Issue ***SOLD OUT***
Carisa here with a BIG HEARTFELT thank you for everyone that was so excited to purchase one of the limited premiere issues that were in print. I am THRILLED for each and every one of you that got one. I hope you enjoy it – quirks and all. First issue and all, it did come with its minor imperfections but that’s what makes it a ONE OF A KIND. I went ahead and signed each one that went out for an added thank you. If you didn’t get your hands on the premiere issue print copy – the online issue will always be available with just a click above.
Now…..Just a reminder our FIRST open call ends TOMORROW at 11:59 pm MST. It seems like a lot of you relate to me in getting those last minute entries in, my inbox has been flooded over the weekend and I’m so EXCITED! I haven’t been opening them until the call is closed so don’t despair if you haven’t heard from me. I won’t be sending out emails until Feb 24. For details on the call, as you still have ALL DAY tomorrow to make something can be found by clicking on the CALLS tab above or you can click HERE.
Thanks again everyone! I’m thrilled with the response we’ve had with our premiere issue and am excitedly working on making our 2nd issue BIGGER and BETTER!
Happy Coloring!
-Carisa
Designed To Color Premier Issue In Print!
Some of you have wanted to get your crafty lil hands on the premier issue in print… well I have an announcement! Your wish is granted! Up for sale is the FIRST issue of Designed to Color in print! How awesome is that!!? For $6.99 you can get the premier issue with all it’s amazing coloring goodness and have it right at your finger tips whenever you need it!
$6.99
That’s right… $6.99 and the issue is yours! And this includes shipping if you live with in the United States! If you want to purchase the issue and you live outside of the states, just pop an email to Carisa (Carisa@DesignedtoColor.com) and she will give you a quote on shipping to wherever you are. The print issue is a lil bit different from the online issue and that makes it SUPER special!
BUT HURRY! There are only a limited supply of the premier issue and you don’t wanna miss out! And once they are gone, they are gone. There will be no 2nd prints.
And look out for all our issues to be available in print! Same prices and details on future issues. Once they are gone, that’s it. They are gone.
So… what are you waiting for? Send Miss Carisa an email to reserve your copy now! All transactions will be made through PayPal. (Carisa@DesignedtoColor.com)
And if you want, Miss Carisa can sign the issue for you! How awesome possum is that?So hurry up! Only a limited amount of issues remain, so snag up yours!!!
We have a WINNER!!
With so much going on this week for us here at Designed to Color don’t think that we forgot about our winner!!!
The winner of the premier issue of Designed to Color is….
32. 
I love the concept of this magazine; thanks for putting it together. I look forward to the tutorials and just all about it. Loving that the colors are shared and also that it is a coloring magazine not specific to medium. I would love to see a high contrast DI coloring tutorial:0)
Hugs;
Janette
Congrats!!! Please send an email to Carisa@DesignedtoColor.com with your shipping info and she will have your copy of DtC out to you in no time at all!
Don’t forget to keep checking in with us on our Facebook page!! We always have fun banter and once we reach 300 likes (almost there!) there will be an AWESOME giveaway! You can find a link to our Facebook on the right sidebar of this blog!
And don’t forget about current submission call!!! Only a few more weeks until it ends!!
Do you wanna see our premier issue in print?
Then look NO FURTHER! For our first issue of Deigned to Color we are going to give away ONE copy of the issue in PRINT!
Yes that’s right… one lucky person will win a physical, in print, amazing, full of inspiration, right at your finger tips magazine!! And *gasp* it is signed by Carisa herself!!! So what do you have to do in order to win this?
Leave a comment
oh wait that’s it! yup… leave a comment here on what you LOVED about our magazine!
Do you want extra entries? Okay!
That’s a grand total of FOUR entries!!! Just leave a seperate comment on each of the extra entries (Don’t forget to tell us your twitter name if following on twitter, your Issuu username, and of course the name for your Facebook)
Giveaway will close Sunday Feb 5th Midnight EST
A Colorful CHA!
Our very lovely Carisa (Miss Boss Lady) went to CHA in California this week and she has been sharing tons of fun info and pictures on what is coming up in the coloring world! I for one am SUPER excited!! Let’s take a lookie loo at what she saw!
Why Everyone Is Excited About Mepxy Markers
Mepxy Markers employ an entirely new ink formulation. Mepxy Inks are translucent which permits drawings being colored to show through in detail. You can layer different colors or blend layered colors for 3D effects and subtle shadowing. Double ended illustration markers are available in two versions.
The Brush Marker:
This Marker has a remarkable brush tip which actually feels
like a paint brush, has a chisel tip on the other end.
The Design Marker:
For detail work use either the fine tip or the the chisel tip
located on opposite ends of the marker.
Tim Holtz® Distress™ Markers
Tim Holtz Distress Markers are water-based inks for coloring, journaling, stamping and more. The dual tip markers are ideal for many coloring techniques.
Distress Markers are available to match the Distress palette of 36 color and White Picket Fence.
• Acid free, non-toxic
• Available in Distress 37 color palette
• Available open stock or in canister set
• Use brush tip for coloring, stamping and shading
(insert from RangerInk website)
Chromatics Blending Markers
Chromatics are new inexpensive alcohol-based blending markers that add color, shading and detail to stamps and other paper crafting projects. There’s no hard-to-understand numbering system — it’s 1-2-3 easy! We’ve matched the most popular colors in light, medium and dark, making it a no-brainer when choosing which shades blend together.
I can’t wait until she gets home and can tell us all about her amazing trip and all the wonderful people she met!
What are you excited about that you have seen coming our way from CHA?
The Greeting Farm!
As many of you know, we have been running around like chickens with our heads cut off here at Designed to Color! We were so busy in fact that we totally forgot to post an amazing interview with Jessica Diedrich from The Greeting Farm! Silly us! So without further ado, please read on and enjoy our little editorial on Miss Jessica!
Do you remember where you were when you first heard about The Greeting Farm? I sure do! I was browsing thru some blogs back in the summer of 2008 and I saw a super cute stamp, a version of Anya I believe. I followed to link to Pink Skullies Stamps (I think that’s what they use to be called), and I pressed that cute little follow button. I’ve been a fan ever since! A few months later, they changed the name to The Greeting Farm and it’s been history making for their adorable stamp company. With their unique take on amazing images from animals to their signature Ian’s and Anya’s; they have grown a new crop of amazing designers. Our very own Carisa has had the honor of being on their amazing and talented design team. If you take a look around their website and blogs, it becomes very obvious that they sure do love to color! Using all type of coloring mediums, The Greeting Farm embodies what we here at Designed to Color love. COLORING!
We are so lucky to have Jessica Diedrich, Creative Coordinator of The Greeting Farm here with us to give us a little inside look into her crafty brain, TGF, and how much she loves to color.
Tell our readers about yourself & background.
I am a 35 year old work-at-home Mom of four amazing children and wife to a man who makes me laugh every day. I grew up with several creative outlets although paper crafting didn’t come into play until my adult years. I spent my childhood and especially high school years in performing arts and ran the gamut between singing and dancing in musical theatre, marching band, and was even captain of the pompom squad, can you believe it? I sang in several variety shows, plays, and every Sunday in the church choir, too 
As for my love affair with paper crafting? Well, my story is probably much like many crafters out there… it all starts with a little at-home party, right? Well, beyond that I have found that blogging and designing for companies like TGF not only allow me a creative outlet, but they have allowed opportunity. The opportunity to stay at home, do what I love, put my marketing and management skills to good use, and all the while meet some amazing women along the way and provide THEM w/ opportunity to design and be a part of something that is just for them…sometime that defines them a little bit more than mom, wife, friend. That has truly been the best part of the job and something I will cherish for years to come
How do you come up with new ideas for new stamps?
Marie and I love to chat and brainstorm about what Anya or a Sprout is going to do next. Although we do like to base ideas on what is trending from time to time, we really just have so many ideas based on our own life experiences, what our kids are doing, and what customers ask to see so it just all kind of comes full circle. Brainstorming the next character or what their next theme will be is one of my favorite parts of the job!
What is your favorite part about stamping?
My favorite thing about stamping is the process of how it all is going to come together. Sometimes I color an image and then choose the paper, etc. based on the colors I used…sometimes I do exactly the opposite and choose the papers, card stock, etc. first. I love being able to look at the exact same desk of supplies each day and yet see them totally different each day, depending on what I want to create
What medium to you prefer for coloring?
Hands down, I love Copic markers. I love the ability to control, blend, and shade with them and have tried other coloring mediums but just don’t love anything as much!
Where do you find inspiration?
All over the place. Honestly, I could look at patterned paper all day long and it TOTALLY depends on my mood as to what pad I reach for. I love having so much variety. That in itself is inspiring
Describe your craft room.
My little studio is mostly my big desk, which folds up and down and becomes a ‘hutch’ type piece of furniture when the desktop isn’t down. It’s really nice for being able to hide the absolute mess I make when company comes over-all I have to do is close it! I love it- my favorite part about my desk is all of the paper slots on the top shelf so I can separate my card stock. I love seeing a “Skittles’ type rainbow of nicely organized paper the minute I open it. Love that! It’s the little things, right?
Do you like to color with music or without?
Most of the time, I color when the kids are in school and I rarely have the TV on, so yes, most of the time it’s just me, my Copics, some coffee, and my iPod speaker dock
Give our readers a sneak peek of what we can expect in the coming months for The Greeting Farm!
Hmmm, well, with CHA right around the corner, you won’t have to wait TOO long for a sneak peek….so let me just give you a little hint and say that you just might fall out (or back into) of your SEATS next month! ;)
Thank you Jessica for an amazing interview! You can follow Jessica’s blog at The Whimsical Butterfly and check for her work with The Greeting Farm on their website.
Hot off the Presses!!
If you have been following us on our Facebook page, then you will remember that we said we had a SURPRISE for you!!! What oh what could us colorful girls have up our sleeves?
Introducing… Designed to Color Premier Issue Feb/March 2012
Please follow the link to our FIRST ISSUE! Yes that right! We are bringing you the first issue a few days early!! How exciting!
So please, find a comfy spot and grab something yummy to sip on and enjoy our premier issue.
Video Tute from Lizzie!
Hello my Coloring Casanova’s! How is your Friday? Good? Awesome? Are you excited for all the CHA-ness that will be gracing our blogs and facebook’s and emails this weekend and next week? I am too!!! And I thought it would be a great time to get you guys excited about the premier issue of Designed to Color with a fun Water Color tutorial!!
Calling all color lovers!!
Did you know that we are looking for submission for our April/May issue of Designed To Color!
This is a magazine that displays our love of coloring in the crafty community.
The call will end on Feb 20th and all acceptance emails will be sent out by Feb 24th.
Guidelines:
- Please submit a clear photograph of your project to submissions@designedtocolor.com
- Include your contact information (Name, Email, Phone Number, Country)
- No watermarks please.
- Please include a list of supplies.
- List what coloring medium you used. (if using a medium that has color names ie. Copics, prisma please list)
- List any coloring techniques used.
- All coloring mediums are welcome.
- All projects must be NEW and NEVER BEFORE SEEN.
- International entries are welcomed and encouraged!
- If selected, projects maybe be revealed on the internet 30 days after the issue has been published.
- If selected, all projects need to be mailed to Design To Color and must be received by March 9th.
If interested please check out our Calls page located above.
So c’mon! Try out!!!
Introducing……Designed To Color – the magazine completely devoted to stampers & paper crafters that love to color!
Welcome to Designed To Color where we inspire creativity through coloring!
I am SO excited for today. Well, excited and I have butterflies in my stomach because I’m so nervous to see this little idea I’ve had for about a year finally launch!! I want to give you a little background about myself & how this venture came to fruition. I first heard about stamping through a home party (I’m sure you’ve heard of them, too and maybe have been invited to a few yourself!) and thought wow, this is pretty cool! See, I always loved stamping and paper crafting as a kid….. I had this old stamp turner of vintage rubber stamps for invoice, paid, etc and just LOVED them. There was something about hitting that rubber to the ink pad and to paper that gave me such pleasure as a kid. I never in my wildest dreams it would have evolved to what it has today for me.
See, a few years after I went to that party, I started looking for stamps again because I had 2 little babies and was looking for a hobby. That’s when I discovered stamped images that you could color any way imaginable! Oh my, that opened up an entirely new world, because you see, as much as I loved stamping as a kid, I LOVED my big box of newly sharpened crayons that much more and oh, a fresh coloring book was the best! I loved bringing those black and white pages to life with color. Big, beautiful, BOLD colors. And then…..as luck would have it, I was introduced to Copic Markers which have become my favorite medium to use when coloring. After that, there really was no turning back, I learned about new techniques, found adorable images that I just HAD.TO.HAVE, joined online communities to meet OTHER stampers, started my own blog for posting pictures of cards I made and eventually wound up on some pretty amazing Design Teams and even got published a couple of times. It’s a pretty amazing day when you get an email from someone saying they love your work and want to put it in a magazine! And as I started looking out to different magazines to submit to I realized, that the cute, adorable & colored images were not the ones getting picked up! After obsessing over this with a couple of my coloring friends, we all had the same conclusion there just really wasn’t one magazine that you could flip through and drool over the most adorable characters colored to perfection page after page. So, jokingly, I said we should start our own!!! And that was all it took. On the drive home, this idea grew, as the days passed I kept coming back to this idea of a magazine completely devoted to coloring, tips, tutorials, & most of all just bringing beautiful inspiration to card makers and paper crafters of all levels! It was one of those ideas that just made me excited every time I thought about it and finally I decided to go for it.
I could not have done this without the support of my family & friends, especially my hubby. It’s pretty amazing when your family sees how passionate you are about something and give you their unwavering support 100%. Each time I brought the idea up to someone new, I would get the same reaction of excitement and thrill. There are many people who have encouraged me to keep pursuing this and I wish I could list them all here, but I’m sure you will be seeing them around the blog & Facebook as well as in the pages of the magazine itself. I do have to thank Lizzie Oakely for giving me that final push and much needed support. She’s been my right hand for the past month, helping me get things lifted off the ground beyond the planning stage. She designed my logo and our very first sketch for our very first call. Thank you, Lizzie, I am eternally grateful & beyond excited to have you on board!!
Our first issue will be unveiled Feb 1! I’m so excited and I have been SUPER busy collecting cards and projects from MANY talented crafters from all over the world! You are going to LOVE this premiere – each time I make a new page with a new card with such beautiful coloring, I’m just in awe and feel incredibly blessed that so many people have jumped on board to make this issue what it is. I couldn’t have done it without the talent of so many! If you love to color, you will fall head over heels in love with Designed To Color! I hope you will follow us on our FB page and here on our blog where we will continue to bring you updates right up to the release of the first issue as well as bringing you the latest from CHA. I still can’t believe I will be traveling to CHA 1 week from today where I plan to get the latest scoop on coloring, stamps, tools & more to bring to you all!!!
If you are interested in being published in our 2nd issue, please take a look at our current calls above. I am so excited to be able to bring something new to the crafting community and would love to hear your feedback. You can leave me comments here on our blog, on our FB page or email me direct at carisa@designedtoclor.com
Colorfully yours,
~Carisa Zglobicki
Owner/Editor/Designer
