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Designed To Color Call Extension
Hi Everyone!! Due to the delay of our April/May issue, I’m rearranging some things and pushing back the end date of our next call to April 30!!! This gives you TWO MORE WEEKS to color and submit via email. You can find all the details by clicking on the call tabs above or just click right HERE. I’m so excited to be reviewing all your submissions with Lizzie once again, we had so much fun and were so amazed at the amount of support we were getting! I want to thank all of you who have already submitted and we will be making our decision for the June/July issue on May 4. Have fun coloring!!!
Be on the lookout here and on our Facebook page for the release of the April/May issue which will be Monday!!!
Thank you all for your understanding and support. Once the issue is live I will be mailing all cards back to the designers over the next week.
Hugs,
Carisa
Oh Noes! Technical Difficulties
I was hopping to not have to post this, but we are less then 18 hours of the new issue of DTC to go live.
Unfortunately the April/May issue will not be viewable until April 6th. We are so sorry that we have to push back the date, but some technical issues came up that we just got resolved. So please, just hold on a bit longer! We know you are excited to see the new issue, but because of this set back, if we were to publish the magazine now, it will not be our best work. And we want to present you with the best magazine, every single time we come out with a new issue.
Thank you so much for your understanding! Don’t forget, APRIL 6th!! That’s Friday!
When you look at a calendar it doesn’t seem too far away!
It’s Colorful Monday
Hey there my color peeps! It’s Lizzie. I just wanted to take a moment and say THANK YOU to all that have submitted for our April/May issue! It’s gonna be amazing, and I can not wait for you to see it!!
I wish I had more to share with you, but then you wouldn’t be very surprised and in awe when the issue comes out! We are busy lil colorful bees around here. So don’t think we forgot about you! If you want complete up to date info, check out our Facebook page and ‘Like’ us!
Hope you are having a fab Monday!
And if you wanted to do a lil something fun today, check out the SMASH hop that me and Carisa are apart of this week. Krista from Saturated canary is the leader in the hop so right off the bat you know it’s gonna be AMAZING!
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
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?
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
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