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Kats Card Creations<br />
K at s C a r d C r e at i o n s . c o . u k<br />
W ELC OME TO 2017<br />
Firstly, I want to say ‘Happy New Year’ and ‘Welcome’ to the 1st Edition of the<br />
KCC Magazine. I am excited to be putting this magazine together for you all.<br />
We are going for a whole new fresh updated look and lots of new features. Changes<br />
to the KatsCardCreations website have already begun, with a new Premier<br />
Members area to get your hands on those all exclusive designs and freebies.<br />
We plan on packing this newsletter with offers, codes, reviews and interviews and<br />
information; on not only new upcoming designs but getting to know who we are<br />
behind the scenes.<br />
I look forward to the following year and seeing more of your KCC creations!<br />
If you fancy getting yourself involved more then please contact us, we are always<br />
looking for temporary designs that help out with the design process of new models.<br />
construction video makers, newsletter/blog writers too.<br />
Contact at KatsCardCreations@gmail.com<br />
Regards Kat x<br />
I s s u e 1<br />
J a n u a r y - F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 7<br />
In this issue:<br />
Welcome to 2017<br />
Premier Members<br />
Facebook Members<br />
Christmas Competition Winners<br />
Featured member<br />
Member Photos<br />
Pg1<br />
Pg1<br />
Pg2<br />
Popular designs<br />
Pg3<br />
Artist, designer...crafter?? Pg3<br />
Recommend Review<br />
Pg3<br />
Interviews<br />
Pg4<br />
Jen from ScanNCut Canvas and SCAL Help<br />
Being Creative Designer for KCC<br />
The Pink House Project<br />
Pg5<br />
Adverts<br />
Pg6<br />
P r e m i e r m e m b e r s<br />
Also new for 2017, our<br />
Premier Members area in the<br />
Kats Card Creations Shop.<br />
For a small monthly fee, you<br />
have a great selection of<br />
offers; including a monthly<br />
free design, discount codes,<br />
exclusive designs, limited<br />
edition designs, design<br />
previews, a super interactive<br />
magazine and more.<br />
With a rotating variation of<br />
designs to download each<br />
month, there is always<br />
something to keep you busy.<br />
Not only the beautifully<br />
created designs; Premier<br />
members will have a host of<br />
useful box designs and<br />
templates with a free<br />
commercial license attached.<br />
We are proud of our<br />
members and their continual<br />
support of what I do.
KCC Fac ebook Members Group<br />
KatsCardCreations Facebook Members Group is a great place for asking questions, finding information and<br />
showing off your versions of KCC designs; super nice, fun, supportive bunch you will find!<br />
C h r i s t m a s C o m p e t i t i o n 2 0 1 6<br />
W i n n e r s<br />
1st Prize Winner - Esther Meurs<br />
created a large Christmas scene<br />
made up of many designs for her<br />
home. Esthers prize package is...all<br />
new released 2017 models or cards<br />
released to the KCC Shop within<br />
the year 2017 and Premier Membership<br />
for the year 2017.<br />
2nd Prize WINNER - Caroline Gunzburg<br />
created 20, yes 20 Christmas Fireplaces<br />
for her charity function. Carolines<br />
prize package is... discount code for all<br />
new designs within the year 2017 and<br />
Premier Membership for the year 2017.<br />
3rd Prize WINNER Daniela<br />
Gröhl-Wanders created a<br />
wonderful Frozen themed<br />
version of the Victorian Villa<br />
for her daughter. Danielas<br />
prize is an Account Fund<br />
Top-up.<br />
4th Prize WINNER Maureen Hitchen<br />
created this beautiful version of the Ivy<br />
Card for her friend, its so pretty. Maureen<br />
will receive a signed 2017 model that I<br />
(Kat Dunn) has put together, postage included.<br />
Members Photos<br />
F e a t u r e d M e m b e r !<br />
Facebook Group Member Cosima Corgi created the Fireplace as<br />
a Christmas gift for her boss at work!<br />
I think she did an awesome job and deserves a raise. Those tiny<br />
trees are just adorable.<br />
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Kats Card Creations<br />
Popular Designs in<br />
December 2016<br />
Produced toward the end<br />
of the year the Birdcage<br />
and its little Bird proved<br />
extremely popular<br />
in 2016.<br />
A r t i s t , d e s i g n e r … . c r a f t e r ?<br />
For those of you that do not<br />
know me,<br />
I’m Kat; am I a crafter?<br />
No, not at all.<br />
There are many things I like<br />
a b o u t t h e c r a f t i n g<br />
community, the people for<br />
one, well in my groups and<br />
people I have met and got to<br />
know over the years have<br />
been wonderfully supportive<br />
and kind. I find so many<br />
crafters do not do what they<br />
do for money (oh that’s just<br />
funny to even think it could<br />
happen), but normally for<br />
others, many I have got to<br />
know produced and make<br />
time to create for others,<br />
whether as gifts or to raise<br />
funds and awareness for<br />
charities and good causes<br />
around the world. So, how<br />
do I see myself. I’m not<br />
sure, I am very much an<br />
artist, a designer, it is what I<br />
was trained to do; going into<br />
teaching art & design to<br />
children and adults; but time<br />
has proved that I very much<br />
do this for others. Starting<br />
out very small, just wanting<br />
to create some designs for<br />
what started out as a small<br />
Saturday art club for<br />
disadvantaged children. I<br />
was soon spotted and my<br />
talent for paper craft<br />
realised, and things grew<br />
from their, not only my<br />
popularity and following,<br />
but also what I can do for<br />
others. I expanded my skill<br />
set and my my childrens<br />
club, also sharing it with<br />
others that appreciate the<br />
time and effort that goes<br />
into everything I do.<br />
As time has gone on,<br />
crafters still have their little<br />
things that they chit chat<br />
about and discuss… Me, I<br />
kinda just sit in the corner<br />
waiting for someone to ask<br />
why I’m not working on<br />
something.<br />
Check in next time, to see<br />
what I am up too!<br />
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The long awaited French<br />
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been release at the beginning<br />
of 2016, but after a<br />
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loss of dozens of designs it<br />
was a long wait for it to be<br />
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We love creating!!<br />
Earlier this year I came across a<br />
cute website aimed at crafters<br />
and scrapbooking; being neither,<br />
as usual I flip through with the<br />
expectation of finding the usual<br />
things; however, there was so<br />
much more! Not only a vast selection<br />
of goodies; but at awesome<br />
prices. Actually, it was the<br />
prices that really caught my eye;<br />
not only on the items we expect<br />
such as dies and tape; I found<br />
the great prices on our machines,<br />
as well as the overly<br />
expensive accessories and<br />
starter packs; but here is the<br />
best part… great prices on<br />
the new released cutting machines<br />
including the new<br />
Cameo3 and the Scan’N’Cut<br />
CM900 .<br />
So, here I go ordering a new<br />
cutting machine; a little background<br />
I find the order is<br />
coming from Spain, yes I<br />
know we worry about this.<br />
Following a conversation with<br />
customer services and the<br />
extremely helpful Jon, all my<br />
questions were answered and<br />
I am back to feeling excited<br />
that in just a few days my<br />
order will arrive! I have to<br />
admit, I look forward to ordering<br />
the super cute journals!<br />
Right now, any purchase will<br />
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I n s p i r i n g s t o r y o f a n a m a z i n g l y g i f t e d g r o u p L e a d e r<br />
J e n f r o m S c a n ’ N ’ C u t C a n v a s a n d S C A L H e l p<br />
F a c e b o o k g r o u p<br />
I am Jen. I live in Ohio, in the<br />
USA. I am 43 years old. I have 2<br />
boys, 17 and 13, we live on a<br />
farm in the country and have<br />
every sort of animal you can<br />
imagine. I am a college educated<br />
O c c upational T herapy<br />
Professional, and worked in that<br />
profession for 21 years. Then I<br />
suffered a massive stroke from a<br />
ruptured aneurysm in my brain<br />
and was severely disabled for<br />
quite sometime; but, being<br />
stubborn, I was determined to be<br />
me again or as close to it as<br />
possible.<br />
I had to give up the job I loved,<br />
but had no say in that matter.<br />
So, I sat, looking at 4 walls for a<br />
year, then thought, ‘Well, let's<br />
get on with it!’ I took what little<br />
money I had left and decided to<br />
buy something that would allow<br />
me to be creative. I had to pick,<br />
between the ScanNCut or the<br />
Silhouette Cameo; I studied<br />
them for months because it was<br />
the last of my money, as I<br />
bought my boys everything they<br />
needed already. I finally settled<br />
on the SnC after watching that<br />
Julie chick!<br />
‘Oh my lord!’ I got it, tried to<br />
use it and I hated it! I sat there<br />
and cried! Thought “What did I<br />
do?!! What an idiot I am, just<br />
spent all of my money on a<br />
piece of crap machine! “Canvas<br />
is terrible, error this, error that,<br />
nothing works, and everyone<br />
wants to be paid to help me!<br />
YouTube Videos ?? They just<br />
went in circles, not telling me<br />
what I needed, an hour long and<br />
I still didn’t know anything!<br />
That was it, I was putting it up<br />
for sale or smashing it! I had to<br />
sell it for what I could and buy a<br />
Silhouette Cameo!<br />
Then someone contacted me,<br />
said “Jen, you own one of those<br />
ScanNCuts don't you?” I said<br />
“Unfortunately, why?”<br />
They suggested, SCAL4 is<br />
coming out, try it! So I<br />
did….and now how I love my<br />
Scan’N’Cut and I had to tell<br />
everyone! I wanted to climb up<br />
on a mountain and yell! So, I<br />
joined Rachels group. That<br />
helped, but I soon realised that I<br />
needed my own group. I was<br />
mad at how I was treated in the<br />
beginning, and I did not want<br />
anyone else to go through all of<br />
that malarkey, the ‘pay me’,<br />
‘gimme all your money’, for<br />
basically nothing.<br />
So I began a group that allowed<br />
me to teach people how to use<br />
the program and how to use<br />
their ScanNCut, but, more<br />
importantly, how to be nice to<br />
each other and to themselves at<br />
the same time. It is very hard to<br />
get 12,400ish group members to<br />
be nice, but it happens, and it is<br />
wonderful! I now have my main<br />
group, ScanNCut, Canvas and<br />
SCAL Help and then 3 new user<br />
groups. One for: Canvas, SCAL<br />
and then Embroidery, where<br />
new users can go for the classes<br />
that I have started. These<br />
classes are ground breaking,<br />
because they are free and start<br />
at the very beginning, and then<br />
build on each subsequent<br />
lesson. These are vital to a new<br />
users ability to correctly lay<br />
down memory paths on<br />
functional uses of each<br />
program. So, this is very<br />
exciting as you can see yourself<br />
learning. I also provided my<br />
members a little store, where sell things at cost, because I<br />
know how it is to not have the<br />
means but to have the wants!<br />
I have a YouTube Channel<br />
‘ScanNCut JAM Sessions’,<br />
where I do short education<br />
videos on techniques and have<br />
started doing weekly projects<br />
with members. Also, I do<br />
custom videos, based on<br />
member requests; to help them<br />
get through specific issues they<br />
may come across with their<br />
projects.<br />
Being able to help people just<br />
gives me so much joy, I simply<br />
cannot put it into words; but I<br />
guess when you truly have lost<br />
everything, including nearly<br />
your life and you have to start<br />
all over, when you feel every<br />
single thing has been taken<br />
away; except your children &<br />
life; and you begin to think you<br />
have nothing to look forward to;<br />
Well now, just take a deep<br />
breathe, and as you hear that<br />
door close, do not be afraid of<br />
that darkness, for the light will<br />
soon come and it shines<br />
brighter, more wild than ever<br />
before.<br />
This I do know. Life truly is<br />
Beautifully<br />
Wonderfully<br />
Amazing!<br />
Now...<br />
Let's get our SCASH on!!!<br />
Jen from ScanNCut Canvas and<br />
SCAL Help Facebook Group<br />
B e i n g a K C C C r e a t i v e D e s i g n e r<br />
R a c h e l C D f o r C a r d s<br />
Hi there! My Name is Rachel, I'm the Creative Designer for<br />
Cards at Kat's Card Creations!<br />
I first found Kat's designs through a mutual friend in the cutting<br />
machine world and when I was told that she was looking for a<br />
designer, I jumped at the chance to apply for the position and<br />
take my card making to another level. As the designs are amazingly<br />
beautiful, with so many ways you can really make them<br />
shine, and I'm always excited about trying new things.<br />
Along with her gorgeous model designs, Kat also makes simply<br />
stunning card designs, to make greetings cards for all occasions -<br />
you can make these with any skill level, as long as you can work a<br />
cutting machine, embellishing as much or as little as you wish.<br />
Kat's designs are very versatile, and with a judicial choice of<br />
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wording, most designs can be used for any occasion.<br />
As a pretty much full time card maker, I rose to the challenge<br />
of working with Kat's designs. This sometimes starts with helping<br />
with ideas for new cards that she is making, and evolves<br />
into testing designs to make sure everything will work as it<br />
should for the customer and then creating finished cards to<br />
showcase her designs in the best way possible.<br />
I love to make hybrid cards, using my cutting machines; I work<br />
on both a Brother Scan'n’Cut and a Silhouette Cameo, also my<br />
die cutting machines to create the card and embellishments.<br />
Along with the cut files, an important thing to remember is<br />
making sure you have quality cardstock to use and plenty of<br />
bits and pieces to embellish!
The Pink House Project<br />
On the corner of West State Street and South Brooklyn Avenue in<br />
Allegany County, NY stands the beautiful but odd Victorian mansion<br />
known as the "Pink House", created by E.B. Hall for his<br />
wife.<br />
Now owned by the Woelfel Family. I am pleased to say that I am<br />
in contact with movie director Jay Woelfel and have shared emails<br />
and photographs of this beautiful house, as it is to be a created by<br />
myself , along with several other attached buildings unseen by the<br />
general public.<br />
Now, a ghost story about the Pink House…. Although no modern<br />
day accounts of any supernatural activity exist but the history of<br />
the house prevails, keeping it one of those places that children will<br />
take care to cross the street when they get near it. The hauntings<br />
have not been verified but the two deaths that did occurred there<br />
are factual and do have all the hallmarks of a great ghost story.<br />
The story starts in 1957 and involves a pretty young blond girl<br />
named Frances Farnum who was engaged to E.B. Hall, the man<br />
who built the pink house.<br />
Sadly, Frances was not in love with Mr. Hall, but was in love with<br />
"Paul" whom her rich father thought was not good enough<br />
(meaning not rich enough) for his daughter.<br />
He forbid his daughter to see him again. Furious and vowing to<br />
make himself worthy of Frances, Paul set off to law school and the<br />
couple wrote to each other and kept their love strong.<br />
Unfortunately, Frances father found out about this and forged a<br />
letter to both of them stating neither one of them wanted anything<br />
to do with the other, so when Paul came home on holiday from<br />
school and passed Frances on the street without looking at her or<br />
speaking to her, her heart broke.<br />
Within a few weeks she married E.B. Hall and settled into a loveless<br />
marriage for the financial purposes of her father.<br />
The two men were very happy but Frances was so devastated, she<br />
committed suicide. The story diverges here. Some say she<br />
drowned herself in the fountain on the property, others say she<br />
died in the nearby gristmill.<br />
Wither way, the grief-stricken girl died an unhappy soul that<br />
was unfulfilled and cheated in life. Anyway, it would seem that<br />
Mr. E.B. Hall wasn't too upset by his wife's demise because he<br />
married her sister Antoinette shortly after.<br />
When they returned to the Pink House after their honeymoon,<br />
they brought a small daughter with them.<br />
When the child was about two years old, she drown in the fountain,<br />
much like her dead aunt had. Legend has it that the spirit of<br />
Frances was angry that her husband had remarried so fast, she<br />
took her vengeance out on the child.<br />
After a few more years, Antoinette had another child and fearing<br />
the spirit of her sister would harm this child as well, she<br />
decided to make a bedroom in the tower room of the house. In<br />
the window, was placed a candle that was never to burn out.<br />
All servants were instructed to keep the candle burning at all<br />
times to keep the candle lit. To this day, although replaced with<br />
electric lights now, the light remains in the tower window.<br />
And so the stories go. Two deaths, unrequited love, vengeful<br />
spirits and a beautiful poem. I think it's a good story.<br />
More information of the Pink House design and history next<br />
time!<br />
KatsCardCreations.co.uk<br />
KatsCardCreations@gmail.com
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