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Kats Card Creations
First Issue. January - February 2017

WELCOME TO 2017
Firstly, I want to say ‘Happy New Year’ and ‘Welcome’ to the 1st
Edition of the KCC Magazine. I am excited to be putting this
magazine together for you all. We are going for a whole new
fresh updated look and lots of new features. Changes to the
KatsCardCreations website have already begun, with a new
Premier Members area to get your hands on those all exclusive
designs and freebies. We plan on packing this newsletter with
offers, codes, reviews and interviews and information; on not only
new upcoming designs but getting to know who we are behind the
scenes.
I look forward to the following year and seeing more of your
KCC creations!
Regards Kat x
If you fancy getting yourself involved more then please contact us,
we are always looking for temporary designs that help out with
the design process of new models. construction video makers,
newsletter/blog writers too.
Contact at KatsCardCreations@gmail.com
Issue 1
January-February 2017
In this issue:
Premier Members Pg 3
Competition Winners Pg 3
Featured Member Pg 4
Member Photos Pg 4
Popular designs Pg 5
Artist, designer...crafter?? Pg 5
Recommend Review Pg 6
Adverts Pg 6
Interview Pg 7-8
Jen from ScanNCut Canvas and SCAL Help
Being a KCC Creative Designer
The Pink House Project Pg 9-10
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Premier Members
Also new for 2017, our
Premier Members area in the
Kats Card Creations Shop.
For a small monthly fee, you
have a great selection of
offers; including a monthly
free design, discount codes,
exclusive designs, limited
edition designs, design
previews, a super interactive
magazine and more.
With a rotating variation of
designs to download each
month, there is always
something to keep you busy.
Not only the beautifully
created designs; Premier
members will have a host of
useful box designs and
templates with a free
commercial license attached.
1st Prize Winner - Esther Meurs
created a large Christmas scene
made up of many designs for her
home. Esthers prize package
is...all new released 2017 models
or cards released to the KCC
Shop within the year 2017 and
Premier Membership for the year
2017.
KCC Facebook Members Group
KatsCardCreations Facebook Members Group is a great place for asking questions, finding information and
showing off your versions of KCC designs; super nice, fun, supportive bunch you will find!
Christmas Competition 2016 Winners
2nd Prize WINNER -
Caroline Gunzburg
created 20, yes
20 Christmas Fireplaces
for her charity
function. Carolines
prize package is...
discount code for all
new designs within
the year 2017 and
Premier Membership
for the year 2017.
3rd Prize WINNER
Daniela Gröhl-
Wanders created a
wonderful Frozen
themed version of the
Victorian Villa for her
daughter. Danielas
prize is an Account
Fund Top-up.
4th Prize WINNER
Maureen Hitchen
created this beautiful
version of the Ivy Card
for her friend, its so
pretty. Maureen will
receive a signed 2017
model that I (Kat Dunn)
has put together, postage
included.
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Featured Member!
Members Photos
Facebook Group Member Cosima Corgi created the
Fireplace as a Christmas gift for her boss at work!
I think she did an awesome job and deserves a raise.
Those tiny trees are just adorable.
Get yourself a cheeky 10% off the Fireplace CODE: FBM2017
www.facebook.com/groups/KatsCardCreations
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Artist, designer….crafter?
For those of you that do not
know me, I’m Kat; am I a
crafter? No, not at all.
There are many things I like
a b o u t t h e c r a f t i n g
community, the people for
one, well in my groups and
people I have met and got to
know over the years have
b e e n w o n d e r f u l l y
supportive and kind. I find
so many crafters do not do
what they do for money (oh
that’s just funny to even
think it could happen), but
normally for others, many I
have got to know produced
and make time to create for
others, whether as gifts or to
raise funds and awareness
for charities and good causes
around the world. So, how
do I see myself. I’m not
sure, I am very much an
artist, a designer, it is what I
was trained to do; going into
teaching art & design to
children and adults; but time
has proved that I very much
do this for others. Starting
out very small, just wanting
to create some designs for
what started out as a small
Saturday art club for
disadvantaged children. I
was soon spotted and my
talent for paper craft
realised, and things grew
from their, not only my
popularity and following,
but also what I can do for
others. I expanded my skill
set and my my childrens
club, also sharing it with
others that appreciate the
time and effort that goes
into everything I do.
As time has gone on,
crafters still have their little
things that they chit chat
about and discuss… Me, I
kinda just sit in the corner
waiting for someone to ask
why I’m not working on
something.
Check in next time, to see
what I am up too!
PREMIER MEMBERS
Get 10% off
FEB10
Kats Card Creations Popular Designs
in December 2016
The Birdcage
French Boutique
Get 10% off
both designs:
JANFEB2017
Produced toward
the end of the year
the Birdcage and its
little Bird proved
extremely popular.
The long awaited
French Boutique was
due to have been release
at the beginning
of 2016, but after a
computer melt down
and a loss of dozens of
designs it was a long
wait for it to be reproduced,
and if I do
say so, for the better.
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Craftelier.co.uk
We love creating!!
Earlier this year I came across a
cute website aimed at crafters
and scrapbooking; being neither,
as usual I flip through with the
expectation of finding the usual
things; however, there was so
much more! Not only a vast selection
of goodies; but at awesome
prices. Actually, it was the
prices that really caught my eye;
as I found the great prices on our
machines, as well as the overly
expensive accessories and starter
packs; but here is the best part…
great prices on the new released
cutting machines including the
new Cameo3 and the
Scan’N’Cut CM900 .
So, here I go ordering a new
cutting machine; a little background
I find the order is
coming from Spain, yes I
know we worry about this.
Following a conversation with
customer services and the
extremely helpful Jon, all my
questions were answered and
I am back to feeling excited
that in just a few days my
order will arrive! I have to
admit, I look forward to ordering
the super cute journals!
Right now, any purchase will
get you 10% off, that will be
active from January till the
end March using the code
below.
CraftelierLuvsKatsMagazine10
Adverts from our favourite sellers
Grab yourself a code from most of our favourite sellers and head on over to
their websites for goodies!
active-paper.co.uk
Paper & Card stock, Kats personal card supplier. Receive 33% off at
checkout with the following code until the end of Jan 2017.
Kat33
RachelGillham.co.uk
Personalised Cards & Craft items! Receive 10% off at checkout with the
following code until the end of March 2017.
Rgillham10
shawstex.co.uk
Personalised web design with or without a shop that offer no monthly fee,
just £25 setup then just £10 per year to keep your domain name.
AffordableCandles.co.uk
Personalised Printed candles for all occasions. Receive 10% off until the
end of March 2017 by mentioning KatsCardCreations personalised candle
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Inspiring story of an amazingly gifted group leader; Jen from Scan’N’Cut Canvas and SCAL Help Facebook
I am Jen. I live in Ohio, in the
USA. I am 43 years old. I have 2
boys, 17 and 13, we live on a
farm in the country and have
every sort of animal you can
imagine. I am a college educated
O c c upational T herapy
Professional, and worked in that
profession for 21 years. Then I
suffered a massive stroke from a
ruptured aneurysm in my brain
and was severely disabled for
quite sometime; but, being
stubborn, I was determined to be
me again or as close to it as
possible.
I had to give up the job I loved,
but had no say in that matter.
So, I sat, looking at 4 walls for a
year, then thought, ‘Well, let's
get on with it!’ I took what little
money I had left and decided to
buy something that would allow
me to be creative. I had to pick,
between the ScanNCut or the
Silhouette Cameo; I studied
them for months because it was
the last of my money, as I
bought my boys everything they
needed already. I finally settled
on the SnC after watching that
Julie chick!
‘Oh my lord!’ I got it, tried to
use it and I hated it! I sat there
and cried! Thought “What did I
do?!! What an idiot I am, just
spent all of my money on a
piece of crap machine! “Canvas
is terrible, error this, error that,
nothing works, and everyone
wants to be paid to help me!
YouTube Videos ?? They just
went in circles, not telling me
what I needed, an hour long and
I still didn’t know anything!
That was it, I was putting it up
for sale or smashing it! I had to
sell it for what I could and buy a
Silhouette Cameo!
Then someone contacted me,
said “Jen, you own one of those
ScanNCuts don't you?” I said
“Unfortunately, why?”
They suggested, SCAL4 is
coming out, try it! So I
did….and now how I love my
Scan’N’Cut and I had to tell
everyone! I wanted to climb up
on a mountain and yell! So, I
joined Rachels group. That
helped, but I soon realised that I
needed my own group. I was
mad at how I was treated in the
beginning, and I did not want
anyone else to go through all of
that malarkey, the ‘pay me’,
‘gimme all your money’, for
basically nothing.
So I began a group that allowed
me to teach people how to use
the program and how to use
their ScanNCut, but, more
importantly, how to be nice to
each other and to themselves at
the same time. It is very hard to
get 12,400ish group members to
be nice, but it happens, and it is
wonderful! I now have my main
group, ScanNCut, Canvas and
SCAL Help and then 3 new user
groups. One for: Canvas, SCAL
and then Embroidery, where
new users can go for the classes
that I have started. These
classes are ground breaking,
because they are free and start
at the very beginning, and then
build on each subsequent
lesson. These are vital to a new
users ability to correctly lay
down memory paths on
functional uses of each
program. So, this is very
exciting as you can see yourself
learning. I also provided my
members a little store, where sell things at cost, because I
know how it is to not have the
means but to have the wants!
I have a YouTube Channel
‘ScanNCut JAM Sessions’,
where I do short education
videos on techniques and have
started doing weekly projects
with members. Also, I do
custom videos, based on
member requests; to help them
get through specific issues they
may come across with their
projects.
Being able to help people just
gives me so much joy, I simply
cannot put it into words; but I
guess when you truly have lost
everything, including nearly
your life and you have to start
all over, when you feel every
single thing has been taken
away; except your children &
life; and you begin to think you
have nothing to look forward to;
Well now, just take a deep
breathe, and as you hear that
door close, do not be afraid of
that darkness, for the light will
soon come and it shines
brighter, more wild than ever
before.
This I do know. Life truly is
Beautifully
Wonderfully
Amazing!
Now...
Let's get our SCASH on!!!
Jen from ScanNCut Canvas and
SCAL Help Facebook Group
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Being a KCC Creative Designer
Rachel Creative Designer for Cards
Hi there! My Name is Rachel, I'm the Creative Designer for Cards at
Kat's Card Creations!
I first found Kat's designs through a mutual friend in the cutting machine
world and when I was told that she was looking for a designer, I
jumped at the chance to apply for the position and take my card making
to another level.
As the designs are amazingly beautiful, with so many ways you can really
make them shine, and I'm always excited about trying new things.
I love to make hybrid cards, using my cutting machines; I work on
both a Brother Scan'n’Cut and a Silhouette Cameo, also my die cutting
machines to create the card and embellishments.
Along with the cut files, an important thing to remember is making
sure you have quality cardstock to use and plenty of bits and pieces to
embellish!
Along with her gorgeous model designs, Kat also makes simply stunning
card designs, to make greetings cards for all occasions - you can make
these with any skill level, as long as you can work a cutting machine,
embellishing as much or as little as you wish. Kat's designs are very
versatile, and with a judicial choice of wording, most designs can be
used for any occasion.
As a pretty much full time card maker, I rose to the challenge of working
with Kat's designs. This sometimes starts with helping with ideas for
new cards that she is making, and evolves into testing designs to make
sure everything will work as it should for the customer and then creating
finished cards to showcase her designs in the best way possible.
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The Pink House Project
On the corner of West State Street and
South Brooklyn Avenue in Allegany County,
NY stands the beautiful but odd Victorian
mansion known as the "Pink House", created
by E.B. Hall for his wife.
Now owned by the Woelfel Family. I am
pleased to say that I am in contact with movie
director Jay Woelfel and have shared
emails and photographs of this beautiful
house, as it is to be a created by myself ,
along with several other attached buildings
unseen by the general public.
Now, a ghost story about the Pink House….
Although no modern day accounts of any
supernatural activity exist but the history of
the house prevails, keeping it one of those
places that children will take care to cross
the street when they get near it. The
hauntings have not been verified but the two
deaths that did occurred there are factual and
do have all the hallmarks of a great ghost
story.
The story starts in 1957 and involves a pretty
young blond girl named Frances Farnum who
was engaged to E.B. Hall, the man who built
the pink house.
Sadly, Frances was not in love with Mr. Hall,
but was in love with "Paul" whom her rich
father thought was not good enough
(meaning not rich enough) for his daughter.
He forbid his daughter to see him again.
Furious and vowing to make himself worthy
of Frances, Paul set off to law school and the
couple wrote to each other and kept their
love strong.
Unfortunately, Frances father found out
about this and forged a letter to both of
them stating neither one of them wanted
anything to do with the other, so when Paul
came home on holiday from school and
passed Frances on the street without looking
at her or speaking to her, her heart broke.
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Within a few weeks she married E.B. Hall and
settled into a loveless marriage for the financial
purposes of her father.
The two men were very happy but Frances
was so devastated, she committed suicide. The
story diverges here. Some say she drowned
herself in the fountain on the property, others
say she died in the nearby gristmill.
Wither way, the grief-stricken girl died an
unhappy soul that was unfulfilled and cheated
in life. Anyway, it would seem that Mr. E.B.
Hall wasn't too upset by his wife's demise because
he married her sister Antoinette shortly
after.
When they returned to the Pink House
after their honeymoon, they brought a small
daughter with them.
When the child was about two years old,
she drown in the fountain, much like her
dead aunt had. Legend has it that the spirit
of Frances was angry that her husband had
remarried so fast, she took her vengeance
out on the child.
After a few more years, Antoinette had
another child and fearing the spirit of her
sister would harm this child as well, she
decided to make a bedroom in the tower
room of the house. In the window, was
placed a candle that was never to burn out.
All servants were instructed to keep the
candle burning at all times to keep the candle
lit. To this day, although replaced with
electric lights now, the light remains in the
tower window.
And so the stories go. Two deaths, unrequited
love, vengeful spirits and a beautiful
poem. I think it's a good story.
More information of the Pink House design
and history next time!
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