(These bedding sketches are just a tease of what's to come!)
Starting tomorrow, we plan to add a new feature to our Facebook page called “A question from Kathy.” We want YOU to help us make some decisions about creative development and marketing since YOU are the real experts…and the ones we aim to please! You will see a question from me every couple of weeks. Some weeks the question may be about greeting cards, or other weeks you may help us decide which patterns you’d like to see on bedding, or which new products you’d like to see in our online store. Please join us as a “creative director” for the Kathy Davis brand!
I can’t wait to see your comments, and I thank you in advance for your good taste, creative input and guidance!
Stay tuned!
Leave a note in the comment section below telling us what your favorite Kathy Davis product is. Just one thing, it must be a product we carry in our online store. By sharing your favorite item you will be entered to win a $25 gift certificate to use in our online store as well as the item you shared as your favorite. To gain extra entries "Like" us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or join our mailing list, then leave a comment on our blog saying you did so. A winner will be chosen at random on 12/16, so the more entries you have the better your chances will be to win. Good luck!
Check out what Kathy Davis Studios' Melissa Schulz had to say about her favorite item below.
Hi there - Melissa Schulz here, Executive Director - Licensing, 'tis the season for our favorite things! One of my favorite items from the Kathy Davis Store is the votive candle. It is very beautifully designed - each side has unique images/messages. My two favorite votives are the "Dream" and "Anemones" designs. "Dream" is scented with an ocean breeze fragrance - very soft and subtle, like the hues of blue found in the design. "Anemones" is scented with a combination of jasmine and freesia - a very clean and fresh floral scent that pairs nicely with the floral design. At $11, the votive is priced and sized perfectly for a hostess gift or just to have on hand for those last minute gift giving occasions.
One of the comments I hear most often is, “You have designers working for you? What do they do? I thought YOU were the artist”.
While I serve as the Creative Visionary for my company, and still create most of the original art and copy for my brand, the designers here at KDS have become an invaluable piece to the whole puzzle. Without their amazing talents, I would never be able to deliver the 1000+ greeting cards we design every year, plus all of the fabric collections and licensed products for the gift and home industries. Also, in addition to the Kathy Davis brand, we develop original art for our Studio and Portfolio brands as well as many other creative projects.
One of the ways the designers get involved with the Kathy Davis brand is by innovating layouts for product development using the content I provide when I develop new collections.
Recently, I asked three of our newest designers, Laura, Ashley and Valerie, to each create some calendar layouts based on the art, patterns and writing that I developed for one of my newest collections - Fantasy Garden, Meadow’s Song or Awakenings.
Their designs delighted me so much that we decided to print and package them in CD cases as small desktop calendars for 2012! I’m having trouble deciding which one to use on my own desk…
Here are some of my favorite pages!
Editor’s note: You can find these desktop calendars in the Kathy Davis Online Store.
They are great gifts with an affordable price tag!
Our Stitched With Love Flickr gallery continues to grow and grow! It is so fun to see all of the fantastic creations that have been made with Kathy Davis fabric. Check out a few favorites below and click here to see the rest of the gallery.
Enjoy!
Check out the variety of calendars we have available in our online store. All of the calendars feature floral watercolor designs paired with inspirational phrases. Click any of the calendars below to see them in greater detail. Now is a great time to pick up your calendars for the new year!
We’re headed to market, we’re headed to market! This is a busy week as we make our final preparations to head to Quilt Market in Houston, TX. We recently received samples from one of the collections we are debuting - Sweet Birdie. In celebration of receiving our samples from Kathy’s latest collection, please enjoy 20% off of fabric through the 31st of the month by entering the promo code fabricjoy at checkout.
Enjoy your first sneak peep (ha ha!) – there will be more to come very soon!
A great selection of new product has just been added to our online store! We are so excited to have a great selection of Kathy Davis calendars, gift items, note cards and holiday boxed cards. Check out a few of the new additions below and follow the links to view them all in detail in our online store.
Also, for the next week we are offering free shipping on any order over $50!!! Just enter the promotion code: freeship at checkout.
Check back soon! We will be adding more items in the coming weeks, including more fabric kits and holiday items.
Click here to see the full collection of Kathy Davis gift items, including votive candles, clocks and mini boxes.
Click here to see the full collection of Kathy Davis calendars.
Click here to see the full collection of Kathy Davis holiday product.
We recently added a bunch of new product to the online store! Take a peek at the new goodies below and Click here to go to the online store.
Happy Shopping!
6 New Art Prints!
(sentiments include: Baby Boy, Baby Girl, General Baby,
Love, Marriage and Home)
"Home is that precious place where your heart feels safe
to live, love, grow... and simply just be."
Kathy Davis Journeys Fabric Braid kit
(enough fabric to make 11 braids)
Kathy Davis Journeys Fat Quarters
(available in 4 color-ways: Green-Blue, Saffron, Purple-Blue and Sienna)
Kathy Davis Ambrosia Fat Quarters
(available in 2 color-ways: Evergreen and Strawberry Fields)
Kathy Davis prints are available in our new online store! We currently have 6 designs that feature Kathy's signature watercolor artwork and sayings. We will be adding more designs in the coming months so stay tuned.
Click here or on the Shop tab in the toolbar to enter our online store.
Hi everyone!
It's time again for our monthly giveaway! We LOVE quotes here at Kathy Davis Studios and we would love for you to share your favorite quote with us. Simply enter your quote in the comments section below and you could win a signed copy of Kathy's book - Scatter Joy: Living, Giving, and Creating a Life You Love.
We will be accepting entries until end of day Friday, July 29th. Have fun with it and feel free to submit more than one. We may even post your quote on our Facebook page.
Good luck!
We are so thrilled to announce the grand opening of our online store! To enter our store click on the "Shop" tab in the tool bar above or click the image below.
As a special offer for our Facebook fans we are offering a 20% off coupon to anyone who "Likes" us. Click here to head over to our Facebook page.
Happy Shopping!
I can feel it, I can see it, I can smell it...and I can almost taste it! Spring is waiting in the wings...and after another tough winter in the northeast, we are all more than ready. Finally, that groundhog got it right!
The growing light invites us all to stretch our wings after the winter season. For me, it means more energy, fresh new ideas and that joyful feeling that spring fever ushers in!
We have so many new projects and ideas germinating at the Studio that I'm about to burst!
I am working on some colorful new paintings that I am anxious to share with you, and there are many collections of new patterns in development that we hope to turn into fabric. Just in time for spring, the other day we received samples of my latest gift bags from American Greetings, (which I hope you'll agree are bright and cheery) and we look forward to my 2011 Mother's Day card display coming out soon.
Also this spring, you can find my exclusive new line of cards and boxed stationery debuting at Papyrus stores. I am super psyched about that! In addition, we are anxiously awaiting samples of the new line of gift products we are proud to have developed with Westland Giftware.
MORE news.....
Our partnership with licensing agency Brandgenuity is about to launch, which will take the brand in exciting new directions! Plans are underway to open our own online store this year, and as if that's not enough NEW going on...this month we welcome Bill Lessa to our KDS team as Director of Community Relations!
Stay tuned to our blog, Facebook, Twitter, Flicker and You Tube so you don't miss a beat.
I wish all of you renewed hope and energy...and all the joys that springtime brings!!! Heartfelt thanks for your continued support and friendship.
All My Best,
Over the past month we have been posting an American Greetings Card of the Week hand picked by Kathy to share with all of you. The time has come to pick your favorite Card of the Week for January. The card that gets the most votes will become the January Card of the Month! The best part is that just by voting you will automatically be entered to win a pack of Kathy Davis cards, including the five Cards of the Week for January!
Simply click the Comments link below and vote for the card of your choice (A, B, C, D, or E) and you could win!!! Voting will run from today Feb. 2nd - Feb. 9th. If you need a closer look at the cards just click on the image below and it will take you to our Flickr gallery.
Head on over to our Kathy Davis Studios Zazzle site to pick up Kathy's new Spread Sunshine stamp!
Well it’s Christmas time again, and if you are like me you are asking where did the past year go?
It’s such a hectic time of year and with so much to accomplish it’s sometimes hard to slow the pace. But one tradition I always put time into is sending Christmas cards to my family & friends.
In this digital age of communication I really enjoy receiving cards. It makes checking the mailbox fun and brings our family lots of Christmas cheer!
So if you are looking to send your own holiday cheer perhaps you can use one of the lovely boxed cards Kathy created for American Greetings this year. You can find them wherever American Greetings products are sold. And if you’re in need of some holiday stamps head on over to zazzle.com and pick up some Kathy Davis postage.
Happy Holidays! Kim
It’s that time of year! We are happy to have a wide variety of Kathy Davis Studios calendars available through two of our licensing partners, Trends International and Graphique de France. Get a head start on organizing your schedule for next year and do it with artistic and inspirational flair!
