Guest Designer Cassie Lynch shares with us how she puts to use the Wendy Vecchi Blendable Dye Inks to make a heartfelt thank you card!

Find Cassie’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Heartfelt Thanks Card by Cassie Lynch

Guest Designer Bobbi Smith uses Tim Holtz Distress® Oxides to create a fun, whimsical card to make to say hello!

Find Bobbi’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Hello Distress® Oxide® Card by Bobbi Smith

Need a quick and easy Valentine’s Day tag? Guest Designer Bobbi Smith uses Tim Holtz Distress® to make treat bag tags for your Valentine!

Find Bobbi’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Valentine Tag Treat Bag by Bobbi Smith

Guest Designer Cheiron Brandon uses the new Letter It™ Stamps to make this easy Valentine’s Day card!

Find Cheiron’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Letter It™ Embossed Valentines by Cheiron Brandon

Guest Designer Cassie Lynch shares with us how she uses the Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Blendable Dye Inks to make a beautiful card for Valentine’s Day!

Find Cassie’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Love Card by Cassie Lynch

The Designer Challenge this year at Creativation, Dina Wakley “Pouring it Over” brought a lot of unique and beautiful pieces of mixed media art to the Ranger booth. Dina Wakley has been a Ranger Signature Designer since 2014 and champions a line of mixed media craft products under the Dina Wakley MEdia brand. Her colorful and abstract style focuses on white space, organic shapes, and loose expressive marks. We couldn’t wait to see how these guest artists, personally selected by Dina herself, used and interpreted Dina Wakley Media products in their work.

The focus of the challenge was to highlight various Dina Wakley MEdia products, particularly the new Pouring Medium and Cell Creator. To accomplish that, guest designers were sent a variety of products, but we’re allowed to include any Dina Wakley MEdia product.

A big thank you to all of the participating artists for all the time and effort they have put into this challenge. Check out what beautiful and inspiring pieces we received this year from our very talented group of designer artists!

Watch the video below to see Signature Designer, Dina Wakley, go around and introduce the challenge on the show floor!

Dina Wakley

Visit Dina’s Blog: dinawakley.com

Dyan Reaveley

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Wendy Vecchi

Visit Wendy’s Instagram: @wendyvecchi

Simon Hurley

Visit Simon’s Blog: inklipse.com

Julie Fe-Fan Balzer

Visit Julie’s Blog: balzerdesigns.typepad.com

Cheiron Brandon

Visit Cheiron’s Blog: cheironbrandon.typepad.com

Samantha Carlton

Visit Samantha’s Instagram: @scarlyton

Dani Choate

Visit Dani’s Instagram: @pygletwhispers

Rachel Greig

Visit Rachel’s Website: rachelgreig.com

Nathalie Kalbach

Visit Nathlie’s Website: nathaliesstudio.com

Cat Kerr

Visit Cat’s Blog: catkerr.com

Jennifer McGuire

Visit Jennifer’s Blog: jennifermcguireink.com

Rae Missigman

Visit Rae’s Blog: raemissigman.com

Kathy Paglia

Visit Ranger’s Blog: rangerink.com/blog

Jessica Sanders

Visit Jessica’s Blog: colormecreativeart.com

Mary Beth Shaw

Visit Mary Beth’s Blog: stencilgirlproducts.com

Jenn Shurkus

Visit Jenn’s Blog: shurkus.com

RANGER CRAFT SCRUBBIE

It’s back, it’s new, and it’s improved! The Ranger Craft Scrubbie cleaning bar is a gentle and effective way to remove inks, paints, glues, and other craft mediums from hands! This must have tool exfoliates most types of dye, solvent, and permanent inks as well as paints and glues when used with soap and water. The new Craft Scrubbie is oval shaped making it easier to hold in your hands while removing excess mediums. The Ranger Craft Scrubbie measures 3.375” L x 1.875” W x 1.125” H.

MEASURES 3.375” L x 1.875” W x 1.125” H
Click to Shop Ranger Craft Scrubbie

Download a copy of the press release here: Ranger Craft Scrubbie

Things have begun to settle back down here at Ranger Industries now that everyone has returned home from the 2019 Creativation Show in Phoenix, Arizona. Everyone really enjoyed getting to see their crafty friends, meet new friends, learn all about the newly releases products, and spend time learning and educating themselves on all the fun new products. It’s always so rewarding to see the hard work through out the year pay off at this big event!

Many of us here at Ranger flew in early to start getting the booth ready for the show days. A lot of hard work and planning went into getting the booth figured out and ready to ship. It was especially exciting this year because Ranger Industries was celebrating our 90th Anniversary!

The Designer Challenge this year was “Pouring Over It”. Dina Wakley has been a Ranger Signature Designer since 2014 and champions a line of mixed media craft products under the Dina Wakley MEdia brand. Her colorful and abstract style focuses on white space, organic shapes, and loose expressive marks. The focus for the challenge was to highlight various Dina Wakley Media products, particularly the new Pouring Medium and Cell Creator. We loved seeing what the participants of the challenge came up with! Be sure to check out our blog next week for more on these beautiful pieces!

With so many new products, that meant a lot of new education! All of day two was spent with Ranger’s Signature Designers teaching classes showing all their wonderful new products. Tim Holtz, Dyan Reaveley, Wendy Vecchi and Dina Wakley all taught classes on their newest line additions

Susan Lenart Kazmer and Debbie Tlach taught a jewelry class that incorportated both ICE Resin® products as well as Ranger’s newest mixed media and jewelry product, QuickCure Clay.

Sharen AK Harris also spent time Sunday night teaching an Alcohol Ink Paint & Sip class where attendees could enjoy a drink while learning how to paint with Tim Holtz® Alcohol Inks.

If show attendees couldn’t make it to the classes, there was plenty of time to stop at the Ranger booth and see the designer’s themselves demonstrating their new products.

Ranger’s newest Signature Designer, Simon Hurley made his debut demonstrating his new line, Simon Hurley create.

Sharen also spent some time at demo tables showcasing the newest products to the Tim Holtz® Alcohol Ink line, including Alcohol Pearls and new surfaces. Ranger’s Graphic Designer, Taylor Huizenga, showed attendees the newest additions to the Letter It™ line!

In the Ranger Mixed Media Jewelry booth, Jamie Dougherty showed how to use Ranger’s new QuickCure Clay, and Misty Grosse spent time working on new jewelry pieces using ICE Resin® products.

And who doesn’t love getting their own project to take home? Well of course, everyone does! That’s what made the Ranger Make It Take Its such a great experience. Visitors we’re greeted by Ranger’s own Kathy Paglia and Debbie Tlach who had different projects on each day using Ranger’s newest products including Letter It™ Stamps, Tim Holtz® Alcohol Pearls, Embossing Powders, and more!

There was a lot to see in the Ranger booth! All the new products were nicely displayed on grids while bright color swatches and samples decorated the booth for visitors to see!

It’s always such a wonderful experience being at the show, and here at Ranger, we love coming back an getting to share some of those highlights with you! We hope you enjoyed our show recap, and hope you’re all just excited about the new products as we are!

It’s not too early to get a head start on your Valentine’s Day cards! Guest Designer Audrey Pettit shows us how she used the new Tim Holtz Distress® Oxide® Sprays to crate this adorable dinosaur Valentine’s Day card!

Find Audrey’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Rawr Means Card by Audrey Pettit

Guest Designer Bobbi Smith uses the new Tim Holtz® Lift-Ink to create an easy thank you card!

Find Bobbi’s tutorial in our Projects Library: Alcohol Lift Ink Thanks Card by Bobbi Smith