Art Evening Card Class!

Anne Schilling from Independent Paper Craft Consultant Zen and Now Crafting came to design vertigo to sell her goods a street vender during the summer friday night car shows. Her had-crafted greeting cards, journals and scraps were so wonderful, i just had to have teach a class at the store! 
Anne Schilling is a native to Northern Minnesota. She began scrapbooking at the age of 12 years old. As an Independent Paper Crafting consultant, Anne was a former crafter with Club Scrap®. Now on her own, Anne teaches paper crafting of all types in her home studio in Esko, MN. She has also taught card making classes for WITC (Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College) community education.
While Anne does paper crafting of all kinds such as scrapbooking, hand bound book making and crafts, her real passion is with card making. Anne has participated in crafter competitions, making over 300 cards in a 6 week time period. Her card making is unique in that no two cards are ever the same! Each one is a miniature work of art.

The art class was SO FUN! Anne was supper organized, providing all supplies. We learned how to emboss, stamp, ink, watercolor, spritz and tear paper and made SO MANY cards in a short amount of time. We enjoyed learning how to hand craft cards that are one-of-a-kind! We learned several techniques for making cards that will be cherished by those you send them too.

Contact Ann at 218-213-6954 or aszenandnow@msn.com

City Chic Country Mouse

The Featured Artist at Design Vertigo from November was the creative mother/daughter duo of City Chic Country Mouse. The "City Chic" is daughter Jamie and "Country Mouse" is mom Carmen. They set out on a venture combining a mom’s love of sewing with a daughter’s sense of style. "We enjoy creating items designed to make your household chores more cheerful, fun and lovely." From the sewing/craft studio to the laundry and kitchen they enjoy bringing style to these everyday tasks. Their hope is that these designs make some of your not-so-fun chores more enjoyable (like ironing!). Their ideology and products fit in just perfectly with Design Vertigo's Idea of making the Everyday ordinary into everyday extraordinary. You can still purchase these amazing products at their Etsy Store. And I can assure you that the highest level of quality and craftsmanship goes into each product.  

The City Chic Country Mouse Story:
Jamie has a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife and masters in Human Resources. While working her office job during the week, she has always spent time outside of her day-job keeping busy with home decorating projects – painting, rearranging furniture, and incorporating thrifty shopping finds. A few years ago while shopping with her mom she realized the endless possibilities of decorating by being able to sew.

Carmen has been sewing ever since she made her first Barbie dress when she was 5 years old. She has always loved being creative and trying new artsy endeavors, but has always come back to her first love; sewing.

After 25 years of sewing on her Singer, Carmen decided it was time to upgrade to a fancier sewing machine. She passed on her old Singer to Jamie, hoping she would one day share her passion for sewing. That day finally arrived when the pair went shopping for fabric for Jamie’s first home.

Jamie lives with her husband and two furbabies (Sadie – an English Pointer and Cricket - a mix of Sheltie, Corgi and ???) in St. Paul. She enjoys the city life and is therefore referred to as “City Chic” by her mom.

Carmen lives in Northern Minnesota with her husband and their 3 doggies and 1 barn kitty. In the summertime all of them (yes – all the furbabies plus their parents) can be found at their cabin on the lake in Grand Rapids Minnesota.

You can also enjoy their fun blog where they share their adventures and inspirations with you!









Design Vertigo also had the pleaser learning from these creative gals at an art evening where we learned and created gift wrap! It was such a fun night and all the customers who attended had a blast! The gals brought supplies to create three different gift packages that customers could use for your future gifting needs.  They showed us tricks and tips for using fun supplies like Japanese washi tapes, fabric, paper, ribbon, baker’s twine, and tissue.