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Association For Creative Industries Awards BowVy Cutter $10,000 as Top Creative Innovation of 2018
The
Association For Creative Industries (AFCI) is pleased to announce the BowVy
Cutter is the winner of The Ultimate Pitch, a competition sponsored by The
Michaels Companies that awards $10,000 to an innovation that creates new
opportunities in the creative products industry. Karyn Ranzau, owner of Little
Pink Ladybug, invented the BowVy Cutter, which is a handheld, cordless, hot
filament cutting tool with interchangeable tips that makes a decorative V-cut
and seals the ends of most ribbon and polyester fabric in one step. The
Ultimate Pitch was held on January 22 at the Phoenix Convention Center in
Arizona during Creativation, the largest creative industries trade event in
North America. 
“We want to showcase innovation and provide entrepreneurs a
platform to launch their ideas and products in our industry,” says Mark Hill,
President & Chief Executive Officer, AFCI. “The Ultimate Pitch and Innovations Center are
life changing opportunities for creative entrepreneurs as they gain significant
exposure to the thousands of retailers, distributors, manufacturers, marketing
companies and influencers who attend Creativation each year.”
The Ultimate
Pitch was judged by executives from major retail and manufacturing brands. The
judges were Brigid English from The Michaels Companies; Christopher DiTullio
from JOANN; Danica
Lichtenwalner from the Home Shopping Network (HSN); Christine Stoelting from
Crayola, LLC; and Victoria Katsarou from Walmart.com/Jet.com.
Four finalists
were chosen for The Ultimate Pitch from a pool of 12 entrepreneurs who were
showcasing a unique product or idea in the Innovations Center at Creativation.
The other three finalists are:
- Yee Wong,
inventor of DIY Frame Art Drawing Pad: a patent-pending drawing pad that
upgrades the sketchbook by turning the flat paper into a 3D frame art ready for
display.
- Marlene Tabibian,
inventor of Flex Knit: a patented, flexible and ergonomic straight knitting
needle designed to improve comfort during knitting by enabling bending with
resiliency at the wrist level.
- Sofia Magnusson
and Marielle Jensen, inventors of The Folklore Company: a website where
customers can design a personal cross-stitch pattern in an easy, unique, and
modern way.
Actress Kerry Cahill,
who can be seen on The Walking Dead as Dianne, hosted the competition. Cahill
is an advocate for Help Heal Veterans, an organization that provides free
therapeutic craft kits to US veterans, and was recently named the national spokesperson for AmVets.
Watch: How to Use the BowVy Cutter
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