Graphic 45

I had too many photos of the Graphic 45 booth, so I had to split up my posts and I'll show you Webster's pages tomorrow! The Graphic 45 booth BLEW ME AWAY! This beautiful blue floral paper is from their new 'Fashionista' line. SERIOUSLY GASP-WORTHY!

Go Vintage!

So you know how partial I am to vintage, right? No tour of CHA would be complete without a stroll through all of the fun CHA vintage-loving booths! Today and tomorrow we'll get our 'vintage' on and take a tour through Crafty Secrets, Jenny Bowlin, Graphic 45 and Webster's pages. Utterly heartstopping!

Here's Sandy Redburn, the talented owner of Crafty Secrets, and the person with the best eye for sweet vintage images that I've ever known! Sandy released 11 stamp sets at CHA; you can see close-ups of all of the sets on the Crafty Blog HERE.

Sandy is also coming out with a new product for us cardmakers, called 'Vintage Scraps'. You can mat them and use them on cards or put them on your scrapbook pages. They are printed beautifully on a matte cardstock, and they are absolutely GORGEOUS & bright! I cannot wait to get them in my hands and start playing with them!

Here's more samples from the booth!




The Jenny Bowlin booth was as GORGEOUS as ever! She has a new line of sweet vintage buttons on cute little vintage cards. I wanted to go junking in her booth!

The new Jenny Bowlin paper lines are cheery and bright and my FAVORITE color, RED! I'll be getting the smaller patterned ones for sure!

RED GINGHAM! GASP!

Jenny Bowlin also has a new product out, that looks like little pearl flowers in different colors! Look how cute they are, paired up with the patterned papers!

Chipboard BUTTONS! SO STINKIN CUTE!

Tomorrow: Graphics 45 & Webster's pages.

OCL - Our Craft Lounge at CHA

Hiya! I'm BACK and I'm multi-tasking tonite; I'm washing clothes & trying to upload & edit CHA photos! I spent most of my time working at the Crafty Secrets booth, so I don't have the MOTHERLOAD of photos this year, but trust me, I did get to sneak away and will have plenty to show you in the next few days! I tried to pop in to all of my favorite booths, and will show you the select highlights of what WOWED me this year!

Here are the talented girlies from Our Craft Lounge, in their first-EVER CHA booth! I had no idea what to expect when I heard they were having a booth; but they BLEW me away with the cuteness of it all! The booth looked bright & LOUNGY, with retro bar-stools and a cute pink & orange bar to sit at while you did make & takes!

OCL is releasing over 20 brand spanking new stamp sets that will be hitting the stores mid-February, and I have samples to show you as well, since I helped do trade show samples for the booth!

The OCL girls have a brand new product out, called "Sparklefluff", that is a mixture of glitter & flock! They had it in a big martini glass and it looked like fluffy ice cream (with no calories, of course)! They also have some cool new colors of flock.

Here's a sneak peek of a new set that will be in the next release, called "Star Rocks"! This little boinky-curled chickie's name is Star, and she 'STARS' in at least 2 new sets! She's friends with Anna Mae and the other girlies from last release!

Star comes with lots of fun little accessories that you can mask off and put in her hands, like a guitar, a lava lamp and a stereo!

I don't think you can see it in this photo, but I used hot pink & orange flock to make her outfit fuzzy.

So I'm off to edit more photos; I have Graphix 44, Websters Pages, Doodlebug & Clip-it-Up booth photos to post soon!

Happy Thursday!

Lisa

CHA treats, I'm off & running!

One last post & I'm off and running. I have my Barbie suitcase packed & my samples in a bag and I'm off to the Anaheim Craft & Hobby show to work in the Crafty Secrets booth! I couldn't resist doing one last project before I leave for the show; I whipped together these treat bags to give out at the show to friends. I'll be making stops at the "Our Craft Lounge" booth, Hanna Stamps, Crafty Secrets and a few others with treats in tow!



Since money is tight this year with the economy, I was on a mission to make these as inexpensive as possible, yet still have that cute factor to them. So I headed to my grocery store for Little Debbie cosmic brownies, Nilla cakesters (strawberry flavor), Hersheys cherry kisses, and of course, CHOCOLATE. The little heart cello bags are from the Target dollar spot; 20 bags for $1.00! SUCH A DEAL! The tags were made with the new Crafty Secrets" Sweet Stuff stamp set; I can't get enough of these Cinderella Birdies!

I'll be back on Wednesday with more sneak peeks of the new release Our Craft Lounge sets, and hopefully lots of CHA photos if I can sneak away from the booth to check out the new goodies! Have a great weekend, everyone!

L.

Whipper Friends

Tonite it's one last sample with the 2 newly released Whippersnapper Sets, Fish Friends & Friendly Expressions. I went really simple with this layout so that the focus is on the sweet little chicken & the ladybug! I also pulled out my red Martha Stewart glitter and my favorite chipboard swirls (Archivers Making Memories hotspot) & added a glitter flourish to the card to make it sparkle!





I added a little chicken-scratchy doodle to the edge of the main image with a copic multiliner, and a big red button!

Copics: Buttercup yellow (for the chicken), Golden Yellow (flower petals) Celedon green, sanguine, wax white, lipstick red & cool shadow.

Papers: Scenic Route Sonoma Rosalie Street & SU Real Red & chocolate chip cardstock

Stamps: Anna Wight for Whippersnapper Fish Friends & Friendly Expressions

You are one of a kind.

Moving on to day 3 of 'ANNA WIGHT' week with another little scene from Whippersnapper's new Anna release called 'Fish Friends". I know this little mushroom was meant to hold this sweet little froggie in a sitting position. But I wanted to convey a bouncy, happy frog singing his own little tune. So I borrowed a technique I saw on a card done by Terry at Creative Cuts & More, and drew a little 'bounce' check mark underneath the frog, so that it looks like he's hopping. For the sentiment, I used the "one of a kind" sentiment from Anna's new "Friendly Expressions" set.

At first, I thought it would be fun to color the frog a different color other than green, but decided instead to make him 'different' from the usual frogs by BLINGING HIM OUT in green Mark Richards rhinestones!

Sparkly WARTs? Heck yeah! Why not? A frog's gotta have their day to shine too! I also bling'd out the mushroom with some yellow rhinestones, and the circle around the frog with brown glitter.

Papers: October Afternoon
Copics: Sanguine, Celedon green, olive green, spring dim green, golden yellow, blue green, mint green and w2 warm grey.

Anna's fishies!

AAACK! It's BLOG GONE WILD day today! I had queued up a blog post for today with a Crafty Secrets set and forgot that I set it up! So it's a double post day today, so I can show you another Whippersnapper new release card as promised!

The fishies in Anna's new set are PERFECT size to create little lake scenes. In this card I drew in a line with my Copic Multiliner to create a little 'lake' for the fishies to swim in. They are swimming in Copic Cool Shadow blue water! I also drew in the little wave lines so that it looks like one little crazy fish is jumping out of the water trying to fly with the dragonflies!



I stamped and cut out cattails and attached them to the side of the main image; I also used brown fun flock on the cattail part so that they're fuzzy!

Happy double-post Tuesday!

Stamp Set: Fish Friends & Friendly Expressions, Anna Wight for Whippersnapper

Patterned Papers: October Afternoon

Copics: Spring Dim Green, Cool Shadow, Light Olive, Sand, Dark Pink