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CHA Day 3 and Freebie Friday!

Greetings from Orlando (a VERY hot Orlando)!  Day 3 at CHA was another amazing day looking at new products, catching up with friends and meeting some new ones too (did we mention it is a little warm here?).  We have seen some great new trends including more of our favourites such as monsters, smaller scaled designs for cardmakers, lots of adorable houses and some GORGEOUS new holiday lines.  It will be an exciting fall and winter for all!  Here are some more photos from today.

Cosmo Cricket

Jolly By Jolly

Earth Love

The Boyfriend

 

Let's take a peak at some of the new Fancy Pants Designs lines....

Little Sprout

Trick or Treat

Dancing Girl

Rough & Tough

 

And now on to a peek at Crate Paper....

Season

North Pole

And two more collections, Cottage and Bliss.

 

One of our new favourite products that we had an opportunity to test drive was the new Sizzix Texture Boutique which happens to be our giveaway today! 

Yes, you read that correctly, Sizzix has offered us The Texture Boutique Embossing Machine Beginner's Kit to give to you.  This tool creates cards for any occasion, while transforming ordinary cardstock into elegant embossed art!  All you need to do is post a comment below. You have until next Thursday at 6 pm EST to do so. Good luck!

Let's find out who won last week's Freebie Friday of happy mail... a one year subscription to Scrapbook and Cards Today.

And the lucky comment to win this week is...

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

127

Timestamp: 2009-07-31 05:55:54 UTC

And comment #127 belongs to the lucky Blair Moch and she says;

My greatest challenge it time. I can rarely sit down for long enough to crank out a page or too. I am really slow scrapbooker and I deliberate over the details for hours!!!

Posted by: Blair Moch | July 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM

Congrats Blair!  Allison will be contacting you in the next 24-48 hours for your mailing details.  Good luck this week everyone!

CHA Orlando - Day 2

It was another exciting day on the CHA show floor!  Although we have taken a few hundred pictures, we picked some of the best ones just for you.  There is no doubt you are going to love all the new products to be hitting your local scrapbook store over the next few months.

Brand new collections from American Crafts (look at all those cool thickers - do they ever disappoint?!)

Blue Skies

Junior

Merrymint

Halloween

 

Some super delicious Bo Bunny...oh my!

Delilah

Kitchen Spice

Flutter Butter

Tis the Season (Card Holder Kit shown)

New Double Dot Papers

And of course, the amazing BasicGrey.  What a treat it was to see these collections!  Shown are the collections with a layout designed by one of the BasicGrey design team.

Indian Summer

Eerie

Eskimo Kisses

Nook & Pantry

We have many more photos to share so be sure to check back tomorrow for day 3 in Orlando!  And...we picked our fabulous giveaway for Friday.  You do not want to miss this one!

CHA Orlando - Day 1

Greetings from sunny Orlando! We are having a wonderful time here (it is always SO much fun to catch up with all of our friends and to check out all of the great new products and inspiring artwork at CHA) and want to share some great photos from day 1 of the show! As the week progresses, we will be sharing more images of some of the great products and projects that have caught our eye.

Here goes:

One of the gorgeous new lines from Jillibean Soup:

Talk Soup Collection

Soup Staples on Kraft and Soup Staples on White Collections

Lentil Soup Collection

Here's a beautiful page using the Lentil Soup Collection by Shannon Zickel:

Did you notice those cool new corrugated alphabets too?  They are new to Jillibean Soup too!

Now let's go on and visit the Doodlebug Designs rooms with the lovely Catherine...

Does she look like a Doodlebug doll?  That hot pink is definitely a Doodlebug colour!

Here's the first Doodlebug Designs room....  Don't you just love that lime green?

Here's the second Doodlebug Designs room... in lovely lavendar this time!

Wow!  Such fun rooms and great sources of inspiration from Doodlebug Designs.

And last but not least... a sneak peak of the new super, cute felties by Sassafras Lass....

Couldn't you see all of those fuzzy creations as part of your stash?

So what do you think of these new, cool goodies?  Stay tuned tomorrow for more photos from CHA in Orlando, Florida.  

More Inspiration with Kim Watson

Hi everyone! Kim Watson is here again today to share a great new layout that she just completed featuring supplies from the July Cocoa Daisy kit.  

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A Fun Tutorial with Kim Watson

Hi everyone! We have a very special guest here this week - Kim Watson, all the way from South Africa, is here to share a fabulous tutorial with us today and will be back tomorrow to share a cute new project that she has just completed.  We love Kim's style - from her great photography to her talent with colour and pattern, and from her ability to embellish with both purpose and flair. Thanks for being here with us Kim! Here she is with her tutorial:

Hi there everyone....I hope this post finds you all happy & enjoying a glorious summer? Today I have a sweet journal block tutorial idea to share with you... the perfect to complement any summer page you might be working on.

  

You will need:

    x1 circle journal spot
    x1 piece of white or coloured lace
    sewing machine or needle & thread
    thermo-web adhesive runner

1) Using a large running stitch, sew along the plain edge of your lace, keeping a long piece of thread either side of your lace.

2) Carefully gather the lace holding tightly to one of the thread pieces. Apply the glue underneath the journal spot.

3) Press the lace strip onto the glue, spreading the gathers evenly around the circle.  Trim & secure raw edges.

4) Using your sewing machine & a smaller stitch size, stitch around the edge of the circle to secure the lace. I did x2 rows of stitching for effect. Rule journal lines onto spot & you are all ready for your journaling.

 

   

Laugh Out Loud
by Kim Watson

This fun layout was created using the July Cocoa Daisy kit.....aren't those Lily Bee rub-ons darlin'??

 

I hope you found it helpful!  Thanks & have a super day!

Kim Watson

Freebie Friday - Happy Mail!

For this week's Fabulous Freebie Giveaway, we're going to send you HAPPY MAIL!  Happy mail you say?  What might that be?  Well... that's a one year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine!!!!  Can you imagine getting your very own, in the flesh copy every new season of our inspiration filled magazine AND it will come straight to your door?  A gift that keeps on giving!

 

So if you'd like to win a year's worth of the Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine post a comment below by answering this question....

"What is your greatest challenge when you sit down to scrapbook?"

And, make sure you check in next week as some of our team is off to Orlando, Florida for the summer Craft & Hobby Convention where we will be scoping out the latest and greatest products to showcase!  Updates, with pictures of course, will start Wednesday until Friday.  (You also will not want to miss next week's giveaway...just sayin').   Stay tuned!!

Let's find out who the lucky winner of the Upsy Daisy Designs goodies from last week's Freebie Friday.  The random number generator picked.....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

89

Timestamp: 2009-07-24 04:48:07 UTC

And lucky comment #89 belongs to  and she says:

nice collection! I could put them to good use!

Posted by: Violet | July 17, 2009 at 04:03 PM

Congratulations Violet!  Allison will be contacting you for your mailing details in the 24-48 hours.  Good luck this week everyone!