Good morning friends! TGIF! It has been a whirlwind of activity this past week with some of the team away in California for our annual trade show or what I like to call "the greatest place on earth!" The trade show organized by the Craft & Hobby Association sees most of the papercraft and other craft industries come together in one very large hall to display all the brand new products coming to stores near you in the very near future. All I can say is it's like being a kid in the BEST candy store ever!
From Saturday until Tuesday we walked, talked, photographed and learned about so many incredible products. Save your pennies friends as you're in for many wonderful surprises! Never has it been so exciting! We looked at all the products for upcoming editorial, upcoming Crop & Create Delivered kits and of course our Crop & Create events. To say we left thrilled would be an understatement!
What is always fun at CHA is to see our team's work on the show floor. Always outstanding and always inspiring. Here was a sweet layout by design team member Lisa Dickinson in the Bella Blvd booth we just had to share!
This layout uses the brand new Star Student line from Bella Blvd. When we asked our friends at Bella if we could give one away they were on board immediately! Look at this amazing collection kit...
If you would like an opportunity to win it, please be sure to leave a comment below by January 22nd and tell us what new products you've heard about that you are most excited to see! Good luck! You can also share how much you love this line on Bella Blvd's Facebook page. They would love to hear from you!
Of course, while at CHA I'm always thinking about YOU! While at many of our partner's booths I just may have collected some fun goodies for one lucky reader who commented on last week's "mystery box" giveaway! The lucky winner of these goodies is...
I love the free content online & that content is awesome! thanks for the chance to win! Posted by: Kim | January 09, 2015 at 01:40 PM
Congratulations Kim! Please send your name and address to "[email protected]" and put "Mystery Box Winner" in your reference line!
Join us on Monday when our Editor-in-Chief Megan will have a great recap from CHA! We have also been sharing some fun things on our Instagram feed so be sure to check us out at @sctmagazine and new design team member Nancy Damiano has shared some CHA product images with us that we'll be sharing on our facebook page too. We are the sharing kind around here and want to make sure we share it all with YOU!
Have a wonderful weekend friends!
~ Catherine
Love the layout, those circle embellishment stacks are lovely!
The most exciting thing I've heard of from CHA "reports" is the fuse tool that allows creating pockets of the size you want in page protectors... Can't wait to have it come to Europe...
Posted by: theCook | January 16, 2015 at 12:01 PM
Love the layout! Thanks for sharing. The hot new item that I cannot wait to get my hands on is Bella Bows......eek can't wait! Shel Anderson
Posted by: Shel Anderson | January 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM
those paper patterns are too cute!
Posted by: Rubeena | January 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Oooh I love the DPs, fab colour combo :)
Posted by: Lynne in NI | January 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM
This selection of papers is too cute!! Followed/following lots of videos from CHA and my mind is still spinning . . . so many exciting new toys/stamps/dies/papers!
Posted by: Cheryl Sager | January 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM
The Star Student line, above! I'm a ("mature" - read "old"!!) student and would love to scrap some of my student stories - this looks like a great mix of oh for cute for kids, which I'll share with my sister who has three young children, and school papers for someone closer to my age. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Posted by: Louise | January 16, 2015 at 12:24 PM
I love the new Bella Bows and embellishments.
Posted by: Lynn Gauthier | January 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM
I love new paper assortments! THanks for sharing!
Posted by: Chris Cross | January 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Love the Color Chaos collection.
isoscia at aol dot ocm
Posted by: Iris Soscia | January 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM
So many exciting things coming out, can't wait for the new lawn fawn products and other stamps and papers coming out. Thanks for the chance to win.
Roxanna
roxxscott at gmail dot com
Posted by: Roxanna | January 16, 2015 at 12:31 PM
Hands down....Maggie Holmes!!!! Well, and Tim Holtz. Can you ever get enough of either of them????
Posted by: Roxanne | January 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM
What new things have I heard about. Well I just want to say that you just told us about Bella Blvd.'s Star Student Line and I love it. I love the bright colors and patterns and the embellishments. I sure would love to win this. Thanks for the opportunity to enter to win :) SCT you rock!!!
Posted by: Nina Oelke | January 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM
Love Bella Blvd. Great colours.
Posted by: Valerie W | January 16, 2015 at 12:47 PM
Love the ideas. Love the new products. Would love to win new Bella Blvd products. I'm loving all things Tim Holtz, Echo Park, and Sizzix.
Posted by: Kim Klinkovsky-My Kraft Kloset | January 16, 2015 at 01:02 PM
Love the invisibles, love all the product really :)
Posted by: Ann | January 16, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Adorable new papers, the eyeglasses are so cute!
Posted by: Sheri M | January 16, 2015 at 01:16 PM
What a fabulous collection!!! If I won this I would give it to my besty who is a teacher! She would LOVE this collection and I would love to be able to gift it to her! Thanks for the chance to win it!!
Posted by: barbara macaskill | January 16, 2015 at 01:26 PM
I am excited about the bright new colors. They would give any scrap page a fift.
Posted by: Myra | January 16, 2015 at 01:26 PM
I have a weakness for stamps with matching die cuts. Thanks for the giveaway
Posted by: Alma Dirpaul | January 16, 2015 at 01:27 PM
There are so many great products coming out how do you pick one?! Lots of fun & pretty paper on the way!
Posted by: Dawn G | January 16, 2015 at 01:27 PM
I can't wait to see the ombré ink from Hero Arts.
Posted by: Marcia scantlin | January 16, 2015 at 01:28 PM
Great layout, love those embellished circles!
Posted by: Mai | January 16, 2015 at 01:28 PM
Such a cute layout ... love all things Bella Blvd! The bows are adorable!
Posted by: Judy Stiles | January 16, 2015 at 01:30 PM
Yes please! This collection is on my must-have list for sure!! Thanks for the chance to win it!
Posted by: Tracey | January 16, 2015 at 01:42 PM
I love all the fresh new products from Bella Blvd this time especially the transparency sheets.
Posted by: lindsey | January 16, 2015 at 01:44 PM