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I had some of my projects featured on the MemoryWorks blog today. Click here to check them out.

stamp camp swaps

Here is the card that I am making for my friend Amy's stamp camp this upcoming Saturday. It features SU! stamp, ink,DSP, punch, die, and embossing folder.

Simple Stories Great Outdoors Lay Out

This was a quick lay out that I put together using Simple Stories Awesome 6 x 6 paper pad. The stickers are Simple Stories Take a Hike. A little washi tape and a silver brad equals DONE!

Psssst-A little secret....

Did you know that often times Recollections paper pads @ Michaels are major scrapbook companies older lines repackaged for them? Here is a delightful example of Recollections Neopolitan pad was originally American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neopolitan line. How do I know this? Because I had purchased the AC line and my friend whipped out her identical Recollections pad LOL. Last year, I found 2 My Minds Eye collections repackaged for Recollections as Portobello Road and Union Square. You can bet that I swooped those up too! Here's a lil card I just whipped up. I love the fun lil poloroid image. As you can see I also succombed to the washi trend and bought my 1 st few rolls.

Bella Blvd.

Really nice gals @ this booth- we did a fab make and take using her new bridesmaids line.

Bo Bunny @ CHA

Here's a couple shots of the BoBunny booth

Prima @ CHA

ok here are just a last few CHA posts -I took all those pix -I may as well post them! I saw that Prima had some dies w/ Sizzix. This was news to me :-)

Echo Park @ CHA

Darcie's

These great lil goodies are from Darcie's shrink plastic CDs. It was very cool stuff that you could print her lovely images on from your computer then heat with your embossing tool to create these wonderful little dimensional charms.

Cosmo Cricket

CC is another one of my perennial favorites. I love how they wove the paper strips on this lay out.

I really like the tags clustered on this lay out

Tim Holtz offerings @ CHA

Here are some samples from his Antholgy line booth and also from the Sizzix booth fearuring his dies and embossing folders for Sizzix. (The altered alarm clock with the butterflies inside is my favorite)

Simple Stories @ CHA

I loved the display cubes with both a scrapbook lay out and card samples with the same lines in them!These are what I am definitely salivating the most for of all the things that I saw :-)

And lastly me playing with the fun magnetic shapes...

Melissa Frances @ CHA

Aren't these little houses just enchanting- I wanted to drink some of Alice's special tea and shrink down so that I could go into them!

CHA misc.

Here are a few orphan images from the show... The first is stunning canvas from Tattered Angels (Those are real paint brushes on there!)

Next up we have a fun printers tray box from 7 gypsies

Next is a card that we made @ the Tombow booth that will be sent over seas for the troops to use to correspond back home with

Authentique @ CHA

Here's a fabulous little card that I made @ their booth. They are bringing out little packets of these file folders (which just say CARD! to me)They had a bunch of die cuts and inks out and let us just assemble them as we liked. Very Fun.

More samples from their booth.

CHA 2013- Washi Washi

First off-I confess-I didn't take very many pix so far but hope to remedy that today. Trends spotted so far- herring bone pattern, pleated rosettes are still a hot embellie, washi tape. Here is a pic of Crate papers washi tape sticker page that you slice to order with your trimmer

Here is a 6 x 6 pad from We Are Memory Keepers that is also sticky backed

Here is a cute chore chart display that they had with it

I also got to try out WRMKs new envelope making tool- loved it and the fact that it should retail for less than $20. They said that they will have a one time offering of it on HSN as well.

It's MY day....

over on Cricut Fanatics :-) Click here to see this months offering. You won't be sorry-it is super cute if I do say so myself- and I do!!!

Countdown to CHA!

It's less than a week until the Craft Hobby Association trade show opens in Anaheim and I am chomping @ the bit!I just saw this on their blog.Sneak peeks that I have seen of the new Simple Stories are FABULOUS. I can't wait to see the new WRMK envelope tool and the new Tim Holtz distress paints. I could stand all day @ the Ranger booth and watch their stable of talent create on the fly. For the first time ,I have some classes this year. I got into 2 presented by Marvy Uchida and am wait listed on one by Hero Arts for Friday. The show opens in earnest on Saturday morning. A big thanks to my Cricut pal Amy for being my CHA connection this year. I am so thankful to all my friends in the business who have gotten me into the show over the years.I will be posting pix on my blog of all my favorite vendors booth so be sure to come back this weekend.

A New Year- A New Lay Out

This layout features elements that I downloaded for FREE (!!!) from Simple Stories. How awesome is that? If you like this jazzy fresh style of their SNAP line , I can hook you up with it through MemoryWorks.