a blip in the CHA transmittal

Well, I had to interrupt my CHA pic posts for a quick trip to Scrapbook Expo in Costa Mesa. My friends Allison and Lisa and I booked a room at a hotel and spent a night scrapping our hearts out. We stayed up WAaaaay too late (3:30am) then got up early for our day at Expo. I was pretty wiped out when we were done. I hardly remember Sunday at all, as I crashed and burned pretty hard after 3 days at CHA and then the 2 days at Expo.

Since then, I've been immersed in making kits for the upcoming Silly Old Bear class at Scrappin Good Times (this Sunday already --wow, where does the time go?) I was able to expand the class and accomodate the people on the wait list (woo hoo!) and also put together an alternate version of the class for 3/9. The new class is called "In the Pink with Pooh & Piglet" and is very similar to the original, but in a different album and with more pink touches. Here's the cover:


I'll get back to my CHA pics soon. I think I'm going to give up on editing them tho. There are just *SO* many of them and so little time. There are probably so many pics from CHA up now that mine are an afterthought anyway.

Later!

basic grey

Basic Grey has a new roller tool for burnishing rub-ons. I didn't think to take a pic of it, but it is pretty cool. The roller action helps prevent the tearing and buckling you sometimes experience (esp with large rubon images). I guess it's already shipping so I'm hoping to get my hands on one soon.

And, of course, there were lots and lots of yummy paper lines and coordinating accessories from BG. Enjoy!

cosmo cricket

Everyone, of course, has their own take on what the best or hottest products introducted at CHA will be. Here's a start on some of the things I can't wait to get my hands on...


Cosmo Cricket's new Cogsmo line is terrific, very quirky and unique. Reminds me of the work of William Joyce the creative mind behind Meet the Robinsons, Rolie Polie Olie and Robots to name just a few. I really can't wait to work with this line. It is so cute!


Cosmo Cricket also introduced it's Blackboard line of chipboard albums and die cuts. This stuff looks like it will be lots of fun, too.




Some examples of things you can do with blackboard. Kind of hard to make out in this pic, but trust me the possibilities seem endless. (If you click the pic, you'll get an enlarged view.)



Here are a bunch more pics from the Cosmo booth. This first layout really cracked me up. If you were following the posts at the Cosmo blog about Jon, the Warehouse guy (acting as a "mole" who was trying to reveal the new release stuff), it makes more sense. Anyways, pretty funny.

More to come!

cha-cha-CHA

Home again after 3 fun-filled days at the CHA Winter show. There was SO much to see. I tried to absorb it all and took a TON of pics that I'll post here in the next few days.

For now, I'm going to get some shut eye and try very hard not to catch the cold/cough thingey that my kids and hubby all developed in my absence.

Here I am with Kristin...


and Tina...



Signing off for now!

made-and-took

Last Friday was the bi-monthly class kick-off at Scrappin' Good Times. It was a chilly night, but even with that nip in the air we had a great turnout. Did a fun little make-n-take card. My DH complained that this is the hokiest sentiment ever, but I can't take credit for coming up with it. I didn't write the song, and can't even take credit for the idea of pairing it with a chandelier --found that inspiration in the February, 2008 issue of Paper Crafts ("Show Your Moxie"). Here's what it looked like:

"You Light Up My Life" make-n-take card

I introducted two new classes. For March I'm teaching "Silly Old Bear" - a mini album featuring Classic Pooh. I guess that cuddly old bear is as popular as ever because the class sold out before the night was over. I'm working now on (hopefully) putting together a second session of the class or at least kits. We'll see how it goes...

A couple of inside pages from "Silly Old Bear" Classic Pooh mini album

My other class this 'semester' is Introduction to Scrapbooking in April. The layout for this one is a bit more intricate than I usually do for the intro class, but it turned out awfully cute (if I do say so myself). I used some Sugar Coated cardstock from Doodlebug -love that sutff!

a little peek at "Spring Joy" layout (April Intro class)


Thanks to everyone who attended the Kick-off --ya'all make it so fun!