Tim Holtz Doing Demos And Makes & Takes Today At CHA

CHA Summer 2009 Is Over..We had a BLAST, Ordered More Than We Ever Have, Planned Some Special Events, Took +800 Pictures,

The show is over and we had a TERRIFIC time. We are
excited about all the new products we ordered. Items
will start arriving next week and continue thru the Fall.
We ordered more than we ever have. Some of the lines we
ordered are

Websters Pages---Winter's Wings and Home For
The Holidays


Prima---4 lines Indeed, Paradise, Tropics,
and Animal Bash, Parlor Petals, bling,
stitched papers,centers, gallery roses,
lace, flutter vines, chipboard
Clear Believe Stamps, Clear Tiny Alpha Stamps

My Mind's Eye--EVERY SINGLE THING papers, ribbons,
die cuts, Abby Road, Halloween both, Christmas
both and since we have not had Breaking Free yet
and liked it so much in person it is coming in also.

Crate Paper-- Season Collection, Cottage Collection
North Pole Collection

Basic Grey---Eerie, Indian Summer, Nook and
Pantry, Eskimo Kisses papers and embellies

Bo Bunny Press--Tis The Season, Gypsy and Saint
Nick Collections and Embellishments

Cosmo Cricket---Earth Love and Jolly By Golly
Collections and Embellishments

Fancy Pants---Little Sprout, Rough & Tough, Trick
or Treat and Christmas Magic Collections.
Rough and Tough is one of the best boy
themed releases. Reminds us of the
Prima Dude Collection a few years ago.

Graphic 45----Christmas Past and Domestic
Goddess Collections....They Definately
had one of the most decorated booths
here.

Kaiser----Pina Coloda, Penny Royale, Duchess,
Loire Valley, Rewind and Offshore.

Lily Bee---Vintage Poppy Paper Line

Little Yellow Bicycle---Autumn Bliss and 25
Days of Christmas Paper Collections and
Embellishments.

Pink Paislee---Amber Road, Twilight, Mistletoe and
Company and Cupid Paper Collections and embellies.
***One of my favorite companies for releases this
time...Papers are double sided now and the embellies
have totally changed...Great Great booth for ideas also.

3 bugs in a rug---havent ordered from them in a while
but they have totally changed their look. Ordered
Spread Your Wings, Let It Snow and Simple Pleasures.

Teresa Collins---Sports and Friendship line arrived right
before we left....

Technique Tuesday---New Ali Stamps and a few others and
class kits.

Would you believe even more? But this gals is beat
and needs to step away from the computer for a while.

I will work on sorting the +800 pics into slide shows
by booths and paper lines that are coming in but it will
take a few days.

We head home tomorrow with a few play stops along the way
then hope to both have a low key family weekend before
getting geared up for all the upcoming arrivals and
fun.

CHA Fun At The Prima Booth...We Ordered All 4 New Paper Lines, Stitched Papers, Pearl Flourishes, Flowers, New Essential Flowers & More

We ordered all 4 new lines from Prima along with
matching flowers for each line
stitched papers
the new $1.50 retail packages of Bling and Flowers
and more. Here are a few of the highlight pics
from our visit with Trisha from Prima who was
one of the NICEST gals at the show. We are planning
a store event with her in the upcoming months :)

Just getting back from a LONG LONG day

We have talked with so many people and ordered from
so many companies it is all becoming a big blur.

I have taken over 600 pictures so far and am spending the next
few hours loading them into files on the laptop
by company. Hoping to then post each line separately with
what all we saw and what we ordered. There has been so
much to see and order it may take a few days to get it all posted

We have ordered so far from

Pink Paislee--all 4 new lines definately one of my favorite
companies this release...amazing colors, embellishments and
they went to double sided paper.

Basic Grey----ordered all the new lines

Lily Bee----ordered from them for the first time
Vintage Poppy

Prima--Ordered 3 lines from them plus some flowers
and other goodies.

Kaiser----ordered 6 lines from them and some
new mini books and other goodies

3 Bugs In A Rug--We havent ordered from them the past
year or so. But they had 3 really cute lines so
we ordered them...They are Shipping next week and I
will post some pics in a day or so....

Webster's Pages---We ordered 2 lines from them
plus some fabric tags and little calendar journal
spots.

Little Yellow Bicycle----They came out with a
fall line in addition to the usual Halloween
Line. We both loved Autumn Bliss so we ordered
that plus Christmas. Ordered the Journal tablets
for all new lines and some other goodies.

Fancy Pants---Loved the Rough & Tough Boy Line
Reminds us a little of the Prima Dude line from
a year or so ago. Ordered the whole collection.
We also ordered Little Sprout, Trick or Treat and
Christmas Magic Lines.

Graphic 45----This booth and Pink Paislee had
the 2 best booths for the amount of samples
and ideas. I will post some of the pics of
the booth soon. It was amazing. Dozens and
dozens of layoutsm altered everything from
boxes, tins, telephones, chairs, canvases
etc. I could have looked at things there
for hours. We ordered Domestic Goddess
and Christmas Past. Very cool
vintage lines.

Crate Paper---We loved and ordered Season
Collection, North Pole

Ok time to get orders ready to hand in
tomorrow since it is the last day of the show.
I brought a ton of order forms back to the
hotel so I can fill them out myself and just
drop off at the booths tomorrow. Will try and
get all the pics loaded, sorted and post some
soon :)

Hanging Out In The Cosmo Cricket Booth

Day 1 also meant a long stop at the Cosmo Cricket Booth for us.
Their booth also was full of samples, altered projects, cards
and more. The only slight disappointment for me was
there will not be the usual vintage style Christmas
release which I LOVE. This year's Christmas is a more
bright retro look. Cute but I really liked the old
fashion style they did. Lindsay one of the owners
we have talked with and emailed over the years was
there and it was great to put another face with that
voice/email on the other line. We loved the Earth
Friendly Line. So we left with ordering both the
Christmas Retro Line and Earth Friendly. There
was a Teenage Boy line which we passed on since it
was tooo theme specific. They had tons of altered
project ideas and cards using both this using this
years and last years papers so we took a ton of
pics here also. Sharing a few of those below.

More Basic Grey Booth Fun

My favorite Basic Grey Release was
Eskimo Kisses Patti's was Indiam Summer.
We ordered all 4 new releases so there
should be something for everyone :)

The Slice Apron/Picture Promo

Slice was giving away pink craft aprons and anyone
who wore theirs had a chance to win several prizes.
They were randomly taking pictures and posting
them on a board during the day. We were so
busy all day that we never went back to check
to board to see who all had won. Patti soon
decided to trade her apron strings in for a
pink hair extension from Pink Paislee.

As for the other apron model. Some guys
just really enjoy a trade show with the
gals. I actually can't remember who he
was but he had a great sense of humor :)