The Provo Craft/Cricut Booth was Prize Central

Cricut was giving away bags every hour on the hour to the first twelve people in line. Lisa and I got bags at 2:00. We were number 2 and 3 in line. There were four pink bags, obviously the most popular choice because the first 4 people in line chose them. Each bag has a number on it and during the course of the show people wear the big number somewhere visible. If you find the person with a number matching yours then you can go back to their booth together and draw for a prize. At 2:00 they gave away a baby bug and at 4:00 an Expression. We didn’t win.

Although BrensDesigns has already posted pictures of most of the new product on the Cricut board I’m still going to post a selection of pictures because some of my readers come from other places.

I love the butterfly on the new Tinkerbell cartridge, I cannot wait to see what other extras are on this cart! I asked when it would be released and I was told probably the fall, I believe September was mentioned. The new character cartridges will have all have 50 shapes plus 6 features. Only Hello Kitty and Sesame will have coordinating font cartridges, the Cars and Tinkerbell carts do not. Hello Kitty will have poses, phrases, accessories, and icons.

Cricut is doing the CUTEST make and takes of the show that I’ve seen! I stumbled upon Cricut Dan (Scrapbook Top 50) at the Tinkerbell picture frame make and take! I enjoyed meeting you Dan and hope to continue our discussion!

Lisa and I hope to do the Cuttlebug storage make and take on Sunday, if we understand it correctly. And I want to do the Hello Kitty one in the morning. I stood in line for the Tinkerbell one for about 45 minutes, but had to leave to meet Lisa.

For my readers that don’t know what a Cricut is, here he is, the green bug. He is the mascot for Cricut products which includes thier anchor products the die-cut machines and the equally popular Cuttlebug, an embossing machine. The purple bug is for the kiddy version of the embossing machine called Cuttle Kids.

At this show they announced new materials and a blade for using the machine to create your own embossing plates, magnets, or even stamps. With their Design Studio software you can use any of their cartridges to weld together your own custom designs! There is an independent entrepreneur that has been marketing stamp materials, he is sure to be disappointed that they’ve come out with their own.

Tags: cricut, hello kitty, sesame street, tinkerbell
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Holly’s CHA Pick of the Day

July 18th, 2008

My most favorite product of the day was from Hero Arts. They have come out with new TWELVE INCH clear stamp borders! This one is called “Birds and Branches”, it is my personal favorite. There are 16 different designs in 8 different sets.

Here is their catalog in case you want to see them all.

My sister Lisa is going to order some tomorrow. So if you know you want some let us know!

This was the make and take in the Hero Arts booth today. I’d never done a slider card. It was so easy and cute. Very cool how the ribbon just disapears when you push in the card, then it looks so cute just tied on the end!

Holly

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Tim Holtz Class at CHA

July 18th, 2008

For those that don’t know, Tim Holtz is an designer and educator for Ranger Industries. He taught two classes today at CHA, it was very difficult to get into the classes. Lisa and I were a couple of lucky and excited gals.

The class was super fast paced and Tim was very entertaining. When we got there we had a huge bag of product waiting for us. Plus, thanks to Stampers Anonymous we also got one of Tim’s brand new stamp sets!!!

Tim packed eight techniques into two hours, each tag was made with a different technique. Each of us had different color samples as you can see in this picture showing both of our tag sets. Mine is in the ring provided and Lisa’s is spread out so you can see them better.

I’ll bold some Tim-isms that I captured, hoping to share a bit of his larger than life personality along with a few of his tips.

You can use the paint daubers on any surface. You need to prime it properly the first use by pressing down on the head and at the same time squeezing the paint. Don’t bang it on the table trying to get the paint flowing, they are not hammer paints!
Die inks are translucent while pigment inks are opaque which means you can layer pigment inks. But they dry very quickly, so never throw away the plastic vapor barrier. Yes, you can emboss with dye inks, IF you are like Indiana Jones!
Ink the stamp before you stamp the ink. Contrary to common belief you do NOT have to store ink pads upside down because ink pads are a suspended medium. If you press the stamp into the pad it will put ink in recessed areas. Just, “tap, tap, tap and you’ll never have any weird little whoies.”
On using the pigment pens, they are pigment so they also dry quickly. You have to work fast, scribble, blend, scribble, blend. Don’t just scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble and think hmmm, maybe I should blend this. It will already be dry. We smeared it on the back of a transparency to highlight some words.
On working with the color washes. First emboss your image, then spray a couple of colors, one dark and one light. Then you press it with a craft iron (2 x hotter than normal irons), between some newspaper, until you see the stamped image. When it is done the newspaper will come right off. So, don’t think it is like a Band-aid and that if you rip it really quick it will be ok. It won’t. Just iron it some more until you see the pattern soak into the newspaper.
Glossy paper behind a vellum accent acts like a light box, it just makes the image pop. You can glue vellum on glossy paper. BUT, put the glue on the paper, not on the vellum. And we’re not stuccoing a house, so if the glue clumps, thats too much!
Helllllo Captain OBvious! I can’t remember why he said this, but it made me LOL!

Tags: cha, tim holtz
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Daily CHA Blog Drawing!

July 15th, 2008

Hi everyone! To celebrate my first trip to CHA and that I met my own deadline, with my new logo and blog banner design, I’m giving away blog candy every day for a week!

First of all I want to say a BIG thank-you to Alice Grey Trainor who brought my Scrapallier vision to life! She literally carted sketchpads and watercolors across the globe several times while she was working on the original drawing for my concept! It couldn’t have turned out better and I’ll be forever grateful! And, thank you to Chris Lo for the wonderful logo and business card designs. I am posting a link to his website here in case anyone gets their hands on my business cards and just has to be a copycat! His printing process is top secret, only he and his double secret printer know how to do it!

And very special thanks to my very dear husband Neal, who patiently gave me his feedback every step of the way.

Anyway, formalities aside, here is an example of the daily prize package:

Each day’s prize has approximately a $20 retail value! The color or style of the item will vary slightly from day to day. But each package has:

Prima Sweet and Sassy Jar: cute multi-color/pattern flowers
WeR Memory Keepers Designer Eyelets & Snaps: baby girl, baby boy or travel
Studio G Series 14 “scrapbook” stamps
Prima Flowers: bra, panties, purse or large flowers w/ chipboard center
Jumbo brads
Basic Grey rub-on accents

There will be one drawing for each day’s comments from 7/18 thru 7/24. I’ll be posting each night from CHA 7/17 thru 7/20 and for a few days when I return. I’m sure I’ll have a lot to share. If you happen to post on the evening of the 17th after I post about my TIM HOLTZ class then your comments will be thrown into the drawing for the 18th, I just want to give everyone at least 24 hours to post each day.

There is one catch, I don’t think I’ll have a way to print the comments from my hotel and cut them up for the drawing. So, all 7 drawings will be on 7/25.

But, you have not heard the best part….there will be a grand prize drawing for a Cricut Storybook cartridge! This is a $60 retail value, so if the winner is a friend without a Cricut then you’ll be able to choose something of equal retail value. Special thanks to my sister Lisa Ziriax, owner of Seriously Scrappin, because if it were not for the deep sister discount I would not be able to afford such nice blog candy!

Please try out my scrapbook search engine and give me some feedback. I explained what it is on my “About” page, but basically vertical search is for searching the narrow scrapbook niche versus searching the entire World Wide Web. If you put your blog address in the blog search engine and nothing comes up then just write a comment there requesting that I add your site.

Please bookmark Scrapallier so that next time you are trying to remember what Cricut messageboard member created that special .cut file you can search Scrapallier! HINT: after you seach your term look for the links at the top of the search results. Clicking on them will narrow the search even further, to a messageboard or to published scrappers for example.

Tags: drawing, grand opening, RAK
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Pati Loveland says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:17 am

Wow! I really like that slider card. What was the Tinkerbell project? It looks like a frame or a box?
It’s so exciting to see and hear all that is going on! Thank you again for sharing with us
Pati
aka Trishlaboo
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Sydney says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:20 am

Looks like soooo much fun! I hope to be able to go next time. I am from chicago and wasnt able to get things together this time but im glad you guys are having a blast.
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Bee says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:23 am

I’m tellin’ ya, those pics just make me want to be there. Looks like a fun time! TFS. Can’t wait to get my hands of some of the new products!

Bee
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Melodie says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:33 am

Your pics are just awesome and you look like you are having a blast! Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us! If CHA ever comes to Texas I am going to beg, borrow, and barter with every retailer I know to tag along, lol! Thanks again!
Melodie
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Tina Rivera says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:59 am

Those elmo’s are great. I can’t wait to get that cart. Thank you so much for sharing your pics and finds with us.
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Jody Beatty says:
July 19, 2008 at 1:12 am

That looks like so must fun. I am hoping to meet cricut Dan next weekend when he comes to Grand Rapids. Can’t wait to see your pics tomorrow. TFS.

Jody
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Edye says:
July 19, 2008 at 1:43 am

Hey Holly & Lisa-
\sounds like so much fun there at CHA-
New stuff is really neat– lookin’ forward to seeing more.

We missed you all at the first day of the swarm in Tulsa.

We had some real cool door prizes from winning the contest off our last swarm. i won a cartage tonight .

Lisa- when you get back I want to get some more stickles from ya- i’m hocked.

Hey- have a safe trip back to tulsa-
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Niki says:
July 19, 2008 at 2:14 am

You look like you’re having a great time! Thanks for sharing the fun.

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Helena R says:
July 20, 2008 at 12:50 am

How much fun is that! CHA looks like a scrap/craft mecca. Thanks for sharing with us.
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brandi says:
July 20, 2008 at 9:36 am

wow wow wow I am so jelious of everyone at cha, wish we had something like that hear it looks like a blast. look at those cricut displays woooooooow!!!! now who wouldnt want all the carts after seeing that. I have to start making my wish list. BROKE BROKE BROKE I can see my future now. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Helen (Galway,Ireland) says:
July 20, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Beam me up Scotty – I so want to be in your shoes!!!!!!!

H
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Iris says:
July 21, 2008 at 1:54 pm

I just love all the new products! The Tinkerbell is a must have as well as most of the other new carts.

Thank you so much for sharing the pictures and the information.
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scrapfor4 says:
July 21, 2008 at 2:03 pm

I had not seen the fairies cart pictures on the board!!

So cute!!!
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Jes says:
July 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Awesome! Thanks for sharing all the great new toys!
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dena keller says:
July 21, 2008 at 5:46 pm

I am soooooooooooo jealous. Would love to attend one some day.

thanks for all the wonderful pics,

dena
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Kaye says:
July 21, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Thanks for all the pictures! I am so excited for the new carts!
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Doni Hall says:
July 21, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Hi love your blog!
Thanks for all the info on CHA, and I’m looking forward to seeing what your blog contains in the future.
I’m really looking forward to my bug being able to make stamps and cutting chipboard. Can’t wait to see what all everyone come up with!
Thanks for all the time to share with us!
Doni
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denise S. says:
July 21, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Thank-you for showing the new Cricut Hello Kitty. I did not think that I had needed it but oh how cute so maybe I do.
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Angie S. says:
July 21, 2008 at 11:09 pm

That Elmo make and takes looks adorable! I can’t wait for that cartridge!

Thanks for sharing and making us all jealous!

January 7, 2010 at 3:51 AM

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Candice Warnke says:
July 19, 2008 at 8:39 am

I am SO excited about all of the new Cricut products!! I just can’t wait!!

Thanks again for sharing!!
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MAKCrafter says:
July 19, 2008 at 9:23 am

How exciting! Thank you so much for sharing all the info and pictures with us!

I met CricutDan and his wife, Shelley, @ MegaMeet in Novi, what great people! Tell him Donna said HI!
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LisaMH says:
July 19, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Looks like tons of fun!!!
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Brenda H says:
July 19, 2008 at 1:58 pm

I love the Tinkerbell make and take in your picture. Thank you for sharing your experience and pictures. It looks like you had an amazing time.
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Dawn says:
July 19, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Looks like a blast! Wish I was there!
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Rachel (b&wsmommy) says:
July 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm

I am soooo not trying to be super jealous and failing miserably

That Cricut booth looks AWESOME and seeing all the HK stuff get’s me excited, I’ve always LOVED HK and my DD’s room is in HK right now.

The sesame street projects and tinkerbell/fairy frame look so cool too!!!

Yup… still not jealous
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JamieB says:
July 19, 2008 at 5:24 pm

You look like you’re having so much fun! I loved reading the comments from Tim Holtz!
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Amy says:
July 20, 2008 at 12:02 am

Looks like you are having fun. Thanks for sharing pics of the new products. I was excited to see the picture of the people working on Elmo–I’m really looking forward to that Sesame Street cartridge!

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amberleighpowell says:
July 21, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Thank you so much for all the information! I’m so jealous that I couldn’t get to go! I love all the new cricut products and can’t wait to get the Hello Kitty Cart and the Sesame street cart! Thank you again for all the great information.
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Jenny Titus says:
July 21, 2008 at 11:33 pm

I AM SO JEALOUS!!! The provo craft area is what I imagine heaven to look like! All of the make and takes are adorable and I can’t wait to get my hands on those new carts!!!! Thanks for explaining all of the new things! I have heard of some of them but really didn’t understand until I read your blog! Thanks so much even though I really am so jealous!
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Sarah Murphy says:
July 22, 2008 at 7:48 am

I also want to add my sincere thanks for all th enew information and pictures you have put up on your blog! I am going to let a friend borrow my laptop so she can see the pics from the Tinkerbell cart. Tink is her favorite fictional character!

All of the make and takes looked awesome! The class with Tim Holtz! WOW!!! That must have been awesome to be in a class of his. He is so creative!

It is obvious you enjoyed yourself, and you should have! What fun the whole experience must have been! Congrats on getting to go.
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Susie says:
July 22, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Thanks for sharing, all the make and takes are awesome, can’t wait to see what else is on the cartridges especially the Tinkerbell.
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Valerie says:
July 22, 2008 at 2:17 pm

LOVING ALL the new Cricut products that will be coming out!!
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Dana J says:
July 22, 2008 at 4:30 pm

now I can’t wait for the new blade! I’ll be so excited to cut thicker chipboard!
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Micha says:
July 23, 2008 at 12:32 am

I am so excited about these new cartridges. I just love the tinkerbell make and take!
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Brenda says:
July 24, 2008 at 11:52 pm

I’m sooooooo excited about all the new stuff coming out! Thank you so much for sharing your CHA experience! My granddaughter just loved seeing the Cricut guy and the Cuttlekid guy on your site! Thank you! :O)

Brenda
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Samie says:
July 25, 2008 at 12:08 am

I love tinkerbell and showing the butterfly just makes me want to order this cart!
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Darlene Sutphen says:
July 25, 2008 at 12:58 am

Looks like a lot of fun. Wish I could be there, but my daughter was lucky enough to get to work with Cricut Dan and Shelly, at the Cricut Booth. I am sure she will have fun! To make sure of it tell Felicia to get her mom a picture of her with the cricut mascot!!! Thanks! Have fun! Can’t wait for all the new stuff!!!
Darlene
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Melissa Allore says:
July 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Wish I could have been there! Looks like you had a great time!