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OK, so I said I was going to video tape my darling daughters 2 and 5 doing the drawing for me. We did video tape the whole thing. BUT it would be SOOO boring if you all had to watch it! They were running around, trying to see themselves on the camera, I kept telling them they couldn’t see themselves if they were looking at the camera. They were a big help though and we got it done. I have the tape for the record!

Here are the winners of the daily drawings, congratulations to all of you!!!!!

1. July 18th, Jennie (jcscraphapy from cricut mb). You won from your post at 12:51 PM in the Daily CHA Blog Drawing post!
2. July 19th, Kristen. (Your initials from your email are KDB @ yahoo.I won’t type your whole email here.)  It was your post on July 19th at 11:43 pm in the Hello Kitty Make and Take post that won.
3. July 20, Brandi (prettyinprima.blogspot.com). You won with your 9:36 AM post in the Provo Craft/Cricut Booth was Prize Central comment.
4. July 21, Mary Jean (maryjeansgoldenmemories.blogspot.com). You won for your comment at 11:37 pm in the Nestabilities post.
5. July 22, Rachel (b&wsmommy). You won for your 7:54 PM post in the Copic was at CHA post.
6. July 23, Debbie (Scrappydoo2 from Cricut). You won for your 3:08 pm comment in the Hello Kitty Make and Take post. (BTW, I didn’t know Tim Holtz was in the background of any of my tradeshow pics, I’m going to go look!)
7. July 24, Nancybeth (a Canadian who must love sewing based on her email address). You won for your 11:22 PM comment in the Nestabilities post.

Daily prize details are as follows…

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:

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

AND THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF THE CRICUT STORYBOOK CARTRIDGE IS….

• Dailyscrapper (abusyplace.blogspot.com). Congratulations for winning with your July 21 comment at 2:30 PM in the Cricut Embossing Folders review post!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much to everyone for following my CHA show posts day by day, and for all of the active participation in the fun blog candy promotional blitz! I will email each of the winners to get your snail mail addresses and get your prizes in the mail ASAP!

Holly

If anyone is a Facebook user and has the “My Family” module displayed on their profile then Me and My Peeps will look familiar. Except their illustrations are in color and adorable. They have a moderate selection of characters. A toolbelt wouldn’t have been my first choice for my dh, but the other options were wearing a tie, definitely not him! He is more of a Levis and polo shirt guy. I thought the kiddo characters were very cute, and since they didn’t have a scrapbook mommy the shopping mommy is perfect….especially considering how much I spent at CHA!

The iron-ons were so easy, I looked for some other iron-ons. I love the rhinestone ones, which I tried at another make and take, and these baby ones would be so cute on a onesie!

I don’t know about you, but as a parent of small children I’ve done zoo layouts many times over. I loved the sophistication Prima will give to my zoo layouts and it will be nice to have an option other than stickers! I’ve seen a lot of cute animal stamps, like adorable Autumn Leaves stamps I own. But as one would expect, the “Prima Touch” adds an artistic flair of swirls inside the animals. And, they are sold as affordable singles at about three inches tall.

Since we all go to the zoo more than once per year we need more options, right? So next we saw the large 3 to 5 inch studded and the tiny one inch crystal animals. I think they are both going to go great with Basic Grey’s Granola line of paper.

Interestingly, I’ve seen a few of the tiny crystal embellishments at Michael’s. You can see the dragonfly I used here on my school house thanks card. When I asked Sharon Laakkonen, at Prima about it she said that they sell Michael’s product but only in limited quantities with nowhere near the variety that the independent scrapbook owners can buy.

Sharon is Prima’s Blog coordinator, she does a fabulous job showcasing their products, here she is pictured with Lisa.

Fiskars introduced a new product at CHA called the “Push and Print Stamp Factory.” It will retail for about $40. You layout any of your acrylic stamps on the 3 x 5 acrylic block and place it in the gadget along with a Fiskars brand stamp pad (12 colors to select from.) Then in one motion you press down and it inks and then stamps.

One benefit is that you would assumedly apply even pressure every time with no more over inking.  For the experienced stamper this may not be any perceived value. For the novice stamper it may, but would they rather buy a $40 gadget or buy $40 more in stamps?

I think their most obvious customer is the semi-professional crafter. If you were doing limited editions and selling them on Etsy or eBay, or selling custom invitations and stationary then this gadget is for you! The question is, are there enough of you out there? Will you be adding this product to your wish list?

I already own Cuttlebug, a Provo Craft embossing machine, so Spellbinders was smart to design a product that can work in most competitive embossing/cutting machines.

Beth helped me learn to use the product at the make and take. It was pretty easy. You have to make two passes with the machine. The first time you put it through you put a white spacer plate under your template, place the paper on top and sandwich it between the white cut mat and white emboss mat. Then, you take out the white spacer and place an embossing pad on top of your paper. You can just leave the negative cut alone. Run it back through the machine and the embossing is complete. The cut can be a little difficult to get out of the plate, especially if it is detailed, so go slow and have toothpicks handy to push the piece out if necessary.

Not only can the Spellbinder dies cut and emboss, but you can use them as a stencil and for paper piercing with their newest product introductions. Here the die has been inked with two colors. The neat thing is that the color will be pressed into the paper without affecting the embossed areas. Tape the stencil to your paper with a re-positionable tape so it won’t move, this will help make sure your embossed areas stay clean.

This photo shows the card after both the cut pass and the emboss pass. The tiny raised dots are where the piercing could be applied, only a few in the center were punched out here.

Another thing that I wish Cuttlebug would do is roll out 12 inch border folders. Spellbinders just released several pictured here. Of course if you are doing a 12 inch scrapbook layout you can’t run the entire page through either machine. So, it would make most sense if Cuttlebug rolled out a die/emboss combo folder so borders could have a nice detailed edge like these. I’m hoping Lisa buys some of these tomorrow, hint, hint, hint.

Here is an “Edgeability”, it is a card sized template that creates a frame. This one comes with 5 pieces which are sitting in the middle of the blank frame area.

Thanks to Jerry Bowman for taking the time to tell me the Spellbinders story. It sounds like you are having a great show. Best of Luck!

We spent a lot of time today in the Ranger booth, and I have a lot to say. But, we will have a long day tomorrow at the show then driving part way home. So, I’m going to just do a quick post on one of the products that we bought that we got to use in a make and take.

Claudine Hellmuth was actually at the booth demonstrating her Studio Sticky-Back Canvas, but I didn’t know who she was until after she was gone or I’d have taken a pic with her! The canvas is made with paper pulp but it looks and feels like fabric. It has a sticky back, and for the make and take they backed it with some cute black fabric. The flowers pictured here were about 8 to 10 inches across.

Here are Lisa and I making our flowers which were backed with a pin.

We’ve been told it cuts in several of the die-cut machines. So, when Lisa gets her order in I’ll buy some and test it on the Cricut. It was really fun to work with and I can see lots of possibilities for accents on cards and in scrapbooks or even in home decor.

UPDATE:

Claudine! Thanks for the clarification! This will help people understand your product. It was nice talking to you again yesterday, I’m glad I caught you in the booth! I so can’t wait to play with the canvas paper in the Cricut and will post results as soon as I get my hands on some. I’ll also try it with the Nestabilities in the Cuttlebug.

We got to the convention center this morning about 10 minutes before the doors opened and speedwalked over to the Provo Craft booth to do the Make and Take. We ended up each being 3rd in line. Luckily the Hello Kitty projects went faster today than Tinkerbell yesterday and we made it on-time to our Ranger appointment.

My girls are going to be fighting over this pail! It will be great for storing thier crayons or markers in.

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!

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 disappears when you push in the card, then it looks so cute just tied on the end!

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.

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:

1. Prima Sweet and Sassy Jar: cute multi-color/pattern flowers
2. WeR Memory Keepers Designer Eyelets & Snaps: baby girl, baby boy or travel
3. Studio G Series 14 “scrapbook” stamps
4. Prima Flowers: bra, panties, purse or large  flowers w/ chipboard center
5. Jumbo brads
6. 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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