CHA 2011 Review

From the entrance of the show.	Crafty Couture Contest -- my favorite was this dress that featured lots of brightly colored scissors in cleverly designed pockets. It won one of the Judge's Choice Awards.	More Crafty Couture
Shabby Chic Crafty Couture	Canvas Corp Booth	Tonya and Lisa after 3 long, hard days at CHA!

Projects, Products & More
These designers were provided with a material packet from four sponsoring craft manufacturers.
The designers were told to make a project using ONLY materials from the packet. For many, this was far outside of their comfort zone. One designer specializes in crocheted work. Yet, each of them created beautiful projects. Multi media projects are the hottest segment of the paper crafting industry right now. Artisans are using rubber stamps, scrapbook materials, fibers, wood, canvas, chipboard, paint, etc. to create stunning works of art. Peddlers Den will be getting many of these materials in very soon. We hope you will try to make some unique, personal gifts for the holidays using your special talents just like these designers did!

Lorine Mason's Bird in the Wind A great example of a multi-media project.	Marie Browning's Live, Love, Laugh	Tracy Moreau's Multi-Media interpretation.
Carmi Cimicata always includes a detachable, wearable element in her work. This includes the detachable "necklace"	Wendy Russell design project.	Tracy Moreau project.
Sharon Reinhert project.	designed by Debra Quartermaine	Designed by Daniel Zondervan of The Crochet Crowd

Fab Scraps

This is a new company from South Africa. They have beautiful items, suitable for scrapbooking, embellishing home decor items and much more. We placed a pretty large order from them, and are expecting it to arrive sometime in August.

FabScraps Baby Carriage Album	Baby Carriage album actually has plenty of room inside for photos, journaling and embellishments!	Fab Scraps paper roses used to embellish a decorative box. Seal and glaze them with something like diamond glaze to make them permanent and durable. They look like ceramic!
The Fab Scrap purse album. It features a heavy duty handle.	The purse album is well made, with real ring binding, and plenty of page capacity.	A 2 page spread made with Fab Scrap papers.
	At the left is another 2 page spread. This one features the tea time papers.

My Graphic 45 photos did not turn out very clear, but the following are items made using the new Wizard of Oz papers. We have these on order as well.

Flowers and accents are being used on more than just pages and cards. Shown below are items made using floral and molded accents from Prima. We have large numbers of new items coming from both Prima and Petaloo.

This accent features both the bridge and the bird.		Notice the molded bird accent tucked into the layout.

Following are samples of Spellbinder items. The new Grand Calibur die cutting and embossing machine will take a full letter sized sheet of paper. The new dies will cut your page mats with decorative edges. Look at the unique ways the nestabilities were used on the greeting cards. Explore the fun of die cutting and embossing!

Clearsnap has dramatically expanded their line of foils and self adhesive design elements. These can be used to make fast, easy, stunning greeting cards, or to add some shine and bling to pages, albums, gifts and more.

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