The rest of CHA

First let me say CHA was awesome!  So much fun... so much loot... so much everything. The only "famous" person I didn't see was Shimelle. Figures the one person I wanted to actually meet. I emailed her and got a lovely response however I didn't get her actual coordinates. Which is understandable I could be some crazy person. ;) Maybe next year.

For all you How I Met Your Mother Fans I did spot these bad boys...

For the Portlandia fans out there... 'We put birds on things':

Ok let me get serious for a moment the one item I feel in love with and HAVE to get is this:

(Forgive the poor picture quality) This will be the last marker bin I'll ever have to buy. I'm super excited about this. All said and done it's $60 which is cheaper than the last one and it will work better. :D It's made by ArtBin. Hopefully I'll be able to get it soon. 

I didn't photos of the all the new stuff, there was just to much to photograph plus all the companies are releasing photos in their own blogs. 

We discovered some new stamps for the store dare2bartzy and Prickley Pear. We will now start carrying Inky Antics, Darcie's  and Maya Road stuff to. Now to just get that money stuff!

Katie 

Day 1 of CHA

It's the end of day one of winter CHA. The floor wasn't open yet but they began classes. :D I took a Tombow class called pimp my tote. Here is a pic of my tote in the creation process. 

I learned some new uses for their products and the need for a third job to buy it all! I also took a Hero Art's class. That was awesome. There was 2 hours between the two classes I sat down, had lunch and waited for one of the other design team members Lynnette. Shortly there after Shari Carroll and her cohorts walk buy. I have to be honest my inner voice was screaming inside. I couldn't stop smiling but I was able to contain the inner voice. 

What was even cooler was Lynnette and I were asked to show up to the Hero Arts class 30 mins early. Being a doer and a fast learner I picked up the help setting up ball and ran with it. It was a good thing Lynnete and I was there I don't think they would have been ready in time. Here I am setting up and helping one of the ladies then it hit's me I know that voice... it's Lisa Spangler. Without even thinking I blurt out your Lisa...it was awesome. Sally Traidman was also there.  So then to make things even more exciting Shari asks if there is room for Heidi  without even knowing who she was I said "yes of course there is" and I set up a spot next to me. 

LOL so here's the funny part. I start talking to Heidi and asked her if she has a famous blog.. she said she wishes. Yeah.. so come to find out she's the owner of Simon Says Stamp, which if you've been following me for awhile you'd know I love them. She was shocked to know I not only knew about them but have actually ordered from them. We had a great conversation during the class. It was awesome. 

All in all an awesome day. We'll see how tomorrow goes. 

Katie

Come on Friday!

I can't wait til the weekend! It's time for the Craft and Hobby association winter trade show. :D All the new products will be out, new techniques, free classes plus all the big names in the industry will be around! This year I get to go. I am one happy camper. It's a horrible thing to not be able to go and it's even worse when you live 1/2 a mile away from the convention center.

I plan on taking lots of pictures but I did want to ask you, my readers, is there a booth you'd like me to check out for you? Rumor has it there's lots of giveaways is there anything you'd like me to try and grab for you?

No promises of course, I don't know if my bank account can handle me sending catalogs to every follower, butt I will do what I can.

Scrabook.com YouTube site is pretty good about releasing little snipits of the new stuff  from the show floor so keep your eye on that.

Happy Monday!

Happy Friday!

I'm back! I told ya I'd try to blog more. :D Today I bring to you a really cute card. It's not mine it's my sisters Kellee's. She came home for the holidays and wanted to do some card making which I was more then happy to do. While I crafted the cards I'll be using at my next class this is what she created:

She used the large paisley stamp from Impression Obsession. Inked it with black memento ink on white cardstock and colored with copic markers. (I have no idea which colors she used, sorry) The left edge didn't stamp as nice as the rest so we found some patterned paper form Amy Tangerine's sketchbook and added the bow.  The recipient loves bling so Kellee added gems and stickles, which doesn't show up that well in the photo. 

She did a fantastic job! 

Do have a wonderful weekend! 

Happy New Year!

Yea! It's a new year! Although I don't like seeing Christmas leave us. :( There are some wonderful things to look forward to though... spring, summer, birthdays.. just to name a few.

I'm not one to have resolutions I don't need a specific day to change myself I can and should be working on that year round. This year I am making an exception. I'd like to get back into the habit of blogging and figured a new years resolution may help me remember. :D

Here's a thank you card for sticking by me even though I've only blogged a few times the last few months. I will do my best to make sure that changes this year. The flower stamp is from Inkadinkadoo and the card stock is from Hero Arts. Quick and simple!

I wish you the best of years... at least until 2014 comes around :D 

Katie

Oh wow it's busy!

It's been uber busy these last few weeks. I am happy to report the race went pretty good. It took me about 30 mins longer than planned however I did it that's what matters. There were some nasty hills that I did not train for. I'm training for them now. :D

Also a couple of weeks ago I started teaching community card classes at the local college. :D I have 4 students and having a great time with it. Three hours of card making for 4 Saturday's. To make things even more exciting I've been asked to teach classes at to different churches. 4 classes in 1 week. CRAZY!!

I'm way behind on posting photos, please forgive me. These are from my last class at the college. The focus was on die cutting, embossing and alcohol inks.

We also inked up a Christmas ornament unfortunately I didn't get pics of that. I'll do my best to upload pics of everything quickly. 

I hope all is well with you,

Katie

Spooky!

What is super spooky is how fast time fly's these days. It's been a month and I promised I wouldn't do that to ya. Thankfully I've gotten back into the crafting habit again I'm very happy about that. My crafting world is still kinda in an uproar though. I've moved crafting areas and half the stuff  is still downstairs and I have no shelves in the up stairs. It's chaos. :D Hopefully this weekend that will change, I'm planning on going to Home Depot for shelves.  I have managed to craft a number of cards recently and have a banner planned for this weekend. 

I made this Halloween card for ya: 

I don't know what it is about Halloween I just love decorating for it. Not that I've put up any decorations yet but it's on the agenda. There are 2 stamps used in this card. Lawn Fawn's Happy Haunting for the ghosts and everything else is a stamp I can't remember the name of. I can say I cut it apart. I'll have to make another card and take pic's of the stamp and write down the name for you.  

In personal news. I've lost 35 lbs.. a total of 26 inches! Very exciting. My run is a week from tomorrow and last week I ran 3 miles in 30 mins. :D Happy Days! 

Katie