Day 3 From CHA, Wacky Wednesday & Bag Lady Bonus Days

Hello,

Today was a long day filled with lots of orders.  We have lots of great things happening at the store this week like Wacky Wednesday Cards, Jen Starr visiting


When I was leaving the hotel this morning, I could not get Flat Lisa out of bed.  She said she had worked so hard the 3 days that she wanted a spa day.   Yes, she sleeps with a pillow over her head.  I was not trying to smoother her. Really...

She got her hair done and her nails. 

I can't stand it when she eats in bed.  At least, she has her own bed to mess up. 

At some pint today, she must have put aside the chocolate because she made this fun explosion box that will be an upcoming class.

So I had to shop by myself.  Luckily???? I ran into Sandy Boyd who
twisted my arm and made me buy lots of KaiserCraft goodies.  Think lots of great stuff to alter.

Ok, maybe the man candy helped a bit too...

Art Impressions has some adorable gift card holder stamps that I can't wait to order.  I'm bringing back the catalog so you can do preorders.

Speaking of Man Candy,  Here is KC again.  I may have ordered quite a bit of My Mind's Eye and it will be   to the store by the begining of August.

After a long day I treated myself to some real Chicago deep dish pizza.

Wacky Wednesday Cards

Lisa Halstead created this fun Paper Smooches card for you this week. 

 New Northwoods Rubber Stamps Halloween Board.

 New Tattered Angels Sprays.  These are all Limited Edition created by Jen Starr who is visiting us on Thursday.

 Here is a pretty preview of a future class by Vanessa.  We will have the date figured out by early next week.

Jen Starr is coming back to Photo Scraps for 2 New Classes on Thursday July 19th.

We had 3 great classes filled with technique with Jen last fall and her new classes sound like lots of fun. 

Blog: http://www.jenstarr.typepad.com/

Facebook: Jen Zdanis Starr

Jen Starr is a fully Certified and Ranger Recognized Instructor. She was the 2007-2008 Design Team Coordinator for Ranger Industries and continues to teach and do private design work for them. She enjoys being a Golden Embassador for Tattered Angels, an Endorsed Instructor for Prima and was the Lead Creative Designer for Canvas Concepts. More recently she has become certified with Ten Seconds Studio and has added some metal work to her inky class line-up! Jen has designed several signature product lines and her projects have been featured in many publications in the US and Europe including the "Ink Essentials" book.

Thursday July 19th 11-2 PM

Life is Beautiful Gate Book $45 (3 hours)

In this class you will learn some creative mixed media techniques to help make your projects as beautiful as your life! We'll be working with die cut elements from both Tim Holtz and Memory Box, Distress Inks (including the limited edition colors), Gesso, Crafter's Workshop Templates from the fabulous Dyan Reavely and some of my favorite Glimmer Mist colors in this year's Spring/Summer Limited editions that I designed for Tattered Angels...plus many more fun things will be incorporated throughout the book. This is an 8x9" chipboard gate book with flipping and folding interactive pages inside...SO much fun!!

**Please bring to class a heat gun if you have one, strong adhesive such as Glossy Accents or red tape, scissors, scoring tool for folds,

**Please NOTE: title is not included so you will be able to make it any theme you want.

Thursday July 19th 4-7 PM

Memories of the Beach Canvas flip book $49 (3 hours)

Photos, shells, sand and memories of a special beach excursion, cruise, island getaway or just some summer fun are the makings for a special keepsake! In this very mixed media canvas book you will learn some fun techniques that you will be able to carry on in to future projects as well. We will be playing with paint mediums, mists, glazes, modeling paste, inks, stamps, screens, UTEE and much more during class. The 8 inch square canvases will be "hinged" using a unique binding technique. The inside will utilize the negative space with dimensional elements

hidden behind additional chipboard panels and pages that will flip out...this is one not to miss!!

**please bring to class a small hammer and any special shells or sand you may want to incorporate (I will have some small shells in class as well)

Sunday July 22nd 1-3 PM

Copic Texture with Lisa Hetrick $24

Sunday July 22nd 3-5 PM $24

Tuesday July 24th 1-3 PM

Ruler Wreath with Tracy

Join Tracy for this eclectic wreath filled with Maya Road goodies. You will be playing with Distress Stains while making your own flowers. You can choose a different color scheme for your flowers and butterflies. Please bring a Hot Glue gun and scissors. $27









Wednesday July 25th 11-1 PM

Technique Filled Shadow Box with Helen

One of our talented customers has created a shadowbox filled with 6 great techniques. Helen will teach you how to use wax over your images to get an antique look, how to use Glassine paper, Copic color, Pencil color Elzabeth Crafts Glitter and Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel tiles. $29 Supply list coming soon.





Sunday July 28th 12:30 -4:30

My Mind's Eye Be Amazing Chipboard Album with Tracy

Join Tracy for this mini album packed with lots of cool details. This will be a long class but you can take a break whenever you need to. This class is available as a kit with complete written instructions. Please bring scissors, tape runner, liquid adhesive like Fabri-Tac, paper trimmer, lots of pop-dots, brown chalk ink, sand paper, exacto knife. $45










Tuesday July 31st 6-8 PM
Gina's Camera Travel Album
When Gina, saw this paper line and album she was so inspired to make this special album. Please bring a strong tape adhesive, liquid glue like fabric-tac, scissors, sandpaper and black chalk ink if you want to ink your edges. $29

Thursday August 2nd 6-8 PM

Avocado Arts with Lisa Hetrick $29

Day 2 with Flat Lisa at CHA

Hi Everyone,

Tracy was tired tonight so I am taking over the blog and email.  I had a busy day full of classes.  Lots of playing with new products.  I started the day learning about a new Alcohol ink marker.  It has similarities to Copic but is a lot less expensive.  Good thing I was there to do the coloring since Tracy was so tired she couldn't color inside the lines.

Tracy thought that she painted herself a pretty t-shirt but she doesn't know that I am wearing this dress as soon as she is not looking.

Here I am with famous crafter and TV hostess Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  She taught me things that I need to know when I start doing video tutorials.

It was nice to see Stacy from Quick Quotes.  They have such a nice family business and she remembered me from the show I went to in March.

Sandy Boyd one of our great sales reps invited us to a fun Alice in Wonderland themed party by Moxxie.

While Tracy was busy ordering, I visited my new friends Carol and Cari. 

This piece looks like it was made for me.

The Mad Hatter looked a bit  scary but she offered me dessert.  Maybe if I eat it I will grow taller, just like Alice in Wonderland.

I had to be sure the Queen of Hearts was in a good mood so she wouldn't take off my head.

I made it through another busy day and I can't wait to get on the show floor tomorrow to see all the new products and cool samples. 

Hello from Chicago

Flat Lisa and I made it to Chicago and had a crazy busy day getting catalogs and samples.  We saw about 40 vendor presentations today.  Lots of amaazing products and it is so hard to choose.

Our first stop was to say hi to KC, our favorite My Mind's Eye rep.  Flat Lisa tried to ditch me for the photo.

I may have ordered  a bit of the new Echo Park.  Flat Lisa was too busy chatting with Madison to help me with the lines.  She is such a flirt.

Wendy Vecchi created some amazing new embellishments that you are sure to love.

Flat Lisa pretended she was at a masquerade ball instead of a craft convention.

I was so excited to find this new stamp and die vendor, Jillian Vance Design.  She is 13 and started her own company with the help of her parents.  She is the designer and came up with an amazing die that I can't wait to demo.

Flat Lisa had fun playing with the new pick'n'place sticky pencil.  You can use it like the Quik stick that we can newer get in stock. 

She had a great time with the Kool Tak ladies but now she is trying to mimic their UK accents.  If she calls me poppet one more time, I may have to leave her in the room tomorrow.

Don't Forget Demo Day Saturday and Demo Day Rewind Sunday

Hi Everyone,

I'm getting ready to go to Chicago for the big CHA retailer show. There are so many things I want to look at and order. I'll be sending you updates starting on Sunday night. Who knows "someone" may have stowed away in my suitcase.

New Fancy Pants.

New FabScraps summer papers.

New Just Rite Stamps including some Christmas stamps for the early bird card makers.

There is some great inspiration in this new idea book.