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Judikins at CHA!

I think this might be my *last"* posting about CHA ....  but wanted to share with you a few more moments.  One of the highlights was seeing Judi, from Judikins, demonstrate a few of her favorite products.  In the pics below - you'll see her demonstrate the mica gloss inks.  I'm a huge fan of her staz-on cleaner, Diamond Glaze and the newer DG3 - she also shared with me a little insight on the creation of DG3 and how it differs from the original diamond glaze.   I do have pics to share of my projects with her latest product - Gel du Soleil, a one part resin that is UV reactive. 

In the meantime .... here's a product I hadn't seen before and her samples were eye-popping!   The mica in them gives INCREDIBLE depth and glimmer to your projects.

She used both glossy white and glossy black papers and dropped on 2-3 different colors of the mica inks.  In the next steps, she brayered the color - then went back over with a stamp (not inked) and removed the mica gloss ink by stamping.    Or let them dry after brayer-ing and then stamp/emboss over top!

 

The white splotches on these next ones are the light reflecting on the black glossy cardstock:

The samples were amazing .... here's a few of her finished projects (these are from the Judikins booth) - I haven't yet had the time to play with the ones I bought!

(those are gold micro beads on the one in the right)

 

Use the mica inks on glossy cardstock like an ink pad - stamp your stamp into them while wet - then stamp onto your blank cardstock for amazing effects!

 

 

my favorite CHA purchase?

Out of everything I bought ???? stamps, ink, buttons????  Jewelry supplies????

Its probably this AMM Vituri camera bag/wristlet I bought!  It holds my Canon and extra batteries, beautifully!  Plus it even looks like a PURSE :-) so I can use it for my cash, credit cards, etc.  Best part??? It was only $5.00 (actually 4.99!)  - shut up, its true!!!

Look how wonderful it is!  I bought a slightly bigger bag in RED :-) that slings over my shoulder for my digital DVD camcorder, it was less than $10 (I think it was 8.99).  Its actually red - in this pic it looks a bit more pinkish than what it actually is.  It comes with a super comfy strap .... although I'm thinking of browsing Etsy for camera strap cover. 

Lagniappe! {a little something unexpected}

Lagniappe :  a wonderful cajun word that means a little something extra that was unexpected.

My lagniappe moment from CHA:  meeting Sara of Sara's Creative Mind at CHA in person!

PS Thanks to Judy for snapping pics "on demand" :-)

more from CHA

I've been a bit handi-capped since coming home from CHA to find my home PC died.   I'm not fully back up and running *yet* but hopefully soon! 

I did want to share the card that was the make n' take from Harmonie , they're a Canadian company and their project featured these great tropical papers in just the juiciest colors! C'est bon!  This sheet is double sided and is called Sous les Cocotiers (there are five other matching pieces in this collection entitled Iles du Pacifique PLUS ribbon, flowers, inks, clear acrylic albums and buttons! The sparkly thing is made from their two sided sticky clear stickers - these coordinate perfectly with the paper.  In the clear, one side sticks to your project - the other side can be coatedwith matching glitter, pearlex, microbeads, etc.  These stickers also come in silver or gold sheets AND there is even several matching stamps.

The PaperTrey Ink booth seemed to have every single CHA participant crammed into it :-) I kid you not!  But being a part of their "first ever" retail experience was just incredible!   I got to see (and meet) the PTI design team AND the wonderful PTI owners, Nicole, Jane and Julie.

Here's some pics from the make n' take (which I did not do, due to the sheer enormity of people waiting!  I
 really wanted to make sure those that had never experienced PTI got to try it).

And one pic of me and Dawn McVey!  Dawn - next time I'm stealing you away and taking you out to eat to the greek restaurant!  PS Dawn has all kinds of great CHA / PTI pics on her blog, go check 'em out!

CHA - Claudine Hellmuth make n' take project

Here's the make and take that the amazingly creative Claudine Hellmuth was demonstrating at the Ranger booth during CHA! One of the most wonderful things about going to these shows is gettting hands on with products AND meeting the artists themselves who design these products.   

We used the canvas sticky back sheets (these were my first time with these and they were very cool!), next we painted with the glossy acrylic paint from the CH Studio line, used a heat gun to dry it quick but you could let it air dry.  Next, stamp wtih Ranger Watermark pad and then wash a top coat of paint ( we used white with lots of water, but black works or choose a cooordinating color for subtel effects!) over the top and the stamped image "magically" appears. 

These went into the Ranger frames with memory glass, the sticky back paper and acrylic paint were Claudine Hellmuth Studio/Ranger products.  <-----click to go check these products out or look for them at your local scrap/craft store!   The paint colors can be mixed to create many tertiary colors and the paint has a slight glossy finish to it - with super brilliant pigments (this was not your *average* acrylic paint!).

The Ranger Watermark pad and the canvas sticky back sheets are on my "must have" list! 

ETA:  the wonderfully talented Claudine just popped in to let me know I needed to modify my instructions and I have done so :-) make sure you don't use a heat gun to dry the stamped image.  The watermark stamped iimage will remain "wet" when you add the wash the next color layer over it. 

(that's Claudine on the right).

OMW ~ its MT!

Uggghhhh ..... my home computer died while I was gone at CHA - so I'm out shopping for a new one (and my checking account is cringing!).

Here's something "new to me" that I found at the CHA supershow.  Its decorative colored masking tape - and it came in a variety of colors and patterns, it has this almost translucent quality and looks more like vellum when its applied {trust me on this, it doesn't look like masking tape!}.  While I'm sure it has lots of uses - look how cool it is on cards!   Its made by a Japanese company and I when I googled today - it appears to have been largely unavailable in the US until now.   According to the website - its Washi paper tape - and you can see all the colors for yourself by clicking on the above link. 

These are some photos I took at the CHA show - the card sample is their creation. 

random thoughts from CHA SUMMER!

I had a wonderful time at the CHA SUMMER trade show!   I'll try to condense it all down and share bits and pieces with you!  PS I haven't edited my pic .... I wanted to try to get these on here :-)

A BIG THANKS to Tab from 7 Kids College Fund  who hooked me up with my pass into the vendor only trade show.  7 Kids has a great selection of new CHA items as well as Tim Holtz/Ranger, Spellbinders, Core d'nations cardstock and more!    I am also attending the two day consumer show and can't wait to do more great make n' takes, meet up with my pals and SHOP!

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I think I walked 20 miles :-) sure wish I had worn my pedometer!  For those of you not familiar with the convention center, parking is on the back side.... then you walk and walk and walk just to get into the convention center/exhibit area - where you walk and walk and walk some more!

and OMW! I met soooo many SCSers :-) Jeanne Streiff {inky paws}, Kittie747,  SherryLC05, AJ Otto, Maren Benedict, Jimmi Mayo, and all the Unity girls (with their stinkin cute shirts!),  Bad Sherry, and Texas Grammy.  I didn't get a chance to meet up {yet} with Jenn Balcer and Dawn McVey, but will later this week.  

Here's Jeanne demonstrating Copics!

 
I was bummed that the conv. center blocks wireless, so my blackberry photo taking/typepad/twitter/facebook updates were all blocked! 
 
Carol Duval was chit chatting in the lobby when I walked in and Tim Holtz was incredible! Here's Tim:

 
Here were some of my absolute favs:
 
Make and Takes:  Claudine Hellmuth for Ranger (we made these amazing pendants, I promise to take a pic and share with you!  Claudine is on the right there in the pic) and Harmonie (a french canadian scrapbook company).  

 I thought I took pics at Harmonie -   <---you can click to see their website! but I only took one picture (I must have gotten distracted!)

 
Fav Give Aways:  new Jack O'Lantern from Tattered Angels, buttons from Blumenthal, wool roving from Clover (for felting). 

Here are some of the gorgeous samples at the Tattered Angels booth:

 
New Products:  Rock Candy from Tim Holtz/Ranger (like crackle accents, but thinner .... great for paper!),  new Halloween stuff from Crafty Secrets, Cosmo Cricket!  Watch for a new bingo card stamp from Unity and beautiful papers from Robin's Nest. 

 

  

Check out some of the cosmo cricket eye-candy!

 
My predictions:  You'll be seeing Bingo themed stuff everywhere, Halloween this year will be better than ever (although I'm prejudiced ~ halloween is my birthday!) and colors for fall will be: bronze, purples and buttons will be BIG! 

(Halloween fun from Crafty Secrets!)

(Button pendants - these were make and takes from Blumenthal!)

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at the zutter/bind it all make & take - these sweet little books

(click on the pics for bigger versions, sorry for the small ones - I can't seem to make them post larger when I'm sending typepad posts from my blackberry).