Last of the CHA pictures!

Here are the last of my CHA pictures. Hope ya'll haven't been too bored with them.

Thanks to Tracy for sending me a picture of proof that we did get filmed while doing the make 'n take at the Helmar booth. (Thanks to Mark for taking the picture.)

MFT gals just hanging out in between snacking and dinner.

Carolyn & Carole

Carolyn, Michelle, Deborah & Laura

SCS Cupcake Reception

Kristen (MFT girl) & Jenn

Mom with 2 of the CHF gals, Lisa Silver and Julie Campbell

Susan, Sharon and Kurtis

Susan, Jerri Kay and Mom (DawnL)

(notice the little baby in the background that Lisa Johnson is holding? That is Katy. She was the sweetest thing there as I sat beside her doing Lisa's make 'n take! Her mom is Mandy of Limelight Papercrafts which I didn't know until I got home!)

Make 'n Take CHA pt2

I'm back with part two of the make 'n takes I did. So go grab another cup of coffee and sit back.

Make 'n Take that mom and I did. Loving these plastic see through paint cans. So many possibilities. And we even got a can opener to go with our cans.

A display in the Stampendous booth.

Taylor demoing at the JustRite booth. Can you guess what we got to eat after we were done with our card? a Cupcake!!

Cupcake card that we made at the JustRite booth.

Cupcake card open.

Of all the make 'n takes, the following was the funniest one. And no it didn't have anything to do with the Boss man having an yummy Aussie accent!! ;)

This is Tracy. We were in her last class of the day. She was in the Aussie booth of Helmar products(awesome stuff). Right before our class, she was interviewed and filmed by Making Memories magazine! The film crew even filmed the start of her class which of course we were in! How exciting is that?! And since we made Tracy look good for her segment she gave us a few of the products that we worked with. Thank you, Tracy!

Aussie Bush Tucker book using different adhesives from Helmar. We used Liquid Scrap Dots to adhere the bottle cap. (I actually did mine at home as the Scrap Dots take a little time to do dry and I didn't want to squish it in my bag at CHA.) 450 Stainless Adhesive on the burlap and the material circles.

Used Gemston glue to glue down the glass stone. Gemston glue dries CLEAR with no cloudy residue. Amazing, amazing stuff.

Pocket inside the booklet holding cards on Lemon Myrtle, Witjuti Grub and Honey Ant. The boss man sprayed V2 Vellum adhesive on the pictures and we just stuck them straight on to the cardstock. (of course we made him say something when he handed us the cards just to hear him talk!) The stuff was Awesome!! Gemstone glue was used to adhere the beads down.

Two tags in the "side pocket" of the booklet. One of the tags does use Vellum and you can't see the V2 Vellum adhesive at all!

More still to come as I have more pictures of the SCS cupcake reception and a few make 'n takes that I forgot I had.

Make 'n Takes from CHA pt1

Grab a cup of coffee (or whatever you feel like drinking) and take a seat as it may be a long read today. I have tons of pictures to show of the different make 'n takes that I did at CHA that I may have to break this up into two different posts! So are you ready?

Let's start with Provo Craft. Awesome, awesome, awesome make 'n takes. So awesome in fact that you had to wait almost an hour in line to do one. I managed to hit the lines when they were short so I usually waited only 30 mins. They had two different stations up and each day they were both doing something different.

I did this frame on Friday. Didn't finish it all as there was way too much to glue down so i stuffed it all in my bag and went onto another booth. You'll never guess where I finished it!*

I had to do this one on Saturday as it wouldn't be fair to go home to my son without a frame for him...and being CARS...well, you get the idea. This time I glued all the pieces together at the Provo Craft booth, just didn't put them on the frame as they were too wet still. I had to add in the road lines myself because they didn't get to that part. The lady said why but I was a little too far back in the line to hear why all the frames didn't get the lines.

You just never know who you are going to run into at CHA. Elmo was in the Provo Craft booth so I had to get a picture for my little one who loves Elmo. (this is a picture of the picture as they took it for you and put it in a little paper frame) She has been carrying around the picture since I got home saying "mommy, Elmo". Provo Craft also had drawings every hour on the hour for Circuts and cartridges etc... did I ever win?? NO!! :(

I managed to hit the Fiskar booth on Friday when the line was short for a pair of limited edition Li'L Davis Designs scissors! The tag has the signatures of the creator and I also got my picture taken with them. Unfortunately it isn't that good of a picture so you will not be seeing it unless I do a scrap page with the tag and picture. You never know.

Here is the make 'n take that Lisa Johnson was demoing. I got to use HER set to stamp on the bag. (and darn it, now i want it!!) We used DecoFabric markers by Marvy to color in the images and Puffy Velvet Fabric markers (when heated) to outline (or at least I did) the images. Notice I double stamped the one flower, wonder where I learned that? lol (Lisa's blog in case you were interested)

Got to play with one of the new dies coming out from Spellbinders. So fun and pretty. Can't wait for mom to get it so i can go make some more sunflowers!

Covered this little booklet. The interesting thing was they had us bind the book. How? Don't ask me, all i know is we had to set the binding edge on a magnetic strip that just held the book and in 90 seconds the pages were bind. And silly me forgot to get a business card and so far I can't find them on the web so if you went to their booth and have a web addy, please let me know. I also got a Princess jewelry box from them that i brought home for Allie to put together. Once she has it together, I will post that too.

This little frame was the second funnest booth! Why you may ask. Well Mike that was working that day had made a frame too right before mom and I got there. So we were giving him a hard time about the flowers etc. Than we only had to add on the flowers and Sue wanted to go to lunch so she left Mike in charge. So we had fun ribbing him but believe me, he could dish it back out. Lots of laughs at that booth.

*I finished the frame in the car on the way home! No, I didn't take any stamping supplies with me so how was i able to finish it? I used a great product that called Acid Free glue from Helmar that we had been given samples of. But all of that will be in Part 2 of the Make 'n Takes from CHA!

Home from CHA

We (mom and I) made it back from CHA (Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show) early, early, early this morning!! I should be tired but I think I'm still floating on all the talent I met and saw and got to do!

Nice rainy Saturday picture of the Convention Center from the parking garage before heading in for a fun filled day.

Carolyn King and I at the SCS Cupcake Reception. (That's Daven's shirt in the background!!)

Deborah Anton and I having our picture taken with Laura Canale jumping in to the picture in the background! She loved doing that and we wouldn't have known if Mom (the photographer) hadn't started to laugh! (SCS Cupcake Reception)

I had to get a picture with Jenn Balcer! She is such a sweetie. I had the pleasure of talking with her a few different times. (SCS Cupcake Reception)

Another one of my idols. I had to do the Marvy make 'n take once I realized it was Lisa Johnson!!! (will post a picture of the make 'n take tomorrow) Isn't she beautiful and thin!! She is such a sweetie in real life as she is on her blog.

Michelle Giraud (Flaxychick) is such a cutie! Between her and Laura, I was in stitches the entire time. (I'm sure Laura was probably trying to jump in this picture too but I think my photographer was quicker this time!) (SCS Cupcake Reception)

I got to met Nicole Heady on Thursday evening when I was chilling out with the MFT gals. We all had to get our picture taken with her.

Taylor is my cupcake buddy! (It's her fault that I have the 3-d cupcake pan as she had put it on her blog way back when.) I even got to do a make 'n take with Taylor that I will post tomorrow. Care to guess what it was? :) (SCS Cupcake Reception)

Sharon aka NoTimeToStamp is my best buddy!! lol K, so there is a story there... My mom (DawnL)had met her on Thursday and Sharon had no clue who my mom was. (snicker) When I met Sharon on Friday at CHA, she knew me right away without even reading my name tag!! Thanks for making my day, Sharon! (SCS Cupcake Reception)

Last but not least is the man behind the reason that all of us on SCS "know" one another but have never met unless you have been lucky enough to attend a convention, trade show, shoe box swap etc.... Da' Man.... DAVEN!! (SCS Cupcake Reception)

I still have more pictures from the SCS Cupcake Reception, CHA and of the Make 'n Takes that I will be posting in the following days.