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CHA Winter 2011: Product trends

Silhouettes, Cameos, butterflies, garden, vintage, floral, vintage typewriters and cameras, emphemera, hot air balloons, game pieces, playing cards, bird cages, tea cups, doilies, feathers, French inspired motifs, these are all trends that have a prescence in the scrapbooking industry.

crossword stamp, Hero Arts

typekey and typewriter stamp, Technique Tuesday

birdcage charm, Prima

feathers patterned paper, Sassafras Lass

butterflies, Little Yellow Bicycle

game patterned paper, Crate Paper

tea cup stamps, Inkadinkado

eiffel tower patterned paper, Graphic 45

vintage stamps, Hero Arts

doilies, Websters Pages

silhouettes, Jenni Bowlin Studios

cameo accents, Websters Pages

A few that I am excited about are below

Ever heard of a **cabachon? It is the up and coming style of embellishements, let me show you

Maya Road

Websters Pages

Donna Downey for Prima

Girls Paperie

1, 2, 3, yes numbers are making a splash over in the scrapbooking world. They have been ever so popular in home decor. Some favorites below

patterned paper, Pink Paislee

rub-ons, 7Gypsies

black stickers, SRM Press

patterned paper, Studio Calico

patterned paper, My Mind's Eye

fabric brads, Girls Paperie

patterned paper, Jenni Bowlin Studios

template, The Crafters Workshop

 **From Wikipedia, A cabochon or cabachon, from the Middle French caboche (head), is a gemstone which has been shaped and polished as opposed to faceted. The resulting form is usually a convex top with a flat bottom. Cutting en cabochon is usually applied to opaque gems, while facetting is usually applied to transparent stones.

Rosette style flowers

Have you seen these in your local scrapbook store lately? Maybe online?

Hmm, I am a big fan of purchasing pre-made embellisments and these lovelies fall into that category for sure.

and I haven't shared product on here for awhile,  I couldn't resist the urge.

Rosette style flowers

As a fan of colorful products the flowers from American Crafts are my favorite of the bunch.

These would take color nicely, Studio Calico.

These use crepe paper instead of regular paper

Making Memories

Girls Paperie

Shortcut to make your own (good luck finding this)

Tim Holtz Paper Rosette die

Sold on Etsy

Cute Halloween ones

Gorgeous glittered centers

Enjoy!

Layouts that go straight down the middle

While wandering the booths at CHA, I was drawn to 8.5 x 11 layouts with page elements centered, see below

I think all three of these were from the October Afternoon booth

(trust me it is hard to find minimal and simple layouts in manufacturers booths)

layout by Vivian Masket

layout by Vivian Masket

layout by??

Now do you seen what I mean, down the middle

anyway, I tried this look on a few layouts this week, and I quite like them

 

Journaling reads

around the photo

With four teenagers I am constantly reminded of things not do to because it will embarrass them, who knew? 

List of rules

Never wave in public

Avoid eye contact

Walk behind your child

Wear mom clothes

Refrain from hugging in public

Never talk about puberty

what rules did you give your parents as a teen? what rules do your teens give you?

I have the opportunity to spend the month guest blogging with the four talented gals over at the My Mind's Eye blog and these two layouts come from their blog, check it out.

(I posted some old layouts too. )

This layout is about my niece Chloe, and the journaling reads

This year Chloe wanted clothes for Christmas instead of toys

In this photo she is sporting the awesome gift I gave her, well my son Taylor helped pick it out.

Thanks for looking and stopping by.

Scrapbook Round Up

These are turning out to be some of of my favorite posts to compose, maybe I should do it monthly? Let me know if that is a good idea--please

Lots going on in the scrapbooking industry that I think you will be interested in, mostly good.

Let's start with product stuff first

Welcome to the scrapbooking industry Carolyn Gavin- you may not recognize the name, but you will recognize her work. She designs the ecojot notebooks and now she has a product line with K and Company, and it is very bold and happy. A few of my favorite are below. 2peas has it for sale

These border punches from EK Success are innovative and easy to use.

It seems that I cannot keep these in my scrapbook stash, these simple shaped journaling cardstock stickers are so versatile to use on any type of scrapbook project. Great product Adorn It!

Scrapbook subscription kits seem to be going strong still, according to the awesome Scrapclub website, Paisleys and polkadots  is the newest kit club and one of the projects are featured in the image below, and it is quite fresh and cute.

For fun project ideas using the Glitz Halloween Hallow line, visit their blog. 

Bo Bunny has instructions for this cute altered project below.

Sadly Scenic Route is closing. I hope the best for Sarah Milne and her family. For those of you fans of Scenic Route, they are selling many of their products on their website at huge discounts.

Lain Ehmann is running her LOAD challenge for the month of October, check it out!!

cute Elizabeth Kartchner is teaching an online class that encourages you to journal and photograph you- looks fun. 

Paper Crafts magazine is running the World Card Making day this Saturday, read about it here and here

Scrapbookers that are inspiring me lately are these two ladies-

Jody Wenke and 2peas dianaj1012

a few layouts from these two talented ladies

from Jody

(love her creative titles)

from Diana

enjoy!

CHA-S eye candy displays

Wow- I am late in posting today's treat, lots going on, all good.

I am thrilled to see display items being offered and if you know of any new ones, let me know!

Cropper Hopper has a line called the 'tree of life' very cool vertical display, can't wait to get a hold of one.

I can always count on 7Gypsies for pure coolness and I think their new printer's tray will create a craze just like their spinner did.

more to come tomorrow

CHA-S09 eye candy pattern paper

I am drawn to fresh and happy colors with fun designs. I am noticing how many lines are including clouds and rainbows. A few I am looking forward to using are below

Crate Paper, Season

Cosmo Cricket, Earth Love

My Little Shoebox, Sky's the Limit

Bitty scale
remember when everything was so jumbo-
well I am appreciating the manufacturers who are offering pp in smaller scale

petite flowersl from lily bee's new vintage poppy line

 

happy pears from Basic Grey's new Nook and pantry line

and I love the colors and the petite scaled butterflies in Flutter Flight,  from Adorn it,

CHA-S09 eye candy letters

Well I am not going to CHA-S09 this year and it is the first trade show I will miss in a long, very long time. This does not prevent me from looking at all the awesome sneaks however, and trust me, we still have some awesome new products to look forward to!

Each day this week I am going to share some fun sneaks that focus on a different category, today is letters.

I have been working on a project that requires tons of layouts and I have been exhausting my supply of letters, so I am eager to get my hand on these new ones below

I love American Crafts thickers, and cannot wait to get my hands on these

I have been drawn to Websters Pages products lately, and these letter stickers are no exceptions.

Who doesn't love Cosmo Cricket? They have some sweet new releases, one that I like is Earth Love.

 

and a girl can never have too many glitter letters, thanks Pink Paislee!

and I can always count on Maya Road to come out with some awesome chipboard

For more sneak's come back tomorrow and check out these websites.

Scrapbook Update

Lifetime Moments

enjoy!

scrapbook happenings

Wondering what is going on these days within the scrapbooking industry-

Jenni Bowlin has a new retail website called JBSMercantile

Basic Grey has two new releases, my favorite is the Junebug line

and my girl Margie has a new kit club starting today called thegirlsloft

and digital Diva Renee Pearson has a new website where she teaches digital classes, go Renee!!

 

Speaking of classes, Lisa Day, has a new class at Big Picture Scrapbooking that starts this month, looks fun to me!

Stop it right now!

I love love love scrapbooking products and am so blown away by what our amazing manufacturers create for us to use.

Love this new line by Cosmo Cricket and just had to share!!

Early Bird

project by Lisa Falduto

etsy scrapbook supply sellers

I have enjoyed highlighting new companies and now I want to share some etsy sellers
this post focuses on the ones that create and produce their own scrapbooking products. (coming up other sellers)
Who knows, you might find a new favorite company.

Ormolu has tags and more, my favorites are the cute ticket strips below

 

The bright colors and fun images call to me from this bubblyschnooks shop

jotandtitle are a well known etsy seller of journaling cards, calendar tags, and much much more

Paperpixie also sells journaling cards, tags, and my favorite...

these bold alphabet tags

I must make a layout using these word bubbles from thejellybeanjoint

This shop, MariekeVDesigns has digital files for use in digital scrapbooking or you can print your own paper, and yes I am still obsessed with Matraohska dolls :)

Gather your staples from Scrapbits. They have tags, journal cards, and more

I recently purchased some goodies from Elle's studio. They also have an assortment of journaling products, but it looks like they are also creating and selling stickers.

As always, Enjoy!