More From CHA

Me again! I'm taking a break from painting and thought I would share some more pictures. Here's a few from the Eclectic Paperie dinner. I absolutely love Joy and Daisy! They are so incredibly sweet! It was awesome to meet them in person! Here's a picture of both of them....

My soul sister Carole Burrage was there! I was so excited to actually get to sit down and chat with her. I absolutely adore this girl! She is incredibly talented...but she is also just about the sweetest person ever! I just love her!

More sweeties! Lori Craig...LOVE her! ....and Emily Giovanni! Ah! So great to meet her this time around!

....and only THE BEST CAB DRIVER IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!

OMAR!!!!

Seriously! This guy was a hoot! We laughed the whole ride!

Awww....Angela, Brookie, Me, and Eryn....she is sooo sweet! :) I really LOVE these girls! They are the best and I am so truly blessed to be their friend!

Off to paint! Hope you enjoyed these. I will be back in a bit! :)

Post you soon!

The Rusty Pickle

More from CHA! :) I really enjoyed meeting the gang from the Rusty Pickle in Chicago and it was so great to see many of the same faces in California. They are such a fun, sweet group! I can't wait to be able to purchase their new lines! The paper and rub ons are fabulous! They had some amazing chipboard! Beautiful stuff!

Here are a few pictures of some of their goodies....

....more beautiful papers......

I LOVE the pink and black! One cool thing...which I apparently was so overcome I failed to photograph!....some of the chipboard is shaped and they have shaped dsp to fit it perfectly! How amazing is that!

Some of my favorite existing lines....

...Ahhhh......the fountain!.....Yummy....a place we stopped at everytime we passed! ...well, and that meant all the time! You can always find an excuse to walk by their booth!

....my new t-shirt...............

...seriously, one of the guys working in the booth let me take it home. How cute is this! LOVE it!

Ok...that's it for now. I am off to do a little more painting and then hopefully some more stamping. I will post you all soon! :)

More From CHA....Canvas Home Basics

More, more, more! I have so much still to share! Sorry for taking so long with all of this!

Canvas Home Basics. OMHeck! What a cool company! This company gives you all the tools to create beautiful home decor or craft projects. I think the canvas SCREAMS scrapbooking! I LOVE all the little doodads. Here's a picture of some of those doodads.....

Rope, clothespins in sooo many colors.....and MORE.....look at this one....

I love the clips! I LOVE the clothespins. They have the cutest magnetic boards. This I ordered! I cannot wait to work a little magic with that! Here they are on display....

.....and they have tools!

How cool is that! More beauty.....

Their paint is self leveling. Seriously! You can slap it on anything and you do NOT have to prep at all! Haaayy! How cool is that!

Wonderful stuff! Seriously, I LOVE this place! They partner with Mark Richards Crystal Elements....LOVE all of the new bling! The mosaics are my favorite! This I am soooo excited for! There was so much bling! I was truly in heaven!

Off to work on a few things and I will be back in a bit with more from CHA. I have so many pictures to share! Have a great one! :)

Simply Wooly

Well, there's actually nothing simple about this wool! ;)

First up, it's time to Stamp Simply. This weeks challenge is to make a 'Love' card. That's easy enough. You can check out all the deets at Sharon's blog. For this one I usesd Papertrey's My Puny Valentine. Take a peek.....

The paper is from Stampin Up. This is part of the new Textiles package. The card stock is all PTI...it's white and sweet blush. The ribbon is new and from Papertrey as well.

The flock???? Well, that's just about the cutest stuff I have ever seen! This is from Our Craft Lounge it's called Sparkly Fluff. This is a super new...and super secret blend of not only flock but glitter...glitter that DOESN'T settle to the bottom! Have you ever tried to mix glitter with flock? It just doesn't stay blended! Well the creative geniouses over at Our Craft Lounge have figured out a way to keep that from happening. How excited was I when I saw this! This should be available for purchase very soon...you know I will be stalking the site to pick it up in every color! I LOVE this stuff! We did a super cute make-n-take with it at their booth this weekend. Yeah...as soon as Cambria turned her back I grabbed some....hey...you gotta pay attention when I'm around! ;)

How cute is she! :) It was so awesome to see her! :) More to come from CHA later.

Now head over to the rest of the team to see what they did with this weeks challenge........ Julie, Janine, Tammy, Dee, Becky, AJ, and Deb. I'm off! I hope you all have a good one!

Post you soon! :)

More From CHA!

Ok...I really need to start posting some cards but what can I tell you!...I'm having a hard time getting back in the groove! Tonight I am working on another Great Swap Girl card....my Stampin Up stuff didn't arrive until the night before I left for CHA so I have had no time to work on this and it's due on Wednesday!

I'm taking a quick break from a card that is going no where fast to post a few more pictures....

On day one I saw Tim Holtz. Yup I asked if he would mind me taking a picture and then was so star struck that I took it of him doing his demo! Dork alert!

See the grin...he was totally laughing! He's so cute!

Here's another one of my favorite people. I absolutely love Joanne Basile. She is just the sweetest! How excited was I when she came up to the Unity booth! I was really looking forward to meeting her!

Isn't she a cutie!

What an exciting day this was! While I was walking around I saw Taylor VanBruggen! She could so be a model! She's super tall and BEAUTIFUL! I'm thinking that card making is just her side job!

Isn't she stunning! Talented, sweet and so pretty!

...and another super pretty and talented gal....Jen Balcer! I was completely star struck! I so love her! She is super talented and I love reading her blog.

I also met Sharon Harnist....

...this gal has mad skills! I so love all of her tutorials! Oh my goodness! All of these gals are the total package! Creative, sweet, beautiful! ...I am so star struck!

I had the great pleasure of having dinner with the Papertrey crew on Friday night. Can you believe it! Sitting at a table with all of these super talented gals! Ohmygoodness! It was an amazing time!

Ok...this one is a little blurry but I had to share the super cute flip FLOPs that Angela picked up for all of us....

How fun are these!

Here's the Unity gals with a couple of our new friends at dinner on Saturday night....

...another sort of blurry one but it's the best I have with the Diva herself! How exciting to meet her! Unity is coming out with a line of stamps for her and she was there doing the make and takes every day. What a sweet gal!

That's all I have for now. I am off to try and salvage this skunky card! ;) I hope you are all doing well and having a wonderful night! I will post you with something card/project related tomorrow...hopefully! ....and probably a few more pics!

Have a great night!

CHA Pictures Part Two...

Ok...my MIL is still visiting so I haven't had a chance to get any stamping done...do you know how hard that is! I was lucky enough to bring a few Unity goodies home with me and waiting to play with them is killing me! I thought I would share a few more pictures of the super sweet gals I met this weekend....

I truly feel so lucky to have been given the opportunity to attend CHA. I am so excited about everyone I met! I spent Friday totally stalking Sharon Johnson! You know I could not wait to meet her! Voila! Here she is at the SCS cupcake dinner....

How pretty is she! I so love her and I'm guessing at this point she realizes just how nuts I am! I think I almost knocked her over giving her a hug! ;)

...and since we are on the subject of the ever so fabulous Sharon! How about this little cutey!

Yup...that would be the ever talented Dee Jackson! So excited to meet her! I actually got to see Dee every day of CHA so I got to chat quite a bit with her. She is such a sweet gal. I adore her!

Ok...how about another one of the Unity team....

Check out those two Unity hotties in the background! The Unity guys were all the talk!

And how excited was I to meet the one and only Gina K! Oh my goodness! She's even prettier in person! ...and just the sweetest thing ever! LOVE her!

Ok...I think I might have actually liked the tiara! It's not every day that you can get away with wearing one of those! Hmmm....I think that it might complete the perfect ensemble for diaper duty. What do you think?

You know one of the people that I am completely in love with! She's one of the sweetest gals that I have had the pleasure of meeting since I started stamping. That would be Lori Craig. She's just beautiful and so sweet and she's even more beautiful and even sweeter in person! I love her!

Ok...one more for today....How excited was I when I saw Carolyn King....Cammie herself! Well, I could hardly contain my excitement! ...and then the one and only Carole Burrage is there! Oh my goodness! I was definitely a bit overwhelmed! I so adore both of these gals! Check this out....

Can you believe I took off the tiara for this one! Hey, how can you compete with these gals! Aren't they beautiful! I must confess to feeling totally like the soul sister of Caroles. We choose the same names...we like the same book....Yup...we're twins!

Well I guess I better go spend some time with the family. I hope you are all doing well. It is my sincere hope to get some stamping done tonight. I was lucky enough to come home with some new rubbah! Can you believe that is has sat on my desk all day untouched! It's a bit of a crime!

Post ya soon! :)

I'm Back! CHA, CHA, CHA! :)

Hey you guys! :) I'm back! Wowza what a fantaBULOUS! weekend! I'm so sorry I didn't post from CHA....I had a bit of technical difficulty.

...so much to share!

Since it's Sunday, how about we start with this weeks Page Plans card....er, um...layout? Yup, Chris and Lesli offered up a challenge to the team this week. We are having a bit of a swap. All of the card team members will play with the layout sketch and all of the layout team members will play with the card sketch.

How fun is this! Lesli created this weeks layout sketch. Here it is....

How fun is this sketch! LOVE it! I had the most perfect picture of Evan fishing for this page! I pulled out my Unity Right On Target for this one. Here's my page....

What a little cutie! Evan was only 4 in this picture. This is one of my favorites! He so loves to fish and was so proud when he caught this one. It was so exciting for him!

Be sure and check out the rest of the team. There are some amazing samples for this sketch!

Hmmm....how about a little cha, cha, CHA!

Oh my goodness! Talk about a fun weekend! I was a little late getting to Chicago so I was going to meet everyone at the booth. When I walked in I was sooo excited to see.....

Sherry Cheever and Jeanne Streiff! Oh my goodness! I seriously had just walked inside and there at the Spellbinders booth they stood! So excited! These gals have some MAD SKILLS! They are both amazingly talented. OH MY GOODNESS! Oh, wait, I said that already! ;)

Man! This was 'kind of a big deal'! heehee...see the shirt! LOVE the shirts Angela had made for us. 'I'm kind of a big deal...I'm with Unity Stamp company'! How stinkin cute is that!

Cha, cha, cha....

Oh my goodness! I make it back to the Unity booth...hey, that was a major miracle! This place was huge! ...and apparantly I cannot follow a map! Angela, Brooke, AJ...all there....all completely AMAZING!....SUPER SWEET! They are Fantabulous! What can I tell you! Here's one of all of us at the Unity booth...

Ok....the last one to share tonight.....So while wondering through the Cosmo Cricket booth guess who I meet! Oh my goodness! The one and only Nichole Heady! Holy heck batman! Can you even believe that! ...and she knew my name! OH MY GOODNESS! Ok...you know that made my decade!

Yup...the big goofy grin pretty much says it all! I was so excited to meet her. She's so super talented and one of the sweetest people around! She's alwyas so encouraging...I really cannot say enough about her! What a doll!

...and speaking of dolls....

Dawn McVey! Another sweetie! Dawn is so talented and just such a nice gal! Oh my goodness! I cannot believe this weekend!

I have sooo many more pictures to share. Unfortunately I had all of 3 hours of sleep last night and I can honestly say the adrenaline has worn off! I am about to fall over! I will post some more tomorrow! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that you have a fabulous night!

Take care! :)