CHA Winter 2013 | Amy Tangerine

Amy Tangerine’s colorful new “Yes, Please” release is sure to live up to its name. Here’s a few highlights:

There are plenty of Thickers in a rainbow of hues, Slick Writers in colors that coordinate with the line, and two of Amy’s personal favorite new items – a stitching kit and calendar stamp.

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CHA Summer 2012 | Scrapbook Update Top Ten Hot Picks!

Some shows there’s so much buzz about specific products that the Hot Picks practically write themselves. This show, however, the standouts were more difficult to pick out from a solid field of offerings at a quiet show in Chicago. But after much consideration, and some difficult decisions about some eliminations to get the list to only ten, here’s the Scrapbook Update Top Ten Hot Picks List for CHA Summer 2012:

Martha Stewart Adhesive Silk Screens by Plaid

I knew as soon as I saw (and tried) this product that it would be a hot pick! These silkscreens are an extension of Plaid’s fabulous line of Martha Stewart acrylic paints and adhesive stencils – and the silkscreens really impress.

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Scenes from CHA Summer 2012

For those of you who couldn’t be there (or even if you were), I thought I’d share some of the flavor of the CHA Summer 2012 show to give a taste of what it was like to be in Rosemont this year.

The show floor looked deceptively calm as it waited for the flood of attendees to invade it on Tuesday morning:

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CHA Summer 2012: Celebrity Spotting

Since it was my first CHA show, I was excited to get the chance to meet some of my favorite celebrity scrapbookers in person.

The first booth I stopped at was the display for American Crafts’ Amy Tangerine line, and Amy Tan graciously agreed to pose with her awesome wall art.

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Paperclipping Roundtable #117: Take Your Scrapbooking To The Beach

Shimelle Laine and Amy Tan joined us this week to talk taking our memory keeping out into the summer sunshine!

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