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Noteworthy | 11.11.11

November 11, 2011 By May Flaum 4 Comments

It’s 11-11-11 and what a week it’s been! With less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, and the holiday season getting into full swing, it’s been wonderfully busy and crafty here in my home. Online there’s still plenty of crafting excitement, sales, and more to be had in 2011 – check out this week’s Noteworthy stories:

‘Tis the season for sales, and www.designerdigitals.com is having their amazing quarterly sale - all of their digital scrapbooking products are 30% off now through November 16th at 3am EST. Many digital and hybrid scrapbookers (myself included!) look forward to this quarterly sale and use it to stock up. With a wide variety of styles and products from beautiful brushes by Katie Pertiet to word art from Ali Edwards and page templates by Cathy Zielske, there’s something for everyone. Even if you’re not into digital scrapbooking, there are many products that can be printed out and utilized beautifully on paper projects as well.

Stacy Julian’s Photo Freedom episode on My Craft Channel was especially inspiring this week. Focused on telling your stories, and not scrapbooking to “catch up”, Stacy inspires with numerous stories and layouts of her own. All previous epsiodes of her show on My Craft Channel can be viewed here. [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cocoa Daisy, Designer Digitals, Jenni Bowlin, Jennifer McGuire, Maya Road, Shimelle Laine, Stacy Julian, Studio Calico

CHA Summer 2011 | KaiserCraft, Nikki Sivils, and Maya Road

August 2, 2011 By Melissa Stinson 13 Comments

Are you starting to get an idea of just how huge the CHA show floor is?! The summer show is traditionally much smaller than winter, and the Scrapbook Update team still managed to visit enough booths and take enough photos to keep bringing you new goodies for more than a week! Today we’re continuing our booth tours with visits to see what KaiserCraft, Nikki Sivils, and Maya Road have in store for this release.

Australian company KaiserCraft debuted several new lines at the show. As a member of the sales staff said while we were in the booth, their new “13th Hour” collection doesn’t “scream Halloween,” but with its deep purples and golden oranges it could be used for both Halloween or general Fall photos alike.

In contrast, KaiserCraft’s new “Bonjour” line is filled with soft pastels and sports a Parisian garden theme.

The “Miss Nelly” line is filled with bright floral prints in punchy colors.

KaiserCraft is another company that elected to release two Christmas lines this year. “December 25th” is their more traditional offering and is filled with vintage-style holiday imagery.

“Silly Season” (I absolutely love that name) is the brighter of the two Christmas lines and features snappy pinks, reds, and greens.

Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker unveiled five new collections featuring Nikki’s darling illustrations. “School is Cool” is Nikki’s back-to-school line, and it contains all the fun primary colors associated with the season.

“My Little Monster” has some of the cutest little scary guys you could ever hope to meet! It’s great for everyday photos and could be used for Halloween, as well.

How cute are these corduroy brads and burlap buttons? I just love embellishments like these that are so versatile.

“Gingerbread Lane,” with its sweet blue and pink color palette and small army of gingerbread men, is Nikki Sivils’ Christmas release.

Nikki has partnered with Unity Stamps to produce coordinating rubber stamps for many of her lines.

“Get Well Soon” was the most popular item in Nikki’s booth this CHA. It was the only “get well” themed release that I spotted at the show and fills a niche that’s quite empty in the industry right now.

Nikki Sivils’ last release, “You’re a Hoot,” features a family of adorable owls.

Maya Road, known for innovative embellishments and chipboard products, had a strong offering at the CHA Summer 2011 show. Those little chipboard banner ribbons (called “Wavy Layerable Banners”) were on my pre-show picks list, and a member of the booth staff told me that “Home Tweet Home” and “When Skies Are Grey” were popular items, as well.

Maya Road introduced several new chipboard albums at this show including “Film Strip”, “Wellies Boot”, “Soar” (the butterfly), and a new tab book.

Wood embellishments are a hot item at this CHA show, and Maya Road debuted several new items in this category including wood doilies, snowflakes, and spools.

They also introduced two new sizes of bottle caps and several new shades of Maya Mists.

May Road’s new trims are simply spectacular – so frilly and lush!

Maya Road made several additions to their kraft line, as well. Clocks, mini tags, mini tickets, snowflakes, and a 2012 calendar set are all new with this release.

Transparent mini tickets, snowflakes, and ledgers are also new for Summer 2011.

Maya Road also debuted several new styles of their popular clear stamps.

And of course, there are new canvas embellishments and albums as well – one of the hottest items in the booth according to their sales staff!

Maya Road’s design team did a spectacular job with all the booth samples, so we’ll round out this portion of our CHA tour with a closer look at some of them.

Stay tuned to Scrapbook Update – we have more CHA Summer 2011 booth coverage yet to come!

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Filed Under: CHA, News Tagged With: CHA Summer 2011, KaiserCraft, Maya Road, Nikki Sivils

Paperclipping Roundtable #21: The Sum Of Our Stories

May 28, 2010 By Nancy Nally Leave a Comment

Paperclipping Roundtable #21 with me and Jessica Sprague, Ana Cabrera, Noell Hyman, and Izzy Hyman is now available for listening! This week we chatted a lot about scrapbooking as storytelling.

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Filed Under: Roundtable Tagged With: American Crafts, Ana Cabrera, Eco Green Crafts, iPhone, Jessica Sprague, Maya Road

Top Ten Product Trends At CHA Winter 2010: Part 1

February 2, 2010 By Nancy Nally 10 Comments

At every trade show, trends emerge about what kinds of products manufacturers are introducing. Scrapbook Update has identified the top ten trends in new products that showed up at CHA Winter 2010 in Anaheim, and we’re going to take a closer look at them in a two-part series.

(These trends shouldn’t be confused with design trends, which will be addressed in another article. This article just deals with what types of products are being introduced, not what style they are.)

So, in no particular order…here’s the first five of the top ten product trends from CHA Winter 2010:

1. Banners

This trend is actually a product and a design trend. Banners were everywhere at CHA Winter. They were for sale as products, and handmade ones were used as booth displays to show off new products. But here, we’re only concerned about the products. There were canvas banners, banner board books, banner stickers & paper, and banner stamps:

Clockwise from top left: Canvas Home Basics, Canvas Home Basics, October Afternoon, Maya Road, Webster’s Pages, October Afternoon.

2. Decorative Tape

Tape has been around for awhile in a limited sense – I personally own a huge collection of the Heidi Swapp and Making Memories designs and love using them on pages and cards – but now tape is popping up everywhere. There was even a new exhibitor at CHA Winter called Love My Tapes that sells nothing but tape.

Tape is appealing for several reasons to both buyers and sellers. It can sell at an affordable price point for a large quantity. It also has use to a wide range of crafters, from scrapbookers, to cardmakers and beyond.

Clockwise from top left: Love My Tapes, Pink Paislee, Pink Paislee, 7 Gypsies, Tim Holtz idea-ology, Making Memories.

3. Felt

Felt has been around for awhile as well but it is becoming increasingly commonplace. The retro craze has made it especially popular. It’s being used for a wide range of sticker-type embellishments, as well as by companies like Queen & Co. for ribbon-style borders.

Clockwise from top left: Prima, Making Memories, Dear Lizzy by American Crafts, BasicGrey, Kaisercraft, Queen & Co.

4. Artist Trading Cards

ATC’s have been on the fringe of the paper crafts industry for awhile but lately they’ve been growing in importance as companies like 7 Gypsies have been releasing products aimed squarely at that activity, and stampers and scrapbookers look for more things to do with their supplies.

At the CHA Craft Supershow in Anaheim, one booth was doing brisk business in selling ATC card blanks from specialty papers by Strathmore. At the trade show, companies as diverse as Tim Holtz and Making Memories both introduced ATC supplies. Many stamp designs were being sold that were obviously influenced by the ATC aesthetic, which is infiltrating mainstream scrapbooking.

The bottom example here is of the most importance in illustrating this trend. It is of the Shabby Chic version of the new Tim Holtz idea-ology paper pads. It includes pages that are 12×12 as well as pages that are designed to be cut into smaller sizes. There’s some 6×6, some tiny squares, and then some pages that are a combination of ATC’s and borders. This is a big development in the market, selling a product that is designed assuming that most buyers are interested at least somewhat in ATC’s as well as more traditional scrapbooking and card making.

5. Unmounted Rubber Stamps

The use of acrylic stamps has been exploding in the scrapbooking industry. There are several reasons for the growth of unmounted rubber: Concern about the design limitations of clear stamps, a desire to attract hardcore rubber enthusiasts as customers, or the need to compete with the price of clear stamps.

Clockwise from top left: Eco Green Crafts, Hero Arts, Stampendous, Lizzie Anne Designs, Stamper’s Anonymous, Unity Stamps.

Stay tuned for part two, coming soon!

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Filed Under: CHA Tagged With: 7 Gypsies, American Crafts, BasicGrey, Canvas Corp, CHA Winter 2010, Dear Lizzy, Eco Green Crafts, Hero Arts, KaiserCraft, Lizzie Anne Designs, Love My Tapes, Making Memories, Maya Road, October Afternoon, Pink Paislee, Prima, Queen & Co, Stampendous, Stampers Anonymous, Tim Holtz, Unity Stamp Co, Webster's Pages

May’s CHA Favorites: Ribbons & Trims

January 30, 2010 By May Flaum 3 Comments

Perhaps it’s a bit self indulgent, but I really feel like I need to devote a whole picks post to ribbons and trim. From twill to lace, printed designs to pleated – and everywhere in between – ribbons and trims were everywhere on the show floor. Here are my picks from CHA-winter:

Everyone was talking about Pink Paislee’s pleated ribbon. I am definitely seeing great possibilities with this unique ribbon product, but I’m even more excited about the Artisan tapes. The patterns are great and I love the feel of them.

Making Memories released a travel line, and I especially love the airplane trim.

Tissue tape. That’s right, Tim Holtz has come up with a tape that’s super sturdy but is made from tissue so it’s partially translucent too. Each roll has 16 yards and there are several different styles. Imagine the inking, layering, painting, and other possibilities!

Webster’s Pages booth was filled with noteworthy trims, beautiful papers, and trinkets. I loved every item in the booth. They’ve really outdone themselves with this release and I’m going to share two examples – their trim card and new fabric ribbon. They also have amazing bulk trims for stores to purchase.

The fabric ribbon from Webster’s Pages is very lightweight and thin but sturdy. I love how intricate the designs are on it.

JIllibean Soup has the cutest little packages of trim. I love all of the colors and designs and how well they will match up to their collections.

My Minds Eye released a collection called Lush and the jewels, brads, and of course ribbons are great accessories not just for this line but others as well. The single color ribbon cards will be very useful.

American Crafts released so many must-haves, and as usual they really hit the mark with their ribbons from all of the lines. The ribbons below coordinate with the “I Do” line. The “Botanique” and “Dear Lizzy” lines have exquisite offerings as well.

Wouldn’t it be fun if somebody took crepe paper and added printed designs? Tattered Angels and Heidi Swapp did just that in their latest offering with these mist-able crepe paper ribbons.

Maya Road released a number of vintage inspired lovely delicate trims. In soft colors and sweet designs, these little treats will be brightening my studio soon I hope.

Queen & Co. released a number of new designs in their signature felt adhesive backed trims that I liked, but these were my favorites. The loops are just too cute!