CHA Review

I just realized today that I never posted my CHA review! What a dingbat I am. Ok, so here is a summary of what tickled my fancy at the show: Of course, do I even need to say it? Tattered Angels, WOW! You are going to love, love, love, the new products coming out. Of course, now that it is the end of February, you have probably seen it all already, but let me just tell you, The new Glimmer Glam and Glaze is to die for! So many great possibilities for this new medium. The wheels are spinning with some great classes for you using these little beauties. Also the new Heidi Swapp resist pieces, and folder are yummalicious. Did I mention the Seaside collection? A must have for those summer projects. The new additions to the Tattered Traveler collection have me really fired up. This is one of my very favorite collections, and I am planning a great vintagy travel album class with this line. And the booth was spectacular! Check it out:





Ok, moving on. Graphic 45. Graphic 45 always has the most gorgeous booth. Check out that huge clock tower! So cool. And the new products,most which have already hit your local stores, so beautiful.



Prima: I just have four words for you: I WANT IT ALL! Seriously, I want to live in their booth. They have upmteen new styles of the white flowers (for glimmer misting of course), new raw lace, beautiful new paper lines, and those butterflies! You can check it all out at the PRima website. Canvas Corp: Love them! They are absolutely the nicest people, and their product is top notch. Canvas banners, wall hangings, canvas by the sheet, and hardware for it too. YOu must go to their site at www.canvascorp.com Their canvas takes glimmer mist beautifully. I will be sharng some projects soon with their canvas and glimmer mist, and the love banner that I shared on a previous post was made with their banner panels. Kaiser craft had some great beyond the page pieces for home decor and altered art projects. Love the family tree piece.

Melissa Frances has a new line coming out that was just calling my name. It's called Kitchy Kitchen. Also the new Vintage Posey line is gorgeous.

Websters pages has beautiful new embellishments, for some bizarre reason I have no picture of them, but you can go to www.websterspages.ning.com to look at them. The trim, bloomers, sparklers and of course the papers will just make you go wild.
Then there is the new Melody Ross lines at GCD. Let me just say, previously I was not a huge fan of GCD products. Until now. WOW! We were the first group to get to do the demo with the chipboard and the hammer and dies, yep I said hammer, an it's cute too! I'll give you a little tip: you are supposed to spritz the chipboard with water before you take the die and hammer to it, but if you use glimmer mist instead of water....you get the idea. I took Melody some glimmer mist and she tried it with the chipboard and tools and it came out beautifully. If you haven't heard of Melody Ross before, she is just a doll. You must check out her blog (I think it is melodyross.typepad.com. She is a wonderful writer, and her blog is pure inspiration not only in the crafting department, but in life as well. Here are some pics of her gorgeous work at the booth.




Basic Grey has cool new papers called BAsics. They are white with print on them, and I think they will be a staple in many of my glimmer mist projects.
And last but certainly not least: Elizabeth Craft Designs www.ecraftdesigns.com
Can you say yum? Glitter, yum! I don't have any pictures of their booth either because I was completely engrossed in watching the demo of the glitter with peel off stickers and double sided tape. I loved the stuff so much, that I became a certified Elizabeth Craft instructor. You will love this glitter. I have had some experience with glitter, hahah, ok, a LOT of experience with glitter, and this is the finest, richest glitter I have ever used. When you use it with the double sided tape, it feels just like velvet, and it does not rub off! I will be sharing some class projects I will be teaching with it soon, so keep your eyes peeled for it. I will wrap this post up with some random pics from the show. And please, take a little time to check out the websites for the companies I listed, it will be well worth your time, I promise.

Love is in the Air

I posted this on the Tattered Angels Educator Blog this morning, but I wanted to share more pictures of it with you. For the how-to, go to www.mytatteredangels.com and click on the educator tab. I just love these new Timeless Romance calling cards, they are just so fabulous! And I want to say a special thank you to Canvas Corp for the canvas banner, I love their products! Visit them at www.canvascorp.com to see all the great things they have. Glimmer Mist works fantastically on their canvas (not all canvas is created equally).

P.S for your listening pleasure I thought I'd give you a little Barry White to get you in the Valentines mood, enjoy!

New Class!

Hi all, well, it has been such a very long time since I updated my little bloggy here, I apologize for that. I've been a very busy girl, creating a new class I think your going to love! It's a Twilight inspired album featuring Glimmer Mist, Glimmer Chips, Tattered Angels Timeless Romance calling cards, and glimmer screens and clear stamps, whew! If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm addicted to the Twilight series books from Stephenie Meyer. Can't get enough of all things Twilight. I am especially fond of "Edward". Go team Edward! So I just had to create a class to commemorate the love story of Bella and Edward(sorry Jacob girls, I'll get to you later). I will be teaching this at Ever After Scrapbooks in Vista, CA on February 20th, Collective Journey in Redlands, CA on March 14th, with more dates and stores coming soon. I'm also donating one of my class samples of the book at the Scrapbook Royalty event "Scare Away Autism" on April 17th (see www.scrapbookroyalty.org for details). I also want to mention that you can join Club Royalty for $20.00 and be a part of the wonderful things they do (you will also get a really cute T-shirt for joining). If you would like to take this class, and you don't see your home store scheduled, let me know if you'd like me to teach it at your home store and leave the name of the store and I will contact them to see if we can schedule it.

What day is it?

With my girls at Expo Costa Mesa


Wow, has it really been since January 5th that I posted last here? I don't even know what date it is today, lol. I've been a little busy for the last couple of weeks with Costa Mesa Expo with Tattered Angels, then the weekend after that with the CHA Supershow with Scrapbooks and Stickers, and then CHA. Whew! It was great to see so many of you at the shows. I don't get to see some of my scrappy friends but once a year at CHA so that is always fun. I'm going to share some CHA pics and products over the next few days so stay tuned!

Calendar Project

Since it is a new year, I think a calendar project is just the thing to start off with! And I warned you, there would be more Twilight inspired projects to come, so it seems only fitting to make a "Twilight" calendar. Some of the images I am using for the calendar I found on google images, and some are from magazines. I hope to share a new page every month with you, and I will step out the process of each layout so you can try some new techniques(hopefully). I found this picture on google images, and thought I was going to die! So beautiful! There is some amazing digital talent out there. I just knew glimmer mist would be the perfect compliment to this dreamy photo, as well as the Tattered Angels large screen. I started out with the Karen Foster calendar that I have been hoarding for years, lol. I figured what better time to break it out!

I used the Autumn Leaves Messy Dates stamps to add the days, and dates to the calendar.



For the word January I sprayed white cardstock with Arctic Blue Glimmer Mist and cut out the letters using my QK Revolution and the Finale alphabet(my favorite). For the Title of the layout I used the QK Spicy Chicken alphabet (my 2nd favorite). So that is the calendar base. For the layout I used a sheet of 12x12 white cardstock. I sprayed it with Glacier, and Dew Drop Glimmer Mist to start with to give the whole page a light misting of color and sparkle.



I used a rubber brayer to work the color evenly into the paper and I left it wet so when I add my other colors they would blend better. Next I added the medium colors of Denim Blue, and Spring Violet Glimmer Mist. I sprayed the mist then blotted it with a paper towel to lift some of the color up.


Then I went in with my darker colors of Huckleberry and Moonlight Glimmer Mist, drying after these last colors were applied.

To create the dreamy cloud look that is around the photos I used Marshmallow Glimmer Mist. If you haven't tried this color yet, you must! It is an opaque glimmer mist, so it sprays white. I used several layers of this around the area where my photo would go, then dried it.
For the swirly piece on the bottom right corner with the journaling block I used the Garden Lattice large glimmer screen with Arctic blue glimmer mist. I used the stamping technique with the screen and transferred the image onto a separate piece of white cardstock and cut out the image.I cut the image out because I wanted some of the swirls to overlap my photo and I didn't want to cut my background page. You could skip this step if you aren't concerned about portions of the swirls being covered up. I also used the Tattered Angels Spooky Tree stamp from the halloween set to add small portions of the branches around the edges of the page.


I stamped around where the photo would go for a little definition, as I didn't want to use a photo mat. For the wings, they are Tattered Angels glimmer chips from the nature set. I sprayed them with Glacier Glimmer Mist and dried them. Then I inked the outside edges with Milled Lavendar, and Weathered Wood distress ink. They are self adhesive, so I just stuck them down and was done! Love that.

After that, I just adhered my title and a couple of stamped images for embellishments and voila, my first project of the new year is done! Hope you enjoy, and try some of the techniques I used.