My CHA Fun

I’ve had to go to many conventions over the years so I could obtain my  dreaded CEU’s required as a Registered Dietitian.  Boring.  Thoughts of sticking needles in my eyes pass through.  I’m the one in the back row anxiously looking for an escape route like I need a smoke.   I don’t even smoke.  I’m suppose to network but I don’t unless I might get a free sample out of it.  Luckily, I have 5 years to obtain all those dreaded CEU’s.  Ok..I’m using tongue-n-cheek humor, my previous career wasn’t that bad.

Now this is crafting convention!  I could spend the four days there and possible lose a few pounds from walking, talking and skipping meals.   It’s surreal.  The gorgeous booths, the smell of fresh paper, meeting other blog pals.  It’s just an amazing experience!

I met up with Jinger and Kristy Day along with a few of my other fellow designers on the team.  I drooled over the new collections coming out and hung out in the booth for a while.  So Fun!

 

 

 

 

Jinger has two new collections coming out called Sweet Tarts and Sport That.  She was also debuting an All Occasion Card Kit and a Craft Armoire.

The Sweet Tart collection is chocked full of gingham, stripes, butterflies, cherries, glittered stickers, chipboard and washi tape.  Yes- Washi Tape!   The Sport That collection (which I don’t have an official photo of yet) will be perfect for any sport theme craft project.  It even includes foil tags, chipboard and coordinating washi tape.

Jinger Craft Armoire is awesome!  It really is a great idea and will retail for about $250 dollars.  Expect to see it on HSN in May!  This armoire is way better than anything you’d find at IKEA.

Next on my agenda…Meet my blog buddy Arin from A Piece of Life’s Pie.

She’s awesome, funny and we have lots in common. Her daughter is even named Holly.  We met on Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and it was great to pal around with her all day.  We took this photo in the Canvas Corp booth.

Now I gotta….Meet up with some of the other companies I create for.

Craftworks Cards CANDi is another fun design team I’m lucky enough to on.  I love to create with those little embellishments.  I find myself adding them to almost everything I make now even when I’m not designing for them.  Jillian from Paper a la Mode, Theresa The Scrapbook Queen and I had chatting with these UK folks for a while.  I even got to bring home some of there new CANDi line to play with.

Now I’m off to Glue Dots ®.

This is my go to gal at Glue Dots®, Elizabeth Stock.  I love using there product and being a Glue Dots® Dottess.  You just can’t craft without adhesive.  I’m smiling way to big in this photo too.  Maybe it’s ’cause she just told me about my next design team box coming my way filled with all sorts of goodies?

Jen Evans is an amazing designer.  She designs for Heidi Swapp but she runs the Craft Warehouse design team.   I did a guest designer post for the Craft Warehouse back in December.  It was neat to be able to meet up with Jen after all our emails back and forth.

Now lets play Eye Spy with My  Little Eye some …Crafting Celebrities.

Arin tagged along while I played Eye Spy.  We missed out on a few of them since they were at lunch (Heidi Swapp, Maggie Holmes) but here’s a few we did find.

 

 

 

Now that I use a Silhouette, I’ve been paying more attention to Lori’s SVG cuts and paper lines.   Basically, anything she designs is just awesome.

The Lovely Mrs. Collins

Teresa has beautiful paper lines and embellishments too.  Her booth was very elegant.  Wow to those Damask curtains.   I stood around like a fool in her booth waiting to get a photo. Weird, I know but I’d would of been mad at myself if I left without one.

Now to spend a little time smelling and drooling over some gorgeous collections coming out.

Next up:   Summer CHA (Create-n-Connect) Las Vegas…July 22-25, 2013!

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