I saw so many great new stamps at CHA that I wanted to share with you some of my favorites. I am a sucker for a good stamp set! :)
TECHNIQUE TUESDAY
Visiting Technique Tuesday’s booth was super-fun because not only did I get to see the latest and greatest stamps coming out, I also got to meet my friend Linda Barber in person.
I also had the pleasure of meeting Ali Edwards at the Technique Tuesday booth. 
On to the stamps! Technique Tuesday featured some of the stamps from their Studio A (Ali Edwards) monthly stamp subscription program.
There was also another display with many of the Ali Edwards stamps that are new and being released as we speak. I loved them all and wished I could have brought them home with me! :)
Love the graphic look of some of these new sets being released!
The Banner Up set is super cute. I can see myself using these on cards and layouts a lot!
I’m in love with all the stamp sets from the new Happyville line. I love the graphic look of them and how versatile they are.
Another favorite is the Fun Flair set by Ali Edwards. These circles will be perfect to use with a 1” punch!
I love any set with Ali Edwards’ handwriting. And this Noted set with tabs is so awesome. I can see using this for Project Life or mini books!
LAWN FAWN
Lawn Fawn is one of my favorite stamp companies. I love their high-quality and super-cute stamps. When I first got back into paper-crafting in 2011, they were the first stamps that I started purchasing.
One of the coolest things happening is that Lawn Fawn now has thin steel dies called Lawn Cuts that match their stamps!
Being able to die cut shapes that match the stamps is so very cool and appealing to me! 
Love this set of alphabet dies that match the Quinn’s ABCs stamp set!
Just love the jar and the fruits in Summertime Charm. The fortune cookie and take out box in Good Fortune are so cute and I love the sentiments that go into the curved banner.
So Much To Say set with big sentiments. Home Sweet Home and Happy Easter.
Critters On The Savanna, Mother’s Day, and Summertime Charm.
Year Three, a small birthday set celebrating Lawn Fawn’s third birthday in March. Riley’s ABCs, and Sharp Backdrops round out the new stamps.
Here are some of my other favorite stamps from CHA.
American Crafts Amy Tangerine calendar stamp.
Amy Tangerine Yes Please clear stamp set.
Cosmo Cricket Sweet Disposition cling stamps.
Elle’s Studio Daily Detail and Hello Sweetheart stamp sets.
Simple Stories Sn@p stamp sets Daily and Snapshot.
I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my favorite new stamps from winter CHA! What are your favorites and must-haves?
Thursday, January 31, 2013
CHA Favorites | Stamps
Monday, January 21, 2013
CHA Favorites | Divided Pocket Scrapbooking
I was looking at all the photos I took at CHA, and realized that if I didn’t combine some of the different vendors into posts based on similarities, then I could spend two weeks blogging daily about CHA. So I decided to combine all the different divided pocket scrapbooking companies that I visited.
The most well-known to me of the divided pocket scrapbooking line is Becky Higgins Project Life. She has now partnered with American Crafts to bring Project Life to retail stores.
The booth was hopping every time I walked by!
My friend Liz Tamanaha, who designed the Midnight Edition of Project Life coming out in May, is the one standing on the right with the red purse.
Here’s a closer look at the Midnight Edition. So classic and elegant!
The Kraft Edition.
New to the Project Life line are the mini albums, and also the mini kits.
There’s also a wall of accessories, such as page dividers, pens, and cardstock.
I ran into my Write.Click.Scrapbook. teammate Jenny Larson at the Project Life booth! Donna Jannuzzi was with her. She used to be on the WCS team too, and lives locally to me. I’ve met her several times at local crops. The three of us got a photo with Becky Higgins.
Next, I stopped at the We R Memory Keepers booth and saw their new pocket scrapbooking line called “Albums Made Easy”. There were four new lines with coordinating journal cards, cardstock, and albums that debuted at CHA: Memo, Webster, Bloom, and Tangerine.
Each kit contains 275 journal cards. You can also purchase a package of coordinating cardstock that contains 60 double-sided cardstock cards containing both 4x6 and 3x4 cardstock. These new lines look very cute and versatile.
There are many different page protector configurations available in many sizes. I found some that are 8.5x11.
Other sizes that fit into the same albums.
And of course the 12x12 choices were numerous!
Also in the page protector scrapbooking market is Simple Stories.
Their Sn@p line of products are bright, colorful, and so cute and contemporary.
A closer look at the stamps.
They had a wall in their booth, showing the different ways you can configure their journal cards and your photos in page protectors.
More sample projects in the Simple Stories booth.
Another company coming out with page protector pocket scrapbooking lines is Echo Park’s Photo Freedom line. I didn’t get a chance to visit their booth because I was running out of time. They have really cute new Photo Freedom lines coming out in the spring, as well as several lines available now.
Allison Kreft’s Today’s Story
Kasie Fry’s Happy Go Lucky
Hope you’ve enjoyed taking a look at some of the options in Project Life-esque divided page protector scrapbooking from CHA. :)
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
CHA | American Crafts
One of my favorite scrapbooking manufacturer is American Crafts. I love the vibrant colors of many of their lines. This CHA release was no exception. They had a big double-sided aisle of booths at CHA Anaheim. I was very excited to see the new products! :)
Amy Tangerine | Yes Please
The new Amy Tangerine line, Yes Please, incorporates the fun sketchy look of the Sketchbook line, but with softer colors. 
I had the pleasure of seeing Amy Tan again. I went to an Amy Tangerine class last May at Paper Tales here in San Diego and met her for the first time.
This line has a calendar date stamp that I know will be super-popular. I hope they manufacture enough to keep the stores stocked! :)
LOVE the hand-drawn camera graphic and stamp in this line. I can’t seem to stay away from any camera-related, and each of the Amy Tangerine line so far has had cameras in it.
The papers also come in a 6x6 pad.
New to the line is this embroidery kit containing paper piercer, a pad for piercing, some templates, and some embroidery floss. I can see this being very fun to do on a card or a layout!
The Yes Please line also has a roller stamp, but this time without the dates. It is just phrases. I think this is great because I sometimes have a hard time getting the date AND phrase to stamp clearly on the bigger roller stamps. And I already have an office date stamp, I don’t need so many dates.
Closer look at some of the papers in the line. The camera graphics are very cute and are on both the pink paper and the kraft paper.
Some of the projects that were hung up on clothes hangers in the booth.
Dear Lizzy | Lucky Charm
I’ve always liked the Dear Lizzy lines of scrapbooking products. This time they’ve incorporated navy blue into the line and it looks fantastic. The diecut cards are something new and cool.
There is also a phrase roller stamp in the Lucky Charm line. The die cuts are cute as well. I really like the aqua and navy blue that they incorporated into the line.
There were other items of interest at the American Crafts aisle of booths. There was a whole display of glitter paper! Only one column was POW! glitter paper, which I LOVE because the glitter doesn’t rub off and it cuts like butter in the Silhouette. The other glitter cardstock are thicker and the glitter does come off.
There were lots of glitter ribbons as well.
There was also a wall which displayed many AC albums. I thought many of them were very pretty.
And this whole display of 6x6 paper pads made me happy. I really liked seeing them together!
American Crafts has hit it out of the park again with the Amy Tangerine Yes Please line and Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm line. Both of these lines will be perfect for scrapbooking spring and summer photos. I’m excited to see these hit the stores this spring!
