I Spy Helmar Here & There

I am so excited to share that I have been selected to serve another term as a Design Team Member for Helmar.  It has been a pleasure and an honor to represent Helmar for the last six months and I look forward to the next six months as well.   I can’t wait to see what challenges and inspiration we will see.

I just recently returned from a teaching tour along the East Coast of the United States where I played “I Spy Helmar” along my route. Of course, every class I taught was created using Helmar adhesives.  Do you recognize any of these following places and/or faces?

Helmar spotted on the shelves at Scrapdoodles in Fredericksburg, VA.

Helmar spotted at Angela’s Happy Stamper in Reston, VA.

 

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive being used in class adhering buttons and paper to stretched canvas at Wiggles & Giggles in Wethersfield, CT.

There are bottles of Helmar on that table and these women at Silver Fox Stamps in Winslow, ME loved this stuff. 

One of Helmar’s new Guest Designer’s, Katie Nolan-Denham, using Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive at Wholly Scraps in North Hampton, NH.  And she was a wonderful hostess who put me up and took me out for some great antique shopping while I was there. 

And Helmar is not only on the shelves, but is also featured next to the register at A Scrapbook Store & More in Port Saint Lucie, FL.   This is my LSS, so make sure you stop by if/when you are in my area.

Helmar was spotted as well at Scrapper’s Cove in Milltown, NJ, but please forgive me because I missed that picture somehow, but I had a great time meeting those ladies as well as a long-time Internet friend, Kristin, whom I finally got to meet face-to-face.

So, it was great to see Helmar all up and down the East Coast.  Some people tried Helmar for the first time or a product from Helmar that they had not tried.  There are many new Helmar fans now.  I love seeing people truly impressed with a product that stands out from the rest. 

I’d like to wrap up my post by sharing with you my undoubtedly best testimony to
the strength and tenacity of Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.

Right before I left for my trip, I remembered (at the last minute) that my Tutto office bag was torn on my last flight from California. I did not have the time to get it fixed or the energy, or will power, to find an upholstery needle and strong thread to sew it myself. I decided to put Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to the test.

I quickly glued the top part of the bag back together. ***Sorry, I didn’t try to be really neat about it. Like I said, it was literally at the last minute. So, after gluing it together, I finished loading it.

The tote carried 1 full-size laptop, 1 IPad, 1 Nook, 1 Webcam, and all the coordinating chargers. I also threw in a few mixed media books, a novel, and some of my Stampington magazines as well as other things.  Let me tell you that it was not a light bag. I then let it dry overnight. The next morning, I loaded it into the floorboard of my front seat and hit the road. Once I got out of Florida, I found that most places I stayed did not have elevators. Businesses, homes, and hotels have lots of stairs once you get out of Florida. This bag traveled from Florida to Maine and back and went in and out at every place I went. It was opened and closed many times and items were taken out and put back in over and over.

My bag is still intact.  It never even came loose.  You can see that it is bowing from the weight inside, but is NOT coming undone at all.   I shouldn’t have been so surprised, but seriously??? It held better than the original stitches! I am just so stinking excited to share this with you.

Well, thanks for enjoying bits of this trip with me.  If you haven’t tried Helmar adhesives yet, make sure to request them in your local scrapbook store.  You never know when myself or someone else might play “I spy Helmar” again.