I must have one of these totes from T!m Holtz Ideology. They are gorgeous in person. Which one do you like? My first one will be the ticket bag. Did you notice I said ‘first’?
These are some new inks by Clear Snap designed with Donna Salazar. These are some of her favorite colors and are supposed to dry slower allowing more time for blending on mixed media surfaces.
Manuscript Pen has taken colored wax and molded them to glue stick sizes. Now they can fit in a glue gun allowing greater control over the product. They have some great seals to go with it, but lots of other ideas are now blooming of what we can do with melted wax on our projects of all types.
I did go look at the new Cricut mini. I think it will be great for those who travel to crops a lot or who might be really cramped for space. It has a much smaller profile. It will only work with Cricut Craft Room software or your Gypsy though. One thing of note: it is really quiet. Nevertheless, I miss the little chirp sound on it. I like that it opens up to see exactly what is going on with the blade too.
Suzanne Dean was in the Score-Pal booth and she showed us the No More Shims embossing mat.
This No More Shims embossing mat is a MUST HAVE on my list. It is a much thicker embossing mat that our tan mats and will go through all the popular embossing machines right now. It gives a deep impression using anything you have already around the house on metal, cardstock, patterned paper, etc. We had a demo where it used pearls, gears, fine detailed lace, mesh, and lots more just to create a textured impression on materials. This is definitely a must see.
Loved the detailed stamps from a new company here called LaBlanche. The only down size to me was that they are on a base as thick as those wooden blocks. This is one of their selling points though. They have their block built in and because it is a foam-type base, you can use your fingers to press down and get a complete full coverage impression. The stamp part itself is a much harder silicone that takes heat quite well. The lower picture was created by pouring hot UTEE directly onto the inked stamp. I can not wait to try that technique. The stamps are very detailed stamps though and they do leave a beautiful clean impression.
Pink Paislee just keeps getting better and better. I was drooling over their (Mist)-A-Bles line.
So, these were a few of my favorite things. I hope you enjoyed the little peeks at what is coming out. I know that I cannot wait for a few of these.
One last picture for you.
I was completely fascinated by this upside down Christmas Tree. Can anyone tell me how to do this successfully and if you have any tips for trying this at home? I’d love to hear your thoughts about this and what you have seen in Blog land about this last Summer CHA that excited or inspired you. Leave me a comment and let me know.
Stop by later as I share a few pics of this little country girl going around the big city of Chicago! Thanks for stopping by today,
Did you know that you can purchase upside down christmas trees. Not sure if you can take a regular one and do it, but I know they can be purchased. I would google it, or maybe try ebay. I know a few ppl that had them before. Funny, Palm City Auction had one a couple of weeks ago. They cleaned out an huge estate and the lady had LOADS of christmas decorations…I mean loads!
Tracy
Cheryl, those totes by TH are fabulous; I’ll probably own several of those myself!!! Also, I’ve seen that technique with the UTEE melted over a stamped image and I want to try that one myself too!
Love all the CHA pics you took and thanks for sharing!!!
I think you will end up with more than one tote 🙂