New Petaloo!

I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with the newest CHA releases from Petaloo!! The colours of the new flowers are so rich and the new Garlands and Trims are nothing short of lush and gorgeous!

For my card, I cut the trim into several smaller pieces and tucked some under my title and a few behind the beautiful flowers.

Ooooh - can you see how thick this Garland is? So gorgeous! Of course, what would a spring card be without the amazing Once Upon a Springtime collection from Graphic 45?


I also used some papers from Pink Paislee's Sweetness collection and Cosmo Cricket's Circa collection (love)!

I also created an 8x8 layout for Petaloo's booth this year which was very different for me as I'm use to working with a 12 x 12 background. Again, I paired the gorgeous blooms with Graphic 45 and love the final outcome (was aiming for vintage spring...)

I adore the vines - they are fantastic and so easy to work with. I bent this one slightly and layered with some fussy cut flowers.

I actually broke apart some of the Magnolia blossoms. I needed some smaller blooms and the centres of these flowers were the perfect size.

In addition, I used the leftover petals of these altered flowers for the rim of my doily - waste not, want not.

Precious Baby
Petaloo Products Used:
Canterbury Berry Picks x 2, Brown
Canterbury Magnolia Blossoms x 7, Cream
Canterbury Grape Leaf Vines x 2 with Glitter

Sweet Spring Card
Petaloo Products Used:
Savannah Trim
Canterbury Magnolia Blossoms x 7, Cream
Canterbury Magnolia & Grape Leaves x 32

CHA Sneaks

The show was fantastic - I took WAY too many photos and won't bore you with ALL of them, so here are the ones I loved the most!

The booth at DCWV was unreal - there were life sized dresses made completely from patterned paper - just gorgeous!

This one was my fave.



oooohhhh look at all the yummy Maya Road mini albums!

New Petaloo releases.

More amazing blooms from Petaloo - these are some of my faves!

Vintage props at the Tim Holtz booth.

Tim Holtz inspiration.

Ranger

This gorgeous dressform was created by the uber talented Candy Rosenberg of Graphic 45 using their Once Upon a Springtime Collection.

Must have!

Need to have!

G45 booth goodies.

More amazing altered items from the G45 booth.

Totally in love with all the amazing wooden laser cut items from the show. Here are a bunch from Kaisercraft - yummy....

ADORE this collection from Kaisercraft.

One of the many amazing collections from Websters - I honestly adore each and every one released this season!

Melissa Frances - so shabby chic!

That's all folkes! Stay tuned tomorrow - I'll be posting some Petaloo projects from CHA and drawing the winner of my Huge January Blog Giveaway!!

Winter CHA 2011 (photo heavy)

Wow! What a fantastic trip! Busy, busy but a fun time indeed. I helped out with the ZVA Booth the first two days and then had a chance to browse the show on the Monday before I headed home. Here are my fave pics from the show.... enjoy!

1st day at the show!

With the Graphic 45 ladies - Diane, Charee and Aimee - what a rush it was to meet them!!

Me and Diane - G45 mastermind!

Mr Holtz - it was seriously like meeting all my fave 'celebrities' - an unreal experience!

The lovely Jenni Bowlin - our booth was right across from hers. Love, love her stuff.

The ZVA gang - owners Carolyn and her hubbie John and their helpers. Such amazingly, sweet people.

Me and Liz Kartchner - aka Dear Lizzy from American Crafts.

Petaloo owners Cheryl and Jeff Cohen

Me and Julie from Cosmo Cricket.

Mrs. Kelly Goree from Basic Grey - such a talented lady.

Sweetest thing ever! Brandin from Websters - what a doll she is.

The lovely Lori Brown from Scrap That! Kit club. It was the first time we 'met' in person (kinda felt like a blind date - LOL). What an amazing woman - we had such a great time!!

Downtown LA.

View from outside the convention centre.

I'll be back tomorrow with some peeks from the show!!