January in review

Went to Disney with my sis and danced with Goofy! :-P

 Took this little guy to the zoo and Travel Town to check out old trains.  :-)

 Went whale watching.  We saw a whale this time.  The whale didn't come up...well we saw bits and parts of him.  I want to see the whole tail! :-P

Celebrated Chinese New Year and went to Tet festival. 

Also went to CHA!!!! :-P

Ok.. I'm done

No more CHA post.  I have more pictures...but people can probably find it on the company's blog.

Ribbon cutter

Imaginisce has a new tool that cuts ribbon.  It also "burns" the edge so it doesn't fray.  I forgot the name of this device....

Here is the wire.  It heats up, cuts, and seals the edge of a ribbon.

end result...ta-da! 

I like this little device!  yes, I can use fray-check...but it takes forever to dry...plus it doesn't create a clean edge like this.

From Studio Calico

I *heart* this little camera. It is very similar to Maya Road. However, this is made from wood (?). It is very, very tiny!!! And oh, so cute! :-)

To be continue...

more posts later

More Cricut

 This was a part of their booth... soooo pretty!

A hands on book for children.

Cricut

Tried to win a gold Cricut Express machine... :-PI love this cart!

They have gel pens now... plus an embosing tool that will help when make creases for boxes, etc.

Not everything...but some :-)

Creative Imaginations

Took the class where we played with Luminaire Art product.

 Did you know this album has a thingy in the back so it can stand up? :-P

 They came out with a new product called Primary elements.  Where you dip your brush in it and dip it into their powder and paint on slick surfaces.

Before you can do that with ordinary Twinkling H2O.   With Primary Element, you can! :-)

more Ideaology

 the tags are on hangers and hung in the box!!!!!!!

My make and take...waited 45 min! but worth it! :-)

From the Ideaology booth

Saw this amazing trunk/altered book!

The details!!!!

Plus this!   Wow!

A make and take from the Ranger booth

 We used this embossing plate is made using tire-like material.

The enamel was melted and dye added (?).

Poured it and waited a few minute...then add some color.  :-)

Saturday

I was not able to take Tool School class... :-(  But had to make money first.  So nothing there......

Took a Theresa Collins class on the stamp machine.  I think it is a really neat tool that will make really great detailed stamps... but will I use it enough for the cost... probably not.  One of the design team member took a stamped image of her baby's feet, shrunk it, and made a stamp with it.  Was such a cute idea! 

Then I went to the Innovation show case of all things that is new at CHA.  One company had a hot glue gun that runs off of USB port.

 This is Prima's idea.  The letters snaps onto a base and you can stamp letters evenly. 

 A sample of the letter spacing.  It's a good tool for those who are anal (that's me...sometimes....) the spacing is way tooo wide for me.  Especially if I want to stamp on a small space.

 Took a class where we made a journal using a new die for Spellbinders and wrapping wires.  We used this tool here we twist wires tightly until it popped off.

And here is the tightly twisted wire.  I also learned wire wrapping...

CHA-W 2012 *the first post*

Technically this is my first CHA post...but I will be posting pics and stuff and this post will become last.  Oh well.  CHA was great.  I start my CHA on Saturday.  Took some classes.  Helped Westcott set up their booth.  Then Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday!  Ran into old friends, put a face to a friend's name/posting, met new friends.  So overall, I had a nice time.  Despite the fact that people (including me) started feeling dizzy (no air ventilation) and a lousy thing happend (that I don't want to talk about).