Scraps and Ink

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEIDI!!!!

So it is the morning of day three at CHA, and boy, was it nice not having to bet up at 5:30 for an early meeting or class!

So I promised to share some booth goodness today, especially from my amazingly talented friend, Heidi Smith! She is a designer for Daisy Bucket Designs. Daisy Bucket is here exhibiting in CA at the show (but Heidi could not make it to the show- she is home WA with her dh Rob and cute puppy Augie). Heidi has done some FABULOUS work for Daisy Bucket, along with some other talented girls, and I just HAVE to share some of the photos I took of their beautiful creations on display in the booth!!! And it is HEIDI'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!! Happy Birthday my friend! So go over to her blog and wish her well! Heidi Smith. These photos below just don't do this stuff justice. Cassandra has done am amazing job creating the wonderful product that these gals get to play with. Good job everyone! I truly hope this show is a "monsterous" success for them! But something tells me it will be- look at how full their booth was with people! Their Make-&-Take line was LOOOONG! 

  

  

  

      

 

 

 

   

 

  

  

And now I simply must share a photo of some truly wonderful gals I met last night at the 2Peas Cupcake Social! These gals are local scrappers from here in Anaheim, and were nice enough to let me sit at their table and get to know them! We had so much fun chatting! They were alot of fun! Why the heck do I look like such a dork in this photo? Bad bad bad photo of me- sorry. I look like I was in pain, but I promise, I was having a ball!!! Thanks ladies! E-mail me so we can keep in touch!

Booths, booths, everywhere there's booths!

Being a Designer Member of CHA means that I got to participate in the Designer Showcase which was held during the Taste of Anaheim reception this past Saturday night here at the Anaheim Convention Center. We were allowed a 2x6 table top in which to display any of our recent work we would like to present to members of the press, editors, publishers, and manufacturers. I want to thank all of those wonderful people who stopped by my booth to chat with me and showed interest in my work. It means so much to me that my finished work is so widely accepted and I hope to continue to have many more opportunities to inspire people to explore their own creativity.

 

Close-ups of some of my stuff:

 

 

  

   

   

 

 

 

I especially want to thank Aimee at Graphic 45 for sharing so much of her time with me the last couple of days here in CA, and placing a couple of my finished projects in the Graphic 45 booth. Aimee is such a kick in the pants! Their products were so great to work with! And thanks to A Million Memories for sending me the wonderful Graphic 45 products in my prize pack to play with. Love you guys!

And I also simply MUST thank Joyce at Best Creation for displaying so much of my work in their booth as well. She is just the sweetest thing! She tells me how much the love my finished pages, and I have to remind her often that I am only as good as the product I work with, and I love that she keeps me well-stocked with such fun stuff!

Oooh, it's getting late. Must get sleep. I'll add more pics in the a.m. before the show.

hint: "Daisy Bucket goodness by Heidi".  

later,

Nancy

See Jane Paint

So it is day two of CHA, and I have to say, Paris Hilton is SOOOOO yesterday! We just don't have that much in common, so we can't be friends anymore. That is okay. She'll get over it. I met a new friend today, and she is SO much nicer, and she was not surrounded by giant men with guns ready to kill me.

This woman is the sweetest thing....and kind, and beautiful, and talented. Yup, my new bud is Jane Seymore. AND rather than being over an hour late to the host booth (like an ex-friend or mine), she was actually 20 minutes early, and stayed for over two hours working away with her canvas and paints without a single break. The nice people at Fredrix Artist Canvas (whom I used to work with, BTW) even had lots of fresh fruit and bottled water right there for her, but she was content to stay  on her feet the entire time sharing her passion for art with the admiring crowd.

  

 

But the best part? I had called my mom on the phone to tell her that I was standing next to Jane Seymore, and Jane said "Hi, Joyce!" to my mom over the phone!!! Can you believe that? My mom was so happy!!! My mom just LOVES Jane Seymore. So, I was so glad that I got to share that "Jane moment" with her. I have always loved Jane. In fact, Jane's movie, "Somewhere In Time", is the reason I didn't drop out of piano lessons. I loved the theme song from that movie so much that I was determined to learn how to play it on the piano, so I kept up with my lessons. I also wanted to marry Superman because of that movie.  

The pic below is of me talking on the phone to my mom while standing next to Jane Seymore. HI MOM!!!!!!

 

later,

Nancy 

    

New BFF!!!!!!!!

So here it is, day one of the CHA convention, and guess what I did today? Yeah, I hung out with Paris Hilton. We're tight now. totally BFF's.

  

JK. Okay, not so much as "hung out". It was more of a run-down-the-isle-walking-after-Paris Hilton-trying-to-blend-in-with-her-entourage sort of situation. But I did get a few great photos, including the one above taken with my Canon Rebel XT (until her security guard saw me and "helped" me leave). But I did see the product she was peddling. Really cute stuff. Is it worth the $25,000 she was paid by Wookie Entertainment to show up for an hour? I don't know. Only time will tell if it translates into consumer demand. But that, my friends, is ALOT of stickers. Which I heard is one of her passions. Paris Hilton collects stickers? Who knew?

I also got a pic of an armed security guy hiding in the rafters. That chick's security is insane. Body guards and armed security everywhere. AND the Anaheim Police Dept was outside running limo detail and directing traffic. Crazy.

I DID meet a few more, and much less guarded, famous people as well. 

Darth Vadar can breath funky in my ear anyday!!!!!

So check back tomorrow and i will have more pics. And I promise they will be of products and booths this time.

Later,

nancy 

  

Fun new stuff and CHA!

Ahhhhh.....I can almost smell the asphault from here! I leave for CHA in Aneheim in less than two weeks! (less than two weeks? I better go see my hair colorist).

Anywho, I am just so excited to get there are soak it all in! There are tons of new product I am excited to see, but more importantly, the company I currently design for Best Creation, will have a bunch of my pages on display in their booth. I have not seen several of the pages for months and i miss them.  

The company also has the CUTEST new little boy and girl papers coming out, and I was thrilled to get to work with them!

Aren't these papers just adorable with the little animals? And those owls? Have you ever seen anything so CUTE? Me neither!

  

The above little boy is our neighbor from many, many years ago. That cute little boy is almost 12 now, and I can't wait to get together with him and his parents this weekend! Thanks for letting me use this pic, Dawn!  

   

Thanks for looking! 

Later,

nancy

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Another day, another page

Ah....less that two weeks til i leave for CHA! YAY!!! I love going to CHA! It is my once-a-year opportunity to recharge my creative juices, see good friends, and of course, see all the new goodies that manufacturers have come up with for us to play with for the next year. 

So I have been getting boxes of product for a couple months now from a company called "Best Creation". They have asked me to use their product to create scrapbook pages that will appeal to other scrapbookers and encourage them to purchase these products. I have been sending these finished pages back to them for use in their advertisements, catalogs, and any other way they chose. The other day, I got a new box of goodies from them to play with, and along with the product was their new catalog for CHA 2009. Imagine my surprise when I flipped thru the catalog and saw that 90% of all the finished examples in the book were scrapbook pages I had made! I was thrilled! I cannot lie, I just LOVE to see my work in print. It gives me a huge sense of accomplishment. 

So to see some of the pages that are featured in the catalog, just click on my pages in the right sidebar under the heading "My work for Best Creation".  

later,

nancy

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Round 2?

This is my entry for round two of the contest at A Million Memories. The challenge was to gift wrap our three ornaments from round one in a creative way. I decided to do 3 stacked boxes, and the more I thought about it, I decided that it would be cute to do the stack to look like a snowman....well, sort of. I was going to paint him all white, but what is the fun in that? I am a paper crafter, after all! So each box got all spiffied up with really fun patterned papers by Imaginisce, chipboard snowflakes from Maya Road, and huge buttons I stole from one of my dd's sweaters and painted white with spray paint by Krylon. (Shhhh! she doesn't know their gone yet!)

 

  

  

  

later,

nancy 

 

New day, new post

So yes, I am working backwards in the whole contest thing, and here is my submission to the A Million Memories contest that took me to the final and winning round.

  

  

  

  

The challenge was to do a 2-page Christmas LO using traditional christmas colors. I am in LOVE with Basic Grey's Wassail line. There is so much that is "traditional" about these papers that I just HAD to use them!

Of course, the real work is in the details, so I included close-ups too. Enjoy!

later, nancy 

Christmas goodies

I know that Christmas was a week ago, but better late than never!

So I want to share my favorite thing about this past Christmas. It is a new toy that arrived on Christmas Eve- it is the new Flip Video Camera! Why do I love it so much? Because I got one for free when I won it in a contest!

The contest was sponsored by A Million Memories, my new favorite online shopping site! They had a month-long contest where participants had a new challenge each week to creat something specific for the holidays. Each week, a secret panel of judges narrowed it down to the best entries, and those participants moved onto the next round with a new challenge. Each week went by and I hung in there. Imagine my surprise when after the last round, they announced me as the winner!!! I was crazy excited! Not only did i get to chose the color of the camera (I chose lime green to match my laptop), but I also won a HUGE prize package full of scrapbooking goodies!

These are my entries starting with the winning creation for the final round.

My Christmas Wreath:

 

These are close-ups of the different hand-made elements on the wreath:

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Here goes nothin'

So now that I have my banner designed and in place, I am going to try to inset photos.

Here goes:

Well, would you look at that? That scrapbook page fits nicely right in the middle there! And it even matches my banner!

I suppose I had better tell a little bit about the page:

I created this for Best Creation- a company that I currently design for. But more on that later.