Craft and Hobby Winter Show!

Well, it’s the first Monday of the month and you know what that means! The Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop!!! Boy, you are in for a big surprise! The topic for this blog hop is the newly finished Craft and Hobby Winter Show. Since most of the designers on the Designer Craft Connection went to the CHA show, we thought we would share with everyone all of the cool things we saw at the CHA show. So, if you didn’t get a chance to attend the largest craft show around, we will bring the show to you. Make sure that you click on the DCC blinkie on the right side of my blog to hop from blog to blog and see all of the coolest products in the craft industry!

More exciting news from me! Because the show is so big I can’t fit all the information in one blog post so, please check back with me a few times this week for more on the CHA show. And while I’m at it, I might as well let you know that I will be increasing my blog posts to 3-5 times a week instead of my usual 1 time a week. I’m having such a blast sharing all things craft related and I really hope that you will continue to stop by. I will be offering more craft projects & instructions and I will also be offering tips & techniques, maybe a give-away or two (hee hee!), some guest blog posts, and much, much more. Stay tuned and check me out as I kick it up a notch or two!!!

Let’s get started….

There was so much to see at this show that I wasn’t even sure where to start. I decided to start with the new products that were awarded the Innovations Award for the “Hot New Products” at the show. I’m sorry I don’t have pictures, but I’ve listed a brief description of each product. I’ll have lots of pictures in my other posts.

Approximately 100 new products were entered for the Innovations Award at the show. The panel of judges picked 20 of these products to be named “Hot New Products”. The manufacturers set up their displays and demos for the judges. Each manufacturer had 60 seconds to promote their new product and judges and attendees had the opportunity to see the new products and watch demos. Here are the products and their manufacturers in alphabetical order-

Babyville Boutique. A sewing program for environmentally conscious moms who need specialty fabric for making diaper covers. The program includes coordinating snaps and snap tool, fold over elastic, appliqués and more.

Flower Me with Candy: An easy way to make realistic looking edible flowers with candy.
Sullivan’s Clear Rulers: That sharpens the rotary blades as you cut......

Send it Clear from Clear Scraps: One of a kind clear card kit with USPS approved envelope.

Embosser from Craftwell: Electric die cutter and embosser.

Cool2Cast from Yaley Enterprises: Developed by Tiffany Windsor this is a new, air dry fiber plaster.

Copper Color Me from Hot off the Press: Custom color your own embossed papers with mists, chalk and more.

Dazzu Light Craft Studio: Especially for kids, this kit contains programmable, interactive lights plus all the materials needed to create a one-of-a kind, unique projects. Such a fun way to bling your projects

Diamond Head Tacks (for Home Dec): Upholstery tacks with interchangeable heads.

Crafty Bands from Epiphany Crafts: Create unique custom charm jewelry for kids!

Eco Crayons: Saving the world one color at a time! In recyclable packaging.

Fringe in a Flash from June Tailor: Multi-Blade Rotary Cutter- The perfect tool for cutting fringes.

The Knook by Leisure Arts:  Knit with a crochet hook!

USB Power Glue: When the power fails, use your laptop battery power to use this glue gun.

Shoe Attitude by Kodak: Print images on Kodak shoe art film then use a special adhesive to apply to shoes.

Prima Press: Use individual letters to create your own sayings, etc. It's like having your own mini print press.

Craft Geek Pin It by Purple Cows: Pin it anywhere with this new tool.

Screen It by Tulip: All-in-1 Screen Printing System

Well, that’s it for today. Be sure to check back a few times this week for more information on the CHA Winter Show.

Thanks for joining me. Until next time…

Crafty hugs,

Lisa

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Westcott Designer Challenge at CHA Show!

I wanted to let everyone know about a great Designer Challenge that will be held at the CHA show in Anaheim. Come out and help me support my fabulous Designer friends as they ROCK this challenge!! See below for details!

 

Crafty hugs,

Lisa

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Westcott Brand is pleased to announce

their upcoming series of creative competitions

to be held in their booth #2773 at the

2012 Craft & Hobby Association Winter Trade Convention!

This fast paced competition hosted

by Modern Surrealist Marisa Pawelko

and is sure to be the talk of the show!

There are four competitions lined up

with some amazing

CHA Designer Member Contestants!

Below is the ALL-STAR Lineup!

If you happen to be attending the show,

please come the Westcott booth

and see who makes the cut!!!

Beautiful Bird Journal

It’s time once again for another round of blog hopping with the fabulous designers of Designer Craft Connection. The first Monday of every month we pick a theme and then create a project around that theme. Since the first Monday of this month fell a day after New Year’s we decided to postpone our blog hop until today. 

This month’s theme is journaling. I was very excited about our journaling theme because I love to design and create journals! You can do so many things in creating a journal. They can be fun & simple or you can go all out and create something elaborate. Whichever way you choose to go, your journals should say something about yourself or the person you are creating it for. 

The journal that I am sharing with you today, I designed for a friend of mine, Brenda Pinnick, another outstanding designer. Brenda had just finished creating a new line of rubber stamps and she was going to appear on the Home Shopping Network to introduce them to the crafting world. She sent me all of her new stamp line and asked me to design something using them. Well, needless to say you don’t have to ask me twice, so I set out to create this beautiful bird journal. You can purchase these great stamps and more, by going to www.brendapinnick.com. You can also find them at the Home Shopping Network at www.hsn.com.  

I hope you enjoy viewing my bird journal as much as I did creating it. And don’t forget to click on the Designer Craft Connection’s blinkie on the right side of my blog for lots more inspiration on journals! 

Until next time…

Crafty hugs,

Lisa

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A Brand New Blog!

I am so pleased to announce that my friend, Brenda Pinnick, color guru extraordinaire, has started a new blog! On the new blog, ColorCafe, you will find a professional designer sharing his or/her creativity with projects that are all about color! Each day will feature a new designer. The menu for the ColorCafe is as follows:

Sunday – Adults Only (sophisticated, elegant, zen-like color palettes)

Monday – Chef’s Surprise (anything goes)

Tuesday – Confetti Soup (lots and lots of color)

Wednesday – International Fare (color palettes inspired from around the world)

Thursday – Grandma’s Favorite Casserole (vintage)

Friday – Al Fresco Dining (Nature Inspired palettes)

Saturday – Bold Flavors (Saturated, unexpected, WOW)

Brenda has a terrific line-up planned, and she is accepting additional artists and designers for February. If you are interested in showcasing your work, please email Brenda at colorcafe@brendapinnick.com. If you would like to see what I’m talking about, click on the ColorCafe button on the right side of my blog. If you’d like to learn more about Brenda and her love of color, check her out at www.brendapinnick.com

I have a project that will be featured on the ColorCafe on January 16th. Stop back by to check out what I have cooking at the Colorcafe!

Crafty hugs,

Lisa

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Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Happy, Healthy New Year! I hope thaty all of your dreams and wishes for the year come true for you. I also hope that your creativity soars this year, because the world is a much better place when creativity is all around us! Crafty hugs, Lisa Stampin' Queen Creations Give The Queen A Call!

Perfect Words

As a rubber stamper and scrapbooker, I am always looking for the perfect words to add to my cards and pages. For me, there is nothing worse than getting my card or scrapbook page finished and then sitting at my desk staring at my design because I have no idea what words I want to use to convey just the right feelings. 

I know that it seems kind of silly that a person like me has trouble sometimes finding just the right words; I do write a twice weekly blog after all. But wording can be just like inspiration, and even creative people need a little help once in awhile. So where do you go for help with the perfect words? Well, for me, I look to a few different places. 

Rubber Stamps- Once rubber stamping became a huge hit in the creative industry about 15 to 20 years ago, you could find a stamp for just about everything, except words or phrases. I am so happy to say that has changed. Now, you can find a word or phrase stamp on all different topics. Check them out the next time you're at your local rubber stamp or scrapbook store. 

The Internet- The Internet is a great resource for finding words, phrases, and quotes to use on your cards and scrapbook pages. All you need to do is type “Perfect words for cards and scrapbook pages” into your search engine and in seconds you will have access to thousands of websites on this topic. 

Books- Books are another great way to gather this information. Check out your local Barnes & Noble, your local library, or Amazon.com. You'll be amazed at what you can find.

A Note from Me

I want to remind you to be sure you have permission from whichever resource you choose to use. You do not want to get into trouble over copyright infringement. A lot of this information is free to use and it should say so. But it never hurts to take that extra step, just to be sure.

Thanks for joining me. Until next time… 

Crafty Hugs,

Lisa

Stampin’ Queen Creations

Fabulous News!!!

Hi Everyone, 

I am so excited to share this fabulous news with everyone! I designed a bag for Daily Window Bags & Purses and I decided to enter it into their monthly contest. I won 1^st Place in the contest!!! I won a new bag of my choice from their wonderful line of bags and purses and $100.00. How totally cool is that!

 If you want to check out my 1^st Place winning bag, check out their blog at http://dailywindowwordpresscom.blogspot.com/ You can also check their blog for information on how you can also submit to their monthly contests. You might win 1^st Place too! Good Luck!

Until next time…

Happy Holidays!

Lisa

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Snowman Paint Can & Wearable Pin

I really hope that you enjoyed my last post on Monday, because I decided to carry on the snowman theme by creating a snowman paint can gift container with a detachable, wearable pin. 

This project is fabulous for a few reasons. The first one being that I saved money by using the same rubber stamp on all the projects. Who doesn’t want to save money around the holidays? The second reason is the paint can is the perfect gift container to put your card and ornament in to give to your loved ones. And the last reason is by creating the snowman pin as part of the decoration on the paint can, you can give your loved ones an additional gift with the wearable snowman pin! On top of all of that, it is so darn cute, it’s bound to make your loved ones really happy. What could be better than that?!

If those aren’t reasons enough for you to create this project for your loved ones, let me give you one more. It’s fast and easy to make, and I don’t know about you, but those are two words that I love to hear during the holiday season. 

I hope that I have inspired you to try to stop the madness of the holiday season by sitting down, picking up your rubber stamps and scrapbook supplies, and create something fun for your loved ones. You are sure to put a smile on your family’s faces and I guarantee that it will put a smile on yours. 

I hope that you enjoy the holidays with your family and friends, and I wish you lots of love, good health and happiness for the holidays and all year long!

Happy Holidays!

Lisa

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Snowman Paint Can & Wearable Pin

Materials

• Paint can- gallon size
• Pattern paper- two different types
• Ribbon- 2” wide
• Basswood- 3/32” wide  
• White card stock
• Vivid! dye based inkpad-Black by Clearsnap
• Watercolor pencils
• Wire- 24 gauge Silver & White
• Shake-On Beads
• Paper, Rock, Scissors glitter paint
• Aleene’s Paper Glaze
• Aleene’s Memory Glue
• Aleene’s Platinum Bond Glass and Bead Slick Surfaces Adhesive
• White acrylic paint
• Wire cutters
• Scissors
• Exacto knife
• Paintbrush
• Pin back
• Hole punch
• Rubber Stamps:
• Snowman with Heart
• Hanging Ornament

Instructions

Cover entire paint can with two different pattern papers. Stamp snowman once and ornament six times on white card stock with black inkpad. Color images with watercolor pencils. Cut out images. 

With silver wire, make six small loops. Adhere to the back of ornaments. Cut white wire and shape into six ornament hangers. Attach to ornament loops.

For the pin, stamp snowman on white card stock with black inkpad. Color with watercolor

pencils. Cut out. Lay image on wood. Trace with a pencil. Cut wood with Exacto knife. Paint

wood with white paint. Let dry. Adhere stamped image to wood. 

Apply a thin layer of Paper Glaze over stamped image. Let dry for 24 hours. When dry,

adhere green glitter paint to holly leaves. Add red and white beads with Glass & Bead

adhesive. See picture for placement if needed. Adhere pin to back of wood image.

Tie ribbon around paint can. Adhere ornaments to paint can. Attach snowman pin to

center of the bow.

Here is another variation of the Snowman Paintcan

Christmas Card and Ornament

It’s time for another Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop! This time we were supposed to post either a Holiday themed project or be part of “When Creativity Knocks Sock Monkey Challenge”. I didn’t get a chance to get involved with the Sock Monkey mania, but with this hop you’ll have the opportunity to check out both themes! I hope that enjoy all the holiday hopping. Don’t forget to click on the blinkie on the right side of my blog to hop from one blog to another. Have Fun!!

I have been busy working on some projects to share with all of you. The first project being a card and ornament set that I made a few years ago for my family that I updated a little bit for the current holidays. 

I absolutely love making cards for the holiday season for my family and friends, and if times allows I also love to create ornaments that match my cards. Your cards and ornaments don’t need to be elaborate unless you have the time and if that’s the case, I say go for it! Since my time is usually limited around the holidays, I like to keep my projects fairly simple, but always something fun! Snowmen are my favorite holiday characters and I wanted to create something with these cute snowman rubber stamps that I have. They were just perfect for the projects I wanted to create.

I hope that you’ll consider creating an ornament that matches your cards, because your card may get pitched out with the Christmas tree, but the ornament will be saved forever!

Thank you for joining me. Until next time…

Lisa

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Christmas Card and Ornament

Materials

• Cardboard
• Card stock- White, Blue and Purple
• Pattern paper
• Wire 24 gauge- Blue
• Eyelets- Blue
• Snowflake brad
• Various fibers
• Ribbon- Blue
• Watercolor pencils
• Trim- Silver
• Slot punch
• Hole punch
• Aleene’s Memory Glue  
• Paper, Rock, Scissors white glitter paint
• Vivid! Dye Based inkpad- Black
• Rubber Stamps:
• Snowman with Heart
• Snowman Banner

 Instructions

 For the card, fold blue card stock to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut papers as follows: White card stock   4” x 5 ¼”, Purple card stock 3” x 4 ¼”, and Snowflake pattern paper 3 ¼” x 4 ½”. Use  slot  punch on all four corners of white card stock. Attach pattern paper to white card stock. Adhere papers to blue card.

Cut white card stock 2 ½” x 4”. Cut white and purple card stock in tag shapes. Stamp

snowman on white tag with black inkpad. Color image with watercolor pencils. Adhere white tag to purple tag. Punch hole in top. Add various fibers. Adhere to card front.

 For the ornament, cut cardboard and blue card stock 3 ¼” x 4 ½”. Cut pattern paper

 3” x 4 ¼”. Cut white card stock 2 ½” x 4”.  Stamp snowman on white card stock with black inkpad. Color with watercolor pencils. Layer papers and adhere together. Adhere silver trim around the edges.

Punch two holes at the top and one hole at the bottom. Attach eyelets. Tie fibers through

the bottom eyelet. Attach snowflake brad.

 For the top portion of the ornament, stamp snowman banner on a scrap piece of white

card stock with black inkpad. Color image with watercolor pencils. Cut out image. Lay
image on cardboard. Trace image with a pencil. Cut out.

Adhere stamped image to cardboard. Punch two holes in the bottom of the image. Attach

eyelets. Cut two pieces of wire 6” long. Wrap around a small paintbrush. Attach wire to
both stamped images.

  Make a small loop with ribbon. Adhere to the back of snowman banner to form a hanger.