Thursday, July 31, 2008

CHA CHICAGO - DAY TWO

After a good night's sleep - we hit the floor for a full Day Two!

One of the first stops - Heidi Grace and her new Reagan's Closet line - Stacy Hoover this line reminds me of your two little girls!


Bo Bunny has a cool mixed acrylic line of mini albums that they were just previewing at the show - not ready to ship quite yet. If I remember correctly, they are made of something a little different than acrylic to make them more plyable.

The Bazzill booth never disappoints - this time around we saw a cool "tag box" - a box of pre cut tags of different shapes in a nice variety of colors. Great little add on items.
Everyone is going clear and acrylic - Bazzill had plastic paper sheets - they were having fun going around to the various electronic cutters to see which manufacturers would cut it. Pretty soon we'll be cutting our own acrylic on our digital cutters.

More cardstock with the edge - holiday style - great warm colors too.
Bazzill Stitches fans - a cool circle template!

Lots of mini pom pom ribbons - including Bazzill - and a fun ruffled gingham duo for Christmas.
The always cool 7 Gypsies - new stacked self inking stamp sets:

And more 97% complete sticker sheets to add to your collection:
Our major score for the day - a signed copy of Ali Edwards new mini album idea book fresh off the press and only 10 copies to give out! We were #6 and #7 in line! And we got a quick shot with the gal herself. Don't be too jealous Loretta and Stacy.... :)
I have been a follower of Teresa Collins for YEARS - from 7 Gypsies days to Junkitz now to her own line - she is my shabby chic queen! Her new Halloween, Christmas and Recipe lines are super fun. And a cool new 8x8 size in many of these and some of her earlier releases. We all did her make n' takes and I got a personal photo with the queen herself!

There was so much at Making Memories that I couldn't decide what pics to include here - they have another great Halloween and Christmas line but these monochromatic lines were kinda cool too - I think there are 5 colors - red, brown, turquoise, green, and I can't remember the other one(s)...
And last but not least - for all the Quickutz fans - a new binder to hold all your dies in one place. Probably not the most portable - but a nice presentation for your scraproom. Plus new 2x2 alphabets and the deal of the day 4x8 dies with an entire alphabet on them for $39.99.
Those are the highlights. I have over 700 photos from these two days so obviously there were a number of manufacturers and lines not included here. But I thought you would enjoy seeing some of the ones that Steph and I liked the most.
Better start saving now!

Lori

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