CHA Giveaway Friday (and a bonus giveaway from Xyron)!

Who is ready for a CHA giveaway?  I posted on my FB page earlier this week that I was SO excited and lucky to meet Jen Allyson who is one of the designers for My Mind's Eye.  Here she is below - standing next to her newest line - Miss Caroline.

Now - I don't know how many of you out there are like me - I have no daughters and so really have nowhere to use pinks and purples and flowers and butterflies in my scrapbooking - but I LOVE THEM ANYWAY!!!!! I have piles and piles of pretty pastel papers and embellishments that I only break out about once a year, but they just make me happy - and so does Jen's new line! She was SO incredibly generous to let me bring some home with me - so I am sharing them with you!  Reply to this blog post and tell me how YOU would use these papers.  Contest will end at midnight on Monday (February 6th) and on Tuesday morning I will randomly pick a winner who will receive the following from the the Miss Caroline Dolled Up collection:

6 sheets 12x12 paper
6x6 pad
pins & buttons 
twine
pearl shapes
rub-ons
wooden die cut butterfly

I mean - come on...look at this stuff!

In addition - to celebrate Xyron's new collaboration with the fabulous Teresa Collins the winner will also receive one of her new Xs - pink with a houndstooth pattern!  These are GORGEOUS!

The winner will be announced on my FB page and notified by email.  Good luck everybody - can't wait to send this to a lucky winner!

**BONUS GIVEAWAY!!!!!!** Xyron is celebrating our collaboration with Teresa too!  Head to this link on Xyron.com and be entered to win one of three prize packs that include a Xyron 9" Creative Station, a Teresa Collins Signature Series Book and a 3-issue subscription to the rest of the series! 

Stay tuned for more CHA giveaways next week!

 

 

spur of the moment craftiness!

Here I am in all my overly-caffeinated, overly-sugared, not-enough-sleep glory at CHA!  A camera crew walked right up to the Xyron booth and asked me to demo the Creatopia (this actually happened SEVEN times on Tuesday morning) - and here is the result!  Enjoy!

Scrap Time - CHA Winter 10 - Creatopia by Xyron from Mark Giles on Vimeo.

The people of CHA

I LOVE craft stuff.  I love seeing it, I love touching it, I love dreaming about its possibilities...and all of those loves come together at CHA more than anywhere else.  But MORE than the craft stuff - I love the PEOPLE I get to spend a few days with every summer and winter.  Some are old industry friends, some are new store owners, some I've shared a few adventures (and cocktails) with, some I've only previously known through email or the phone.  But they are my FAVORITE thing about CHA!  Yay people!

Who doesn't love some Canadians?  Especially when it is Vicki Boutin - whose style and creativity I LOVE, and my buddy Catherine Tachdijian - head cool chick at Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine!

I didn't get out of the Xyron booth much...but when I did the first place I went was the Bazzill booth for a hug from two of my favorite people - Frani and Joey!

Celebrating a successful show with some of my co-workers (and the greatest friends a girl could ask for) - Braden, Julie, Helen and Corey.  We TOTALLY lucked in to the kitchen table at Buca di Beppo where...if you go...you MUST have their Ultimate Raspberry Lemon Drop.  HELLO!

Ok, ok...I had to sneak in a photo of one of my favorite booths.  This greeted us every morning when we walked in to the expo center - a booth filled with nothing but gianormous animals made entirely of yarn!  No demo table, no order center, no paper work, just a giant GOOD MORNING! and WELCOME! to everyone who passed by. 

And last, but not least, you might be saying to yourself "well surely Beth took a few photos of the Xyron booth - I mean, after all, she was in there for four days straight!".  But...uhhh...no.  It was SUPER cool though - and you don't have to take my word for it - Xyron was awarded 2nd place by CHA for best booth!  (I did get a photo of that - even though I didn't go to the 7am award ceremony.  I mean come on - have you met me?)  Congrats Xyron!