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The Second day of CHA

This second day at CHA was an other great day. I taught a whole lot of Gluber make and takes today and every one loves to see how easy flower making will be from now on!

I have some new pictures to share with you, today it's Salt Air.

And this little video of Lindsay!

 

 

To finish today post I would like to share with you some more fun Salt Air projects!

by Debbie

 

by Gudrun

 

And last a layout made by myself :)

The flower is, of course, create with a Gluber!

Thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow!

Natasja

 

 

Good morning on the second day of CHA

Good morning blogreaders, here is an other post by your CHA-reporter :)

What about starting the day with 3 winners?!

Social Club craft kit is won by Audrey Yeager

Salt AIr craft kit is won by Bea

UPcycle is won by Kristy

 

Congrats ladies!! Please send you address info to cathie at cosmocricket dot com

I will make sure to check back in later today with some more pictures from the show!

Natasja

 

 

First day of CHA

Hi everyone! Like promised here I am again, for the second time day. Now to show you some pictures of the booth. Since we have 4 days at CHA I thought I would show you a small part every day, Today starting with Social Club.

 

We also have this nice couple at the booth :)

So that's it for today, hope you all enjoyed this little peek at the booth. Tomorrow I will be back with an other line...and the winners (yes there will be multiple) of today! If you haven't entered your comment jet make sure to check the post that was put up this morning!

Natasja

 

 

Shortest post ever

Goodmorning Cosmo Cricket blogreaders, I am Natasja Verbeek and I was thinking it would be fun to keep you updated during this CHA! I am about to go out for breakfast and than I will be of to the Convention Centre :) The booth looks awesome so we are ready for every one to visit us.

I will make sure to make lots of pictures during the day so I can show you everything tonight.

Before I leave I would like to ask you all to let us know which line of the new release is your favorite.....who knows, you could win it!

Bye for know, will be back tonight!

 

 

Congratulations to our New Design Team Member

You all have voted and a winner has been chosen!

Congratulations to all who were originally nominated. A special thanks to everyone that promoted our sneak peek in an effort to become part of the top ten. And, huge Congratulations to the top ten who must all be amazing in a variety of ways to have such awesome support.

Before we get to the winner, can I tell you that these contests give me a great way to discover new talent. Out of the many people that were nominated, I only had heard of a handful of you. I have checked out several since then and am hoping to feature many new artists on our blog in the near future.

If you would like a shot at being featured on our blog, we need to know about you. We love it when we receive emails with projects, or get to see what you've posted to our fanpage! Did you know that the magazines and many other scrapbook companies also follow our blog and facebook page? They may discover you too! Besides, I love when you solve the problem of "what to post" for me! So, let your artistic talent shine!!

Onto the winner.... It is with much excitement that we add Lady Grace Belarmino to our design team! We are so excited to have her join us and can't wait to see what she does with our product!

We are off to the show super early in the morning. If I find a minute I will update you all from there. We had a planning meeting yesterday and here's the rough schedule.

Thursday:
Set up Booth.

Friday:
Frisbee on the beach
Lunch at an outdoor cafe
Antique Shopping
Dinner

Well, after we got the important stuff planned, we decided to end the meeting. See you at the show!

A Big Reveal

I asked for special permission to be able to spill the beans on a HUGE project I have spent over a year of my life with. And guess what?!?!?! I got it!

You, my dear blog followers, are the first to hear, see and learn about a line of products I have designed in partnership with EK Success. It has nearly killed me keeping this secret and so with great excitement, I would like to introduce you to what I call, "Fashion Crafting."

Fashion Crafting is a little bit different than jewelry making (although it can result in jewelry), easier than sewing (although you may use a needle and thread) and as much fun as scrapbooking (especially if you love to embellish things).

Well here, let me just show you.

Remember all those days when the blog was not published. All those days when I complained of being totally overwhelmed? All those paper flower tutorials? Well, now you all know why I was so busy and so fascinated with flowers!

Below are some of my prototypes. Before anything in this set could become a product, I had to create a mock-up first. I have literally hand cut hundreds of fabric flowers in the past several months! I thought it would be fun for you to see a little bit of the process.

(The yellow push-pins will not be included. But there will be kits for making gorgeous headbands and hair accessories like this one.)


(And kits for making jewelry cuffs, bibs, necklaces and more.)


(And everything you need to make all the flowers shown in this post!)

Here's a prototype of the packaging, in case you were curious.


So, if you're going to be at CHA, please drop by EK's booth, #1547 to see the complete line. The below schedule shows when I'll be in their booth myself. Come see me so we can play!

Make and Takes
Saturday, Jan 29th, 12 noon – 2pm
Sunday, January 30th, 10am – 12 noon

Demo's
Every day of the show from 2-3:00pm

While you're there, check out the display item I made for them out of products in the collection..... and get a photo of yourself with it...... it would make an awesome scrapbook page! Here's a sneak.

Design team - Tips and Tutorials

Hi everyone! Wendy Sue here - and I'm excited to share a simple little tutorial with you all today.

I used my silhouette die-cutting machine to cut out this fun little gift box from this pretty yellow paper from the Togetherness line.

It's cute, but it looks a bit naked, right? Let's dress it up a bit with a simple little flower/bow.

 

Step 1: Cut several strips of paper. This one is a bit larger so it would be easier to show the steps, but the strips for the finished project I'm sharing here are each 1"x3". This is something you could vary depending on how big you want you final piece to be.

 

Step 2: Fold in the top two corners. After you fold the corners, fold the top down about 1/4".

 

Step 3: Gently fold in half length-wise. Don't crease it, just bend slightly.

 

Step 4: Fold each half in toward the center and than back over on itself

 

Step 5: Flatten the center fold and tuck the two outside folds underneath - staple to secure.

 

Step 6: Repeat steps 1-5 for each paper strip...I made 10 for this project. Don't worry if they don't all look exactly the same. (with the smaller size (below), I actually stapled most of them lenghtwise because the staple was bigger than the folded end - it doesn't matter which way you do it, but with the larger size, it's easier to glue them down if they are flat)

 

Step 7: Puch a circle from patterned paper and use hot glue to attach each piece. 
**NOTE: This would be an excellent way to use the new Glubers! You could either place the Gluber directly on top of the punched circle or just skip the punched circle altogether**

 

Step 8: Continue attaching all of the pieces. You can bend, twist, and otherwise arrange as desired.

 

Step 9: Cover the center. I used a large button with ribbon tied through the holes.

 

Step 10: Add to your gift box. You could also use this as an accent on a card, page, gift box, gift bag etc.

 

Have a great weekend!

 

The Winners and The Hopefuls!

What a week! Thanks for all the support and excitement over our new lines. It's now time to announce our winners.

Congratulations to our lucky commentor, Mary... AKA Biker Granny who said, "Beautiful papers. I would have to say that Salt Air is my favorite! Thanks for the chance to win! :)"

Congratulations to our lucky Facebook Fan, Lea Lawson!

And, I am just finishing figuring out how to post our first official poll. It should be up momentarily for you to vote on our lucky DT hopefuls. So, please don't vote by commenting below because we will not be counting those votes, although congratulations comments and such would be welcomed.

While you wait, here are your top ten. (Ladies, if you send us links to your blogs or an image of a Cosmo Cricket project you would like to show off, we'll add them here!)

In random order:

Angela Fehr

 

Carisa (ladyguineveresinkyfaeries)

Carly Gannon

 

Diane Campbell Payne (Capadia Designs)

Fabi Ormerod

Gini Gagle

Jennie McGarvey

 

Tammy Skinner

Lady Grace Belarmino

Kelly Vandermolen

The poll will start immediately upon posting (as soon as I figure out how to do that.. I am hoping mere minutes) and will continue until midnight on Tuesday, January 25.

Thanks again everyone! I hope you all have a great weekend and come back on Monday for my big announcement!

Introducing Glubers!

UPDATE: I just watched this and realized the lighting is so harsh it makes it hard to see what we're doing. Maybe we can pull off a better video for you all tomorrow. We shall see. Thanks evryone, have a great day!

 

Here it is! It would have been posted sooner, but I was working on another HUGE reveal for you all Monday morning........ I know, you didn't think it could get any better right?

Well, just wait!!! I think Monday's post will blow you away!!!

 

There's More to Come!

Remember these?

We'll be showing you our brand new products we used to make these super awesome flowers tomorrow! You won't want to miss it!