It was very hard to get any pictures without a ton of people at the booth as we were very busy, however, I got a chance just before we opened to snag a few. The ladies of Graphic 45; Diane, Aimee and Charee did such an amazing job decorating the booth. There were alot of oooh's and aaaah's!
Thank you ladies for all your amazing layouts!
Happy Crafting,
Candy
CHA was such a blast and the entire team is so thankful for all that stopped by to say hi and check out our booth and three new collections! Everyone was such a treat to meet!
So I wanted to be sure to get some pictures to you, so here goes...
It all happens here, the beautiful Anaheim Convention Center, the host of the 2010 CHA Show.
Then it takes a lot of parts and pieces to create a booth, so I could not resist taking a picture of this crate, it is so Graphic 45!
Then there is the clock tower that was erected at the top of the booth that you can see across the show floor, it was stunning and all lit up.
Then there is the booth and displays themselves. I will be posting more booth photos this weekend. I just wanted to get some pictures up for you.
The giveaways were so much fun. Each day we gave away a selection of display items handcrafted by Diane Schultz, the owner and designer of Graphic 45. We will be sharing pictures of all the winners soon.
And then there were the crowds of "crazy for Graphic45" ladies all saying hello!
And then there was Wayne, our MAN CRAFTER checking out The Proper Gentleman collection. He absolutely loved it. I told him to pose for me and that I would make him the next "Tim Holtz" as the ladies would go crazy over him! Thanks Wayne for being such a good sport!
Well that is it for now, keep an eye out for more pictures from the team!
Happy Crafting,
Candy
Mandy Harrell aka Craftysprinkles has been our January Guest Designer this month. Earlier, before CHA, I promised that you would see these awesome magnets that she made! The suspense is over! Are they not fabulous? Why didn't I think of doing something like that?
Thank you Mandy for being our Guest Artist this month! You rock girl!
My apologies to you all for the blog being dead this past week. I was at CHA. The fact that everyone was so busy and could not do a blog post is a good thing, right? I do have a friend emailing me photos when she allowed me to borrow her camera. My camera of course died on me. Hopefully I can get some of those photos up of the Graphic 45 booth and the girls hard at work. The booth was "amazing", but that is not surprising. It has never "not" been amazing! The work that Graphic 45 does "in house" blows me away!
We all had such a good time at CHA. Five of our design team were there for the show. Graphic 45 was so kind and took us to Bubba Gumps on Tuesday night. It was great to spend time everyone.
Happy Scrapping!
Susan Dupre
Melanie Forbes has so many goodies, that I couldn't show them to you in just one post. So, lucky you - you get to see more of her work in today's post!
Here is a lo she did for us when we chose her to be featured. Isn't it beautiful?
Thank you Melanie for being our Featured Artist this month. Remember, that you too could be randomly picked to be a featured artist on our blog. Be sure to keep uploading your artwork to our gallery at our Graphic 45 Ning site.
Happpy Scrapping,
Susan
We are all heading to the show, well some us are already there and some of us have our fingers crossed that we get there!
Just a reminder...Graphic 45 Daily CHA Raffle
Why: If you have ever seen our booth at CHA – you might be aware we have a lot of amazing samples! How great would it be to leave CHA with samples in tote ready to put out in your store? What if the samples were created by none other Diane Schultz, Owner and exclusive designer of Graphic 45 papers?
How: For every $100 you spend on your order at CHA you will be awarded a G45 Raffle ticket. Every day at CHA we will be gathering at 1:30pm giving the first 50 crafters at the booth a new 8x8 or 12x12 paper pad and raffling off a gorgeous package of our display samples.
Where: CHA – New and beautifully improved Graphic 45 Booth #1883
When: 1:30pm Daily; Beginning Sunday, January 24th- Wednesday, January 27th.
Sunday’s Raffle- We will be featuring our On the Boardwalk Collection. The first 50 lucky crafters will receive a free 8x8 or 12x12 On the Boardwalk paper pad! The raffle package will feature beautiful display samples that were created using our new On the Boardwalk collection– over a $500 value.
Monday’s Raffle - We will be featuring our A Proper Gentleman Collection. The first 50 lucky crafters will receive a free 8x8 or 12x12 A Proper Gentleman paper pad! The raffle package will feature beautiful display samples that were created using our new A Proper Gentleman collection– over a $500 value.
Tuesday’s Raffle - We will be featuring our Le’ Romantique. The first 50 lucky crafters will receive a free 8x8 or 12x12 Le’ Romantique paper pad! The raffle package will feature beautiful display samples that were created using our new Le’ Romantique collection– over a $500 value.
Wednesday’s Raffle – Grand Prize Raffle – We will be featuring all three of our new collections; On the Boardwalk, Le’ Romantique, and A Proper Gentleman. We will be raffling off a combination of display samples featuring all three collections –over a $1000 value! Don’t miss this opportunity to take home an amazing display for your store!
*Must be present at raffle to win.
**Winner is responsible for shipping prizes from CHA.
***Sample packages cannot be picked up until Wednesday, January 27th at 2pm.
Susan has made the most adorable "manly" card using Graphic 45 paper from "Fashionista" and from our new release "A Proper Gentlemen". She also used Couture Cardstock paper in green.
I have to say you are going to "love" what she did for the blog today. Oh my gosh, can I say cute? Look at these adorable stick pin figures! She said that the pins were all mangled, and she decided to use them anyway. What is that saying "another man's trash is another man's treasure"? Well, there ya go! Be a pack rat, and never throw anything away. Look at what you can do with it!
See? Are they NOT just the cutest? How creative! Then Mandy did this beautiful journal cover below:
I am going to leave it that. Well, because I am going to save her next project for later! Mandy made some adorable refrigerator magnets, but you'll just have to wait to see them. You will just have to keep coming back to the blog to see when I post them!
Check back tomorrow though. I'll be posting more work from the girls using Couture Cardstock .
Here are two cards by design team member Natasha Prymak.
Super cute! I recognize that key paper on the "New Home" card. It is from our new release "Le Romantique"!
Below is a beautiful card made by Stacy Cohen.
Hope you have been inspired! Couture Cardstock is wonderful quality cardstock. It is perfect whether you are making cards, lo's or other projects. We at Graphic 45 love teaming up with them.
We will be showing more work by the design team later using their products. Hope you have enjoyed today's cards made by our talented design team. Thanks girls!
Happy Scrapping,
Susan
Every month we randomly go the gallery at the Graphic 45 Ning Site in search of artists that capture our eye. Keep in mind, this is different from our Guest Designer contest. This could be "anyone" who has artwork in our gallery.
This month, after looking through the gallery my eyes landed on the beautiful work of Melanie Forbes! Interestingly enough Melanie was just featured in an article about "Whos Who in Scrapbooking" for the Australian magazine Scrapbook Creations. Here are a couple of pages from that article telling us a little bit about Melanie and showing off some of her amazing work:
Here are some other examples of Melanie's work. Take a look at the close-up of that house in the shadow box - wow!
This week I' ll be showing some more work of Melanie's as well as work of Mandy Harrell, who is our Guest Designer this month. You will also be seeing more work from our design team using Couture Cardstock . We are still having that relay with them, so stay tuned!
Until then...happy scrapping,
Susan
Our Past Craft Show Booth @ CHA Summer 2009 in Orlando, Florida
GRAPHIC45 RAFFLE AT CHA!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Come by booth #1883!
