So much excitement I can't even stand it!!!!! CHA and Cha Cha Cha Changes!!!!!

Hi there!!! It's Kristi signing in today! So I know I am a very bad blogger, the girls know this, I know this and I am sure you do too! In fact, it is my goal to be a better blogger this year! I am starting with my personal blog and then I hope to do better on this one too!!!!
Ok so you know if I am blogging that means there is something VERY exciting!!!!!
Actually... There are a lot of reallllly exciting things... Some I can share some I can't... Some I can give sneaks of... some I can't! Hee Hee Hee I just love the suspense!!!!! Ok so first off... I had an extremely exciting 3 days at CHA! I got to meet some wonderful designers, Tim Holtz, Heidi Swapp, Teresa Collins, Mr. Bazzil himself, and more but my brain is on overload! Those were the really exciting ones!

Those of you that are Scrap Review fans, Mom and I FINALLY got to meet the WONDERFUL Ashley Harris!!! I just love her!

More importantly I got to see, touch, smell and taste (literally) everything coming out!!! Oh my goodness!!!!! I wanted to jump up and down and wriggle all around!!! LOL Ok enough non-sense! I've tried to pick my top 5 but that was impossible... So here are my "top picks"

Dear Lizzie By American Crafts!!! WOWWWW!!!! So Cute, Fun and Full of Life!!!!

Next up is my favorite line from Bo Bunny... "Roughin' It"

Love me some Jillibean Soup!!!!

OHHHHH Quick Quotes captured my heart.... Look for some exciting things to come on the forum with them.... Hee hee hee secrets secrets secrets....

mmmm... Petaloo!!!!!

And my #1 oh me oh my pick was....

Animal Stackers by 3 Bugs in a Rug

I just fell in love...

Ok... so now for the REALLY EXCITING PART...

oops... I was sworn to secrecy! but I will say that it has to do with changes coming very soon!!! Here is a sneaky sneaky (because those that know me know that I can not keep a secret! So bare with me this is very very difficult!!!!

I will promise you one thing YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!

toodles... for now!!!

KISS - Keep it Super Simple Challenge

It seems that each passing year in the recent future has all of us cutting back a little more and a little more. We are becoming more cautious with our spending and more realistic with what we REALLY need in our lives. So along those lines my challenge to you is to keep it simple.... your card or layout may use only ONE (or none) piece of patterned paper and only ONE embellishment. You can have whateve you like for a title or sentiment but keep it simple - one embellishment and one pp. Come join the fun! You will recieve one ticket per entry into the grand-prize drawing!!!

1st Anniversary Crop

Can you believe it, we have been online for ONE WHOLE YEAR! Isn't it amazing how quickly time passes?

To celebrate our 1st Anniversary (the anniversary where PAPER would be appropriate in traditional wedding annivesary gifts), we're having a BIG anniversary crop! Please join us for the fun!!

Crop Dates: Monday, January 4th through Sunday, January 31st.
Events: card and layout challenges, games, prizes and, as always, LOTS of FUN!
GRAND PRIZE: a $50 Visa gift card to spend as you'd choose --- hopefully on some sweet scrappy supplies for yourself!
How to Win: Participate as much as you can to receive raffle tickets. A winning raffle ticket will be drawn on Monday, February 1st. The more you participate, the more you increase your chances of winning. Click here to check it out.

Holiday Ornaments with a Tutorial!

Well I came across this GREAT tutorial of some holiday ornaments. They are beautiful, 3-d and made primarily of my favorite ingredient - PAPER!! here is a link to the tutorial on YouTube and here are the ornaments that I made! The bigger one, I scaled up from the tutorial. As you make your strips of paper longer, you have to add more to keep it full.If you play with it, you'll figure out the right quantity of strips for each length. If you make an ornament, please upload it to our gallery and link it to the challenge thread Here. I can't wait to see what you make!

Nov/Dec Card Challenge #4

I would like to see you make a see through card! You can re-purpose packing from some of your scrap embellies or use sheets of transparencies like I did.

Here is my example:

November Card Challenges #2 and #3

Here are TWO more card challenges for you!

#2: Make a card that has a special pocket/place for a gift card.
#3: Make gift tags for Christmas gifts.

I'll post my samples as soon as I have them available! :)

ALSO!!
All Challenges posted this month are being carried over until December 15th... to give everyone a little more time to complete them with Thanksgiving coming up at the end of the month.

AND THERE'S MORE!!
We'll also be having a GRAND PRIZE! All creations posted for participation will receive a raffle ticket toward the GRAND PRIZE drawing! What is this GRAND PRIZE??? You'll have to check out the boards and stay tuned to find out! ;)

Photography Challenge

Hello Everyone! I would love to have you join us for a great photography challenge this month! This month is all about Being Thankful! In crazy times like these and this month being Thanksgiving, lets see some pictures on what we are "Thankful" for. This could be anything. The rules this month are to use the Third rule and be really creative! With this month, for every photo entry there will be a entry into a Grand Prize Drawing. Also in another thread I will post a layout or sketch challenge for you to use this month's photo which will be another entry. You have until the end of the 30th to complete this challenge as well as the layout/sketch.


Here is just one of the examples:

Thankful for transportation....



So please come and join us on this fun challenge!