CHA 2012 - some inspiration........

Hey - back again and I should warn you that this is a photo heavy post so apologies if it takes forever to load!!  I should also point out that I did not receive any compensation from any of the companies whose products are shown here - this is simply a small collection of snaps of things that inspired me at the show.  Maybe some of them will inspire you too - I hope you enjoy them anyway :)

 Beach anyone??

Love the empty frames with the scrap pages hanging :)

Very cute snowmen!

Loved the whole Tim Holtz display!!

 Xmas goodies :)

This one was for my niece - she's a huge Hello Kitty fan!

 Gorgeous colours with these inks!

         And finally (not something I usually do as I really do not like photos of myself!!!) - that's me, the tall one, with the man himself, after getting my signed stamp set.  We came across this by accident and managed to get in the queue fairly early on and were lucky enough to get a stamp set :)

It was an exhausting 4 days but very good fun - I did several workshop/classes and got some lovely goodies from them and also did lots of  'make & takes' at the booths.  I need to sort through all my free stash and then I think I'm going to do a blog candy giveaway - it's nice to share :)



  It was also lovely to meet a couple of fellow Outlawz - Pat and Marie - so nice to meet you in person!  Plus I got to say hello to Krista (Saturated Canary) who was showing some of her new rubber stamps (through Little Darlings ).  All in all, not a bad way to spend some time :)

Christmas in July!

Well it seems like it's Christmas in July all over web-land at the minute!!  So many challenges are taking up this theme that it all seems very festive - regardless of the scorching heatwave many of us are enduring in the States - and we're no different over at The Outlawz with this Friday's challenge :)

Our sponsor this month is the wonderful Megan of Dillybeans and she has some fabulous Christmas images available to use, along with many other cute and edgy designs.

For my card, I used the 'Snow Family' digi and added a few musical notes and the "Fa la la" on Adobe PSE10.  I coloured it with Copics but went for a zingy, non-traditional colour scheme for a change.

I also added some Stickles for a touch of glitter and a few punched snowflakes with gems - I'm trying to keep the Xmas cards nice and simple this year!

I would like to enter this into the following -

http://dillybeanschallenge.blogspot.com/ - sparkle and shine

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ - free for all

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Christmas in July

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ - Christmas in July

http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/ - Christmas in July

Thanks for popping in - please do go and take a look at the rest of the Outlawz DT's work - you'll be so glad you did :)

I'm heading off to CHA this Sunday so I'm very excited!!!  I havn't been to Chicago before so it's a double whammy of excitement :D   I'll have some scheduled posts ready for the week but will try and pop in with some news and info if I can.  I'm doing a number of workshops - Altered Art by May Arts, My Little Shoebox, Mix and Match Collage Canvas  - so I'm hoping to come away with lots of inspiration!!!

Let me know if any of you are going too - would love to meet up :)