Latest & Greatest Products: March/April 2010
03/30/2010 at 5:00 am | Posted in Hot Trends, latest & Greatest, product, Uncategorized | 268 CommentsTags: BasicGrey, CK, Claudine Hellmuth Studio, Creating Keepsakes, Creating Keepsakes magazine, EK Success, giveaway, Jillibean Soup, Kim Jackson, latest & Greatest, patterned paper, products, Punches, Ranger Industries, Scrapbook, scrapbook supplies, Scrapbooking, stickers, TaDa Creative Studios
While creating every issue of Creating Keepsakes, we have a blast looking through all of the new scrapbooking products, trying to decide which ones will make our Latest & Greatest column. Of course, we never have enough space for all of the goodies we’d love to share with you. So we’ve decided share a few more of the producs that sparked our imaginations from each issue here on our blog—and we’ll give you the chance to win some of the fabulous products. Let’s get rolling!
Claudine Hellmuth Studios – Ranger Industries
We discovered the amazing line of Claudine Hellmuth Studio products from Ranger Industries at CHA back in January, and shared a couple of videos of sweet Claudine demonstrating just a few of the fun things you can do with her Sticky Back Canvas. You’ll love adding texture and color to your pages with this wonderful, on-trend line of products.
Eggdrop Soup – Jillibean Soup
With Easter right around the corner, our eyes are open for bunnies hopping down the bunny trail. The adorable Eggdrop Soup line from Jillibean Soup is a perfect addition to your stash, whether you’re looking for something to jazz up your Easter pages or a simple, cute new way to add a splash of springtime to your pages.
Double-Sided Edger Punches – EK Success
A sweet daisy chain will add just the right touch of springtime charm to your layouts—and with EK Success’ new Daisy Chain punch, you’ll have a true daisy chain, punched out on both sides. You’ll love this new punch design, as well as the others in the EK Success’ new line.
Green at Heart – BasicGrey
Earth Day is on April 22, and you’ll love adding a touch of “green” to your layouts with BasicGrey’s bright and fabulous new Green at Heart line. Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based inks, you can have a wonderful time creating a scrapbooking layout and feel good knowing that your paper is eco-conscious.
Wow, that’s a lot of scrapbooking goodness! How would you like to win some of these products for yourself? (Silly question—of course you would.) In addition to giving away the products above, you’ll also have a chance to win the E-I-E-I-O Collection from TaDa Creative Studios, as seen on page 48 of our March/April 2010 issue.
All you have to do to win one of these outstanding products is leave a comment telling us which of our Latest & Greatest products from the March/April 2010 issue of CK (or from this post) is your favorite and why you love it by Monday, April 5. We’ll draw five random winners (one for each product shown here) on or around April 6 and announce the winners on the giveaways tab located at the top of our blog.
Have a wonderful day!
Kim Jackson, senior editor
October Issue Scavenger Hunt
09/22/2009 at 3:49 am | Posted in Scavenger Hunt | 95 CommentsTags: adhesives, adhesives week, Ali Edwards, best adhesives, Beth Opel, Creating Keepsakes, dingbat font, Elizabeth Kartchner, embellishment storage, fall, font, giveaway, Jackie Stringham, Lori Fairbanks, Megan Hoeppner, Mou Saha, October, organization scrapbooking, products, scrapbooking organization, sewing, stamping, trimmer
Hello, dear friends of CK!
Today officially marks the FIRST DAY of FALL . . . oh yeah. Football games, pumpkins, crisp mornings and nature’s colorful displays are just incredibly energizing, aren’t they?
Since we’re feeling kind of festive here in the CK offices, we’re going to share the giddiness by giving away THREE awesome packages of fall and October-themed goodies!
How to enter the giveaway? Simply grab a copy of our October 2009 issue and search for the answers to the ten questions below.
Leave your response as a blog comment. The winners will be chosen from all correct responses by random drawing on Friday, Sept. 25, and announced here on the blog on Monday, Sept. 28. Happy hunting!
1. When is Adhesives Week on the CK blog?
2. How many photos did Becky Higgins include on her “Our Fall” layout?
3. Where does Mou Saha store her most-used embellishments?
4. Who manufactures the amazing trimmer featured in Lori Fairbanks’ “Latest & Greatest” column?
5. Who is the author of the quote on Elizabeth Kartchner’s “Shine” layout?
6. What product does Megan Hoeppner recommend in “Tips & Tricks” for achieving more evenly stamped images?
7. What dingbat font did Jackie Stringham use to create unique embellishments for her “What a Kid” layout?
8. In what month do we suggest “freshly baked cookies” as one of the month’s “Can’t-Miss Photos to Take“?
9. Ali Edwards uses a sewing machine manufactured in what decade?
10. What do all the photos used in layouts in the “10 Shortcuts for Fast & Beautiful Pages” feature have in common?
Good luck, crafty ones. Now get to guessing!
Beth Opel
Online Senior Editor, Creating Keepsakes
An Insider’s Look: CK’s June Issue
05/07/2009 at 10:31 pm | Posted in Insider's Look | 39 CommentsTags: Beth O, Beth Opel, CHA, CHA trade show, CK, CK June issue, Craft Hobby Association, Creating Keepsakes, Creating Keepsakes magazine, Insider's Look, magazine, Mandy Douglass, Maurianne Dunn, organization, products, scrapbook organization, Scrapbooking
Hello everyone! I’m here to give you the insider’s look for the June issue of Creating Keepsakes. It was such a fun issue to work on!
Here’s a sneak peak at the huge gallery of layouts (pages 50 to 89) we put together. It includes layouts on topics that CK readers say they scrapbook the most (birthdays, pets and more), and we planned this issue a little differently than normal. Here’s how we did it:
– We sent out page calls for many different topics, and the response was incredible!
– We each brought layout submissions on different topics and met together to decide which layouts to use. You should have seen the room full of beautiful layout inspiration! When we saw that array of possibilities, we knew it was going to be a good issue. I think Beth exclaimed more than once, “I just have to say that I love my job!”
Next, you’ll notice the beautiful space of Megan Hoeppner on pages 34 and 35. But Megan has a secret: this pink paradise doesn’t always look this way. Being a Creative Chaos organization girl, she actually hid some things away in the guest bedroom before her space was photographed. You can see more of Megan’s space online here.
(Photo courtesy of Mandy Douglass)
Lastly, on pages 91 to 95, you’ll see our favorite product picks from the CHA trade show. You got a little bit of a behind-the-scenes look at what we do at CHA when we first started the blog, but here’ a little extra insight into what we do when walking the show. Everyone who goes to CHA takes a portion of the show floor to walk and take notes on what we see—we visit every scrapbooking booth. (I had someone ask me at the Winter CHA show if I ever looked at the notes I took. I told him I refer to them over and over!)
Each night we discuss what we saw and then once we get back to the office, we meet together to decide what to feature from the show. It’s such a difficult decision to narrow down what to feature. Because we saw so many amazing products at the Winter show, you’ll also see some of our CHA picks in next month’s “Latest and Greatest”!
So here’s the question: what inspired you the most in the June issue of Creating Keepsakes? Leave a comment for this post by Monday, May 11, and I’ll choose a random winner to receive some scrapbooking goodness! Or–better yet–show me what inspired you the most by participating in our CK & Me challenge all through the month of May. Either way, you could be a winner!
Maurianne Dunn, Associate Editor
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