day one... CHA, chicago!...eandass

Ahhh. . . the start of the CHA show and Fanny is ready to go. Open, open,open!

First stop... Pinecone Press to check out my HOCUS & POCUS line... isn't it cute?

Look at the silly monsters paper.... i drew that!!!

Cute little make and take that i got to make...

Look at all the cards you can make with these... i see a class in the future!

Did i say that it will ship in two weeks... and we will have it at Ben's.... super cool!

There's my Bat Girl... she is so cute!

Do, do, do, do ... bat girl!

There's my logo! And my bat girl... and my name in lights... i mean, on paper!

a super cute flip book!

look at those stacked pumpkins!

Here's a sneek peek at Cookies and Co. and Frosty and Co... coming next month ( if i ever get done drawing!!!)

Next ... we went and made a 6x12 canvas album with Prima and Donna Downey.

Here are all the goodies...

and viola!

Me with Donna Downey.... Fanny was celebrity struck!

Next stop... Maya Road... who is making the best ribbons and lace ever!

yummy!!!

pleated flowers from pre-pleated ribbon.

a cool canvas art piece from Canvas Corp.

more Canvas Corp. samples

and the first of many dress forms... this one in burlap

Look at these little 4x4 mini canvas'... lovely!

So... i took alot of scrapbook page samples for those of you entering the FAIR.... these are all ideas for BLUE RIBBON PAGES!!! Take a look... these are from Crate Paper

Just a cute idea with flowers

ahhhhhh.... STEAMPUNK!

All from Graphic 45... STEAMPUNK is the period where Art Deco met the Industrial Revolution... and I love it!

Pop-up steampunk card

steampunk scarpbook layout

oh things are getting curiouser and curiouser.....

With Graphic 45's Alice in Wonderland Halloween line... shipping also in two weeks

a little more alice in Graphic 45 land!

Look at this hat they made with their papers and flowers...

and the top is a clock!

he's late, he's late for a very important date

and last but not least.. sweet little Graphic 45 bird houses

beautiful new Christmas ribbon from Rennaisance Ribbons

yet a few more scrapbook pages ideas

and this one... so cute

no way ... TWO new zentangle books and the one on the right is done by Marie Browning... calligrapher !!!

Me and Suzanne McNeill... who wants to talk to me ( an Karen) about a Za-doodle book... what??? Really???

zentangled shoes.... cute!

a taste of the new basic grey... always basically great!

this tree is the new centerpiece of my soon to be craft garage... oh yeah!

love it... that is so me... super cool!!!

One of my favorite scrapbook page samples...simple cute

that is all accordian folded paper there... cool

new retro buttons from bazzill

beautiful accordian folded flowers... layered and....

HUGE! This was like 16"x20"

Oh and leave it to Tim Holtz to create a die for making accordian folded flowers

and a retro snowman die... cool

and look at that tree... love it!

Just a little Tim display with some of his new die cuts

a beautiful card using some new texture templates from sizzix

a cool look at 7 gypsies... more to come!

these rose ribbons were everywhere in every color

another dress form... tim holtz style

tim's new cubbie boxes

and here they are all Tim'ed up!

oh heck... not another dress form....

sweet little scrapbook page

love this one

what are you kidding me... another dress form... for halloween?

Ok, this is all for my friend Judith...

the colorful life from DieCutsWithAView... it has Frieda Kalo written all over it. And very bright and bold and beautiful

Ek Success bought the license for American Girl and turned it into little girls craft projects...

What? We could have a phot booth if we order this... count me in!

Kaisercraft had some great surfaces to embellish... love this Christmas tree

yet another sweet scrapbook page layout

this is one of jenni bowlins new vellum butterflies

just a few more samples from Studio 460

a mini page

a fabulous mixed media piece

a page made from the new paper company cooking line....

these are cool from "House of Three" a new company with Heidi Swapp, Rhonda Ferrarrah and the Pink Paislee folks... this is like pleather that can be colored... really cool!

more ruffles... they were everywhere.

Here's a ruffle and a dress form... really? I have seen it all now... but it's cute

Apothocary jars filled with paper crafted goodies... were also everywhere. Loved these

more glass jars

another scrapbook page

and more layouts

a page from Prima flowers... with their new scrapbook jewely

One of the Prima girls made this necklace from a group of flowers that they sell... love ti!

doodlebug... say no more

ahhh and their pre-stitched buttons

you little sweet pea!

scrapbook ideas

Studi Calico redid old vintage cameras and now they are cool... look at the polaroid... wait til you see the paprs

scrapbkking again

Flat Fanny here posing with some dressed make by some guy who was a runner up in season 5..

And there he is holding Flat Fanny... her was very serious... but i can't remember his name

isn't that one so cool... those are all die cut leaves out of a organza type fabric

Ahhh... 7 Gypsies basic.

a few more parts and pieces from the line

a bit more of the Graphic 45 staples items

This is one of the cards that Elizabeth from the Elizabeth Craft Peel Off's papers... she'll be showing this one in her class

One of the card that Elis will be teaching at the store on September 9th in her peel - off's class

This is Elis, from ELizabeth Craft peel-offs

these looked great in the booth too!

Karen's cool fishie doodling

Both of these next two images were my favorites... i love the blues and the greens!

Karen's fabulous zentangling inside the Crafter's Workshop stencils! Beautiful!!!

Oh look at Karen's stuff here in the booth.... looking great!

Someone spilled a drink in my bag today at the show. Unfortunately we had a Flat Fanny casualty due to wetness. After a Zip Dry trip to the fix it hospital... she was ready to go at it again!

Here is Susan McShirley, owner of SRM Press and Jen Pohl, blog hostess for the SRM Press sticker idea blog getting ready to teach a sold old class!

www.srmstickers.blogspot.com

at the end of the day... all repaired and ready to take a class with SRM Press stickers. This was one of the only sold out classes at the show... and i get to get in so that i cam help with the set up.