Looking Forward to Spring- CHA Goodies and Trend Spotting!

Hello!

Have you heard of CHA?  It stands for Craft and Hobby Association.  Twice each year they have a convention where many of our favorite companies show off what they have coming out for the season.  Cheryl travels there each time and picks out all the goodies for our store.  She also takes some great classes with some true scrapbooking masters.  Doesn't it sound fun?  :)

I bet you're wondering what goodies she picked out right?  Here is a peek of some of things we'll be getting in this spring.  The arrival dates are set by the companies so we can't tell you when they'll be here right now but be sure to like us on Facebook to keep up to date on what we get in!

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Teresa Collins

Bo Bunny

Bella Blvd

Pink Paislee

Studio Calico

Pebbles

Americana

Special Delivery- Girl

Special Delivery- Boy

American Crafts

Project Life

New Core Kits

New Mini Kits

Crate Paper

Basic Grey

Stampendous

Tim Holtz

Echo Park

My Mind's Eye

We Are Memory Keepers

Simple Stories

Taylored Expressions

Lawn Fawn

Fancy Pants

Elizabeth Crafts

Chic Tags

As you can see we have a lot to look forward to this spring!!  Some of these things have already started to arrive- we received our Taylored Expressions order along with a few of Tim Holtz's new stamps and stencils.  We also have new Instagram Albums in from We R Memory Keepers and an SRM Sticker shipment here this week!


While Cheryl was at CHA, she also spotted a few trends we think will be big this year.  Here are a few you can look for:

Stencils
It seems like every company is coming out with their own stencils this year!  Teresa Collins has added embossing paste and tools to use with hers:

Heidi Swapp has her line of mists that work great with hers:

Hello
There were lots of 'hello' embellishments, diecuts, papers, and stamps to be seen!  Here is a favorite new die from Lawn Fawn (page by Melissa Mann):

Typewriters
There were a couple of really cute new lines with typewriters.  I love this one from Pink Paislee:

Instagram Related Products
Instagram is fun and of course we want to scrapbook our photostreams!  These new products make it easy to use square photos.  Take a peek at these mini albums from We R Memory Keepers:

And this fun banner kit by Teresa Collins:

Washi Tape In Various Sizes
We already love washi but now we can love it in narrow strips or bold wide strips!

Tiny Embellishments
Cute, little bits and pieces are everywhere!  Sequins, tiny wooden shapes, and epoxy dots are all the rage.  Here's a great example by Chic Tags:

Now this is not a complete list of what we saw or what we ordered.  We will be updating Facebook each time we put something new out onto the floor.  If you don't want to miss a thing, be sure to like our page. :)

Thanks and I hope you're all as excited as we are about the new products!!

-tessa

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