CHA part II

i love watching my boys sleep---especially bryan. they're so peaceful and QUIET! he crawled into my bed one night and asked to snuggle with me. it ended up him being sick & throwing up the next morning. he got whatever brandon had the week before. ok, on to some more CHA pictures. this is such a pretty work of art!

some canvas projects!

who IS this guy??!! LOL

i'd seriously wear this!

collage art

claudine hellmuth working her magic

some very cute paper!

love the vintage feel of these papers!

i will make this one day!

cuteness!!

i was a part of this wonderful group that worked the lawn fawn booth! from L-R: nancy, chari, me, kelly, mike, erika & andy front: laurel & greg

love this pic of kelly & mike!

a pitcher full of pin wheels of people visiting the lawn fawn booth to wear. i'm an expert at making these now! did you see what's next to the pitcher? twine! and such smart packaging too!

pictures of the fun booth

my card for one of the make-and-takes. the chevron stripes are so fun!

lawn fawn has 12x12 papers now & a 6x6 pad! i was lucky enough to not only touch the paper but to also play with them!

the say cheese polaroid frame blown up 1000x! fun photo prop!

i'll have more pictures of CHA soon. it was brandon sick, then bryan, then hubby & i got it last. just getting over my cold now. bryan's birthday was on sunday 1/29 and i was at CHA that day (i felt sooooo bad) & also on the 30th & 31st. so when we finally were all better, we got bryan a cake (from yummy porto's) and celebrated. it's not a birthday unless you have cake!

can you tell he really loves his scooby doo PJs? he's so into it from books to games to the cartoons.

clapping after blowing out the candles

brandon wishing his brother a happy birthday!

thanks for sticking around through this long post!

hero arts class at CHA

here i am with some of my stamp fever family at the hero arts booth at CHA. left-right: karen, jennifer, me, shari, sally, nancy, linda and gina (front).i took all these pictures with my iPhone. i'm not sure why this pic is upside down. you get the idea.....
look at those pretty color inks! bubble gum, cup o' joe, and butter bar. love the ink names!

todd, shari, sally & jennifer getting ready to start our class.

the 1st class had 5 cards that we completed in 2 hrs. very fast paced but i was happy i was keeping up & completed all my cards.

this card below used a heart shaped stamp to make a butterfly.

the 2nd class was from 12-2. also 5 cards!

can anyone guess what tool i used to apply color to this card?? and who's idea it was??

only shari! she told us use a different finger for each color of distress inks. she's so much fun!

i learned so many new techniques & tricks in the classes.

this one is probably my favorite just because the colors are so fun!

i'll be back another day with more pictures from CHA. i had a great time! i helped at the lawn fawn booth and looked at new product lines from companies to see what we should carry at stamp fever.
one last photo of sally, me & jennifer! it was a real great class! thank you hero arts! :)

CHA 2010

i got to have a girl's day out on saturday! my day started off by picking up amy at the airport. i have never met her til that day but "know" her through blogging. she's sweet as cupcakes!we got right to it and did a make-and-take.

look at all these yummy colors!

this display below reminded me of the fighting beta fish at the pet store that they'd store in cups.

couldn't NOT take a pic of some cute owls!

look at that ginormous cute spool wrapped with some yarn!

look at who i met. cath edvalson and susan opel. they were so friendly & nice.

cupcakes made from ribbons

i loooove this display of balloons put out over by SCS. incidently, i won a tee shirt from a raffle of theirs...........in 2x! they only had VERY large sizes left by the time my name got picked from the bowl. i just missed some copic markers by half a dozen peeps. [if you have to ask what copics are, you don't need to know what they are]cute cardscheck out these 2 guys..... they were in charge of this make-and-take. they were as nice as can be and very funny!

there were a lot more men at this show than i would have guessed.

i got to meet the very talented mou saha. she creates the most amazing LOs. she has a lot of her projects featured in the magazine creating keepsakes. i admire her work.

and i dunno why i am standing with such bad posture in all these pics. maybe it was all the walking around and standing. what is better than a button tree? two of them.....MORE buttonsjust took this pic cause i see an ink color in my namei had a fun time! thanks to amy for my ah-mazing card and goodies from her! will have to take a pic but i know i might not even ever get to it. it was funny as we were looking at each other's stash of goodies, we gave each other the SAME owlie dish towel.

we ended the day with a nice dinner chatting, sharing our "jerry springer" stories and resting our tired legs. thanks amy for a fun day!!