GreetingsFarm Card and CHA Preparations

These are busy times in the world of craft.
Twice a year the Craft and Hobby Association hold a Trade Show featuring everything crafty.
It's kinda like a mecca of craft.
This big event is super busy for me and all the great folks over at Craft Critique.
We go on the hunt for great products for a week straight and report back all the details.
It's a rough job that I certainly don't mind doing.

After the Trade Show will be the Craft Super Show which is open to the public.  YAY!
There you can take a workshop, do make and takes or just get shopping.
If you are in the Chicagoland area and love crafty deals, I would highly recommend it.
The Craft Super Show runs from Friday, July 30th thru Saturday, July 31st.

The best part about CHA is that I will get to see all my crafty friends from far and wide.
And I will get to meet people that I only know online.

I quickly created this cute little card with a Greeting Farm stamp that Jessica gave me at CHA Winter, 6 months ago.

I used all October Afternoon patterned paper and that cute little girl is colored with Copic Markers.

The flower is from Sassafras.

I am sure I will have tons to share after next week.

To stay up to date on everything happening at CHA this week, stay tuned to Craft Critique.

You can also follow me on Twitter or my updates will also be on Facebook.

Off to the big show...

New Puppy Scrapbook Layout

I admit it.
I haven't scrapped a single page of anything in almost a year.
Totally shocking if you could see the entire room of scrappy crap that I have accumulated.

Lucky for me scrapping is kinda like roller skating.
Once you know how to do it, you can do it forever although as you get older and more time passes, the first time you get up on those wheels it may be super hard and you may fall on your face.
I decided one day last week that I was going to scrap.
I literally had to make a commitment to myself that I wouldn't give up and just one page done, nothing fancy.

It was hard.
Real hard.

I just haven't done it in so long and really lost my creative mojo.
And I know plenty more crafty people that this has happened to.

So here it is, the super simple page that took me like 2 hours and lots of cursing and frustration...

I used Making Memories Noteworthy Collection which I had sit collecting dust since it originally came out.
And American Crafts letter stickers, Heidi Swapp chipboard flower and Bazzill Eggplant color cardstock as the base although in these photos it doesn't look very purple.

Isn't she cute?
But man, don't let that cuteness deceive you, she is a little troublemaker.
She's 5 months now, totally house broken (thank god) but has her moments where she just feels like jumping up on to our dining room table.
And don't be surprised if you sit down and she instantly jumps into your lap like a 40lb. cat.

2010 has been a trying year so far.
I really thought it would be the year of the spazz and the stars would allign for me but so far that hasn't happened.
As much as I try to keep up with blogging, managing the Craft Critique blog keeps me VERY busy and so does life.
Isn't it funny how life gets in the way sometimes?

But, while I am still job hunting and trying to maintain some sense of order around my house and parent a mouthy teenage boy, I am determined to find my crafty groove again.
So stay tuned, if there is anyone out there on the interwebs who even look here anymore....