Karen Varcoe, Gresham OR kvarcoe@aol.com 503 267 6080

Saturday, June 28, 2014

An Artistic Adventure: CTMH Convention Day 3

New colors!  We have five beautiful new colors.  This first photo shows a couple of projects in the works.   I took a picture so you could see three of our new colors:  Thistle, Flaxen and Glacier.   And there are two more:  Canary (a nice bright yellow) and Pixie, a soft pink.  This picture shows some new printed papers from the Seaside papers, and several new stamps, including a really cute new alphabet.

Here's an album done if our three ring binder made with the new Wanderful travel themed paper.  Love this album!



And here's a card we made in a Creative session.   This card used the Snowhaven paper.   One of the colors in Snowhaven is the new Glacier.  Paired with Black, White Daisy, Cranberry and Whisper, it's a stunning combination.

Friday, June 27, 2014

An Artistic Adventure: CTMH Convention Day 2

Just got back to Paradise Pier from the awards dinner that topped off another incredibly fun day of convention!  Here's Kristine, Brian and Monica in their Awards Gala finery!   


And here's a picture of the stamp set designed just for Convention 2014.   They were waiting at our places when we came in tonight -- CTMH treats us so well!

Here's the inside of a baby card - I love this idea - so darling!

Here's a picture of one of our new shadow boxes - it's definitely on MY shopping list!

Last sneak peek for tonight:  A few new products:   A 5x7 album and a cupcake holder!   This could hold all kinds of cute little gifts...

Thursday, June 26, 2014

An Artistic Adventure: CTMH Convention 2014 Day 1

Wow!   What an awesome first day of Convention 2014!   Here's a picture of an adorable card made with our new Cricut Cartridge:  Artfully Sent!   Our new Cricut Collection has 700 images, and makes 400 (yes, 400!) card projects, including 50 pop-up cards like this one!    


Here's the inside of this cupcake pop-up card.  Pretty doggone cute, huh?


This picture is taken from the awesome video the CTMH team put together showing Kristine and Monica with the same card.  Their videos are hilarious!


Here's another card, one of 50 overlay cards:

In all, Artfully Sent makes 5 styles of cards:  the pop-ups, build-a-scene cards, sentiment cards, sleve cards and pocket cards.  It also has an alphabet and envelopes!    I'll have more ocmplete information for you later.  Provocraft is completing Artfully Sent and it will be available in September!

More tomorrow....

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

An Artistic Adventure: CTMH Convention begins with a Dream Team Meeting!

The first convention general session is tomorrow morning!  Tonight's our team meeting.  Ran into (literally) friend and customer Kristin Fortune today near Pirates of the Carribbean!