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We are really excited about our new journaling books that were released at CHA Winter! You’ll love these full color die cut books, that come in two sizes! The small one is 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″, and the larger one is 4″ x 8″. Packed with 24 pages of full color journaling spots, you’ll love using them for all kinds of projects. Greta created this tag book, using the small journaling books, and our colored shipping tags. Gotta love that colored binder ring and felt flower too!

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I just love how Greta used a few of the die cut tags sideways, to stick out of the tag book like dividers - See the brown and lime green ones shown here? She also used my favorite new products, the large shipping tag with journaling lines! 

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Danelle mentioned today, that just maybe… We should give away MORE free prizes!

Here we go…. We’ll send two lucky winners the supplies to make a colored tag book like the one shown above! The journaling books aren’t shipping just yet, but we’ll get one to you as soon as we have them! Just comment here on what project you’d like to make with our new journaling books! We think the 4″ x 8″ tags would be GREAT for mini books! Good Luck, and stay tuned!

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See if you can pick out the new AccuCut dies in these fun projects.   This is a pretty big hint (I think.)

There are at least 2 new dies in here (but come in different sizes) and almost everything you see in these projects was cut with our Creative Cafe AccuCut dies.   If you want to have fun with these dies and more, like the projects you see here, tell your local scrapbook store to RUN, don’t walk to the AccuCut booth at the CHA Winter Show this week in California or to give Accucut a call.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a chance to win a prize over worth over $150 including this projectread here.

 

Happy Saturday everyone!

Danelle   

my blog

www.danelle-johnson.com 

 

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I hope you are enjoying our BLOG PARTY!  Today, since it’s Friday, we are going to have something BIG for you.  So stay tuned below for a chance to win.

One of our favorite components of Creative Cafe is the AccuCut machine and dies.  If you see a Creative Cafe project in our Happy Hour projects, in a class or on our blog, chances are it has elements cut with the help of the AccuCut dies and machine.  If you are not familiar with AccuCut, then keep reading.  

 

If you have been a fan of Creative Cafe for a while, then you know how much we love to make projects from with our die cuts.   Not only can you make projects that are amazing, but you can do so for an incredibly affordable price.  Creating projects in bulk, such as for classes and groups is even more perfect because you can replicate items again and again, so easily.  If I’m teaching a class, it’s going to be filled with items I have cut with my AccuCut dies.

 

In Creative Cafe, we believe in producing great materials, such as our felt, chipboard, acetate, transparencies, double sided paper, flocked paper and our new glitter paper in 12×12 sheets.   We then use these items along with the AccuCut machine and dies to create inspiring and unique projects at a great price.    

With such interesting materials, you can create a wide range of of projects from mini books, to layouts, home decor items, gifts, party goods and embellishments.  All you need is the material and the rest you can construct quite easily with the help of the dies and an AccuCut machine.

 

Today I want to share with you our new Creative Cafe dies being released this next week at the CHA Winter Show in California.   You can find all the projects and more information about these new products at the AccuCut booth if you are going to the show.  If not, you can request a catalog and sign up for the AccuCut newsletter here.

 

Here are just a few of our new dies, more tomorrow.

New Album-Mix and Match #2:  

This die has a wide range of possibilities.  Use only 1 of 4 different page shapes or mix and match 2 or more.  Even combine them all for an eclectic book.  We’ve experimented with a wide range of combinations and keep finding new favorites.  It’s a MUST HAVE die!  It comes with or without holes.

 

This Mother’s Love project utilized a single repeated page  and each page was trimmed 1/4 of inch from the width of the following page.  Bound with the bind-it-all and you have a really great book made from 4 sheets of chipboard and 4 papers at a great price $$.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see in this project, a wide variety of matching elements all cut from the leftover paper scraps. These shapes have become some of our favorite little embellishments to add to a project.  Easy AND affordable, yet COOL!      

This is our second die in our Album-Mix and Match Series, see an example for our original Album-Mix and Match 1. 

 

      

  

 

Here’s another project variation in which a felt and chipboard book was made.  

 

 

You can see several of our favorite dies as well used in this project, such as the best selling butterflies, here  and  here.  They are great for spring.

The  Creative Cafe colored binder rings  work great when making books such as the ones above.  There are over 10 different colors and each in 2 different sizes.  As for them at your local Creative Cafe store, along with the AccuCut dies.

 

Today’s big prize is  for $150 worth of Creative Cafe products, and includes the kit (cut with these dies) for this BEAUTIFUL Mother’s Love project.  Here’s how to be enterered.   

Tell your friends on the web about our Blog Party and our blog.  Comment below and include a link to each time you spread news of our blog party.  For each link you share on the web and copy in your comment here, your name will be entered AGAIN in the drawing.    (For those who have mentioned not knowing how to link, just copy and paste in the body of your comment.)   

The winner will be drawn one week from today. 

(and we’re not done yet, much more to come)

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With your children playing in the yard, sprinklers on full blast, beach towels in the washer and watermelon to eat, I am sure it is not on your mind yet…but it will be here before we all know it!

I will be offering this album as a make take with some very fun new Creative Cafe stamps and Art Warehouse Fall and Winter stamps at the Hampton Booth at CHA next week!

The booth number is 1846! Hope you can stop by and join me to make this fun Creative Cafe project!! I will be using the new Chipboard album by Creative Lifestyle and a collection of Spirit papers and new Art Warehouse papers!

Melodee  :)

 

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