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It’s already middle of October, and fall is in the air!  Halloween is just around the corner, but there’s plenty of time to get your creative juices flowing! Tired of all that candy for Halloween treats? Looking for a party favor for your Boo Bash? Linda created these amazing Halloween trinkets  with Creative Cafe felt, buttons and papers! Quick and easy to make, what a great party favor idea!

Looking for more Halloween inspiration? Create these orange and black Halloween Greetings for friends, office buddies or classmates. Be creative EACH and EVERY day! Share with us what you are creating for Fall or Halloween, we’d love to hear about your project!

I have a TON of friends and family on my calendar with birthdays in March, and I always wish I took the time to create something personal, just for them…. 

Here are some GREAT ideas to inspire you for the birthday people on your list! All made with Creative Cafe products, these gift ideas are more fun and personal too.

Perfect idea for a class party, or centerpiece…

Create your own party favors! Fill them with candy, little prizes or just a few treats. Perfect gift idea for a table decoration too!

Materials:  red dot paper, pink dot paper, pink notebook paper, chipboard,  heart die, bird die, love die

We really enjoyed reading your plans for Valentines Day yesterday in the comments.  Thank you for sharing a little more about your world.  We love to read every comment and we appreciate you taking the time to share.

Here’s a little garland idea using some of our popular Creative Cafe papers and dies.  While this garland works great for Valentine’s Day, it would also work for a wedding, shower or birthday party by changing up the colors and elements.  This is the same die used in the Valentine favors shown yesterday.  Love the possibilities you can achieve with the same die and products in a different way.

 If you don’t have a local Creative Cafe store near you (click here to find one,) there are stores willing to let you shop and they will cut and ship to you.  How nice is that?

Scraplovers  is usually stocked with the full line of Creative Cafe and is willing to ship to you.  Just give them a call and let them know what you need. 

Scrap Lovers @ A Work of Heart
2196 Lincoln Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
408.266.1005

Scrap ETC in Birmingham, AL     phone:  205-985-9323

Scrappacino in Greenbriar, TN        phone:   615-643-2622

I will be updating with more stores soon.  If you are a Creative Cafe store and interested in this, please comment here with your information and we’ll edit this to include you.

Here are just a few more projects we wanted to share to inspire you this week as you are making your preparations for someone special this week.

Materials:  Creative Cafe ledger paper pink, pink tags, felt flowers, felt word, twill and stamps

At the Creative Cafe, we love FELT!   Do you?  When we brought together, 2 of our favorite things, felt and butterflies, the results were just adorable, new bulk felt butterflies!  

They were originally released in July 2008, but didn’t receive enough orders to put them in production

Creative Imaginations will again feature them at CHA Winter in Anaheim, and they will NEED to get enough orders to have a chance to hit your favorite stores.  

Do you like these butterflies as much as we do?  If so, tell your favorite store owner that you want these cuties.  It’s only through shoppers like you that they can reach stores everywhere.   

We need YOUR HELP to SAVE the Creative Cafe Butterflies! Help us spread the word with your favorite LSS, or online retailer.

Help us save the butterflies. Would you buy these?  Do you want to shop for these in your favorite store?   Share your thoughts here on these butterflies and help us let retailers know how much we want to create projects with these.  In tough economic times, products are only possible with the interest from consumers and retailers like you.    So we need your input.

Comment here with your thoughts and love for these cuties and we’re going to draw 3 winners for a Creative Cafe assorted prize package from this post.  Refer a friend to this thread and you will be entered twice!!   THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!

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 project, read here.

Happy Saturday everyone!

Danelle   

my blog

www.danelle-johnson.com 

It’s that time of the year already… and we’re going to inspire you for the holidays with tons of Creative Cafe holiday projects and a few more FREE giveaways too!

Roree created this adorable baking set by putting all the ingredients for the cookies in a decorated jar, AND she included the recipe on a cute matching tag! What a quick and easy project for a teacher, friend or even your neighbors! Share you’re favorite cookie recipe, and we’ll pick two winners for a FREE Creative Cafe gift pack of buttons and tags! Only 24 days until Christmas!

Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year.  I love the cooler weather, the changing leaves, and best of all… Halloween.  We love to pick out costumes and decorate the house.  My husband’s birthday is also right around Halloween, so we always love to mix birthday and Halloween festivities together.  

The Spirit line is just perfect for making Halloween projects.  For this Halloween party set, I have used just a few of the many different products from Creative Cafe.  There are tags, ribbon, buttons, patterned paper, felt… and scalloped paper bags and gems from the Creative Lifestyle collection.

Hope you all have a Happy Halloween!    ~Roree

so i saw this cute idea in a martha stewart magazine a while back, but never did it because her version involved sewing (which i can’t do!).

so instead i used one of the felt pockets (already sewn into a purse shape), punched some holes in the top and strung some of the yummy corduroy ribbon through them as the strap. add some fun flowers & embellishments, and you’re done….and the best part, no sewing at all

These little felt pockets are so fun and so versatile! I made a little min album by punching holes in three of the pockets and then adding binder rings to keep them together. I added pictures to the pages but also slipped tags into the pockets to hold extra photos and journaling. These colors and textures are perfect for fall photos. With just a little effort, you can make a fun little album in no time!

Greta

Hope this layout inspires you to indulge and use lots of your favorite Creative Cafe products today - the results are sure to be fantastic!

Have a great day!!

Chris

Chris