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Have you been waiting for another chance to WIN some Creative Cafe stamps?! This is your chance… Our favorite designer, Melodee is giving away a set of THIRTEEN stamp sets that feature the months and calendar grid! It’s over a $130. value, and all you have to do is visit her blog and enter!

If you haven’t seen her work, it is AMAZING! Melodee teaches all over the world, and always uses Creative Cafe products. Don’t miss out on this chance to WIN… and get inspired by her amazing work. 

I also loved Melodee’s latest kit for sale on her blog… It features our scalloped spiral journal, with stickers, papers and stamps all from Creative Cafe. Keep an eye out for her monthly kits like this one… I just noticed that this kit ALREADY SOLD OUT! 

Have you taken a class from Melodee before? We’d love to hear how many fans she has out there!

Congratulations to our TWO blog winners Tami V. and Carla G! They won a “Life Mini Album” kit from our make and take project during the Creative Imaginations Party at CHA! It fits photos perfectly… and has space for a few photos for each month!

Danelle’s Creative Cafe class at CHA featured creating this photo journal. We had a great group of ladies that all loved creating this easy and quick project. The new metallic papers and journaling spots seemed to be everyone’s favorite products to use! Here’s a few photos of our day…

 Keep an eye on the blog, we’ve got a few more prizes to give away next week!

Are you planning on attending the CHA Consumer Show in Anaheim? Cheryl Mezzetti, Creative Imaginations’ Design Team Coordinator, will be creating the first six months of this adorable tag book! Cheryl used the new Creative Cafe calendar papers, foil cardstock and stickers! 

Cheryl will  be teaching this class on Friday, January 22nd from 4:00pm - 5:30pm. Stop by and tell her you saw in on the blog!

The Creative Imaginations CHA Party is always one of the most talked about events of the show! If you are going…make sure you make this AMAZING mini book Danelle created with the new Creative Cafe foil papers and new Accucut dies!

We’ll be creating a mini album with your entire year in this one cute album. Each page features a Creative Cafe month paper (January through December). It’s the perfect way to include a few photos of each month of the year! All bound together with the Bind-It-All this makes the perfect momento or gift too!

Now the FUN part…

We’ll give away TWO of these adorable make and take kits on the blog!

Post your name, AND where you get most of your creative supplies! We’ll pick TWO winners on Monday, January 25th! Tell a friend, and have them post too, and you BOTH may win!

My favorite part of these exciting new Creative Cafe dies from Accucut are the words and flowers! The sizing of the words make them wonderful to use with rub-ons, stickers or even stamps. 

Below are MORE samples, that are just a preview of two other wonderful projects we’ll showcase in the next few days! The set of flower dies includes over 8 different pieces that you can mix and match to create different flowers, stems and centers. You’ll love all the different combinations you can create!

CHA Winter 2010 is going to be an exciting show. Make sure you stay tuned for more previews of the new products… as well as a few FREE giveaways!

Fall is here, Halloween is this weekend, and it’s the perfect time to get all those photos of oranges, reds and browns! We loved this chipboard book using Creative Cafe transparencies, Accucut dies and glitter paper. 

From the pumpkin patch, to fall colors, this the perfect time of year for great photos. What are taking photos of this weekend? Your ghosts and goblins, trick or treating? Let us know, we’d love to hear!

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!

If you are like most of us… your kids are finally going back to school! Or, you have a little one just starting Kindergarten! (Loved this little chipboard book to capture all those first day photos!) 

It’s also a time, where as Moms you can finally start getting back to your regular schedule. For us, that’s the perfect time to remember you have time to do something for yourself. I have a ton of photos piling up from summer, trips we took, or just family photos, and I just long to get SOME of them into albums or journals.

I thought I’d finally start to get organized, and make a mini book! I realized I had a TON of photos of my daughter with all her friends from play group, the library, daycare, etc… I wanted to make something that wouldn’t take long, but had room to journal about each group of friends, and who they were. 

I started searching through all the Creative Cafe projects we had from the design team, and found this ADORABLE mini book that Greta had done with the new AccuCut die shapes! I was so excited to find something I could do quick and easily! I just love how there is a great photo on each page, AND plenty of room to write about her friends too!

We’d love to hear what you have been doing to get back into your “creative self”… now that school is starting! What creative projects are you working on?

We made it into Orlando, and the Creative Imaginations preview party was tonight. We introduced our new Creative Cafe Calendar Collection this afternoon, which was a big hit! Packed full of calendar grids in every size, stickers, and cool little journaling bits, you’ll love how you can use this line in your mini books, all different sized calendars (including 12″ x 12″) and more! Tomorrow we’ll take some photos on the show floor, and preview some of the other great stuff we’ve got at the show. If you see us here, introduce yourself! You might just win a Creative Cafe t-shirt or apron! 

Stay tuned… we’ll also be giving away some of the make and take kits we featured today at the preview party tomorrow!

Some of the best-selling Creative Cafe dies from AccuCut are the mini book die sets. This new set is amazing! You’ll love the various shapes, that can create several different pages and covers. The Creative Cafe colored chipboard, glitter paper, felt and transparencies are PERFECT for these mini books! The design team has been busy creating all kinds of fall and holiday projects, since the upcoming trade show features products that ship fall through winter. 

Each of these mini books also features several new die shapes, also being released at CHA Summer. The stars shown on each album are another set of new dies that are available from AccuCut. Gotta love the bird and owl too, which were released earlier in the year!

Which mini book is your favorite, and which page shape do you like best?

I love the tall tag, but several of my friends like the large bracket, like on the cover of the pear mini book! Tell us your favorites, and we’ll pick one winner the week of August 2nd, for a goodie bag of Creative Cafe products!

Stay tuned tomorrow for more CHA Summer Creative Cafe previews!