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The holiday season is here, and the we’ve got plenty of Christmas inspiration with our new papers! These layered ornaments are terrific gifts for a teacher, secretary, friend or family… easily cut with the Accucut Creative Cafe holiday dies, they’re colorful and fun. 

You’ll also love Hampton’s Creative Cafe stamps ! Perfect for gift wrap, cards or just a tag… These adorable little packages make your present that much more festive!

Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and we love these new ideas for your table setting from Roree! Placemats and name tags for seating are great ideas to spruce up any table. 

We also loved this new set of Fall cards… oranges, browns and rustic rich colors are sure to brighten the day of any friend or relative. Do you have some creative projects planned for fall? Are you still journaling and finding new ways to remember your special moments?

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!

The Craft and Hobby Association’s summer trade show is coming up in Orlando, and we have been working feverishly on new products. We’re excited to kick off  a week long preview of all the new products on the blog… and we’ll be giving away tons  of prizes too. Let us know what you think, we love hearing from YOU.

Our new PEAR dies for AccuCut are just SOME of the new dies we designed for this show. The pears can be cut in three sizes, making them perfect for cards, home decor, gift bags, and more!  Click here for the latest news on the Summer 2009 release AccuCut is featuring for the show! 

Using the Creative Cafe green glitter paper to cut out the pear, Roree added sparkle and that little bit of bling to her projects. THEN, in true Roree style, she turned the pear UPSIDE down, and used it as a BALLOON on this birthday card!

Let’s start the CHA Kick-off with a prize package of Creative Cafe goodies, including some glitter pear die cuts! How do you win? Just post where you purchase your scrapbook goodies. Tell us your favorite local scrapbook store, or online store. We’ll pick one random winner the week of August 2nd.

Stores win too! The store with the most posts will also win a special Creative Cafe prize package! So if you have a store, LET your customers know, they can post too! Good luck!

Summer is here and we hope you all enjoy your holiday weekend for 4th of July! We’d love to hear your plans, and if you did any creative projects for the weekend

Gotta love this set of cute table decorations Roree created for us! I wish she would have made me 12 sets for my patio for Saturday!

Stay tuned next week for some new giveaways of our latest Creative Cafe products hitting the stores! We’ve heard that our NEW puffy felt butterflies, epoxy and tag books are in-stock in stores NOW! If you are having trouble finding a store near you carrying Creative Cafe products let us know!

It’s summer, and between swimming lessons, visiting friends and family and hopefully some vacation time… we still managed to find some cute inspiration for you! These cute decorated drinks are perfect for a birthday party or a little gift for someone in your office. Layer die cut paper flowers, and glue on the top of a small drink. Embellished with buttons, a tag and some ribbon… and it’s GOOD to GO!

What other little summer projects are you working on?

Congratulations to ScrapNSister1, who WON our last prize drawing of a new Creative Cafe tag book! We should be shipping asap!

It’s here… Spring! Yet in some parts of the country, I’m sure it doesn’t seem like it  Decorative Banners are a great way to celebrate Spring, birthdays, graduation, Easter, or any other special occasion you might be celebrating!

What projects have you been working on for Spring? Share your latest idea for a Spring paper crafting project by posting here. We’ll draw two random winners for a FREE package of Spring colored glitter glue from Hampton Arts. Good luck!

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

Thought we’d share a little more Valentine’s Day inspiration, and give you some more great ideas with the new Accucut dies! The small scalloped heart has so many great uses! From the little sign on this adorable button flower arrangement, to the Valentine’s cards below… the ideas are endless.

These cute cards feature the new bird die that is in the CHA Winter 09 release of Accucut dies. See all of the new new dies here. 

Here’s your chance to WIN your very own set of die cut birds. Comment here, and tell us what new die shapes you’d like to see from Creative Cafe. We’ll pick two winners when we get back from CHA. Good luck!