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 papers used:   Lime Dot #18256 (back side is stripe)

papers used:  pink flocked cardstock #22477

Spring is just around the corner, and I found some cute new ideas I thought I’d share! The Creative Cafe buttons and patterned papers make great staples for any crafter. All the products we design, are produced to coordinate by color!  Making great projects has never been easier. 

Do you have a project to share that we need to post? Leave a comment here with a link, and we’ll send two random winners a springtime package of Creative Cafe products! Good luck.

Alison

 Edited to add papers used: Lime Floral #22496, Distress Notebook #18257, Lime Flocked Cardstock #22479

Roree has been designing some great cards for Spring! From the floral and polka dots, to the rainbow of flocked papers, we love how easy it is to mix and match all the Creative Cafe embellishments with our coordinating papers! 

Have you been designing cards with Creative Cafe? We’d love to hear from you! Comment here with a link to your card projects!

We want to hear from you.  We love the big shipping tags that come in pink, red and orange shown below, and have space for journaling! They’re perfect for adding to your scrapbook page, or creating a mini book. We love the size of them (approx. 3″ x 6″) because they have so many uses!

Do you love these tags in polka dot too in the rainbow of Creative Cafe Spirit colors?   We want to hear from you, how fun would these be to your creative projects?

Would you buy them in a package with multiple colors? Would you like to be able to buy them by the color and quantity you want for specific holidays, school colors and specific projects?  Tell us how YOU would like to buy them and what amazing projects you would use them for.

WIN two sets of the original pink, red and orange journaling tags, by leaving your comments here!

More NEW products!

At CHA Winter in Anaheim, we introduced our newest additions to the Creative Cafe product line… THEMED papers and epoxy! We picked our four most popular themes: My Life, Friends, Family and Travel - all themes we use every day!

Each theme has a matching epoxy, and two-sided paper. The great thing about the papers, is that one side is a text pattern with words, and thte other side is journaling cards in various sizes! We also thought it would be COOL to have the My Life and Family papers, have large journaling cards that can also be bound into a mini book! Each paper has a strip at the bottom that tells you the theme of each paper. 

Here’s a page Danelle did with the new Travel theme… Gotta love how easy these are to use. Tell us which theme is your favorite!

Make sure you tell your local or online scrapbook store, you can’t wait to get these! They are available for wholesale ordering NOW, and should be in stores soon.

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

The girls each made their choices for Valentines for their classmates and enjoyed making them this weekend.  They will be on their way to school this week.  This is our second year running for Fun Dip which is headed off to Kindergarten, but our first year for these gatorade treats which are a much “cooler” option for 4th grade.   

The die cut heart valentines were made from Creative Cafe glitter papers in pink and red, cut with the new AccuCut ribbon heart die.   Glue on your favorite candy treat and thread with a pencil.   For a class of 20, it was only $12.00

My fourth grader was somewhat on the fence about taking valentines this year, kind of made me sad to see that.  Apparently it’s optional in their class.  So as I sensed her hesitancy, I offered some creative yet affordable options and she LOVED the idea of decorated gatorade bottles.   We found this 24 pack at Wal-mart for $10.   After adding some pink and red polka dot Creative Cafe papers and Creative Cafe tags tied with felt ric rack, the final cost only $13.50 for a class of 20.     Someone is now excited about taking her Valentine favors to school.

Now I have a few days to plan Valentines for my little ones at home.  We (my husband and I) have made a pact to forego the commercial options this year and so we are creatively planning personal surprises for the girls that are virtually free.   With Valentines day being Saturday, it allows for some fun options.   I’d love to hear from you and what your plans are for this upcoming holiday or what traditions have you put in to place with your family….

So do we.  One of Creative Cafe’s best selling items, is our felt flowers! They are available in all five colors: sky, orange, lime, red and pink…and come in two styles: puffy and flat (one layer of felt). 

Creative Imaginations wants to hear from YOU about how we should go forward packaging the felt flowers for consumers! How would you want to purchase them at your local or online store?

1) In a combination pack, with both flat and puffy a few of each color in a mixed package?

2) In a combination pack, with both flat and puffy, but all ONE color?

3) Separate package of flat flowers, with ALL mixed colors? And a separate package of all puffy flowers in ALL mixed colors?

Or tell us if you have another great idea of how you’d like to see them packaged! We’re all ears, and this is your chance to be involved in the product development process! 

Win your own FREE felt flowers!  We’ll pick a random winner from the comments listed here, and you’ll get your own felt flowers in every color! Woooo, another FREE Creative Cafe giveaway.

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!

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! 

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!

We’re back… and I thought I’d share a photo from the Creative Cafe demo we did at CHA! You have to just LOVE these new flower shaped buttons in all the colors of Creative Cafe! Tell your favorite local or online store… they’re IN STOCK now, and ready to ship!

We finally picked ALL the prize winners from the Blog Party!  

We have sent all the winners a private email asking for your contact information, and the prizes will go out as soon as possible. Hope you all had a great time during the last few weeks! Stay tuned… we’ll have more giveaways, more new product sneak peaks, and tons of inspiration to keep you going!

Alison

and can you say T.I.R.E.D?    Hoping to snap back to normal energy level soon.

We missed you all and brought home some goodies just for you that we’ll be giving away here on the blog.  So stay tuned for more on that.     Thanks for keeping the fun going while we were away.

I will post a full update of the show on my blog soon including my unexpected run in with Paris Hilton.  

I wanted to leave you with an image of one of our new Creative Cafe items from CI.  So many possibilities with this designer journaling book.    There are 24 pages in each one, which is a great deal at just over $8 retail.  I can not WAIT to get one because I already have a bunch of things I want to use this for.

and another smaller size under $5.  Can you imagine the possibilities of adding these to mini books and layouts?  I can’t wait to use my bind-it-all and add these in between the pages of some of my favorite journals.

Since it’s almost FRIDAY,  how about having your name entered in a drawing for  another Creative Cafe T-shirt?   Just comment here with your thoughts on our new tablets shown above.   If you like them, be sure to tell your favorite Creative Cafe retailer you are looking forward to getting them.  They will want to hear from you.