Friday night I was invited to attend the Cricut Birthday Party at the Congo Room downtown at LA Live. And we were so excited when we found out that the entertainment that night were many awesome dancers from So You Think You Can Dance. Holy cow I think I turned into a teenager...I rushed the stage and jumped up and down. I reached out to try and touch the dancers, because YES I was that close. But even better, we got to have our pictures taken with them. I have a great one of Twitch on my phone, so I'll have to post that one later.
But here I am with Joshua...winner of one season of SYTYCD. Holy cow he's darling in person and sweaty!
Here's my cute friend Sharlene with Comfort...she was a teenager too...so excited!!
Here's my friend Bridget with Joshua too. I'll post some of the great video I too later too when I get home.
I received an invite from Provo Craft to the Cricut Imagine launch party tonight and boy was it a blast!! I've never attended one of their parties, but I've heard about them and can I tell you those Provo Craft kids really know how to throw a fun party.
First lets talk about the very cool new Cricut Imagine machine. They've partnered with HP to create a machine that will print and cut. It's pretty cool and I can see some great potential with it. I believe it's do out in October. Of course it only prints and cuts out what's on the cartridges you purchase for it, so you're limited. But give Provo Craft time, they'll have a TON of carts to pick for this machine. Personally I'd love to see them partner up with Imaginsice and offer some of those classic icon characters on a cartridge...but that's purely selfish (wink).
“Cricut Imagine is not only unique to the crafting industry, but to the world of technology. There is not another device that incorporates printing and cutting the way this machine does,” said Jim Thornton, CEO of Provo Craft. “The pairing of print and cut technology could only be done by the leaders in each category—HP and Provo Craft. We’re eager to see what our customers can now do with a simple sheet of white paper and Cricut Imagine print and cut technology.”
Now for the P-A-R-T-Y....first the had a great mix and mingle before hand and had this awesome airbrush artist there doing airbrushed tattoos on anyone that wanted one...couldn't resist. here's me getting my first "tattoo"...sort of!
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Next, David Garibaldi performed for us at the party and let me tell you...it was COOL! It's hard to explain though, he was and "artist performer" or "performer artist"...not sure which. But he had a DJ there mixing up the music and then David would dance around a bit and paint this AMAZING pictures to the beat. At first you couldn't tell what they were, but eventually they came to be some very awesome paintings. I especially liked his Einstein painting...he painted it upside down for most of it...which rocked. Here's some badly lit photos, but may you can tell.
Funny thing I realized though, most of the girls (like my friend) thought he was "hot" and really liked him because of that, but all I kept think was..."man I wish my 15 year old son was here, he would think this guy was awesome!" So my take on things is a bit different!! This video wasn't take at our event, but it will give you an idea of how fun great this guy was!!
Here's a link to his website. And thanks Provo Craft for a memorable and fun evening!!
I love paper flowers...I don't know what it is...but then again I love flowers made from fabric too!! I guess I'm amazed at how beautiful they turn out and I "get" how much work and time goes into making some of these creations!! Below are some amazing pictures of 3-D flower arrangements from CHA trade show from a variety of vendors...sorry I have no idea who on some of them!
Please someone that went to the show tell me what booth this amazing coat was in and WHO created it. I'm assuming the whole thing is made from papers...right?? So awesome!! (Update: A friend told me this coat made from paper was at Tim Holtz booth at CHA.)
I believe this was a donation to raise money at the World's Largest Crop held prior to CHA. But WOW...I would frame that for sure and hang it in my house!
Photo Credits: I believe all of these below were taken by Shopping Diva, to click to see more of her Flickr gallery from CHA (warning: there's more then 1600 photos to go through).
So I searched high and low for the coolest finds at CHA this year. You know, those things you can't live without!! Well I think I found it, it's the new i-top Brad Maker from Imaginisce. You can make three different sizes of brads (16, 22, 28mm) and you can cover them with paper, fabric or even a photograph. They also have die cute paper pads, punches and templates to make cutting out the covers easier!
Seriously, this tool made me super happy. Sad though that it doesn't come out until June, but I will live. When I get my hands on one of these I will be back to show you all the fun ideas that are floating around in my head!
The tool retails for $29.99 and brads are $2.99.
I'll post more product finds when I get my samples so I can better feature them here on my blog. Hoping to have tons of give-aways too...so be sure to check back often!
