CHA's Creativation 2017 Part 1

Hello everyone! I'm back from the fabulous creative journey known as CHA Creativation, which was held in Phoenix, Arizona this year for the first time. I drove the whole trip, and stopped at my mothers in New Mexico and stayed with my brother in Phoenix. The whole drive and experience and seeing my peeps was fantastical. Here are some photos of the drive and of course, the people who make my world a better place, and although I missed some people...Wendy Vecchi, Wendy Cusky, Karen Bearse, and Linda Ledbetter, sorry guys...I am so thankful to have seen my friends, and meet a lot of new ones. 

Right outside of where my mother lives is White Sands National Monument...a place I have been to more times than I can count. It's miles and miles of the most gorgeous brilliant white sand you have ever seen, and right in the middle of the desert...crazy. We used to go there on picnics and field trips when I was little.

Once I hit about 20 miles into Arizona, the landscape changed from flat desert to hilly rocky desert. There were rocks on top of each other,  and beautiful red striations. I'm not a desert girl...I like the mountains and hills...but I sure appreciate the different beauty.

 

 

 

 

My total there and back was about 26 hours, but with all the stops, sights, and people along the way, it went by so fast.

So then I made the convention center, and it was time to go to work. This year, I concentrated only on Ranger. Last year I was everywhere, and it was just so much, so this year, I slowed down and breathed it all in.

This is Colleen from Ranger, and this is us setting up.

This is us taking down. LOL...she is a blast!

Dina (who so graciously shared her demo space with me...thank you Dina!) and Mario

Tim doing his thing, and demoing his new Distress Oxides...a must have....more later.

This is Taylor, and she works at Ranger. She is the one who does those awesome hand lettering and embossing powder videos for Ranger. She blows me away with her talent, and she is a gorgeous person in and out.

Cheryl and Marjie

Deb, who I met for the first time in the flesh.

 

This globetrotter is Jenny, who traveled all the way from across the pond. We finally met in the flesh, and she did the utmost brilliant job demoing for my pal Eileen Hull in the Sizzix Booth. She was fabulous and knows her stuff!

Joy, her mother, and Richele. Joy and her mom did a fantastic job doing all of Tim's make n takes in the Idea-ology booth...which I didn't make time for :0(.  Richele demoed her heart out in the Sizzix Booth with Tim's goodies...a joy to see.

The ever talented Paula.

Super nice Seth who rocked new product.

Susie working away.

Dyan and Eileen

I wish I had more photos of the peeps. So many photos were taken, but sadly on another's phone.  Next post is about the booths and projects.
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

CHA's Creativation 2017

Hello and Happy New Year everyone! It's been a few weeks since I've blogged, because I've been so busy getting ready for the Craft and Hobby Association's Creativation Show...that's what they are calling it now. They revamped the whole thing, and it's going to be an awesome show!!! I'm super stoked and so excited! I've been busy creating samples for the Ranger booth, #1717 (Cool number for the 2017 show!), and making my piece for Ranger and Tim Holtz's Designer Challenge! I'm so thrilled to have been asked again...THANK YOU TIM! AND...Ranger has asked me to come back and demo again this year, so I'll be in the booth three hours a day! Thank you Ranger! Talk about exciting...I can barely contain myself. So if you are at the show, please come and say hi, and act like you are real interested in what I'm doing!!! ;0) I'll be making a video or two, and maybe do a FB Live post...we will see...for those of you who can't be at the show. And, by the way, they've moved the show to Phoenix this year, and I'll be driving there, and visiting family and friends along the way. I'll try to take some pics, and hopefully get to visit some neat places to share with you. Below is the Ranger Schedule for all the Designers and myself, so please stop by! OH YEAH BABY, THIS IS HAPPENING!!! #Creativation2017

Be sure to watch FB for sneak peeks of all the Ranger Designer's new product coming out this week...talk about fabulous goodies! Until next time...

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!