GCD Studios :: Winter 2010 CHA report
GCD Studios have switched things up a bit by bringing on designer Melody Ross to create three new ranges of products: one bright pinks and turquoises, another darker more vintage collection and a third dominated by tools and techniques.
I love the happy colours in the Homespun Chic range. Somehow I missed photographing the papers, but there are reds and yellows in there too to balance all that pink and turquoise. Lots of printed chipboard embellishments – a bit like the Chatterbox ‘Fabulous’ range that Melody designed for 7gypsies last year, which I liked.
This is the Ava collection — some of it looks quite dark but that was partly the way they had it displayed to contrast from Homespun Chic. If you check out the pictures of the papers on their blog you’ll see the Ava papers are much lighter in colour. There are lots of pretty butterflies in the range (both papers and die cuts) and tons of border strips.
And finally, the Chip Art collection — this was one of the new tools released at this show. The idea is a bit of a mix between leather craft and paper craft — using metal tools and a mallet to imprint a design into a piece of chipboard. If you ever stamped your name into a leather keychain at summer camp, you will know exactly how to do this. The chipboard gets more pliable when it is wet, then you can make impressions and let it dry, then paint or finish as desired. In some of the samples the chipboard takes on a clay or ceramic look. They showed finished pieces as wall art, jewelry, journal covers and smaller embellishments for scrapbook pages — all very pretty. The start up cost with the mat, mallet and an impression tool will be between $40 and $50, but then you can add additional sets of impression tools between $6 and $10 for the set of three designs. There are also full alphabets that come in fancy tins, and those are around $40 for a big set.
And here’s a look around the inspiration at the GCD Studios booth:
Look for all of this to hit stores over the next month!
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29 January 2010, 11:40
Oh – what a great range! I think I really, really, need a set of alphas that I can use with a hammer. Sounds just like my kind of crafting :D
29 January 2010, 11:56
I literally have stamped my name into a leather key ring on summer camp! lol!
29 January 2010, 13:55
Shimelle, thanks for taking the time to post the sneak peeks! So much easier than going through a buch of blogs!
30 December 2011, 00:48
Was fun . . . was just surfing and saw some of my work here. Fun stuff. I did the little canvas pages ‘loved’ and the other. I also sell all the lines you’ve shared here on my website. Fun stuff. Wishing you a great new year!