ScrapbookIndustryNews: pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

After the success of the Dear Lizzy line (pretty much entirely on awesome sale here) by American Crafts last year, I wondered if they would start collaborating with other uniquely styled designers and indeed they have. This is the new Amy Tangerine line by Amy Tan and American Crafts. It’s a little quirkier than what you would expect from American Crafts usual lines. (Oh, and there are new ‘usual’ lines from AC too – I’ll cover those in another post.) This promotional video gives you an idea to the line’s inspirations and also shows you the clever minibook that is a centrepiece of the collection.

The line has four points of inspiration: fashion, craft, travel and office. So there are airplanes, cameras, stitches and graph papers.

The papers have two things that are a little unexpected for American Crafts: some of the papers have stitching and some of the designs are not an all over pattern, but a blocked design. There are also fabric papers and flat papers.

Love that sheet of Details embellishments in the tiny embroidery hoops.

Ribbons, two sets of printed washi tapes, fabric-covered brads, leaves, stamps and a very cool pack of die cuts in all different shapes and sizes.

Layered stickers at the top and fabric stickers (plus shaped paper clips) below. I love the fabric stickers in both design and texture.

The big booklet of coordinating sticker images – love that bold woodgrain silhouette!

Here you can see everything in the pack.

Crafty goodness from Amy and the American Crafts design team.

The minibook is definitely worthy of an ‘Oh cute!’ exclamation. Kraft cover, woodgrain embossed clear panels on the outside, pages inside are a mix of sizes, colours and patterns.

Amy’s book as it was taking shape over the days of the show. You can use this ‘smash’ style or with more planned designs like a traditional scrapbooking mini.

More cute creations to show what you can make with the products…

Of course it wouldn’t be American Crafts without Thickers! One all caps, one all lower and one with both.

And there’s Miss Amy herself!

The Amy Tangerine line from American Crafts will hit stores in August. Click here to shop for scrapbooking supplies from American Crafts.

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Getting ready to head home from CHA and have lots of photos to share! Think I can quickly manage one before I leave, so let’s have a look at the new things from Studio Calico! The collection above is called Autumn Press – there are a few leaves, but mostly just warm colours in non-themed patterns.

A clean, neutral line called Classic Calico, with the idea that they will continue to release new patterns in this same versatile colour scheme. Chevrons, woodgrain, dots and all sorts of things that will be so easy to use. Beautiful papers and embellishments that will definitely go with anything and let your photos shine.

Stamps – both clear and cling red rubber – designed by Studio Calico and produced by Hero Arts. Sounds like a good match to me!

A familiar sheet in a new finish – kraft cardstock letter stickers. Lovely for scrapping pretty much anything.

An addition to their Mister Huey mist collection – Calico Shine. It’s a white pearl finish and sprays really well. Saw this sampled in the booth and it’s lovely look – less glitter than other sprays, more a warm pearl.

Pages from the Studio Calico design team. Love the looks from their new collections, with the giant painted butterflies and the big ampersand mask.

A fab little minibook: kraft chipboard cover embossed with woodgrain…

lots of graph paper pages inside. That cover looks beautiful with paint!

New products from Studio Calico will hit stores soon. Click here to shop their current range.

Okay – must head home and I’ll share photos and videos plenty more companies when I arrive!

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The Hambly Screen Prints booth is always filled with gorgeous candy-coloured products and projects. You know they had me with the first of the new overlays: oh be still my cupcake loving heart.

The lovely Alison who makes all this stuff happen helped everyone with the most adorable make and take – a wooden bangle bracelet with doily rub-ons then sealed with diamond glaze. I adore mine and will show it to you one day when I happen to wear the perfect outfit to match, I think!

Plus more transparencies, including doilies, hearts, stitches and peacock feathers. These all come in an array of colours on both paper and transparency, all hand screen-printed in their California studio.

New rub-ons too: doilies in both whole images and lacy borders, swatches (which includes some woodgrain), and stitches.

They also have wall decals (though if you are Laura you just stick the rub-ons and transparencies to your house, and I think this is perfectly wonderful!)

And this is my Must-Have! Oh those little letters! I may be predictable but they are so perfect with their turquoise outlines! And all of these are stickers so easy-peasy!

And here is a look around their gorgeous space:

Click here to purchase Hambly products!

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Cosmo Cricket released three new lines at the winter show: Joyride, Material Girl and Variety. After last year’s releases with collections like Early Bird, Jolly by Golly and the multi-coloured woodgrain wonder that is Nutmeg, these have become some of the supplies I keep closest to my crafting table! So the question of the day: will these be as versatile?

Joyride is a youthful take on a travel line, with cute and quirky cars, roads and so forth. The circle patterned paper in that first picture is my favourite, as it can be used for absolutely anything! Love it. (I loved the circle paper in the Snorkel line too — this is still one of my favourite pages.)

My Must-Have from all of the Cosmo release has to be the addition of more fonts in chipboard letters with a woodgrain pattern! Hurrah! I am very keen on the carnival style font, as I’m not a huge font of rounded letters…but the woodgrain might persuade me. You never know.

I’m not sure how I missed photographing my favourite paper from the Material Girl collection, but imagine a dark green with little vintage scissors in cream! So lovely. This is a very pretty collection.

Variety wraps things up with a bit of the look of Early Bird from last year but with a new summers-in-the-garden twist! It does make me wish I had a garden instead of a little concrete balcony, but I’m sure I can find something worthwhile. I’ve been meaning to scrapbook about our local farmers’ market actually, and this would be a perfect fit.

Cosmo always has beautiful layouts on their booth and on their blog so I can’t wait to see more creative uses for all these new designs.

Click here to shop for Cosmo Cricket products!

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Walking past and seeing this made me so very happy. I absolutely love Heidi Grace products: the fonts, the colours, the quality — everything just so perfectly ready to use. (This is one of my favourite made-with-HG products from last year.) For several years the Heidi Grace line was available through Fiskars, but last year when Fiskars decided to regroup and go back to their tool-based focus, it meant that the Heidi Grace line disappeared along with all the other paper and embellishment collections they had previously offered.

But as of now, Heidi Grace is back! The line (along with Cloud 9 Design, also previously with Fiskars) is now available from Colorbok and there are lots of new supplies that ring absolutely true to Heidi’s look since the very beginning.

Here’s a look at what we’ll see soon!


Those rosettes at the bottom right corner? Definitely my must-have. Just imagine how fab those will be layered up in detailed flowers!

Those giant letter packs on the floor have me intrigued! I don’t usually go for giant letters but I keep coming back to them in these pictures and wishing I could see more…so maybe!

Die-cut bird cage paper? I have no idea what I will use it for, but I know I need it! That’s perfectly normal, right?

Sadly when I was around, there was no one available to tell me when this would be available, but suffice to say it will be at some point and that alone makes me very happy. Also, HG fans will notice the fonts (like that alpha toward the right in the last photo) and colour palettes are pretty true to the existing line so if you, like me, have been hoarding some of your favourite Heidi Grace supplies, you can mix and match without worry.

This excites me to no end!

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Several new releases at My Mind’s Eye, but not all easy to photograph on display! This is the line I’m excited about though: Lush.

The Lush collection includes many flocked prints, including chipboard albums with flocked covers and plenty of damask designs, in six colours: red, brown, black, aqua, green and pink.

If you liked the Paperie line from Making Memories (and I did!), I think you’ll like this too.

And one more thing from My Mind’s Eye… if you’ve been scrapping a long while, be prepared to feel old:

Because Frame-Ups are ten years old and there is an anniversary release.

Yeah. Well, I’m sure I wasn’t quite ready for a die-cut to make me feel old, but I’ll go with the flow. No need to go check my older albums to count up just how many pieces from this original line made an appearance. The correct answer is: many.

Click here to shop for My Mind’s Eye products!

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Making Memories is one of those companies that are looked to for innovation at each and every show. This show they definitely went in a new direction — and I’m interested to hear what you think about their choices!

My favourite part of their new release is the Panorama collection, with a travel theme. I’m a sucker for anything travel themed!



This is my must-have from MM: the felt portfolio album. They have done these in a few collections, and I used one for this album and would love to use this one for something exciting too. (I have the Christmas portfolio album set aside for something special next December too.) I just love the 8×8 size and the mix of pages, pockets and other bits and pieces. Happy to see a new one!

I never tire of MM word stickers, so these are a lovely addition. I love that this collection will mix and match with last year’s Great Escape collection, with similar tones in darker colours.
This collection ships in May, but you’ll find other collections earlier.

Design Shop is a collection of dimensional stickers in different themes, including London landmarks. These are shipping in April.

This year’s baby collection, Pitter Patter, hits stores in February. There’s a pink line and a blue line and then some items that work for both. The albums are cute! Love that die-cut felt.

There are new Slice cards each month too — baby themes in February, Parties in March, Pets and Summer in April and Travel in May.

An innovation in gadgetry for this show: a hands-free kit for the Slice die cutter. A special magnetic mat and base attach the cutter without the need to hold it in place. And you don’t have to buy a new machine – it’s an optional add-on to the existing cutter. Very cool!

Something entirely different from Making Memories: a make-your-own jewelry line. It’s called Vintage Groove and it’s sold by the piece and only requires a few basic tools, so you don’t have to buy tons of stuff to get started. I do wonder if we will see scrapbookers putting these pretty pieces to use on paper projects as well as fashion accessories, since they will be a great addition to minibook bindings and tactile projects like that. What do you think about this shift? Something you think you’ll find at a scrapbooking store? This collection hits stores in March, so we’ll see then!

Click here to shop for Making Memories products!

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If you’re a fan of kraft, you’re a fan of Jillibean Soup, and there is even more new stuff for you!

These fabric flowers are my must-have. I love that they aren’t just canvas – which was a big trend all around the show floor – but they are printed. Love the typed letters on off-white canvas! And the buttons are a perfect fit too.

Plenty of patterned papers — some on white, some on kraft. Love that paper that looks like an eye chart, which will be a nice switch up to the papers that look like handwriting workbooks. Plus it reminds me I need to go get my eyes checked!

Love these kraft journaling tags! Will definitely use these soon!

And new stickers too: a new font in lots of colours plus themed sticker sheets to coordinate with the paper collections!

and a bit of inspiration from the adorable trees at the Jillibean booth:



(I had to include the typewriter, didn’t I? So lovely!)

Click here to shop for Jillibean Soup products!

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