ALL SIGNS POINT TO A STRONG CHA SUMMER SHOW

Travel Bargains Help Fuel Attendance
ELMWOOD PARK, NJ (April 27, 2010) – With several weeks still remaining before the Craft & Hobby Association’s 2010 Summer Convention & Trade Show, all signs point to a robust event. As of April 27, there is a 11% increase in square footage and 11% increase in number of exhibitors over [...]

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Advertising Moves Dollars Away From TV Toward Digital

DVRs Mean Consumers Watching Fewer Commercials, Using Internet More
If you want to know which media is hot, just follow the money.
As technology changes consumer habits — using the DVR to skip commercials and using the Internet to access more video content — advertisers are smelling the scent in the wind. A study by the Society [...]

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Color Palette Generator - Automatically From Any Photo

This is really cool! You can automatically generate a wonderful color palette based on the colors in a photo that you upload. Not only can you use it to choose colors to match the photos in your scrapbook page, you can use it to help with other art projects, website design, or even decorating your [...]

Plastic Bottle Crafts for Earth Day

According to the Container Recycling Institute, Americans buy more than 29 BILLION plastic beverage bottles every year while only about 20% are recycled. Traditional plastic bottles are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a non-renewable, petroleum-based product. The Pacific Institute reports that the production of plastic bottles for U.S. beverage consumption in 2006 required the equivalent [...]

“Thank You” Pop-Up Card

I needed a Thank You card and I wanted to play with the Silhouette HD cutting machine, so here’s what I came up with!

Supplies:

white cardstock
patterned paper from Hot Off the Press
Silhouette Popup Designs:

Paisley Pop-up
Pop-up Thank You Card

Sticky Thumb Glue
Fiskars Paper Edgers Scissors
Invitation-size white envelope

Instructions:

First I cut out the two Silhouette pop-up designs on patterned paper. [...]

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