More Booth photos from CHA!

I have lots of pictures for you today of my booth from CHA!

So lets just jump right in....

this is my grandma's jelly cabinet that I brought with me to the show! 

I loved having it in my booth with me!

It worked so well for a display!

Katrina made the tag banner, tags, girlie box on top and wooden spool with the picture. 

Stacy made the "Thank heaven" for little boys" mini album.

I made everything else. 

Also I added a picture of my grandma and I when I was young since my "Audrey" paper was created in her honor!

Katrina made this great hear wall-hang! 

It was beautiful!

My Audrey collection...

samples of projects using "Audrey".

These next few pictures were taken from my "Island Table" in the center of the booth. 

I cover the top of my table with a thin cork material, that I really liked but wished I had used something thicker b/c it was really easy to tear.

Love this little ribbit I have as part of my home decor for Easter. 

She is holding a little Heresy's Kiss with a toothpick stuck in it with a sweet message from 

my "Audrey" paper line.

My paper cupcakes are always a hit but everyone seemed to really like the Heresy's Kisses toothpick holders too! So Fun and easy to make!

Its hard to see but my award is in the center of this picture (green base), its all glass so its hard to see and photograph too.

This is one of the 2 tables that was were my grandma's that I painted and brought with me to the show!

And that is my PINK Clip It Up! 

Yes you can paint your Clip It Up and adhere ribbon and buttons on it like I did!

Turned out really cute!

My white owl was from a good friend and its has a place it sits in my home but now its new home is on top of my new pink Clip it Up!

That's it for today! 

Welcome DT Diva, Melissa Pablo

It has been FOREVER since I have blogged here (or on my own blog)!  But, today I am excited to share some work of one of our new design team Divas, Melissa Pablo.  Melissa has been a long time participant  of the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog here and we are excited to have her on the team this term. 

The Divas are waiting on the new collections to arrive, but Melissa had some of the older collections and sent me three layouts while I was away at CHA.  I was so excited when I got these in my inbox from her!

For the first layout, she combined the following collections:  

My Friend Birdie, Gingerbread Land, and Tree Love.  

And they all worked together perfectly!

For this layout Melissa used:  

Will He B the 1, Flaming Butterfly, and Sugar Cookie

And for the last layout Melissa used these collections:

Sugar Cookie, We Are Family, My Friend Birdie, and I think there is a little Gingerbread Land in there also!

I love that she combined at least three different collections on each layout, but they all went seamlessly together!  Be sure to visit Melissa's blog, 

creative isay. 


Also, don't forget to grab one of the new collection badges over at the side to add to your blog.  I have already picked one winner this week!!!

Still recovering from CHA!

I don't know if its because I'm getting old or just working my butt off but I've slept around 10 hours each night and have mainly just laid around with my dogs for the past 3 days. (And I'm still tired!) However today starts a new week so tired or not there is a lot of catching up to do. I have tons of "follow-up" calls to make and maybe a HUGE co-branding with another company, still to early to see if it will all work out but keeping my fingers crossed!  Also my paper should be arriving early this week too! Very excited about that!

I only got to blog a couple of times last week during CHA, I had wanted to blog more but once back in the hotel room I just passed out! In fact one night Dan woke me up and said "Nik, you are still fully dressed from today, don't you want to get your PJ's on?"so I got all the sleep I could when I could! 

Below are some pictures from my booth and I'll share pictures all week with you since I have more than can be shown in one blog post! 

This is my entire booth all set up and ready to show off!

I re-furbished this child's chalk board easel and instead of using the little shelf for holding the chalk I used it as a flower pot bed that are holding paper flowers made from my paper collections!      

Close you pic...

I hot glued a little blue bird (fake) in a little nest for the corner of the chalkboard!

It maybe hard to see but I still want a place to put my chalk so I bought an old drawer pull/handle turned it upside down and attached it to the backside of the chalk board. Love it!

I also made a little step stool for my nephew Noah with the "Noah" paper collection, I can't wait to give it to him for his first b-day in May!  

DT Diva, Stacy made this cute picture holder from the Noah collection. 

Don't you just love those little wooden spools!

Stacy also used my red Burlap Buttons too!

These are the huge framed boards that hold all the collections and samples of each collection.

DT Diva, Katrina made this star ornament from the Noah collection!

Love it!

This is the sample board for the Noah Collection.

Okay so this little guy sits at the bottom of my stairs in my home and at the very last minute I decided to pack him up and put him in the crate and he was perfect for holding my little fortune cookies made from the "Audrey" collection.  I'm ready to have him back home now! 

Check back Wednesday for more booth pictures! 

Noell Hyman from The Paper Clipping came by to talk about my four collection and she then decided to go ahead and make a video from my booth and talk with me for a bit too! 

Click HERE for the video!

Thanks Noell for the great video and for stopping by to say hi! 

Hope everyone has a great week! 

Showcase on YOU!

Hi everyone! It's time for my fave post of the month... when I get to Showcase the creations from our fans!  We love to share what you all have made!

Let's see what everyone created this month!

First I have a Christmas ornament that Michelle Hodges made using an old ribbon spool (VERY cool Michelle!) and Nikki's Gingerbread Land collection! Love this Michelle!

Next we have Ellen Jarvis...and she shares a beautiful card, her version of a SMASH book and an ADORABLE little house with us today! I just love love love Ellen's card and her house and her SMASH book are just CUTE CUTE CUTE! :) Ellen used My Lil' Monster on all of these!

This is the front of her card ......

And here is the inside...

And here is her SMASH book

And Ellen's CUTEEEEEE little house!

Next we have two gorgeous layouts from Debbi Tehrani! She used It's Raining, It's Pouring! I just love love love these!

Next we have a beautiful layout from Ilene Tell! She used Sugar Cookie on her layout! I just absolutely LOVE this Ilene!

Next we have an ADORABLE layout from Mary Pat Siehl!  I just love love love how she put this together! She added a pocket for her son's school artwork! LOVE that!  She used School is Cool on her layout!

Next we have an ADORABLE card from Angie Blom! She used Summer on this fun card!

Next we have two SWEET cards from Sharette Smith! She used Blueberry Hill and Ellie's Day Out! I just loveeee these!

 

This card that Sharette made is an easel card that's a calender too! LOVE it!

Lastly today we have two FABULOUS cards and two BEAUTIFUL layouts from Dorothy Alcantara!  :) I just love these! Dorothy used Nikki's Summer collection!

Thanks so much ladies for sharing your beautiful creations with us! We love to see creations made with Nikki's goodies!  If you would ever like to be showcased on Nikki's blog.... just shoot me (Julie) an email at bmwgirl@cox.net  I just need an image of your project, your full name and a link to your blog or online gallery!  Can't wait to see what you create!