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Here are more exciting products that made their debut at CHA Anaheim 2010, the Craft and Hobby Association trade show.
Please see the Scrapbooking & Beyond Summer 2010 issue for additional reviews.

Provo Craft
Cricut Cake
cricut.com/cricutcake/

The Cricut Cake is to gum paste and fondant icing what the Cricut is to cardstock. Cut precise, professional looking decorations for cakes, cookies and candy right in your own kitchen. It’s an investment, but if you do a lot of bake sales, church or school events, it might be just what you need.

Cricut Cake

Donna Salazar
Donna Salazar’s Memory Mosaics and Journal Cards
scrapbook.com

Two winners: Donna Salazar’s Memory Mosaics 12" x 12" sheets include 75 small square and rectangular elements on one side, a simple background on the other. Styles include Flowers & Nature, Alphas, Textures, and Vintage Paper. Versatile Journal Cards 12" x 12" sheets are designed to cut into six 4" x 6" pieces, most are two-sided and lined for writing.

journal cards mosaics

K&Company
Tim Coffey Blossomwood Collection
kandcompany.com

Tim Coffey is a master. Blossomwood 12" x 12" papers are so beautiful you’ll be tempted to frame them. Adhesive Borders with copper foil accents, Layered Accents flowers with glittery centers, Die-Cut Cardstock & Acetate butterflies, flowers and swashes, transparent Baubles, and other embellishments will find their way into collage, scrapbooks – and your heart!

Blossomwood Collection
Faber-Castell Creative Studio
fabercastell.com
Getting Started:
Art Journaling
Getting Started:
Artist Trading Cards
Two new complete kits with everything needed to start making ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) or an Art Journal: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens, Art GRIP Aquarelle watercolor pencils, gesso, glue, paintbrush, pre-printed papers and ephemera, pencil sharpener, drawing pencil, instruction book, ready to decorate surfaces (12-page 3-ring journal or 18 ATC blanks and clear storage sleeves), all in a convenient storage box. art journaling trading cards

SRM Stickers
Water Fun Collection
srmpress.com

Their motto: “The Clear Choice for Cards and Crafts.” Their newest clear stickers: A fun mix of Sticker Sentiments, Quick Cards, Baby’s 1st Year, Express Yourself (words and phrases), Free Style (colorful graphics) and more. Shown here is the Water Fun Collection.

Waterfun Water fun

BIC
Ultra-Fine Point Permanent Marker Color Collection
bicmarkit.com

Fine control and 36 yummy colors! Oh, the possibilities! BIC nailed it with the Mark-It line of permanent markers, the first of which were Fine point. They’ve taken it to the next level with the Ultra-Fine Point Collection. The ink is acid-free, the rubber grip gives both control and comfort. Each marker has its own parking space in the handy, portable storage box. You can write or draw on glass, plastic, coated paper, and other nonporous surfaces, as well as paper. Scrapbookers, cardmakers and other crafters will appreciate the markers in more ways than there is space to describe. Suffice it to say that this is a product worth more than the price. Tranquil Teal, Plumtastic Purple, Adobe Orange, anyone? Even the color names are tempting.

Bic Ultrafine markers