Back From CHA Winter 2017 - Creativation Conference and Trade Show!

Whew! What a whirlwind of a trip! Kristin and Heidi spent time in Phoenix, Arizona attending the latest Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) event - Creativation!

WARNING - this post is image heavy!

We hope you enjoy viewing the pics we're sharing with you from the show. It's always so much fun looking at the new products and seeing familiar faces. Our industry is all about making connections and sharing through creativity. It's nice to be in such a huge setting filled with creative passion!

Heidi and Kristin on the Creativation Show Floor

Fellow attendee waves "Hi" to the camera

Excited crowds gather in front of the Graphic 45 booth hoping to grab some giveaway goodies!

The Doodlebug Design booth was extra bright and so cute! We love spending time with the Doodlebug team. They're pretty amazing people.

Adorable cards featuring new Doodlebug products decorate the booth

This guy was HUGE! Some of the booths were pretty mind blowing.

 

We're so excited about all of the new Prima products on their way to A Cherry On Top Crafts. Expect to see new gels, paper collections, PLANNERS and flowers (of course)!

Heidi Swapp and Heidi from A Cherry On Top pose for a quick picture

 

Expect to see more fun and nostalgic items from Heidi Swapp. New LightBox accessories, Memory Planners, Travelers Notebooks, Chalk Art and so much more!

We R Memory Keepers stays ahead of the game with new paper crafting tools. Look for the Stitch Happy Multi-Media Sewing Machine as well as the new Planner Punch Board, soon!

There was so much to see and play with at the Creativation Conference and Trade Show. We'll be incredibly busy getting all of the newest on our site. Be sure to visit our NEW and Pre-Order sections every day - OK...maybe a few times a day - to see the latest!

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Sharing Some Creative Love From Our Gallery!

We adore our A Cherry On Top Crafts community! Some of our visitors spend a lot of time on our Message Board chatting about all things crafts, pets, family and whatever else "friends" talk about. 

Some of our visitors simply like sharing their talents by posting projects to our paper crafting Gallery. Here are a few we'd like to spotlight!

"Always Be You" by scrappinmom99

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"Christmas Tradition" layout by Krystle

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"PJ/MSG/NYC" layout by rachel0017

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"Tis The Season" Advent Calendar by Doodlebug Designer - Jennifer Beason

We appreciate everyone who contributes to our amazing scrapbooking and paper craft gallery. You're helping to spread and encourage the love of crafting! We can't wait to see what you create next.

Come Get Social With Us!

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Congrats To Our Latest Paper Crafting Sketch Winner!

What a busy week and weekend!  Somehow a lot of you found time to fit in our latest scrapbooking sketch challenge.

We gave you this sketch:

And we received submissions like these:

  

'Once upon a time' by jan509(l) - 'Merry Christmas Love' by Heather1974(r)

'Gosh 10' by AllisonLP

If you'd like to view the other fantastic creations, be sure to visit our Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge #107 Gallery.

Without further ado, we'd like to CONGRATULATE Retiree3 for being randomly selected as this week's WINNER! Her paper crafting layout is called 'Boys Will Be Boys' and it features some action packed pics!

Enjoy spending your 1000 A Cherry On Top Points, Retiree3!  We're giving 100 points to everyone else who played along with us.  

Click HERE to view more submissions

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November 2015 Guest Designer Challenges

Anne-Marie is our November Guest Designer and she's been busy creating new challenges to inspire you!

Read a little more about Anne-Marie and be sure to check out at least one of her challenges below!

Click here to visit her A Cherry On Top Gallery

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Layout: Bella Bambina - Challenge #1 - COLOR

Option #1: Use black & white photo(s) and use any color scheme you like! Go nuts and make that black & white photo pop!! ?

Option #2: Use color photo(s) and use ONLY white/cream, black/gray, gold, silver, bronze, copper and ONE color of your choice (as many shades of that ONE color you like). You don’t have to use all of these colors but you cannot use more than those listed. No brown/tan/kraft unless that is the ONE color you are choosing.

BONUS entry: Use a word or phrase in a language other than English. If you chose this bonus, please point out where you’ve used the foreign word/phrase and what it means, because I love to learn new things! Bella Bambina means “Beautiful Girl” in Italian. My daughter’s name is Gaelic – Aisling is an Irish language feminine given name meaning "dream" or "vision" and referring to an aisling, a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th century in Irish language genre poetry. Aisling was not used as a given name before the 20th century.

Rules:
• New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge
• MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch
• Please post in Challenge #1 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.
• You may enter twice – once for each option

Click to visit/submit to Challenge #1 Gallery

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Layout: Squanto's home - Challenge #2 - SKETCH

Your challenge is to use the above sketch.

Bonus entry: Create a little scene (with stickers, rub-ons, die cuts, whatever you have) to support the theme of your layout. I did a Thanksgiving theme but it could be any theme you like!

Example:

• New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge
• MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch
• May not be combined with other November Guest Designer challenges
• Please post in Challenge #2 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.
• Double page layout = 2 entries.  Single page layout (either side) = 1 entry. May enter no more than 4 entries (so any combination of double page, single page up to 4 entries, not including whatever bonuses you might include. So you could do 2 double pages, 2 single pages, no double pages, all single pages etc).  

Click to visit/submit to Challenge #2 Gallery

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Layout: Documented - Challenge #3 - SCRAP YOURSELF

New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge

MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch

May not be combined with other November Guest Designer challenges

Maximum of 3 entries.

Please post in Guest Designer #3 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.  

Click to visit/submit to Challenge #3 Gallery

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We hope you're able to get in on one or ALL of this month's Guest Designer Challenges.  Anne-Marie will be randomly selecting one participant from each challenge to win an A Cherry On Top Gift Certificate!  

Happy Creating!

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Click here to find out how to submit

Gathering Around The Table

At least once a month here at ACherryOnTop.com we like to get as many of us as possible together for a fun activity, to eat or just to hang out!  There's something special about doing other things besides working with your co-workers!

l-r (around the table) Austin, Brandon, John, Kristin, Clint, Deb, Candice, Michelle and Cathy

We were able to grab some of our team a few days ago and we headed out to lunch at a local Irish restaurant.  Gathering around a table together makes it easier to catch up on all those fun moments in life!  For instance, Deb and Cathy are both proud military moms.  Their boys are off saving the world! Austin just finished college and Michelle just rejoined our ACOT family!

In the months ahead, we're going to let you get to know a bit more about our team here!  We'll also post more pics of our groovy outings.  In the meantime, check out our About Us page at ACherryOnTop.com.

Thanks for reading!

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Goodies from our Gallery:

'I Love Pretty Things' - Card by Erica H.

July/August Graphic Design Challenge - by Charleneanne

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Special Coupon Code For Former Peas

It's been slightly over a week since Two Peas in a Bucket announced the closing of their online store. Honestly, we were shocked and disheartened at the news. 2Peas and ACOT started up about the same time, 15 years ago or so. 2peas provided wonderful inspiration and a home to many which only helps improve the world of paper crafts! We really respect and appreciate how well they grew their community, offered classes, videos, and of course their incredible gallery.

Use Code: 2PEAS

We realize not everyone has a local scrapbook store which is why we're offering a special promo code* for those looking to find a new paper craft supply source. If you enter the code 2PEAS into the promo code area during checkout, you'll receive a 10% discount off all shippable products (no minimum order amount required). If you place a $50 or more order (after any discounts and/or points have been applied), you'll ALSO pay only 99¢ for orders shipping within the 48 contiguous US states. Orders shipping outside of that area will receive a 20% shipping discount.

We wish the Two Peas in a Bucket founders and all 'peas' everywhere the best the future has to bring!

*promotion may not be combined with other codes. valid through 07/31/14.

iNSD 2014 Recap!

This past Saturday we celebrated National Scrapbook Day on our Message Board!  What an amazing event we had.  There were games and fast scraps and challenges to inspire!

If you missed any of it, please be sure to visit our NSD 2014 Forum!

There are still a lot of challenges that you can be a part of due to delayed deadlines.  Here are just a few:

Joannie's NSD Stencil Challenge

NSD Challenge - Scrap Happy

NSD Bingo/5x5 Challenge

There is no way we could pull an event off like this without our wonderful Crop Hostesses!  Special thanks to all of you!

cajenkins81
suslvgeo
beachlover
average_kim
joannie
writerlady
christinec68
oceanbreezes423
ScrappyDistractions

We're already looking forward to our next NSD Celebration!  Thank you for making this event such a beautiful success!

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Click here to find out how to submit

Do You Know Chickaniddy?

Designer Heidi Sonbul, along with her husband as well as partners (Brandon and Fua) started Chickaniddy Crafts in June of last year and it's been all Date Nights and Twirly Girls ever sense!  

Not sure what I'm talking about?  Keep on reading...

I was thrilled to be able to spend some time with Heidi (yes, we chuckled about our shared name) and her family of helpers at CHA Winter 2014.  

Heidi Sonbul(l) and Heidi from ACOT(r)

She's soooo nice!

Heidi Sonbul clearly loves what she does and is incredibly talented at it. She's surrounded herself with a great team and all of us at ACherryOnTop.com are excited to offer Chickaniddy Crafts scrapbooking and paper crafting items in our shop!

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Introducing Date Night

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Introducing Twirly Girl

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I'm sure you'll be hearing more from this brand new paper craft company! Chickaniddy Crafts now available at ACherryOnTop.com.

Thanks for reading!