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Glitter Girl's CHA Picks... the letter sticker edition

Another thing the Peas mentioned they would be searching for in this summer's releases was something to fill the gap in the letter sticker market: we have great letter stickers in the larger sizes and some very useful mini letter stickers, but that middle size range can be a hard one to find!  Your wishes have come true: there were plenty of in-between letter stickers on the show floor!

These sets are from the new Snap collection by Simple Stories - and they come in a pack with multiple colours (see all the shades above), for a retail price around the five dollar mark, so these would be a great pick for your stash.  The colours look great individually or mixed together, so you'll be able to spell more before you run out of vowels.  There are two options - the font itself or smaller letters on block tiles.

Turquoise is definitely a big colour at the moment!  But colour aside, these flat letter stickers from Pebbles are a great size.  These are the biggest of all the letters in this post but they are not a huge font and will be great for a variety of titles.

Stamp company Lawn Fawn have extended their consumables to include letter stickers now as well as paper, and their font is a nice in-between size for both cards and scrapbook pages.

All the collections at Echo Park include sticker sheets with a variety of letters to match, but this sheet from their new Photo Freedom collections (designed for scrapping with pocket page protectors) particularly caught my eye.  Lots that any scrapper could use here - two versatile alphabets that aren't too small or too big and the rest of the page is packed with versatile motifs.

Then some of the best in-between letters already on the market have some new colours.  Jillibean Soup added denim, orange, kraft, black and white to their Alphabeans stickers.  (By the way, the existing colours are currently on sale at Two Peas! Find them here to grab that bargain.)

October Afternoon also added new colours to its Mini Market letter sticker line, including a lovely hot pink shade and a new woodgrain print! Both of those are definitely on my wish list, so look for those in Glitter Girl's adventures once these lines hit stores later this year.

Anything here strike your letter sticker fancy?  Or are you still searching for some letters you'll really love?

Glitter Girl's CHA Picks... the doily edition

Just before CHA opened, mild-mannered scrapbooker Shimelle Laine asked the Pea community 'what would be your dream product to find at CHA?' and several scrappers replied to say they were hoping for a new spin on doilies: mini doilies perhaps.  Even camoflaged doilies were fathomed.  Whilst I have not found any camo-print doilies at CHA Summer thus far, perhaps it is because they are so well camoflaged they are hard to see?  Of course, it would also be possible to drape oneself in traditional crochet doilies as camoflage.  You know, for those times when you don't want to be seen by the enemy in an antique store... or something.  Not too sure that's a winner of a product, but there are definitely still doilies in abundance in the papercrafting world, so here are a few stand-out product picks for any doily-lover's shopping list!

We R Memory Keepers has added crocheted doilies to the embellishment options of a few lines, in a pack with a variety of colours and sizes.  Here you can see their pale snowy shades in the Winter Frost collection, and above in the bright holiday tones for Yuletide, the WRMK Christmas collection for 2012.

Studio Calico brings in a new doily-inspired shape in a small size, perfect for layered embellishment or for scattering around a page.  This shape comes packaged with snowflakes and would look great mixed with that winter motif but could be far less seasonal when used on its own.  I'm thinking it could make a great match to a patterned paper with a large dot print - imagine a doily sat inside several circles of a printed. design.  Perfect for adding dimension and texture.  And you can choose any colour you would like, as they come in the wood veneers and the mistable Thicker shapes, both of which can be customised with colour or left as-is.

If you prefer your doilies in the printed variety, then check out this gorgeous paper in the Grandma's Lima Bean Soup collection from Jillibean.  It mixes all sorts of favourite patterns in small doses: text, gingham, woodgrain, newsprint, stripes, dots and doilies!  Perfect as a whole sheet, a box or cut into separate circles if you like.

Or how about seasonal doilies? Echo Park has doilies in both their Halloween and Christmas line-ups, in their Chillingsworth Manor and This & That Christmas collections.  (There is also a pretty floral doily pattern in their updates to For the Record, if you prefer something a bit less calendar-specific.)

Small doilies: check! But still on the look-out for those camo-print pretties.  I'll get back to you if they ever reveal themselves.

So... which doily is your favourite doily?

Live from CHA: it's Glitter Girl!

Twice a year, the craft industry gathers for the CHA trade show to debut all sorts of new products and paper collections, and this summer Glitter Girl is there with one specific agenda: to find all the products that will help the Peas scrap even happier than ever!  She'll be reporting from the show with an eye for products that will solve your problems and answer the questions that come up on the General Scrapping message board, of course.  

The show floor opens on Tuesday, so look out for Glitter Girl's blog posts here this week, and keep an eye on the message board to see if you can catch her dropping in for a chat!  Until then, you can catch up with Glitter Girl in her weekly video adventures at Two Peas!