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Do you remember Hint #2 and Hint #10 from last week? I think those clues were perceived as some of the most intriguing by all of you, judging by the number of comments they received! Well, today is the day that you finally find out exactly what we were hinting at!
You are cordially invited to Orlando, Florida for the very FIRST Papertrey retail experience in history! That's right! You heard it here first! Papertrey Ink will proudly be operating a booth at the first ever CHA Craft SuperShow, July 31st – August 1st. Many of you may have heard of CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) previously as the *IT* place to be twice a year to spot hot new products. Previously, it was an event only for retailers and others directly affiliated with the craft industry. This year they are adding a 2-day extension to their summer show that is designed exclusively for YOU, the consumer, to come in and purchase merchandise directly from all of your favorite companies!
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And this will not just be for paper crafts! All other areas of the craft industry will be represented as well, such a fabric arts, beading, wood crafts, yarn & fiber works, painting and much, much more! It is like having the opportunity to go to a stamping convention, but being able to see things from several different facets of crafting at the same time, rather than focusing exclusively on just one. I personally find this aspect particularly exciting, since so many elements of other crafts are gradually crossing over into paper crafting! As I always tell my friends, I've never met a craft I didn't like!
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So you may be wondering what will be going on at the Papertrey booth and why you should come. Well, for starters we will have nearly ALL of our exclusive colored products available for sale! We're talking cardstocks, ribbons, inks and more *new* products that haven't been revealed yet! *wink*
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You'll be able to see and TOUCH everything, all in one place! In addition to all of our exclusive color collections, we will also have many of our stamp sets in stock and ready for you to take home to add to your growing collection!
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We will be conducting FREE make and take projects throughout the two days of the show! And we have asked two VERY special ladies to be in attendance to provide you with tutorials in person! Our very own Michelle Wooderson and Debbie Olson! Both of these amazingly talented women have SO much to share, teach and demo. It will be like having front row tickets to the best show in the house!
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Still not convinced? There's one more enticing detail that I have left to share, and that is that there will be a limited edition, CHA show only stamp set available to show attendees! This unreleased stamp set will have a retail value of $15 and any customer with a total purchase of $100 or more during the show will receive this CHA exclusive set for FREE! This stamp set will not be available for sale before or after the show! Now, how's that for exciting!!!
Oh, yeah! And don't forget that Disney is nearby as well! Just throwing in that little nugget of information as your wheels start turning, thinking of ways to convince your hubby to go! Think family vacation with a *small* side attraction just for you!
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To get you in the shopping spirit, We have planned an extra special giveaway today!
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A one of a kind embroidered shopping tote, perfect to use during your first Papertrey shopping experience if you happen to decide to join us. The bag is completely lined and has a single interior pocket, perfect for holding your cell phone, keys, or………. a $100 Papertrey gift card!!!! You can choose to use the gift card at our grand CHA consumer shopping experience this summer (the $100 purchase would get you that free limited edition set too! *wink*) or use it online at our webstore at any time throughout the year.
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All you need to do to enter to win this Papertrey Bag Prize Package is take us up on a little challenge!
Now doesn't that sound like a fun way to get your creative juices flowing? Alter something as ordinary as a brown lunch bag! Play with any of our lined coffee bags or glassine bags that you might have on hand. Have fun experimenting with some of those Timeless Templates you may have already downloaded. Or perhaps you want to work on your sewing skills and stamp your own fabric to create a simple tote like I did HERE. If you feel especially inspired, you can create an all-new bag design and share the instructions with all of your online stamping friends!
Whatever you decide, be sure to play along before 3am EST (midnight PST) Feb. 6th when the contest & challenge officially closes! Link your project to this post by using the Mr. Linky Widget installed below.
You MUST provide a link DIRECTLY to your project.
Any links that do not adhere to this stipulation will be deleted.
If your link has been deleted, feel free to submit again and add your corrected link to the list
One of the linked participants will be randomly selected to win the aforementioned Papertrey Bag Prize Package! The lucky winner will be listed on our Anniversary Prize Page after noon EST Feb. 6th. Good luck to everyone!!!
Michelle Wooderson has already created a project meeting this bag challenge! Stop by to see it and have a chance to win it! You won't want to miss out!
Niki Estes has played along to! And with a project that is just in time for Valentine's Day!
You can see a little something from Dawn McVey, using one of her bright signature color schemes!
And you just have to take a peek at the ADORABLE bag created by Betsy Veldman using the new popular Fresh Alphabet stamp set!
Geny Cassady created a special valentine bag project too, that is sure to inspire!
And wait until you see Melissa Phillips take on this challenge!
P.S. We are only attending the consumer portion of the show! We are not going retail! 🙂
Oh gosh, now to find time to craft a bag in the next 24 hours when I have to work all day and host the monthly poker game tomorrow. I have to figure it out though because that is like.. the best prize ever!! (ok the free stamps for a year thing is better… LOL)
Seeing PTI at the show would be simply amazing, especially to be able to do a make and take with Debbie and Mish! I will spend the next several months pondering how to make that happen 🙂
I posted my link – you just have to scroll down a little bit to get to two bags I made for Christmas presents.
Wow! Great announcement, Nichole! 🙂
Man! I sure wish I could swing a trip down south this summer! What an incredible opportunity! So…since you’ll be at CHA, does that mean you’re going retail? 😉
This is wonderful Nichole!!! Thanks so much!!
I jumped the gun on posting my site, so sorry!! I am not able to delete it but I am the 1 spot if you would like to delete it. SO sorry!!
I’m soo excited! I’ll actually be at that show!!
My project is comming soon(hopefully)….
~Monica~
Holy canoli batman! Athough I have already had the awesome experience of buying PTI stamps (many many many) at a reatil store (MIB), I must say that it wouldn’t hold a candle to an entire booth, complete with cardstock/ribbon/omg more! I can’t wait!! Yippie!!!!!!!
Just today I told my husband I was going to CHA somehow one day (even if I had to start my own business!). I am over the moon about their new agenda. I surely will be there. Thanks for the heads up.
Ok, I actually managed to get one done 🙂 Added my link!!! Thanks for this opportunity!
Ok, I added my link b/c I was SO excited – I will definately have SOMETHING posted tomorrow night. Ahhh, I was just thinking to myself I want to go to CHA some day – definately on my life to do list! Ha, and you know we were taking the kids to disney anyway this year….. 🙂
I’m glad you’re not going retail!!! BTW, were some of the buttons a new item?? Looks very close to colors you already have, and seems to me by looking at everything this yr. and talking to my cousins DD in Vegas, who is a fashion designer, things look bright and bold this season!!!!!!
Bring on the lotto tickets, I need a trip to the States.
I am so excited to hear this fabulous new. I love the bag that you created. You make it look so simple. I couldn’t agree with you more, when you say that you never came across a craft that you never liked.
thanks for the chance.
Wish I could change my vacation because that sounds great.
I’ll be there. So happy right now to live 2 1/2 hrs from Orlando! Can’t wait to see all the creative ladies of PTI and do make and takes. Yeh! I’ll be thinking about it all day.
Kelly
I only live 4 hours away from Orlando! Much closer than the 12 it used to be! I will be there!!!
I am soooooooo excited about this. I live an hour away from Orlando, so I will be there. It will be a pleasure to meet two of my favorites – Debbie Olson and Michelle! This is the best news.
Hey Nichole, your niki link is not working, FYI.
Great idea of CHA to let us come. I may just have to visit friends in FL and make a trip of it.
What a great bag to fill full of Papertrey items!
How exciting! I have a friend who lives about 30 min from Orlando – maybe a visit is in order!!!
In Orlando??!! I’m so excited! I live in South Florida, and my friend and I would LOVE to see all of you! How wonderful, Nichole! Yay for all of us!
A fantastic challenge – I had a ton of fun making my bag – but I’d so love to swop it for yours!!! Lol.
Congratulations on your Second Birthday BTW!!
Nichole! This has made my day! This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. When I went to CHA last summer, I wanted to meet you and Dawn, but didn’t want to bother you. I love the fact that they’re doing a consumer show and we can participate on a different level than retailers.
I can’t wait to start planning the trip!
That sounds FANTASTIC! I would make the trip down… if we were in the States. My husband informed me that flying to the States for CHA was not going to happen. Whah! LOL!
OMGosh!! I think I am definitely planning a trip to Orlando!! This will be the best!
What an exciting announcement….but I will have to be excited for you and for others. I’d love to come but must be with DH at his 40th class reunion in Sault Ste Marie, MI I can hardly get any farther way and still be in the continental US. I know everyone who can make it will have sooooooo much fun though….. Do you think they might consider changing the dates of CHA just for me???? LOL
I have been trying for at least a year to find a way to go to CHA….that trip would be FAB. And even better now that my favorite stamps will be there. Hurray! Love the tote bag….but even more so the gift certificate. Woo woo! What a fun week this is. =)
Thanks so much for all the great prizes. What an exciting opportunity for you and the PTI team. Disney has a special military rate this summer, so just maybe I can convince my DH we need to take advantage of it this year:)If not, are you going to have your totes available via the PTI on-line store? Please, please!:)
Darn! I wish I could go to Florida for CHA but DH just scheduled our family vacation for those days for us to go to Kentucky to visit some of his family that my dds and I have never met. That weekend was the only time his mom and DH could get off work at the same time.
Another darn because I would love to participate in the challenge but it isn’t going to happen. I keep all my crafting supplies at my sister’s house and my car died this morning. There is no way I can walk to my sister’s house in the -2F temperatures we are having right now.
Can’t wait to see what those of you who can participate create!
Oh, I am so bummed. I live in Atlanta and going to Orlando would not be too hard to do. But at the end of July I am in Michigan for our family vacation. I know I won’t be able to convince the family to let me go that far for the weekend.
thanks so much for the fun chaallenge and the chance to win an awesome prize!! I used the sample paper that you ghave at the website, isn’t it cute! HUGS!
Do you know that you almost made me scream at work? Orlando is not that far of a trip for me. I am so excited now I can hardly stand it!! That is awesome news, I will SOOOO be there.
No way I can join in the challenge this week, dang work is in the way but I know I’ll be spending more then $100 so I still have so much to look forward to. Can I really be this excited about soemthign that isn’t happenign for another 5 months?
YES!!!! I only live about 2 1/2 hours from Orlando so you can count on me being there! I’m soo excited! Michelle and Debbie are some of my favorite stampers and a chance to meet them, how could I pass it up? 😀 Not to mention the new PTI products right in front of my eyes! I love Papertrey! Now, off to create my bag. 🙂
That sounds wunderful, but I can’t get a trip to Orlando, it is so far far away….
Love
Jenni
Very fun!
I have already noticed that many are posting their whole blogs and not linking directly to their projects.
I am thinking that some people are not quite sure how to do that.
What a cool challenge and a great prize!! Nichole, thanks for making the PTI anniversary so much fun for all of us!
thanks for great wake-up challenge! Hope to make it Orlando to meet you and see your stuff! Congrats on 2nd year! Love, love, LOVE all you do.
Yayayayaya – I was planning to go the consumer show, this is perfect! I uploaded my bag, I’m number 37, woo-hoo!
Here’s my submission. What a fun contest! I am SUCH a sucker for totes!!
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1222834?cat=500&ppuser=171
I was so excited when I saw this post I got to work right away making a bag, but I do not have a blog or a gallery. How can I enter without one? help!!Nicole
Hopefully I can make it to Orlando this summer! How exciting! And maybe I can even use this tote and gift certificate I’m going to win to do my shopping 😉 Thanks for the awesome chance to win Nichole!
What a great challenge. The CHA booth sounds exciting and I hope it all goes well. But the Cute bag and gift card would be super fun to win!!
I posted my prject! Such an exciting give away! Congrats on your anniversary!
What a fun challenge, so glad I have packaging for my neice’s birthday gift next week! I just love Mr. Linky, too. I was afraid I’d never be able to link my project!
oh my word…my heart is leaping with joy!!! i am so stinkin’ excited…can’t really say what excites me more…the shopping, the tote, or Michelle & Debbie…i admit it, i literally jumped up and down in my chair at the thought of playing with these two amazing women!!! i gotta go make a little bag for the contest…so excited!!!!
chelle
How fun!! Love checking the site each day to see what’s next.
Thanks for the chance to win!
How exciting! I don’t live in FLA, but I’d still love the opportunity to WIN!! I hope my link works! Thank you!
OH MAN! I would love to go to CHA again! Disney in the summer can be brutal on my German/Irish skin! Maybe I can live vicariously through Mish!
Hi, I have entered your bag contest on behalf of my mother in law because she doesn’t blog or have much to do with the computer. So I felt as a way to say thank you to her, I wanted to enter this bag into the contest. I posted about it on my blog:
http://www.mystampinggrounds.blogspot.com
Hugs,
catherine
catlevy@eastlink.ca
This was so much fun. As soon as I read about the contest I got busy and created a little bag in honor of PTI’s 2nd year anniversary celebration. I just posted it. I had just as much fun seeing everyone else’s creations. What a great idea, Nichole.
This was a really fun challenge. Thanks for giving me an excuse to play today!
I am so glad I had time to participate in this challenge today! I hope I win. =)
I would love to g to Orlando. This entry was SCARY!!! My first time to post anything I have made. Thanks for the opportunity to win your fab-o-licious stuff!!!
I added (I think) my link for my quick and easy project — who wouldn’t LOVE to win?!? Fingers crossed! 🙂
LOVE this time of year — so many exciting things already announced! Looking forward to the rest of the celebration… Congratulations on TWO amazing years!
OMG!!! This is soooo exciting!!! I live only 2 hours away from Orlando!!! I am sooooo there!!!
~Lacey
Wow! Great announcement! And a great challenge! Just the kick in the pants that I needed to get something crafty done!
How exciting! I don’t think I’ll be able to get to Orlando, but it’s still exciting for those that can!!
YIPPEE!! I’m thrilled that CHA will now welcome THE consumer! That’s so exciting! I may kidnap my sister in GA and take her along. Thanks so much for this “In the Bag” challenege! I don’t do them often enough, but was thrilled at add my entry:)
this is so freakin great! it makes me happy I live on the East Coast now! i will see you in July! I love the tote and i would SO love that GC…. i need it!
I just linked my project now and my kids are definitely being neglected so I need to go. cant wait to see whats in store for tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next….
I just finished planning a trip to Orlando, but its much too soon… next month!
Gorgeous!!! Hope to get that great price!!
it’s our understanding from cha that exhibitors will be doing make and take projects to “promote” their products, but will not be selling directly to the consumer. you might want to check with cha about this.
Ohh!! I Want to go!! Please!!
I posted a link to my bag. I like yours much better. Thanks for the many opportunities to win prizes.
OMG…you are just so amazing. Can’t wait to see who wins this biggy!
My Mom and I played along with the challenge and had a lot of fun making our bags. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win this fabulous prize!
You can see our creations here:
http://happystamp.blogspot.com
This is exciting! This actually prompted me to post my 1st project ever! Thanks for “making” me take the 1st step. I am motivated to start a blog now. Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize!!
What a great prize! I would love to win this!!!!
This is definitely my version of Disney World. I read your blog this morning and I’m still so excited I can’t stand it. I’ve got no clue how to post a link of any kind, but I’m pretty sure if I can swing a trip to Orlando I’ll have no trouble spending $100.
One thing I couldn’t find was information regarding registration for consumers – if you know where we might find those details, that would be so helpful.
Thanks for sharing this great news; I might have to make a Papertrey paper chain to count down the days.
It’s been fun looking at everyone’s ‘bags’. I had the CHA part right in my guess, just not the retail part. FUN.
Hi Nicole,
I wish I could go to Florida, that would be a dream to meet you!! 🙂
I had a lot of fun creating a little purse for my little daughter. I hope you like it.
God bless
Giovana
Ok, posted my link! What a dream trip that will be to CHA in Orlando – don’t think I can swing it, but I sure would like to hear all about it when everyone gets back!
Thanks for a great challenge and contest Nichole. You have been so generous already and we still have a while to go–I can’t wait to see what else you have in store for us.
YAY I posted my link!! Hope i win. 🙂
No way…I have just created a blog and added it to the list, #114. I think I feel ill…
Thanks for all the inspiration, PTI is the reason I have made the jump to blogging. I want to be like all of you when I grow up.
Well, I would love to go there and meet you all, but I’m still trying to budget in your monthly releases.LOL!!! I’m new to the company, and need to catch up on all the past releases. Thanks for all the great giveaway’s.
If I start planning now maybe I can figure out how I can work in a trip to Orlando. I know I’ll so want that limited edition, CHA show only stamp set. I’ve always wanted to go to CHA.
I posted my link. This is just so much fun this month I love it.
Pam C
My bag was pretty simple, but it got done! Thanks for a great contest!
How fun! I live in Tampa, so Orlando isn’t so far for me, and this prize would be a really good reason to go! 🙂 I had fun creating my bag, in any case!
Love PTI! I a little bag… with my sewing machine! I know right!
http://deespapertree.blogspot.com/2009/02/its-in-bag.html
What you are doing here is awesome btw!
CHA ?!?!? oh boy – I think I’m taking a road trip 🙂 How long is the drive from Chicago?!?!?
Thanks for a chance at another fabulous prize Nichole – you are amazing (but I already figured that out.)
I tried something a little different for my bag… a little out of the ordinary. Hope you like! Love your blog & your store!
I posted my link! What a great prize!
I just added my link and it was my FIRST BLOG POST.
Good luck to all,
Leora
yay!!! finished my little bag and got it all added…love, love the way you had us enter…FABULOUS!
chelle
Posted my link, but the pic isn’t that great.
What a fun announcement!! Congrats Nicole on all your success. I love your stamps and just keep coming back for more fun stuff. Thanks for the bag challenge and the awesome giveaway!!
I am going to be at CHA for the regular part but this makes sticking around for the consumer show ALL worth it. An exclusive set, sneak peeks AND an amazing totebag…oh and a gift certificate. WOW! You amaze me. Thanks for the chance!
OMG, I almost fell off my chair!!!! Gotta find a way to persuade my DH to let me go.
I posted my link to the bag over at SCS, but not sure if the image will be approved in time. Hope so!!!
How exciting!!! Can’t wait to see what other embroidered items you have to offer. I posted my 2008 treat bags, which I filled with spiced pecans. The small frosted bags were perfect, and everyone just LOVED them! Thanks Nichole for pushing me to start my own gallery on PTI. This was my first entry!
Thanks for the great contest! 🙂
This is an awesome announcement…and a cool giveaway. Michelle and Debbie there too? How awesome is that?!
Oh my! Orlando in the summer! : ) that sounds FUN! but hot heeheehee I hope to see you there.
I’ve posted a link to my bag. Good luck to my fellow baggers LOL
Thank you for another fun challenge. Patti
Oh, wow, sure wish I could go to Orlando! Oh well, I’ll hope to win some of the fab PTI prizes online for now. Sure hope my llink worked, as Mr. Linky is all new to me! Seems simple enough though!!! 😉
Im so excited this is my very first post. It took forever. I’m just now getting acquainted with splitcoaststampers and all the tech stuff. Anyway you girls have inspired me in such ways I just want to learn all this “tech” stuff so that I too can share with others. I do want to go to orlando so badly to meet you all… you girls (all) are like the dream team of stamps. Blessings be multiplied!!
You should really have Julie Cameron on your design team! I love this girl’s work!
I would love to rub elbows with all the amazing designers & entrepreneurs at CHA. So much talent in one room! Then to be able to shop…how much fun can one person handle?
Thanks for offering this amazing gift!
OK, so I’ve got a few months to convince my hubby that we need a holiday in Florida in July! Of course coming from New Zealand, with the exchange rate as it is, I don’t like my chances! Oh well, a girl can dream can’t she!
Great prize and great challenge. I can’t wait to see all the entries!
Loved this fun contest! It git me out of my stamping slump!!
HO)w cool is this… good luck girls.. I can’t wait to try some of these ideas!!
Wow! There is SO much going on with PTI! I would love to attend CHA and get to meet and mingle with some of my favorite people! How exciting!! Thank you so much for the opportunity to win the beautiful bag and GC! Blessings~Barb
Wow, I can’t believe I did that–I made a purse!I CAN sew!! Albeit, not that great. I feel empowered! Thanks Nichole!!
K, I finally got my bag done and reposted my link! Sorry about posting too fast the first time! Everyone has some very cool projects and I am extremely inspired! TY 🙂
How exciting!!
Thanks for the challenge! I’m glad (though close to the deadline) that I got to play!!
Oh wunderful…I want this bag, it’s so Cute!
And I want it filled with all your good Stuff…thank you!
OMGoodness! CHA will only be 2 hours from me! Since this show isn’t open to the public, I’m hoping they’ll let SU demos in…PLEEEEEASE.
I woke up to find SCS deleted my project! So I entered it again. Even though it’s past deadline. Coffee lovers might like a peek.
Hi< I just left a link to my blog with mr. Linky. Congrats on two years. I really like to look of your products. Eveline.
Ok, just made my purse… it’s my first go, so it’s very simple. but glad i was able to do it. hopefully, i will be able to go to CHA in Orlando!!
I am so excited about all the new things coming for the anniversary!!!! I hope I win something!! If I don’t, I’ll probably buy it anyway 🙂
How cool is that? Wish I lived closer to Florida (or that it wasn’t in the middle of the summer)! I posted my link last night but forgot to leave a comment. What a great contest!
OH MY GOSH – I won the Tote and Gift Certificate! I’m beyond excited! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’m definately going to save it for CHA since I live only 2 hours from Orlando so I can get the “limited edition CHA” set as well! Thank you so much!
Ooooohh! how exciting! Congrats!
Thanks so much for the challenge!!!
Well, my link disappeared so I added it again. Jeepers..gremlins?
Wow! This rocks!!! There are some awesome bags uploaded. I am having fun just checkin’ em out! XO, Mimi
I haven’t done something like this before…little intimidating showing your work to talented people like yourselves.
Ok, I posted my picture and then put the link to my general SCS gallery and not the specific picture of my altered bag. I am assuming you will be able to find it. Thanks for the contest it was a fun project.
What a great contest! This is the second challenge I have entered (ever!)…Both in the same day! (the first one is the one on Lilybean’s Paperie!!)
I wanted to sew a bag, but time just did not cooperate!
Wow! PTI is really growing. I really like the new colors and ideas you are bringing. I wish you continued success.
Take care and STAY POSITIVE!!
Orlando Rocks
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