iLoveToCreate at the 2012 Craft and Hobby Association Show

Mannequins decorated with Tulip® Fashion Art products by Betsey Johnson designer Charlene Pack.

Today was the first day of the 2012 Craft and Hobby Association Tradeshow! We were so, so excited to share our creativity and tradeshow booth with all our friends, customers, buyers and fans! We want to share with you all the exciting action that took place on this first day! It was a whirlwind of activity.

Our theme is All you need is...Love, Family, Friends, Fun, and Creativity. Within our booth are all graphics and visual elements that touch on this theme. It was VERY important to us that we really tell a fun and inspiring story with our brands that touched on these points throughout our booth!


The color connection wall was a visual smorgasbord. We really worked hard to create a lot of eye candy moments in the booth!


Speaking of candy, we also had that in the literal sense too!


Fun was had by all who stopped by our Crafty Chica photo booth. Look at all the glitter and super cute crowns!


Tiffany Windsor and Heidi Borchers made this pretty lavender sachet with heartwarming friendship quotes using Aleene's adhesives.


Attendees and fans got creative with their favorite bloggers in the iLoveToCreate.com Blogger's lounge. Heather Mann of Dollar Store Crafts, Crafterminds, and Décor Hacks was one of our superstar bloggers who joined us today!

We'll be back tomorrow with more live updates from the show. More crafty goodness coming your way!

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Disaster Zone at the iLoveToCreate booth

Yesterday as we were tearing down our tradeshow booth at the CHA Summer Tradeshow in Rosemont, an unfortunate accident occured! Thank goodness no one was hurt!


We were taking down the projects and products from the booth wall and placing them on our Make&Take It Station until we could pack them up. A forklift operator came by and ran into our tables knocking them down along with all the glass jars, projects, and stuff on the table. Tear down is hard enough, but a mess like this on top of it is definitely not fun to clean up!


Unfortunately, the large jar of glitter (we have a video of it being filmed here) that we were going to give away was harmed in the process, so no glitter giveaway for you guys :( Not cool at all! It looked so pretty in the jar!

So excited for the CHA Summer Craft Supershow!

Our booth is set up and we're anticipating the arrival of crafters at the iLoveToCreate booth at the CHA Summer Craft Supershow!

We even had our first glue emergency of the day! Check out how Alyson turned a frown upside down with Aleene's® Fabric Fusion®. Good as new! Isn't her sparkly top adorable?



Join Tiffany Windsor today as she broadcasts live via webcam from our booth! A full schedule for the Cool2Craft broadcast from the iLoveToCreate booth can be found here.

Upcycling & Revamping: It's kinda our thing

Here at iLoveToCreate, we love creating new and fab showstoppers for our CHA Summer and Winter Shows! At the same time, we love to reinvent and use what we have on hand to revamp something old into something new again.

Case in point: Cheryl Ball created a rainbow of fab flowers for headbands last winter show using all our colors of Tulip® Fabric Spray Paint™. We wanted to reuse them once again for the summer show, so we put them on stems and arranged them in some pretty Duncan® Ceramic vases!

It was a super easy way to mix it up a bit, but not have to break the bank or put a lot of work into new samples.

So the next time you are bored with something you made, think of how you can add a little twist to it. That tie dye shirt that didn't turn out perfectly? How about cutting it up for rosettes or braiding it to make a necklace or bracelet. Instead of tossing out a ceramics piece that didn't turn out the way you wanted, try smashing it up in pieces to make a cool mosaic frame using Tacky Glue. You just have to think of how you can turn something around and reuse it in a new and creative way!

CHA Summer '10: More show booth action!

Crafty Chica's slip dress - oh so bright and colorful!

And the shoes that match the dress! She revamped and glittered this pair from Goodwill!

This dress was inspired by a Peter Max illustration. Doesn't the graphic on the black and white stripe look cool?

This mannequin was inspired by Sex in the City 2!

Here's another view! It was created with Tulip® Soft Fabric Paint™.

And we used our 3D paint on felt to create this funky lip curtain!

A few pics from CHA Summer at Rosemont!

Our iLoveToCreate crew is at CHA Summer right now and has tweeted a few fun pics from the show. We'll be updating our blog with more pics as the week goes on, so stay tuned. :) If your at CHA, visit our booth...it's booth #807!

Here's our showstopping mannequins before they have been arranged around the booth! We'll get closer views for you to see real soon! They look great


Glitter purses in our booth using our Fashion Glitter and sealed with our Aleene's Spray Acrylic Sealer!


Bracelets for a mannequin using Tulip® Glam-it-up Crystals and Tulip® 3D Fashion Paint.

Pattiewack was hard at work filling up the glitter jar. It's a hard job, but someone's gotta do it!

And look! Our friend Mr. Tacky Glue had his own buttons made to hand out. A glue's gotta do what a glue's gotta do for self promotion!

Aleene's Glue wall at Winter CHA

Watch the below video featuring Pattiewack and Traci Bautista and see everything our cool glues can do. This video features several wonderful projects that you will want to make! Check it out!

Aleene's Glue Mannequin!

Swelldesigner and Pattiewack show you how an awesome mannequin was made for the iLoveToCreate booth in CHA Winter 2010 Tradeshow! Check it out!