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On the Way to CHA... and the February Projects are here!

We're looking forward to seeing you at CHA, and hope you can stop by to see ALL the Creative Cafe products. Here's just a sneak peek at some of them...

Danelle created this amazing Mother's Love mini book with our colored chipboard, patterned papers, buttons, swatchbooks, tags, etc... using the Accucut dies. What a great keepsake to treasure.

The February Happy Hour projects are posted! From pinks, reds, glitter and felt... we've got plenty of new ideas to inspire your customers for their Valentine wishes.

CHA Winter Giveaways!

We're packing our suitcases and hitting the road to CHA Winter, in Anaheim, CA in a few days. If you're going, stop by and visit us... Booth #1375! We'll be there, giving away all kinds of prizes!

Write "Creative Cafe's Blog Rocks" on the back of your business card, and get a FREE Creative Cafe pen!

Place a $100 Creative Cafe order and get a FREE Creative Cafe apron! 

Win a Creative Cafe t-shirt by creating your own Creative Cafe wearable art! Just use the Creative Cafe logo on your own creation, and wear it to the show! You can make a pin, button, badge holder, shirt, etc... Danelle and Alison will be walking around the show looking for you! If you're spotted wearing your creation, we'll give you a free Creative Cafe t-shirt on the spot! Pssst.. watch out, Danelle said she'd carry around 30 t-shirts during the first day... I told her we'd definitely see that many creations to give them away!

The Blog Party will continue through the show. Have you seen the sneak peeks there? We're getting a ton of traffic to the site, from your customers! We'd love to feature you and your store during the Show! Comment here, and we'll make sure we find you!

January Happy Projects!

The January Happy Hour projects are posted on the blog, and we're excited to showcase some of the newest Creative Cafe products that are all in stock now. From the glitter words, to new patterned paper, to all those new cool buttons... your customers will be motivated with all this new inspiration. 

Have your customers heard about the Creative Cafe Blog Party? We're excited to be giving away, a prize a day to consumers participating in the festivities! We're showcasing products that are available to stores NOW and shipping as we speak. Check out all the comments and activity HERE. Don't miss out on all the customers looking for these products!

December Happy Hour Projects!

December Happy Hour projects are posted, and up on the blog! This is the perfect holiday gift idea for friends, neighbors, teachers or relatives! Use the recipe card for this project at your Art Bar, or even a treat your customers to a holiday demo  with hot chocolate on a Saturday! Let us know which one is your favorite!

November Happy Hour Projects are here!

You will love all the new creative inspiration posted in the November Happy  Hour projects! From cards to stockings we've created several inexpensive projects to increase your store traffic. Let us know which ones are your favorites!

Two Great Special Offers!

Stock up now on all the Creative Cafe Lucky color palette merchandise and get 25% off! These products are great for fall or autumn projects as well as holiday gifts and scrapbook pages.

Creative Cafe wants to help make your holiday season a success. Celebrate the season with another special offer of 25% off selected seasonal products in the Spirit color palette too!

Click here to see the latest holiday special offers for Creative Cafe merchandise.

Holiday Open House ideas!

It's that time of the year again, and we have a huge list of ideas for your Holiday Open House promotions in our September newsletter! Click here for a complete list of projects, great display ideas and more... ALL perfect for your store's upcoming holiday promotions. From ornaments to gift ideas, Creative Cafe has all the ingredients to make your event a success.

Tag Book

Use a wide variety of tag sizes ringed together with the new Lifestyle Rings in colors  (shipping this month) to make this cook Tag Book project.  Themes can include a wide range of topics, but see this one that Danelle made to celebrate being a Mom.

Download tag book.Layout 1.pdf

National Scrapbooking Day Project!

 

PRINT your complimentary National Scrapbooking Day Journal Class Curriculum (Download PDF)

We hope that you will be able to conduct this class using much of your existing inventory. 

Please check the materials list and place your orders for any additional Creative Café products you may need to hold this class
on National Scrapbook Day. 

• Please note that the spiral notebook related to this project will be either #18507 CHOCOLATE or #18373 DARK RED.
• Please place a separate order by APRIL 18, 2008 and indicate on the purchase order: NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY. 

We’ve notified over 120,000 consumers through an email blast for you. It’s scheduled to go out on April 16th through www.scrapbooking.com. Consumers will be contacting your store to make this journal for National Scrapbooking Day! Click here to see a slide show of this project!

Be Forest Friendly!

You will soon be receiving in the mail the April Happy Hour Recipe Cards, as well as the Creative Cafe CHA Winter 2008 Catalog Supplement. 

As stated in the enclosed letter, Creative Imaginations is making active steps toward becoming more environmentally friendly.  To that end, we would like to make future Happy Hour Recipe Cards available here ONLY on the blog as downloadble/printable files by AUGUST 2008.

To receive printed copies until that time, we ask that you comment on this blog entry, leaving your Store's Name and mailing address.  For those of you that are willing to print these files on an as needed basis - Thank you for being forest friendly, too!