Cath Edvalson
As creative editor for Paper Crafts magazine, it’s my job to make sure that the projects we show are fresh, fun and trendy. So, when I walk the showroom floor at CHA, I’m always on the lookout for what inspires, what’s showing up multiple times in multiple places and what’s getting a lot of buzz as I bop from booth to booth.
On the plane ride home, as I started to process all I had seen, I wrote down the common themes that had risen to the top of my experience. Here are they are—my CHA Winter 2010 Trends by the Dozen:
1. Doilies & Lace. Intricate lovelies straight from Grandma’s parlor:
Products from October Afternoon, Little Yellow Bicycle and Donna Salazar
2. Opaque. It’s been about glitter and twinkle. Now it’s about hard-core shine:
Products from Ranger and Pink Paislee
3. Textured Cardstock. Whether it’s custom to a manufacturer, raised or stitched, it’s all about texture:
Products from Cosmo Cricket, Bazzill Basics Paper and Anna Griffin
4. Canvas. Speaking of texture…
Products from Prima, Canvas Corp. and BasicGrey
5. Peace Signs. A return trend from CHA Summer, these happy icons were everywhere I looked:
Products from Little Yellow Bicycle, Adorn It and Reminisce
6. Altered Art. Anything Tim Holtz is hot and these new tools help seal the deal:
Products from Tim Holtz, GCD Studios and Zutter
7. Music. Carrying its own tune:
Products from Glitz Design, Technique Tuesday and October Afternoon
8. Frames. Picture this:
Products from Teresa Collins Design, Webster’s Pages and 7gypsies
9. Buttons. As in cute as a…
Products from Webster’s Pages, The Girls’ Paperie and Jenni Bowlin
10. Vintage Ephemera. Trinkets, cards, images and more:
Products from Melissa Frances, Glitz Design and K&Company
11. Background Text. These say it all…
Products from Prima, Technique Tuesday and Impression Obsession
12. Sewing—the run-away trend of the show. Keeping us in stitches:
Products from Cosmo Cricket and Maya Road
Which of these trends speaks the most to you and why? I’d love to hear your takes on this trendy dozen, friends! Leave me a comment by midnight (MST) on Wednesday, Feb. 10 and I’d be oh-so-happy to send the Material Girl collection from Cosmo Cricket to one random lucky winner!
Dealing in dozens,
Cath
I just love the new Cosmo Cricket Material Girl line!
I’m really into the sewing trend as well and am happy to see the Cosmo Cricket line featured here.
I love so many of them! I am super excited about the music trend as I am a musician!
I love the sewing trend the most. I used to sew for a living many years ago and it is great to be able to sew for fun now. Stitching on a card is so easy and can make a large impact.
Wow, it is too hard to pick just one, Cath! I love the music and the text because they add a distinguished touch to projects. Also love the buttons and lace, too!
Love the dollies and peace signs….
I liked the frames the most!
Canvas and Sewing! Although a stamper/paper crafter now, I was once queen of sewing. Material Girl was made for me!! And I love the textures of the canvas, it is like adding fabric to your project! So much fun! Love the trends~
I love the manequin book. I adore different books and thisisone. The music paper is also neat! Pick me please!!!!!!!!!
I really liked the music sheets, buttons, Opaque. They are nothing new but now they have become popular. They are all great trends to follow.
I really love all the sewing stuff since I just got a sewing machine for Christmas but I also like the doilies and lace…it’s just so pretty and feminine.
so hard to choose just one!! i guess i’ll go with background text… but sewing and music are close seconds!
I’m excited about a lot of these trends. The sewing and background text really speak to me – I don’t really sew, but the IDEA of thread in paper crafting hits the spot for me…and at heart, I’m really a font girl, so I’m happy about the text being on-trend.
Most of all, though, the textured cardstock is what I’m most into. I saw the different manufacturers announcing partnerships w/ Coredinations – I think it’s genius! Good cardstock is the base for many a scrapbook layout or project, and I’m glad to see the mfr.’s are considering innovations w/ this great staple.
The background trend really speaks to me. I like to layer and layer and layer.
Sewing and background text are definitely my two favorite trends of the moment!
Being an elementary music teacher, I am drawn to the music products!
I really like the music trend. Just made some paper flowers from my grandmother’s sheet music! Hmmm…wonder if it WAS valuable???????
Love the doilies and lace.
love the printed canvas and the vintage look- such fun new products! Thanks for sharing.
So hard to choose just one….love the doilies and lace, love the texture, but if I have to choose just one…….those darling buttons. Been a sucker for buttons ever since I was a kid. Thanks for giving us the down low on the hottest trends!
The music stuff, especially the music sheets, and vintage stuff really just reaches out and grabs my attention. I’ve been looking for music sheets, small for cards, that can be used for smaller projects without having to destroy old books. This is going to be fantastic!!!
I absolutely love Cosmo Cricket, and these new designs are spectacular! All of the new products are outstanding and will be a great addition to my craft room (a/k/a the card cave).
Love so many of these, but the thing that really speaks to me is the texture. It’s such a great way to add interest to a design without making it too busy or fussy.
This is another tough one, but I’m really into the music stamps and papers and also texture, I love the look of embossing and texture. These are wonderful new products, thanks for sharing!
Love the vintage ephemera and new Tim Holtz!
what a feast for the eyes!! I think the textured cardstock calls my name the loudest. I’m all about touching things and feeling the textures, plus I love the warmth it brings.
I am most excited over the textured cardstock and the hard core shine. Can’t wait to get my hands on some.
I totally agree with these hot trends! I think I’d add banners and flowers to hot trends right now too!
I love that music note stamp from Tech. Tuesday!
Cath – love all of the trends that you’ve listed – but really love the vintage feel of the frames and lace and frankly everything else! Thanks for showing pictures, too. Thanks for the inspiration – now I need to run to my work space and create!
I love most of these trends, but I especially love the vintage stuff and the sewing/dressmaker inspired products. Glad to see that trend is heating up even more. You can never run out of ways to jazz up a dress form. Tres chic.
I’m drooling over that canvas!
I love the music sheets and sewing stuff!
Oh it’s the sewing themed line for sure…with some of the buttons sprinkled on top:)
Oh my gosh! I am loving the Maya Road sewing machine stamps! Too cute!
Definitely the background text options. I am so loving this trend and can’t wait to try. Wish I was there to see all the beauties in person.
How wonderful that sewing is now being connected to scrapbooking. From the time my grandmother taught me how to sew on a button and make doll clothes out of scraps, I have loved sewing which led to knitting which led to saving pictures and scrapbooking before it was really called that. I read a comment somewhere recently on someone who had a totally negative comment on sewing type things.It made me very sad. We crafters need to preserve all hand crafts and teach our children. It can start with sewing on a button or repairing our own clothes to such wonderful things that we can only dream about. Let’s keep crafts alive for so many reasons.I hope there will be more of such scrapbooking lines to come. I would love to win this line so much. thank you.
I am loving all the peace signs…great to see this oldie making a comeback!!
I think that the canvas is cool.
Love when you go strolling … my fav’s the glass buttons and jenni b’s frames. how ’bout you?!
I love so many of these trends. I think my favourites would have to be the canvas, the background writing and the textured cardstock.
I am all about the bling. Love anything that glitters or shines. The Opaque is what caught my eye.
Ooooh, thank you for the fabulous summary of the trends! I really appreciate seeing this since I couldn’t be there! I LOVE the vintage look!
I am thinking Opaque – I am always trying to find something that will stand out on dark materials – love the look!
Sandra
I like them all .Cant choose one. I like The Maya Road sewing Machine. too cute.
CANVAS!!! Vintage, the distrezzer, the black and white accents, and I’m digging the sewing stuff too.
I love all the text, texture and sewing.
lisa a.
I love the text-print background papers! I have a few text stamps that I need to get inky and make my own! Thanks for the chance to win some CHA goodness!!
Gosh!!! Sooo hard to choose since they are ALL wonderful. I bet your head was spinning…. Well… let’s see…I love buttons, buttons and more buttons. I also love texture and sewing! I think it all overlaps!
Oh my! I’m so all about the sewing theme – love everything about it. In fact, I’ve been collecting sewing related card making supplies for the last several months and can hardly wait to get my hands on that Cosmo Cricket Material Girl collection . . . it will go great with the antique sewing machine charms that I’ve been hoarding . . . yummy!!
So many of the trends speak to me. I don’t even know where to start.
I collect vintage doilies (many that my grandma made).
I’ve never been about the glitter. I used to blame MS for the glittering of America!
I’ve always loved and played music.
I could have a comment for each and every trend but I love sewing the most, I think.
Blessings,
Christine