Holly Anderson
Some of you may remember this post from last November when we went to the American Crafts Warehouse Sale and raided the shelves. This time, however, our editorial team, along with our lovely Go-to Gals (who flew in for our annual Editorial Board Meetings (We were sure glad to see them (There are a lot of parentheticals in this sentence))), went straight to the source of it all—the American Crafts offices.
And guess who just happened to be in the office that day? Elizabeth Kartchner, designer of the Dear Lizzy line for American Crafts and author of the Dear Lizzy blog!
Elizabeth Kartchner with Jennifer McGuire and Colin
After some great pictures, we all sat down to look at some new and upcoming paper collections and other fun crafting supplies. What a treat!
Cath, Kim, and Elizabeth
It sure was fun to look at some of the new products American Crafts has, and Go-to Gal Jennifer McGuire was there to see them too!
Flat Jennifer McGuire
Then we got the official American Crafts tour.
Grant giving us the tour!
We met some designers and interviewed them about where they find inspiration, and we peeked in to see the crafters’ room—where they design and make sample projects. Plus, we got a look at the big warehouse where it’s all stored!
Rows of paper, a crafter's dream come true?
Unfortunately, we couldn’t stay there all day, but of course, we had to get a group shot before we left!
The whole group!
Last but certainly not least, our generous American Crafts friends sent us home with some delightful goodies, and we’d love to give away a few of those goodies here! Today!
Tell us what your favorite American Crafts product or collection is, and one of you will win all of this American Crafts goodness! All comments must be received by Wednesday, May 2nd at 5 pm MDT.
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I love their POW Glitter papers. They are so awesome. Beautiful glittery papers with no glitters falling off and they works beautifully with Silhouette.
Its to hard to pick just one…give me paper, ink and ribbon and I can do most anything with it!!!
My current favorite is the Hello Sunshine papers. They are so cheerful with rosy raspberry and sunny yellow. I love American Crafts because the colors are always clear and bright.
How fun for you all!!! I love, love their Thickers. Would love to try out their glitter!
Aside from the paper, I love Zing! embossing powder.
I love the papers the most. There is always such a good selection from which to choose. That said, however, all the products are great and top quality!
I love American Crafts paper – always so full of happiness and sunshine. Also love their embossing powders – their colors really pop!
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I’m a paper girl. So I love all the fun and bright collections American Crafts makes available to us.
wow! great tour.
my fave are the thickers and papers!
i love their double-sided 12×12 papers! great quality & thickness!
love their glitter and alphabet stickers. What a great tour.
Thickers… Of course!
I love love love thinckers for my layouts!
I love their paper!
Oooh, those “Thickers” look like lots of fun!
Oh how fun!! My favorite AC line is definitely Dear Lizzy Neapolitan…love it!
- April W
I love them all! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love the Zing embossing powder!
American Crafts papers are all terrific! They have many other fantastic products as well, like zing embossing powders.
Gotta say all the papers!
LOVE!!
There is SO much to love about American Crafts, you can’t pick just one thing or one line! But I am a HUGE investor in their Thickers of all shapes, sizes, colors and textures!!
I love AC products and to choose one fav. is hard! I would have to say the Amy Tangerine collection is pretty YUMMY!!!!!!
Just to name a few… LOVE the Campy Trails papers, Flair embellishments, Mini Marks rub-on phrases… the new Tangerine collection looks so bright and inviting, can’t forget Thickers!!! Really, everything is so well thought out and the “themes” have a lot of product so no 2 scrappers will make the same layout, etc.
I really like using rub-ons I bought from them a couple of years ago.
Your papers are the BEST! They are so colorful and fun. I love double sided papers too. They just seem to go the extra mile for me. Yay for AC paper!!
I’m in love with the Garden Cafe paper collection.
I love all collections, cut camp trails is cute!
I’d love to try out a Daybook!!! They look so cool, I’ve been drooling over them for a while!
Love, love, love Thickers! My favorite line is a toss up btwn Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy. Actually I can’t choose and I love them both!
I love their ‘Dear Lizzy’ line – especially the jar stamp in her new collection ~ so adorable!!
I think my favorite lines are two oldies but goodies–Play and Letterpress! I still have tons of them!
ZING embossing powder is my all time fav!!
I love American Crafts products! I bet this tour was amazing!!!! I think I would be completely enamoured with all of that paper!!!
The Dear Lizzy and Amy Tangerine lines have been some of my favorites from this past winter CHA! Fabulous papers and fab little embellies. I loved them!
Dear Lizzy and Dear Lizzy and oh yes, Dear Lizzy!!!!
I use AC’s cardstock as a base for most of my cards. They make some nice quality ribbons too.
What fun! I’m positively dying to see more of Gardenia!! When is it coming out?!
Thickers, thickers, thickers! The best thing since sliced bread.
My favorite AC products are Thickers! Love all the different materials and of course the fonts they come in- no matter how many I have, I still want more AC Thickers.
Hello Sunshine has been my favorite, but also love the new Dear Lizzy and Amy Tangerine!
Thickers! I also love American Crafts fun patterned paper!
I like Zing and I like Dear Lizzy–and tons of other papers.
my all time favourite products are the dear lizzy stamps
I love the Amy Tangerine collections
thanks for the chance to win
Have to say Thickers are my favorite!
i have a small hoarded collection of thickers and one bottle of zing powder. Thanks for the chance to explore some more of their products!
oh, what a fab place to spend an afternoon!
I love their Thickers! Thanks for the chance to win!
I want to go on your next field trip to AC! Looks like a blast! My favorite AC Collection is the Chap collection. LOVE that! Thanks for the chance to win!