Christine Adolph Designs

Eye Candy

Eye Candy is offering several of my papers in its March paper kit. I found some fun projects done using the products. The  lovely collage above was done by Jennifer Brotchie. See more great things in the gallery here. Thanks Eye Candy!

Quick and Easy Cards

I  have made several (keep scrolling down:) quick and VERY easy cards using the new Cuttlebug die cuts and embossing folders that I designed for Provocraft. Many of these cards can be completed in 10 minutes or less! Enjoy.

Edited* I just got a question about where to purchase these dies currently. I failed to mention that some of these dies are part of the new collection of dies and they are not in stores yet but will be shipping in March or April. This is your sneak peek!

 

First Place!

My sweet girl recieved an award on Thursday for first place in a city-wide poster/essay contest. She told me this week as she was making her Valentine's cards how lucky she is that I am an artist and that we have this studio full of stuff for her to use. Makes me happy to be able to share it with my family.

Happy Valentine's Day

Thank YOU for taking the time to post such wonderful thoughts about "acts of kindness". You all really gave me a gift by sharing what others had done for you. You were also a great encouragement to my children who read each comment with me. We loved reading about people paying for the meals of the car behind them at the drive thru window, they want to try that:). I loved reading about thoughtful husbands, friends, neighbors, church families and even strangers offering kind and loving acts of service. So cool that you took the time to write them down for me. There are so many blogs giveaways that you just have to drop your name in the comment section and move on, you had to take some time and share of yourself with me. I wish I could give everyone something! I only have two packages and I have randomly picked these two comments:

Posted by Shannon:

my family and I were going through a rough time because our insurance company refused to pay me for a claim and we had no money coming in to pay for ANYTHING! A mother of a friend of mine stopped by unannounced and brought bags of groceries for us, just when we had almost nothing left in the pantry! Wow, it was such a blessing. Then a week later my mom stopped by again, unannounced and brought in several bags of groceries, she had just been to the store. It was better than Christmas! Our church then put gas cards in my mailbox at church. Wow, God really takes care of us, in our weekness he is strong!

Posted by Andra:

I moved to my new house in a new city and two neighbors made us a complete dinner...did know us at all. I was very touched. smiles, andra

There is a lot of love out there. Thank you for touching my heart with your sharing.. This gives me a lot of hope in a world that can seem pretty dark and crazy. Keep focusing outward and we will make this time on earth much more purposeful and bright. Happy Valentine's Day! xoxo-Christine

 

It is time to GIVE STUFF AWAY!

We have Valentine's day coming up and it is a good reminder to remember to show LOVE to others. I recently went through a passage in 1 Corinthians all about what LOVE is and what LOVE is not. Well, LOVE IS KIND! And I want to kindly give away some goodies to you. Here is what you have to do. Drop a comment in my comment box about something KIND someone has done for you. On Valentines Day I will pick two winners out of a random drawing from your comments and I will give away two packets of some of my newer paper collections. I will get this little contest going by sharing something kind that was done for me recently.

Right before our big CHA show when everyone in our industry, me included,  was crazy busy getting ready for classes and travel I got a phone call from a friend. This friend was ten times busier than me and was teaching classes and doing some big make and takes at the show. My friend calls the day before the events were starting and says that she has an idea for me and says that she is going to cut out 150 little purses out of my teatime paper for me to put candy in and give away during the show. Mind you, she has her own brand to promote and yet she was thinking of me. That really impacted me. I am sad to say that the last thing that I was thinking about  during that busy time was helping someone else out. That was a kind act that will really stick with me and helps me to see how my kindness might impact someone. So when you are really busy and into yourself , take the time and do something kind for someone, it will re-ground you.

I look forward to reading about the acts of kindness.

Fun, Fun!

We designers design things so far in advance that it is easy to forget about some of the things that we have sent off for production, sometimes a whole year prior. In fact, right now I am working on product for next year already. These little die-cut designs were a nice surprise for me at CHA. There is something SO exciting about seeing your product for the first time. My creative director  let me borrow the prototypes for a few days and I cut some designs out. I can't wait to make cards and collages and use them in combination with my stamps and papers. Here are some  shots of the cut outs from the dies. They will be available this Spring!

In celebration of my blog birthday I am going to give some things away this weekend so check back.

CHA post

This is a shot of my new Cuttlebug bundles in the Provocraft booth....

And below is one of my boards in the Creative Imaginations booth....

This was a good year  for me at CHA because it was local, yippee! I usually don't stay for the whole show because I don't like to be gone that many days from my family. I was up at the show for six days and came home everynight to sleep in my own bed and see my kids off to school everyday, loved that. I met so many terrific people and got to see a lot of my artist friends.  CHA is a gathering place for so many artists like myself  that are  doing their best to make a living being an aritst. It was great to see Claudine and talk about licensing and show her the skirts I bought thanks to her. Traci Bautista and I ran into eachother a few times here and there and I made sure to stop by the F+W booth and see Bernie  and The Sisters. I met so many nice ladies while I did my make and takes and was happy to hear that they check in and read the blog. Thank you:).
 

I loved to see the companies that I work for in action. They all run such class acts and I am honored to work with all of them.  I look forward to continued success with my licensing partners and am excited about creating some new licensing relationships with diverse manufacturers. This year I would like to get my artwork into the gift market too, can't wait for that. There is nothing like a trade show to get you excited about the possiblities. 

Although I love all the business connections and seeing my product up in various booths and in catalogues, my favorite moment at the show was running into one of my former students from Otis College of Art and Design.  I  taught  Surface Design classes there for four years and I was one of her main instructors during her junior/senior year. During the time I was her instructor we spent a lot of time talking about her future in design. I remember she had  already come up with a name for her business "Simply Michelle". After she graduated she moved to Kansas City to work for Hallmark and over that last few years we had lost contact until this show. I saw in the new exhibitor's list her business "Simply Michelle" and I knew it was her. I went and found her booth and we talked about those Otis days and reconnected. I am so excited for her and I know there are big things on the horizon for her.  Go Michelle! I am really proud of you! That is what it is all about, having passions and dreams and making them happen. I love that!