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Creativeworld | Why Go International?
Why should you attend Creativeworld and CHA? I’ll break it down for you.
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Snapshots from Creativeworld – Day One
European trade show Creativeworld is going on in Frankfurt, Germany from now through Tuesday and I’m there to show you some of the highlights! One of my favorite things about traveling to Germany is...
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Update | Big Picture Classes, The Messy Box, & More!
There’s a new Big Picture Classes website…and what is a Messy Box? I’ve got all the details on that and much more!
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Snapshots from Creativeworld, Part 2
Sorting through my photos from all of my travels the first part of the year, I came across a few more favorites from Creativeworld in January!
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Update | Photo Play Paper, Work, Webster’s Pages, and more!
Lots of people and companies are making changes and I’ve got them all in one place: Photo Play Paper, Studio Calico, Project Life, Alt Summit, and more!
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Update | Faber-Castell CEO, Design Team Call, CHA
January is just jam-packed with news as the new year gets off to a busy start with shows and companies embarking on new endeavors. Passages. Faber-Castell has announced the passing of its CEO, Count...
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Creativeworld 2016 | Experience Frankfurt & Messe Frankfurt
The month of January typically is host to two trade shows in the crafts industry. Despite being part of the same industry, their locations on different continents makes them very different experiences....
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Creativeworld 2016 | Creativeworld Trends and Floor Tour
In part two of our Creativeworld 2016 reports, we take a look at the Creativeworld Trends show and have a floor tour!
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Project | Travel Album: Snapshots Creativeworld 2014
The travel Project Life album from Creativeworld 2014 is back! In this layout, I use the High Five core kit to record an assortment of snapshots.
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Update | Bella Crafts, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Jobs, & More
In this edition of the Update column we’ve got lots of big news from some of the industry’s biggest players: Michaels Stores, Hobby Lobby, Messe Frankfurt, Craft & Hobby Association, and more!...
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It’s Show Time! CHA Creativation & Creativeworld 2017 Preview
2017 is upon us…and that means it is show season in the craft industry! The end of January will bring us both CHA’s newly-revamped winter show – now called Creativation – in the U.S., and the...
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Impressions of Creativeworld 2017
A few days after the Creativation show here in the U.S. in Janaury, the Creativeworld 2017 show took place at Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. In its seventh year this year, the show is reaching...
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Creativeworld: To Pavillion or Not to Pavillion?
There’s much to consider when planning a trade show booth. For American companies going to Frankfurt for the Creativeworld show, the first question is usually whether or not to use the U.S. pavillion,...
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Creativeworld: The Language Barrier
One of the most frequent questions that I get asked about attending Creativeworld is how to manage in Germany and at the show while speaking only English.
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Update | MISTI, Project Life, Etsy, Jobs, Events & More!
The post-winter show doldrums sure are over! Lots of companies have been busy with the result being lots of news to share!
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Project | Travel Album: Auf Wiedersehen
Sometimes, for workflow reasons, I like to do things in an album project out of order. That’s the case with the Frankfurt trip album that I’ve been plugging away on for quite awhile. I recently...
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Creativeworld 2018 Trend Show Tour, Part 2: The Colourist
Welcome back for part two of the Scrapbook Update series on the Trend Show at Creativeworld this year! In part two today, we’ll focus on what the Messe Frankfurt trend consultants call “the colourist”....
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Creativeworld 2018 Trend Show Tour, Part 3: The Gardener
Welcome to the third and final installment of my series on the Creativeworld 2018 Trend Show! Today, we’ll be looking together at the trend identified by the Messe Frankfurt trend consultants as “the...
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Project | Travel Album: Expedition Heidelberg
I’ve been busy making other things for awhile, but I finally got a huge new order of prints made from my first trip to Germany to attend Creativeworld in 2014. Now I can start work on the second half...
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Update | Etsy, Creativeworld, Stampin’ Up!, Michaels, & More!
[Disclosure: Messe Frankfurt is a sponsor of this website.] Increases. Etsy announced yesterday (Thursday) that it is increasing seller fees significantly on July 16th. Transaction fees for sales will...
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