Well I got the first offer for the new distress color in my inbox this morning. It's from a LSS 150 miles away to preorder cracked pistachio in all the different mediums. The ink pad, the reinker, the spray, the distress stain, the distress paint, and the marker for 25% off the price. It says the color is announced at the beginning of the month and ships the end of the month. This LSS is giving customers until the 15th of the month (the 20th this month) to order online and I am not sure if they will ship the items or if one needs to drive there and pick it up when it comes in. I wish it was closer.
I was watching the youtube videos on CHA 2015 and Tim Holtz is demoing a lot of stuff. He has the new color, he has new stencils, he has new stamps, he has new dies, and he demoed the new sizzix platform. Wow! I also watched Dini Wakely demo her paint with the precision end. That is some nice heavy body paint. It also sells on Amazon for $8.06 a tube. The Dylusions new paint pots are interesting too. It seems that they dry fast because they are not heavy bodied. I guess Dylusions had a paint line before Dyan Reavely was at Ranger and now Ranger is carrying them and supposedly have improved them.
I am not so impressed with all the paper line videos or even the die cut videos. There are so many dies out now that I am hard pressed to buy any because I try to only buy ones that can be used over and over again and most of them you can't really use over and over for different applications; I could use them for a group of cards or a couple scrapbook pages and then I would just be storing them. And I hate to admit it but all the paper lines look alike to me anymore. It is more fun to buy the paint and make my own patterned paper.
The scrapbooking iron thingy also looks interesting. I was kind of looking around my craft room to see if I had anything else that might work for making pockets on a full page. Not sure if my wax melter thingy might work or not. But the ruler with the groove is the big thing with that, just lay that ruler down and run the hot iron across the groove and you make a pocket. I wonder what the price point for that will be?