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Anchors Away Necklace copyright 2008 Margot Potter This is a sample of one of my demos for CHA. It’s a collaged necklace on chain with Swarovski crystal accents. The red round piece is a vintage poker chip, the image is from a vintage French travel voucher, that adorable stitched ribbon is from Offray.

I’m writing this post on Thursday night because I have a one item hit on QVC sometime between 4 and 6pm ET on Friday. Which is today for you all because you aren’t here peering over my shoulder. At least I hope not, because that would be creepy. So why am I even telling you? I have a pathological need to tell the truth.

I have a favor to ask of you all you card makers out there in blogger land... Robin Beam - Ranger's Director of Education (and a really neat lady) is down after having knee surgery. She has posted this little contest Bandanna Technique Card Contest to keep herself busy while she is laid up.

I had one little idea surface last night for another Maya Road card for the NY stationary show. I wanted to make a chipboard key look rusty, but only in certain areas...not the entire key. So...I used the distress embossing ink reinker, right from the bottle.

Sarah was one of the lucky gals to win a Stampers Anonymous stamp. Here's what she created, using her new stamp & her Maya Road chipboard prize. Don't you just love it? GREAT job Sarah!! THANKS for sharing!! Here's the info Sarah sent, if you'd like to try something similiar...

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING is the perfect name for this store... It has...absolutely everything!!! I shopped & came home with some VERY fun finds. Stamps, books, papers & WAYYY cool ephemera. I can't wait to take some time to play. I did 4 classes in 2 days & met lots of fun new arty friends.

Yesterday afternoon I was so flustered with this not getting a bio shot that works situation, I decided to take the one I thought was the friendliest and most appealing and collage it. I made the blue sky background using a technique I discovered when working on a project for a Design Challenge last CHA.

Look at "things" not for what they ARE, but for what they COULD be. ***Here's an example. I was shopping one day & saw a container of wood alphabets on sale. CHEAP! Hmmm...only the letters Z and O. But, did they NEED to be letters?? NOPE... ***I bought a few of the O's with the idea that they would be cool frames for dimensional art.

Back in February I attended an all day class with Jen Starr (Ranger Industries), and one of the pages we created that day features the Bandana Technique (created by Robin Beam, Director of Education at Ranger). I was fortunate enough to have personal instruction from Robin at another class.

Today's photo is one of my favorite CHA assignments. It's loaded with products and embellishments from my 3 favorite companies...(see title, incase you can't guess who they are!) This baby took me a solid week to complete & weighs a ton.