Greetings from CHA!

Greetings from CHA Winter 2012!  We have a few pictures from the Ranger booth that we wanted to share with you today:

Our fabulous "What's New" wall, featuring Dylusions, Distress Markers, Liquid Pearls, Inkssentials Clear Fabric Medium, Inkssentials Collage Glue Stick, Ice Stickles, Inkssentials Surfaces Specialty Stamping Paper, Melt Art Texture Treads, Vintaj Patinas and more!

Our Designer Challenge for this show was to decorate a paper mache dress form with Liquid Pearls and Stickles.  (Those of you who watched Alain's Extreme Stickling episode will no doubt recognize the dress form on the far right!)

The other side of our Designer Challenge display.

Wendy Vecchi demos in the Ranger booth.

Debbie Tlach demonstrates Melt Art.

Tim Holtz's demo was mobbed!!

If you're at CHA, please stop by Booth #1338 and say hello!  We always love to hear from our fans.

NEW!! Ice Stickles and Liquid Pearls colors

 
Attention, decorative glue fans!  Big news for all of you: Ranger has 12 new, bright colors of Ice Stickles and 15 new colors of Liquid Pearls, all of which will be launched at CHA Winter 2012!

You know and love the original Ice Stickles: large, chunky glitter in soft Aurora Borealis colors.  Well, now we are proud to introduce Ice Stickles in 12 bold, bright colors as well!  The same shades of our original Stickles are now available in the large, chunky glitter size of Ice Stickles.

If you prefer a pearly finish to a blingy one, fear not: we have new colors of Liquid Pearls, too!

We've doubled our Liquid Pearls palette with these 15 fabulous, beautiful hues:

With the built-in easy flow tip, Liquid Pearls can be used straight from the bottle to create dimension, or brush them for a pearly shimmer on all of your craft products. The versatile, waterproof formula is great for many surfaces such as Grungeboard, Sticky-Back Canvas, Inkssentials Surfaces, wood, acrylic, metal and more.

Read the official press releases to learn more about the new Ice Stickles and new Liquid Pearls!

NEW!! Inkssentials Products

 
We've got a bunch of great new additions to our Inkssentials line of products that we are very excited to announce:

From top-left and going clockwise we have:

• The Inkssentials Craft Nib Holder.  We've renamed our Cut 'n' Dry Nibs "Craft Nibs," and we've designed this fabulous holder to make writing, coloring and doodling with them as easy as using a pen or paintbrush!  Ergonomic and sleek, the Craft Nib Holder comes with 2 Craft Nibs, and you can purchase replacement packs containing 10 Craft Nibs each.  Use Craft Nibs to custom color with paints, chalks, dye inks, pigment inks, watermark resist inks and embossing inks.  They are absolutely perfect for photo tinting techniques when used with Distress Inks, too!
• Inkssentials Clear Fabric Medium.  Use Clear Fabric Medium to create custom fabric paints!  Mix it with Archival Ink, Adirondack Pigment Inks, Adirondack Alcohol Inks or even Perfect Pearls Pigment Powders.  Create sparkly fabric paint by mixing in glitter or embossing powder, too!
• Inkssentials Collage Glue Stick.  This convenient, fast-drying adhesive bonds paper surfaces permanently and is ideal for paper collage, photos, ephemera and more.  Perfect for bringing along to crops and classes!
• Inkssentials Surfaces Specialty Stamping Paper.  This unique matte coated paper is perfect for crisp stamping and coloring. Available in both 8.5" x 11" sheets and ATC sizes, Specialty Stamping Paper is the ideal surface to ink, paint, emboss and embellish!

For more information about these great new Inkssentials products, read the press releases for the Inkssentials Craft Nib Holder, Specialty Stamping Paper, Clear Fabric Medium and Collage Glue Stick.

NEW!! Dylusions Ink Sprays, Stencils and Stamps

 
Rolling right along with Ranger's new products, lauching in just a few days at CHA Winter 2012!

A few months ago we announced that we have teamed up with Dyan Reaveley, who is now our latest signature designer!  At CHA Winter 2012 we will be debuting the first entries into her new Dylusions line: Ink Sprays, Stencils and Stamps.

Dylusions Ink Spray dyes are high quality, acid-free, non toxic concentrated colorants for porous surfaces.  It comes in 12 fabulous, vibrant colors:

Use the Dylusions Ink Sprays to colorize paper, Sticky Back Canvas, wood, polymer clay and more. It's the perfect colorant to create backgrounds for cards, scrapbook and journal pages, and to use in mixed media art projects.

And best of all, you can use Dylusions Ink Sprays in conjunction with:

Dylusions Stencils!  Ranger, Dyan, and The Crafter's Workshop have teamed up to bring you these high-quality stencils in both 5" x 8" and 9" x 12" sizes.  There are six different, artistic designs ranging from numbers and letters to intricate borders and patterns.

Ranger has also teamed up with Stampers Anonymous for new stamps in the Dylusions product line! All new Dylusions stamps and existing stamps are now part of the Ranger Dylusions brand.

To read more about the new Dylusions line, please check out the official press release!

NEW!! Tim Holtz Distress Markers, and Melt Art Texture Treads!!

Here we go!!  This week we will be announcing all the fabulous products that Ranger will be offering at CHA Winter 2012!  Are you so excited?!  We are too!

And what a way to kick things off:

Yes!!  Everything you love about Distress is now at your fingertips, thanks to the new Tim Holtz Distress Markers!  These fabulous markers are dual-tipped with a fine detail tip as well as a brush tip, and they come in all 36 Distress colors PLUS White Picket Fence!  They are the perfect choice for doodling, journaling, coloring, stamping, shading and more.  You will be able to purchase these open-stock to grow your collection over time, or as a canister set containing all 37 colors.  Amazing or what?!  Be sure to check out the official press release to learn more about the new Distress Markers.

And if THAT wasn't exciting enough:

We are proud to announce a new addition to the Melt Art line: Texture Treads!  The Texture Treads were specially designed to be used with UTEE and feature a unique mirror-image design so you can achieve a variety of looks and textures just from one Tread.  Pour UTEE directly onto the Texture Tread, or stamp the Texture Tread into UTEE poured onto a Non-Stick Craft Sheet.  You can use Texture Treads with polymer clay, too.  Heck, you could even ink them up and use them just like rubber stamps!  The designs are really beautiful and versatile, and we are sure you'll love them.  The official press release has more information about all six designs.

Check back tomorrow for more exciting product announcements!

Vintaj partners with Ranger to bring you Patinas and Glaze!

 
We've got some pretty exciting news:

Ranger has partnered with Vintaj Natural Brass Company to bring you Vintaj Patinas: opaque inks specially formulated to adhere to metal!  This is very exciting news for all you jewelry designers out there!  This means that you can color Vintaj findings and filigrees (and other metals, too) to your heart's content, creating beautiful patina effects for all of your jewelry and craft projects.

The Patinas come in 15 lovely hues, split into 5 kits of 3 colors each:

Also new from Ranger and Vintaj is Vintaj Glaze, which is the perfect sealing coat for your metal pieces.  Glaze will help to prevent metals from oxidation and it can also be mixed with the Patinas and used as an extender.  It is fast-drying, durable and permanent with a satin finish.

For more information, check out the Ranger booth #1338 and the Vintaj booth #835 at CHA Winter 2012.  Be sure to check out the official press release, too!

Video: Claudine Demonstrates Black Gesso at CHA

 
We're featuring a Halloween card that you can make with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Black Gesso on our website this October, but perhaps you are wondering what else you can do with Black Gesso?  If so, check out this video Claudine created at CHA, where she demonstrates a great way to give Inkssentials Metal Foil Tape an antique look.  Claudine shows off some other great uses for Studio Black Gesso, too.... like, custom chalkboards!

Have you tried Black Gesso? If so, what are your favorite uses for it?

New Products On Their Way!

 
Great news!  Many of the new product releases announced at CHA Summer 2011 are making their way to your local craft store, including Tim Holtz Adirondack Snow Cap Mixative, Tim Holtz Distress Stains (including the new, opaque white Picket Fence Distress Stain), Inkssentials Black and Kraft Surfaces (ATCs and Tags), and Perfect Pearls Mists!

To get your creative juices flowing, here are some of the sample boards we brought to CHA, which feature these products:

Perfect Pearls Mists:

Adirondack Snow Cap Mixative:

The captions read, from left to right:
• "Combine with Alcohol Inks on Ink Applicator Tool to create softer, pastel color effects."
• "Mix with Alcohol Inks on Non-Stick Craft Sheet to create an opaque wash."
• "Drop onto metal with various colors of Alcohol Inks and heat to create a faux patina. Colors used: Stream, Juniper, Lettuce."

24 new Distress Stain colors, in addition to the 12 previously released:

Opaque white Picket Fence Distress Stain:

The captions read, from left to right:
• "Picket Fence."
•"Use to marbleize with other Distress colors."
•"Use to create a pastel wash over Distress."
•"Use to layer over papers for a shabby effect."

 Inkssentials Surfaces Black and Kraft ATCs and Tags:

We know it's so hard to choose, but which ONE of these new products are you MOST excited to add to your stash, and why??

Video: Picket Fence Distress Stain

 
Are you curious about the new Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Stain and how this unique, opaque white stain can be used in conjunction with the other 36 colors of Distress Stains? If so, check out this video that Ranger's Marketing Director Bonnie Egenton created for Craft Critique, straight from the CHA Summer 2011 Innovations event!  Bonnie will show you how to use Picket Fence to lighten the other colors of Distress Stains and how to give your scrapbook papers an antique, whitewashed effect.

Make-It-Take-It's from CHA Summer 2011

 
Want all the fun of a great Make-It-Take-It project straight from CHA Summer 2011 but unable to attend the show?  Never fear!  Here are not one, but two great Melt Art projects from the Ranger booth for your Making & Taking pleasure!

Learn how to transform Prima flowers with an amazing faux porcelain technique in this project by Tim Holtz!

Learn how to create a mold with Melt Art Mold-N-Pour and create a gorgeous UTEE rosebud ring in this project by Debbie Tlach!

We hope you give these projects a try!  Let us know if you do, and as always, feel free to post photos of your work on our Facebook wall!