CHA Summer 2013 | My Mind’s Eye Does Chalkboard!

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Yana Smakula

Yana Smakula is a newlywed from Ukraine (which is in southeastern Europe) with no kids but two black cats. She loves to travel across the world and meet new people, discover new cultures and just explore. So far together with her new husband she’s been to a few places in Europe (Poland, Check Republic and UK), Africa (Egypt, Tunisia and Israel), Asia (China and Sri Lanka) and USA. Their next dream destination is Madagascar, because they hear the nature there is simply breathtaking! Yana fell in love with the U.S. while living here (in Las Vegas, NV) as a high school foreign exchange student when she was a teen. She enjoys scrapbooking, mostly about her travels. Her other passion is cardmaking – she enjoys trying new products and techniques, experimenting and creating in different styles. She’s also very much into stamping (although she didn’t realize it until she took a close look at her cards and noticed almost all of them use stamps!). To learn more about Yana, visit her website.

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Chalkboard was all the rage at the Summer CHA Create and Connect Show in Las Vegas.

My Mind’s Eye unveiled several new collections two of which focused on chalkboard elements – Chalk Studio and Happy Haunting for Halloween.

Black chalkboard is a natural match for Halloween, and designer Janet Hopkins gave it some great spooky style for My Mind’s Eye:

The new Chalk Studio line was designed by Rhonna Farrer and is sure to please all the chalkboard fans – papers in this line have chalkboard like effects on one side and simple pastel designs on the other.

The line also has a wide array of chalkboard like embellishments including a banner kit with an actual chalk piece inside.

The brad set included both chalkboard and pastel designs:

Another fun product in this line is the chalk epoxy alphabet:

There’s also chipboard chalkboard-like frames in different shapes:

A fun tag set with great sentiments and frames and a set of twine in 3 designs to use with tags or other embellishments are also available:

I can definitely see myself using this line to create trendy home decor items, party decorations, mini albums and cards!