New for CHA Summer! Creative Café: Looks Like a Candy Store, Feels Like a Community
Crafters and paper artists will feel like kids in a candy store with the launch of Creative Café, coming to local scrapbook stores this November. A new concept from Creative Imaginations, Creative Café inspires customers to “live a creative lifestyle.” 
Creative Café, in collaboration with AccuCut, Hampton Art, and Bazzill Basics Paper, is more than crafting supplies—it’s a way to foster an inspired, creative community. With this new concept, customers will be able to saddle up to an “art bar” stocked with candy store-like bins of coordinating items including bulk tags, buttons, felt, 
and chipboard, ribbon, rub-ons, stickers, papers, cards, chipboard, stamps and dies. And best of all, customers can work on their projects right there, interacting with other creative-minded crafters—meeting up with friends and making new ones in the process. 
From holiday gifts, invitations, school projects, cards, planners or scrapbook pages, Creative Café is the place to make customers’ ideas come to life. Feeling 
stumped as to what to make? Creative Café offers quick and easy projects for “Happy Hour” once a week and will even e-mail customers a “Happy Hour” education plan with project recipes every month.
Creative Café is the brainchild of Creative Imaginations’ two best-selling artists, Danelle Johnson and Alison Wong. This entirely new concept is a unique blend of Danelle’s cutting edge design and passion for education and events, with Alison’s nine years of retail store experience, design and marketing.
Thanks to Creative Café, customers now have an inspired place to do it all—and build a community in the process.
Looks cool! I hope a store close to me will try it out :)
Posted by: Shelly J | July 14, 2007 at 03:17 PM
I hope so too.....SO I CAN TEACH AT IT!!!! Oh to open my own store....sigh. One can dream :)
Posted by: Regan Tomlin | July 14, 2007 at 03:47 PM
I hope so too.....SO I CAN TEACH AT IT!!!! Oh to open my own store....sigh. One can dream :)
Posted by: Regan Tomlin | July 14, 2007 at 03:49 PM
Love the idea! Can't wait to see it IRL!!
Posted by: Erin Bassett | July 14, 2007 at 03:51 PM
Great Idea!
Posted by: Michelle M | July 14, 2007 at 05:56 PM
wow! this looks awesome. I hope retailers pick it up big time! That's my kind of happy hour. Cool idea, great design.
Posted by: Jean | July 15, 2007 at 05:50 AM
I'd love to see happy hour kits for customers. My GFs would love this!
Posted by: Susan | July 15, 2007 at 08:22 AM
I sooo want this for my store - here's hoping it's gonna be available for the UK
Posted by: Beverley Todd | July 15, 2007 at 09:37 AM
How totally exciting!!!! I feel very inspired.
Posted by: Dorothy Rhodes | July 15, 2007 at 06:31 PM
Fabulous! I can't wait to see this in person! I know my LSS is getting it! WOOHOO!
Posted by: Michelle Gauthier | July 16, 2007 at 09:51 AM
Where is today's update? :)
Posted by: SaraBella | July 16, 2007 at 02:22 PM
Hey, speaking of which where was YESTERDAY'S update?
C'mon....don't hold out on us...I can't stand the anticipation....I want to see the new Magic Meals collection!
Posted by: SaraBella | July 16, 2007 at 02:23 PM
Oh it would be awesome if some Aussie stores picked up the cafe too. I love the whole concept.
Posted by: tammy | July 17, 2007 at 07:44 PM
I really hope there's a store locater for this so I know where to go!
Posted by: Shannah | July 20, 2007 at 08:46 AM
I don't know if it is just me but i am having trouble reading the font under the different items. It gets really big after the first paragraph and it all starts blending together. I would really like to be able to read what you all have to say.
Posted by: Margaret Henderson | July 24, 2007 at 08:10 PM
I can't read the writing it's all blended together. Hope they fix it..
Posted by: Maria | July 25, 2007 at 12:20 PM
i saw this first-hand at cha this past weekend - brilliant! i was lucky enough to do danelle's happy hour make-n-take at windy city scrapbooking - these new goodies are superb! the buttons are my fav. creative cheers and happy weekend, rachel
Posted by: rachel carlson | July 27, 2007 at 11:52 AM
This is such an awesome concept. You guys are geniuses!!!
Posted by: Shannon | July 27, 2007 at 02:50 PM
Hi there. Could someone please email me. We would like to know about how to get Creative Cafe' here at a new store. Thanks a bunch.
Posted by: Tawnya | August 01, 2007 at 03:55 PM
WOAH!!!! How can we get this into my town?!?! We have NOTHING as nice as this!!!
Posted by: Nicole | August 04, 2007 at 08:27 AM
Cannt wait, I hope it is in my town!! Very interesting!! Thanks
Posted by: Yvette | September 24, 2007 at 03:04 PM
Looks like a lot of fun and I'd definitely be interested!
Posted by: Colleen | September 27, 2007 at 07:32 AM
Is there a place to check to see what stores will be caring the creative cafe?
Posted by: Kris | September 30, 2007 at 06:01 PM
Absolutely AWESOME!!
Posted by: Angela | October 18, 2007 at 01:14 PM
My local store will have it!!! Pages In Time in Granger, IN!!
Posted by: Alexis | October 20, 2007 at 02:23 PM