Two New Digi Stamps from Gayle

With Spring and Easter around the corner, Gayle has turned her attention to flowers and launch two new Digi Stamps for you to enjoy.
Here are some cards to give you inspiration.

Gayle Bond

Julie Blakeman

Sue Upson

Sue Upson

Although we have used this as an Easter Cross it could also be used on a Sympathy card. Hope you love them as much as we do.

CARD CHALLENGE 29

It was an obvious choice this week as Mothers Day is coming soon however with our fellow crafters across the water in mind our challenge is………………

MOTHERS DAY or  CARD FOR A SPECIAL LADY

Here are some ideas from the design team to get you started including, for the first time, a card from our guest designer Peggy.

Julie Blakeman

Sue Upson

Special Guest Designer – Peggy Regan

Gayle Bond

Jeannie Reed

Julie Wilson

Can’t wait to see all of your lovely designs and remember, we are looking our for a couple more people to join the Card Design Team so keep entering those cards.

And the winner is……………..

The winner of Card Challenge no 28 is number 111 as selected by Random.Org.
Congratulations to

SCRAPPY

Well done Scrappy. You will be entered into our half year draw.

Guess who’s having a birthday today???

Happy Birthday Sis. Still catching me up I see.

Have a fantastic day. xxxx

More photos from yesterday

OK so we went a bit mad with the camera, but the day was fun after all
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
Loved this day and looking forward to the next one.  Roll on Flower and Stamp Extravaganza. We have so many ideas.

Distressed…………………………………

Inked, stamped and exhausted. We have had a fantastic day today using Tim Holtz, Ranger, Ideology and Paper Artsy products.
We started off with a Curiosity cupboard
 


  
And then we made some little pages to go inside our scrummy suitcases.



Everyone got suitable inky fingered and the classroom was a mess but it was all worth it. Thank you to everyone who came along.

We hope to see you at the next one. Keep watching that website.

Card Challenge 28

I am so late posting this. We have spent the day making the projects for Saturdays “Tim Holtz Product” Classes and I completely forget to post.
Anyway, enough of the excuses, Challenge 28 is……

ANYTHING GOES

and here are some examples to get you up and running.

Julie Blakeman

Jeannie Reed

Sue Upson

Looking forward to seeing all of your cards.

So hard to choose

but choose we had to and after very carefully looking at all of the entries we have chosen …….

PEGGY R

to be a guest designer for our Card Challenges numbers 29 to 31.

Congratulations Peggy. We will contact you this week with more details and to ask if you would like to take up the challenge.
Thank you to everyone else who entered. We will be looking over the next 3 weeks to pick our next guest Designer so don’t forget to enter.

And the winner is……..

We have two winners this time. The winner of Challenge 27 as chosen by Random.Org is………………..

SHARETTE

Congratulations Sharette on your lovely card. You will be entered into our half year draw.
Later today we will be choosing someone from the 69 entries, to join us as a guest Designer from three challenges beginning with number Challenge 29, so keep checking back to see if you are the lucky winner

Alice was great

We had a lovely few hours adding Alice to our Art Journals. Everyone got covered in paint (well I did anyway) and we had some lovely results.
If you fancy having a go at something a bit different then come along to the “Even Angels Will Fall” class coming very soon.

Such a busy day…………..

After 2 weeks changing the shop around and making the classroom bigger, it was nice to get such a great thumbs up from our Saturday Classes. We started with the morning card class. Ten ladies, both new and experienced crafters made 4 cards and drank loads of tea and coffee.

Would love to know what made these lovely ladies laugh.


And then after a quick tidy up we greeted everyone in the Limited Edition Class in the afternoon.  I you haven’t tried one of these classes then it’s time to give it a go. We provide a super duper scrapbooking kit and give you 10 layouts to copy and you just have a great time.


And while all this is going on, our Emma has been busy die cutting on the Vagabond. We have been using it since last week to start getting everything ready for the Tim Holtz Product Class next Saturday. (Getting excited now)

Here are just four of the layouts used as examples:




The pictures just do not do these justice but I’m working on it. If anyone has any suggestions please leave a comment. Have a great weekend.