New Grey Rubber Stamps for our in-house library

Here we have x20 new grey rubber stamps for you to use every week for Craft Club Members.  They are beautiful flourishes and swirls and I am sure will be a great addition to our in-house library of Craft Equipment.

Enjoy!

Craft Club Challenge- w/c 14th July 2014

Hi all, hope you had a great weekend....a bit soggy, I know....at least the sun is shinning today and the weather is set to get warmer as the week goes on!  Hot, hot, hot!

Here is this weeks Craft Club Challenge:

Feathers, Masks and Crowns

Here are the new grey rubber stamps going in to our craft equipment kit from now on and I will be using them on this weeks demo:

...and as you know, I am leaning toward the Christmas theme (but I know some of you are horrified of even thinking Christmas at the moment) and so here is my sample for this week:

(Click once on the Photo to enlarge)

as you can see I have used the mask for a Christmas theme....there are still a few extra snow flakes to go on ....but this is such a great set of stamps to use in any which way you want....more ideas will follow as the week goes on so keep an eye on here for more photos.  I have also dipped into our x 82 new wording/phrase stamps and used the "Believe in the Miracle of Christmas" stamp.

If you want to have a go at the Demo card you will need:

• your base greeting card
• plain white or cream and also contrasting card if you want to add additional layers.
• I have the peacock embossing folder here for you to use this week.
• You may also like to bring....pigment inks for embossing with powders or colouring  the card as I have done with the mask...embossing powders, chalks such as Pan Pastels, Mica powders, guilding foil flakes, metalic/pearl paints...glue pens and glitter, glitter glues such as stickles.
• for those who have the Utee embossing powders you may like to experiment with the masks and emboss into glazed mount board tiles so bring your Utee and Mount board.
• Gems and ribbons

This is a lovely set of stamps for going to town with the glitz and sparkles!  I have used a pine cone die which I borrowed from Jan on Friday and this will not be available  but there is plenty to choose from to make a corner decoration.

Here is another card just finished today ...Tuesday:

Have a great week.

Craft Club Challenge - w/c 7th July 2014

This week is a catch up week, so bring along any cards you are yet to finish....and I challenge you to finish them!  It's hard I know... and yes I have many unfinished cards but I am determined to get them done.  If you missed any of the demos and want to try one let me know....and I will get you started and don't forget all the stamps, dies and equipment we have used over the last 3 weeks are available to use.

More stamps going into the kit this week and a photo of last weeks Christmas grey rubber stamps and the letter dies plus a See Dee foam mat for rubber stamping:

 Reindeer is upside down...ooops!...but you get the gist....these contact sheets appear roughly stamped and that is because I have stamped these out using Distress Inks and being water based they are easier to clean!  I have also left a bit more room on the contact sheet as I may be adding more in the future.  These grey rubber stamps are in addition to hundreds of other stamps already available for you to use each and especially a christmas drawer of stamps and punches .

We now have a few additional spaces in the club and I will be advertising soon, which fortunately I haven't had to do for some years so if you know anyone who fancies the Craft Club (various days) or Sewing club on a Thursday afternoon get them to call me asap (10702) 206910 as the places will go pretty quickly once the advertising goes out.

Have a lovely week and see you soon.

More Equipment in the stash...YEY!

A Big thank you for the help in getting these fabulous dies into our stash....our in house library is getting bigger and bigger with even more going in on the next post.

Here are the latest additions:

• A beautiful set of dies by Marriane Creatables LR0236 RRP 19.90 

There is an extra die (see photo blow of the peach spikey die cuts) which is also included but the blue die is not in the photo above.  Here are a couple of really quick easy cards made with these dies:

• Another Marriane Creatable die set LR0276 which we used in a recent Craft Club Challenge (Apron card) and now here for you to use whenever you want. This is a set of 3 dies and can be used in so many ways ....so I throw a mini challenge out there to all our girls ...what else can you create from these? 

• Our last Marrianne Creatable die going in this week is LR0269 which is a versatile half edge cut die which can be layered up in so many ways.

Here are two lovely samples which are again quick and easy using the above die:

We have also had another lovely donation to our stash from Joan (Thursday Morning group) of 2 lovely stamping sets. Thank you for that Joan. It will be great to see what  every one will do with those?

Photos to follow

Our Craft Club Challenge for this week will be posted soon.

Embossing Folders for Craft Club use.

I am in the throws of making an infantry of the equiptment now in the studio for Craft Clubbers regular use and with the addition of the recent mass of embossing folders I thought I would give you a complete up-date as at 14th October 2013...as and when any future embossing folders are put into the stash I will up-date it here.  Now, this is going to take some time...so here we go and there will be more photos to follow:

New Craft Equipment now in the Club stash!!!

After having a stonkingly bad headache last week which lasted for days I am finally feeling much better and now full of energy and getting all my jobs done which I have missed recently.

In the last month there have been lots and I mean lots... of new equipment in our craft Studio for you to use each week but I have been a little lapse in posting the photos here to remind you of what we have got....so without further delay...here we go!

 Above-Chocolate Baroque Lace Fragment Stamps

 "From Paris with Love" Stamps

 Inkadinkadoo Stamps Gear - Circle starter set plus petal stamps

 Impression Obsession -Cover-a-card Craquelure Ref:CC069

 Kaiser Craft Crackle stamp

 Joy Trellis scroll die Ref: 6002/0149

 Joy Snowflake Die Ref:6002/2018

 Xcut Dies - Christmas Medley

DieSire Crafters Companion Die Snowflake set

I think I have included everything and as you can see there is a lot of equipment with a lot of value ....so thank you to all those who have been buying the odd die cut pack here and there...it really helps get more equipment into the studio.