Stampavie 25% Off Sale :-)

Good Afternoon Everyone

Happy New Year!

I hope you have had a  fabulous Christmas and New Year!

Just giving you a quick 'heads up'... 

All Stampavie Stamps on my website now have 25% off for January (or until we run out of stock)

I launched the offer this morning and 5 designs have sold out already so be quick and don't miss out :-)

Happy Crafting!

Stampavie & HOTP Show Projects..

Good Afternoon Everyone

Well, it's a dreary, damp day here in Nottingham so I thought I would make the most of it, mash a cuppa and put photos on here for you of the samples I made for the Hot Off The Press and Stampavie Shows I did on Create & Craft last Saturday.

If you were watching, you'll know that the Stampavie show was a riot! With production having a little 'hiccup' on the 3 for 2 deal!

I hope you managed to get yours!

Anyway, as most of you will have seen on my Facebook page, I love HOTP kits... the Chocolate Dipped Kit being one of my personal faves as I love the warm colours in it... 

You all know I absolutely adore my Stampavie Stamps, I use them loads so, for me, these are worthy additions to my ever growing stamp collection! lol

Enough rattling, here are the samples (apart from a few I can't seem to find!) from both shows... 

I hope you like than and if you want to know what I used on any of them, just ask :-)

Happy Crafting!

**Stampavie & HOTP Saturday Show Times Update**

Good Morning Everyone

It seems I have got my show times wrong for this Saturday (6th) on Create & Craft!

I am now on ....

12noon - Hot Of The Press 

7pm - Stampavie

If I haven't mentioned it already, there is a fabulous 3 for 2 on the Stampavie show.. buy 2 stamps, get your 3rd FREE!!! 

I know this is going to be a really busy show and I've never known a 3 for 2 on Stampavie!!

I'm luck as I have all mine already, but, just be aware that there aren't huge stocks of these so be quick :-)

I'll just say too, there are some absolutely stunning stamps and paper kits on the HOTP show and these will be superb prices too :-)

Here's a little peep of a couple of the samples I've made :-)

See you at 12noon on Saturday!!

Stampavie & HOTP Shows on Create & Craft - whoo hoo!

Evening Everyone

Before I tell you about my shows on Create & Craft this Saturday, can I just say....

I have had sooooo much pleasure from creating these samples and demos!

Each and every product is fabulous! I was actually ooohhing and aaaahing at everything for about an hour before I could decide to do anything! lol!!

Can you tell I was a tad excited ;-)

As most of you probably know by now... Stampavie is one of my favourite brands of stamps, team that with the stunning designs and quality of HOTP papers and embellishments and some new, absolutely beautiful goodies by The Paper Co and, well, It's heaven for me!

So, I will be back on Create & Craft this Saturday, 6th October at 10am and 7pm

I know, it's a long gap between shows, but I didn't hesitate... 

I absolutely love the products so it's my pleasure! lol

One show will be a Stampavie show and the other will be a HOTP show, but (you know me well enough) they work absolutely perfectly with each other so I have used HOTP with Stampavie with some stunning results!

I hope you can watch!

Happy Crafting!

September Craftathon Projects

Good Evening Everyone

Well, the weather is definitely turning colder... I don't think our heating has been off since we got back from our holiday! BUT, the plus side for us crafters is it is a good excuse to stay indoors where it's warm and craft! and that's exactly what we did at our September Craftathon today! :-)

I want to just say a special thankyou to Lorraine, Claire, Becky, Kath and Sharon who have come from all over the country to spend the day with us today....

It was lovely to meet you all and I hope you enjoyed your day... I know I did! :-)

Anyhoo, I thought I'd pop the projects we did today onto the blog, it was a bit of a Stampavie fest, but who can resist these stunning stamps (One of my weaknesses!) 

I hope you like what we did today :-)

Happy Crafting!

Stampavie Card :-)

Evening All

As promised, here is the photo of the card  made using the stamp I coloured in last night..

I love the Stampavie stamps, so lovely to colour in and then the fun part of decorating the card around the image :-)

As usual, I have used my pro-markers, the border is from my Woodware Crafty Edger (also on the website) and the flowers are a Woodware Multi Flower punch (also on my website lol)

8x8 Kraft Card Blanks and the pink card is by Hunkydory (soon on the website lol)

I sell the polka dot ribbon by the reel too on my website lol :o)

Remember - have some Stampavie Stamps (Including this one) on my website... 

Quick Link here - Stampavie Stamps 

Hope you like it

Happy Crafting!

Cards from yesterdays show....

Good Evening Everyone

As promised, here are some photos of the cards I made on my Stampavie show yesterday...

I love Stampavie, so it was actually harder for me to choose which images I wanted to use as they were all lovely!!

Anyhoo, hope you like them :o)

If you want to know the names of the ones I used and which papers etc, give me a shout.

Happy Crafting!

Diary of my week... up to now!

Good Morning Everyone...

What an incredibly busy week I've had! I can't believe it's Saturday already... where have the days gone? lol

As most of you probably know by now, we are having a complete rebuild of our kitchen at home, there have been so many workmen in and out of the house over the last 3 (yes, 3!) weeks that I feel I have known them forever! lol

Next week sees the beginning of week 4 of the kitchen which, I'm pleased to say, should be the last week...

It has been exciting, but very stressful, watching the old kitchen disappear and the new one take shape day by day...  now all this is wonderful, but imagine the fun I'm having trying to work around this with no cooker or water in the kitchen etc!... imagine how many times I've told myself 'it will be worth it'! :-)

In between all the chaos at home, it has also been soooo busy at the shop, with a workshop every day we are open :-) 

Deliveries from Woodware and Hunkydory on the same day, that took us two days to unpack, price up and get on the shelves so everyone can see the lovely new goodies :-) 

(I love deliveries though and usually end up adding most of it to my own stash lol)

I've also been stamping and colouring and making cards and prepping for my forthcoming create and craft shows next Tuesday... I love this part and it's always a pleasure to sit and design new cards :-)

There are some fantastic HOTP and Stampavie products for next week that it genuinely has been lovely to work with them :-)

Add to this, 5 Mothers day card orders that I had on Thursday! lol 

In between all of this, I have been doing my prep work for my Hayling Island workshops (I can't wait for this) and been trying to think of new techniques that we will be able to do within the workshop timescales! lol

My Hayling Island prep is ongoing and there is two weeks left to go! Will I be ready? Hope so! lol

So today brings us Saturday, another big workshop this morning at the shop 

(yep, all is ready and I am actually prepared for this one) lol

I love my workshops, love chatting with everyone and catching up with what we have all been up to over the week... and, naturally, sitting with a cuppa and a cake ;-)

Sundays and Mondays are days off, well, that's not 100% true as I am usually preparing for Create and Craft shows or my next workshops, but I am at home so I can work in a more relaxed pace... (with lot's of cuppas) I can't remember the last time I actually had a day where I wasn't doing some sort of work.... 

Work that I absolutely adore doing!, is it really work? lol :-)

Anyhoo, it's nearly 8am so I need to get off to the shop and get the kettle on for all my lovely Saturday morning group :-)

Have a fantastic, crafty weekend and I will see you on Create & Craft next Tuesday!

Happy Crafting!

Create and Craft Shows..

Good Evening Everyone

I have some very exciting news for you...

I have been asked if I would do some Create & Craft Shows next week for Bramwell Crafts... Now if you don't know who Bramwell Crafts are, quite simply they are the company who bring us some of my favourite brands of products... such as Stampavie, Bo Bunny, Hot of the Press, Kaiser Crafts an Cricut to name but a few...

So, you can imagine, I didn't have to think too long lol

Now, most of you will know that the lovely Mel usually does shows with these brands and I am very happy to be representing such a talented team on Create & Craft :-)

To clarify, I'm not replacing Mel, just sharing her workload :-)

So, next Tuesday, you will see me as follows..

8am - Fantastic Hot Of The Press show (some brilliant, superb quality products in this show!!)

1pm - Whoo Hoo - Stampavie Show (You simply HAVE to see these beautiful stamps!! I love them 

already!

6pm (although this show time may change) - More Hot Off The Press

In case you can't tell... I am very exited about these shows!!

Hope you can watch

Happy Crafting!