As promised...

Good Afternoon Everyone

As promised, here is a quick card I made using my new Candy Stripes and Candy Check backing papers...

I have used the complimentary lilac tones from the papers and coloured Tilda in with my flexmarkers and promarkers to co-ordinate, finished off with some punched and die cut flowers, bit of lace, tiny punched butterflies, pearls, and, naturally, inked my edges using Colorbox Fluid chalk ink pads :o)

I hope you like it and it gives you some ideas of what to do with the papers.

Remember - There is a post just below with a couple of sheets of the new papers for you to download for free, however, the full set of 30 complimentary colours is available on my website here Candy Papers for only £4!

These are instantly downloadable through the 'my account' section of the website once you have purchased, so no need to wait for delivery... they'll be with you straight away!

Happy Crafting!

Craft o'clock!!

Hi Everyone

This is a real quickie, just to let you know I am now back on Create and Craft (well, Ideal World really) sooner than planned!

I'm doing Craft o'clock next Monday 9th at 5pm til 7pm

And by the looks of the show line up, some fabulous bargains to be had!!

Hope you can watch and, as always, send me your emails... I love to hear from you all!

Happy Crafting!

New Year Freebie :o)

Good Afternoon (nearly evening) Everyone,

Happy New Year!! 

I hope you enjoyed your time off over Christmas and the New Year and managed to find some time to be crafty :o)

Anyway, two things I need to tell you about today..

Firstly, I will be back on Ideal World on Tuesday 17th January at 9pm for the launch of a very exciting Pick of the day from Serif!

I will give you the times of all the shows, as soon as I know, but I do know we launch at 9pm lol

I am very excited about this pod as the Serif software is somewhat of a favourite of mine, and they are local to me (just down the road! lol)

More details to follow.... ;o)

Secondly,, I have just finished getting the colours perfect on my second set of Designed By Phill Backing Papers - whoo hoo!

This new collection is a duo set of Candy Pinstripes and Candy Checks, all complimentary colours (as you would expect from me) and all very perfect, pretty and more importantly useful!

This collection is available now on my website (just added it ten mins ago!) and here is a quick linky to it Designed By Phill Backing Papers 

Here are a couple of sample sheets for you to have a nosey at :o)

I hope you like them, I do! lol

Anyway, enough rattling... keep warm and safe in this dreadful weather.

Happy Crafting!

Create & Craft Shows

Hi Everyone...

Just a quick note to let you know I have had some shows for Create & Craft confirmed for next week...

There's quite a few so I guess I'm going to be a busy boy over the festive season!

Here are the details:

Tuesday 27th at 9am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 5pm!

Wednesday 28th at 1pm, 2pm and 4pm

Thursday 29th at 11am, 2pm, 3pm and 5pm

Monday 2nd January at 9am, 11am and 12noon

These shows are a mixture of Hunkydory shows, Special Sale shows (some superb bargains to be had!!), Paper Clinic and a new printer show...

It looks like my Craft Ambassador role will be put to good use over the next week! Wish me luck!

Anyway, I hope you can watch and can find time to send me an email or two!

I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful crafty Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!!

Thankyou all for your continued support and encouragement :o)

Create and Craft Shows

Morning Everyone

Just letting you know that I am back on Create and Craft next week :o)

All the shows are Brother shows, including some printers and labelling equipment... The particular printer I will be showing you is one that I love, especially for printing onto different textured cardstock...which is something I do alot of!

Anyhoo, the shows times are :-

Monday 12th December at 8am and 1pm and 3pm and 6pm (busy day!)

Tuesday 13th December at 10am and 7pm

Wednesday 14th December at 6pm

These are special 4 day deal shows and some of the products I will be showing are brand new, not been seen before, including the new A4  Printer (which would make a brill Christmas prezzy and addition to your crafting tools!)

Hope you can watch and remember too email in... I will find something to give away!

Happy Crafting!

Just For You... :o)

Morning Everyone

It's another cold start to the day here in Nottingham, the heating is on, I've mashed a cuppa and made this lil Christmas Text Background Paper for you.... 

It seems to be that designing papers is another addiction I can add to my list! :o)

As I'm off to Germany tomorrow to the Christmas markets for the weekend (in the hopes I can get a few of the  gifts on my list ticked off!) I thought I'd give you all a lil gift too...

I've literally just finished this one... I hope you like it :o)

Just click on the paper below and it will open in another window, then just right click on it and save on your computer....

And remember.... I'd love to see what you do with the paper, or indeed any of my others, so please do send me a photo of your projects... You never know, I may just pop it on the blog for all to see :o)

Happy Crafting!

Loved this shape so much - I made 3!

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Well, the weather we are having lately is definitely crafting weather and that's exactly what I've been doing.... when I get home from work of course, there's no time to 'play' at the shop this time of year!

This lil card is a variation of the ever popular stepper card, I love stepper cards because of their technical appearance and the versatility they give us... so much so that I made this style in three different colour ways lol

The image is a digi I bought somewhere when I was browsing the tinternet, sorry, I cannot remember where as I must have looked at a thousand sites lol

As you'd expect from me, there is lots of distressing going on, as well as a combination of Flexmarkers and Promarkers... some punched and die cut snowflakes, buttons, twines and the obligatory glamour dust!

 Hope you like them as much I liked making them :o)

Here's a few lil photos for you...

I've been playing again .... :o)

Good Morning Everyone!

Well, it's a dreary start to this Wednesday morning so I thought I'd spread a lil crafty happiness and share with you all a new background paper that I have been working on...

This is from my forthcoming Shabby Roses Collection (tell you more when the time is right! lol)

You can also go onto my website and purchase my 'Intricate Snowflakes Collection' now :o) 

Anyhoo... here is my lil pre-Christmas freebie gift to you... 

Just click on the image and it will open in a new window, then right click and save to your computer...

Remember to let me see what you do with it :o)

Happy Crafting!

Create and Craft Shows....

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Just a quick post to let you know I will be back on Create & Craft this weekend... so I won't be working at the   NEC, however, I will be at the NEC for a nosey on Saturday so if you see me, be sure to say hello :o)

My Shows are all on Create and Craft and this is the line up..

Friday (yep, tomorrow!)

8am, 10am and 4pm

Sunday

9am, 10am and 2pm

Hope you can watch, at least I'll be there to entertain those of you that are not at the NEC (or those that have been and spent up lol!)

Hope you can watch and remember to get those emails in :o)

Happy Crafting!

Love, as always

Phill

x

So what do I do when I get half an hour of peace....

... I make a card! lol

Hi Everyone...

Now that's stranger than you think.... especially when I am at work in the shop (time is usually spent mashing, chatting, teaching, advising my lovely customers and oh yes, more mashing cuppas!) so to get half an hour of peace at the shop these days is so rare that you'd think I would put my feet up with, yep, another cuppa, but nope, not me... I play :o)

So here's a few photos of my lil half an hour (36 minutes of peace to be precise!) playtime card with one of my fave Gorjuss stamps...

Hopefully, you will notice the lovely Backing Paper too as it's one of my own ;o) 

More on that soon ;o)

Anyway,  I hope you like it.... 

Happy Crafting!

Love, as always

Phill

x