Happy New Year Sale!

Starts tomorrow and goes through to Friday evening.

15% Off all regular priced items

Online & Instore

If you're local & can't make it to the shop,

order online & select "Collect from Store" at checkout
to avoid paying postage.

If you can make it along, tomorrow Jennie will also be
demonstrating various Ranger Products too!

Happy New Year to you all!

Christmas & New Year Opening

We are now Closed

until Thursday 30th Dec.

Join us again on

Thursday 30th & Friday 31st for the

15% OFF All Regular Priced Items

Happy New Year Sale!

(online & instore)

On Thursday 30th Jennie will also

be demonstrating Ranger products

so pop over and have some fun with us!

We will then be closed

 Saturday 1st, Sunday 2nd & Monday 3rd.

Re-opening on Tuesday 4th January 2011, 10am - 4pm!

Meanwhile, have fun & stay safe.

Merry Christmas from all of us.

We truly appreciate your custom :)



Arghhhhh!

So, my child & I ventured in this morning to find this!

It's so pretty but not the most accessible car park in the world :(

Anyone got a snow plough???

With more snow due this afternoon/evening 

we'll not be hanging around today I'm afraid.

Apologies to all, 

I can't tell you how cheesed off I am :(

Mmmmm Slurp!

Morning All!

We have Mulled Wine or Belgian Hot Chocolate

for anyone popping by today!

Midnight Crop Cancelled :(

Sorry girls, the snow is falling here again

and I don't think even our lovely crop

constitutes "Essential Travel"

Christmas Tags!

At our workshop this morning

we made tags!

using lots of Tim product & Girls Paperie :)

Why not join us on Monday,

we're doing them all over again!

See you soon :)

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #12

So here we are with the last of the

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas Recipes!

We hope you have enjoyed the Inspiration

and more importantly, joined in!

Check out the Chicken Soup Blog

for more details :)

This card used The Girls Paperie Papers,

Tims Odds & Ends Stamps and

Ticket Die, On The Edge Die 

and Distress inks :)

Chicken Soup will be back

in the New Year, meanwhile check back

here often for more Festive Ramblings ;)

Have a Great Week!

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #11

Join in the Festive Fun

over on the Chicken Soup Blog!

Todays theme is "Family"

Do you like my Gingerbread Man?

Jennie made it for me at her last workshop

out of UTEE, he's so cute, thanks Jennie!

Another 6x6 card made from Kraft,

The Girls Paperie & Tims Retro Papers,

Tim's Scallop die, Distress Inks &

various Stamps/ribbon :)

Enjoy your Week!

Loving these!

Wall plaques

What will you do with one?

Here's one by Christine Emberson

Thanks for sharing :)

Order one here :)

New Mabel Lucie Attwell's in Store!

Aren't they cute!

See them & all the others here :)

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #8

Join in the Festive Fun

over on the Chicken Soup Blog!

Todays theme is "Christmas Dinner"

I made a simple 6x6 card using Kraft

as the base, a scrap paper from ages ago!

I circle punched the pudding out of card,

then hand cut the icing and smothered

it with Stickles (Allow to dry, bet you stick

your fingers in it too early like me!)

Punch holly & adorn with Red Liquid Pearls :)

Stamped with Stampin' Up Greeting.

Enjoy your Week!

Saturdays Make & Take

Some of the Wonderful Christmas Creations

produced at Saturdays Make & Take

Thanks to Jennie & all who came along to play!

Thanks to Rosemary for the photos :)

Products used: UTEE, Perfect Pearls,
Paint Dabbers, Archival Ink,
Grungepaper, Distress Stickles,
Lace Chain & Baubles,
Glossy Accents & Stitchels Holly Stamps

Mums Tags!

I'm seriously jealous of my Mums Stamp Collection!

She made these tags the other day when we were

snowed in & they fit perfectly for todays

Chicken Soup Christmas Recipe :)



Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #3

Here's my offering for the

12 Days of Christmas Recipes

over on the Chicken Soup Blog :)

Here I used last years K&Co Ornament Pad.

This Years is here in more traditional colours.

I added a bell (thanks Julie!), some Ric Rac

(available in store) and some Crystal Stickers

Adhesive Pearls.

I made it!

into work!

The Ashford Road is clear & the slope into the

car park is gritted. Currently the car park is snowy but not too bad.

There is a possibility someone will clear it for us later.

Please take care!

The Good news is we will be open for business tomorrow

and are hosting the Make & Take, Mince pies & Mulled Wine

that we had to cancel from Thursday night.

If you want to take part it will cost just £1.50

which will be donated to Demelza Childrens Hospice.

Pop in anytime between 10am - 4pm.

Are you creating Tims 12 Tags of Christmas?

Are you missing bits and pieces?

If you need to use our die cuts pop in & work away!

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #2

 Here's my Quickie card for the 2nd Day of Christmas

Chicken Soup Recipe. Check it out and join in!

I used Stampin' Up Stamps, Brilliance Thyme ink

which was clear embossed,

Red Liquid Pearls and PI Crimson Glitter.

The background red card was watermark

inked with VersaMark & a Teresa Collins Stamp.

Merry Christmas All!

Snow good :(

This was the scene yesterday morning.

Since then we've had another foot of snow,

so I'm not even going to attempt today.

Unfortunately the Make & Take

planned for tonight is cancelled.

We will be back with another date soon.

To anyone who has placed orders online,

we will process as soon as possible, apologies :(

Chicken Soup 12 Days of Christmas #1

So here we Kickstart

12 days of Chicken Soup Recipes.

I may not get to do them all

but rest assured the Soup DT

and guests are on the case with

Seasonal Inspiration!

This card is so quick & simple.

All I used was Bazzill Kraft Card

and Teresa Collins Noel papers

smudged around the edges with

Versamagic ink :)

Join the fun each day over on the Chicken Soup Blog!

Happy 1st of December!

That's it, I'm officially excited!

So much happening today.

Firstly this morning Tim Holtz will be sharing his

12 Tags of Christmas - Hurrah!

I will try my hardest to have a go

at as many as I can this year.

I think I only managed 2 last year!

And this evening please

check out the Chicken Soup Blog.

We're hosting 12 Recipes for Christmas

so you won't be short of Inspiration

that's for sure!

Don't forget Tomorrow we are

hosting a Make & Take Evening

with Mince pies & Mulled Wine

from 6pm - 9pm.

It will cost you £1.50 which will

go straight into the Demelza

Hospice pot @ the Till.

You'll get to make a cool Christmas

Decoration, relax and have fun!

See You Soon x

Chicken Soup #22

Ooops forgot to post last night!

Here is my dish for this weeks recipe

over at Chicken Soup

A Simple double layout - perfect for when you printed

way too many holiday photos!

This layout uses BoBunny Papers

& My Little Shoebox lined paper.

Join in & be in with the chance of winning a prize!

Have a Great Weekend, we've avoided the snow so far.

Let's hope it stays that way ;)

Whoop Whoop!

Huge Congrats to all the girls who

entered the Craft Stamper of the Year Comp!

All the entries are Gorgeous!

Special huggable mentions go to our very own Jane Dean ;)

& one of our talented customers & friends Siobhan Brignull

who both came 2nd in their Categories!

Go Girls!

See them in the January Issue of Craft Stamper

which you can pre-order here.

Copies are expected in store next week!

Chicken Soup Recipe #21

Friday again!

Where are the weeks going?

Here's my finished project for this weeks

Chicken Soup Blog Recipe.

Pop over and have a look, join in

& be in with the chance of a

randomly picked prize each month :)

I used Bazzill Dotted Salt.

Ranger Colorwashes, various masks,

jigsaw pieces, coffee jar tops,

black paint & some REALLY old stickers!

Knew I kept them for a reason ;)

Have a Great Weekend!

Printers Tray Weekend!

Thanks to Christine, Diane, Louise, Jane, Jenni & Julie

for a Great Weekend of Crafting!

We had such fun and lots of laughs and some

Brilliant creations were born :)

Gotta love the Shrink Plastic Butterflies!

 

Here are the trays in progress...

Sundays & Late Nights!

Just to let you know we will be open

Sunday 14th November, Sunday 21st November 10am - 4pm.

Friday 26th November 5pm - 10pm.

And on Thursday 2nd December 6pm - 9pm

we are hosting a Make & Take

with Mulled Wine & Mince Pies.

£1.50 for Demelza House Hospice.

Come and make a Christmas Decoration!



Jennie Kicks Off Christmas...

....in true Tim Holtz Style

with another Spectacular Technique

packed workshop where the girls

created Christmas Cards with a Twist!

The cards incorporated Sizzix Alterations,

UTEE, Stamping, Embossed Metals, Alcohol Inks,

texture pastes, painting lots of Distressing!

As usual Jennie bought along ooodles of stamps, inks

and paints so everyone could choose their own colour & style.

See more of Jennies Work on her blog here

and her forthcoming Workshops here :)

Chicken Soup Recipe #19

Here's my offering for this weeks Chicken Soup Recipe.

Play along, you could win a prize!

Products used:

Bazzill Glazed Card, TC 8x8 Paper, Tims Tissue Tape,

Brilliance Moonlight White Ink, Tims Alterations Ticket 

& Bewitching Die, Tims Odds & Ends Stamps,

Tims Distress Ink & Glitter Card.

Have a Great Weekend :)

Discovery Demo Day - Textured Techniques

Huge thanks to all of you that attended

yesterdays first Discovery Demo Day!

We hope you had fun and learnt a thing or two

with Jane & Julie. Here's a few photos :)

Check back in the New Year for another date!

Discovery Demo Day - Saturday 30th October

Join us tomorrow for the First of these Special Events

where you'll Discover just what certain

products can actually do :)

The first is on Textured Techniques using

Sizzix Textures Fades, Texture Paste, Paints,

Metal & lots of ink!

Please do pop along anytime between 10 - 4, it's free!

We'll have some Extra Special Sizzix Offers on the day too!

New Products in!

Lots from Tim Holtz

including

Configurations Boxes :)

(this photo taken from his Blog, click

here to see more ideas!)

12 New Distress Stickles Colours

More New Texture Fades!

Rosette Strip & restocks of Bigz Tattered Florals!

New Stamps (Individual & Sets)

7 Gypsies Printers Trays & Much More!

See everything over these 2 pages :)