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NEW – Barbara Anne’s Christmas 2010 Collection, The 12 Days of Christmas

August 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

Hi There Crafty Friends!

Wowee, I sure am mega excited about my dear friend Barbara Anne Williams’ NEW Christmas 2010 Collection – The 12 Days of Christmas. This mega sized collection of winter goodness lavishes upon us beautiful artwork available as Rubber Stamps, Digi Stamps, 3D Decoupage, Digi Papers, Printable Pinch Boxes and Door Hangers and Coloured Clip Art. Barbara is so eloquent with her words that I’m gonna let her do the talking all the way from Utah USA, so over to you Barbara …

Guess what! It’s already tomorrow on a beautiful little Scottish island I know of, and I don’t have to wait one more moment, or count down again. . . because it’s here!!!

I’m so excited about ALL of the new products, as you’ve read in my recent blog posts – but perhaps the most exciting for me are the rubber stamps. I love how rubber stamps open up the possibility of embossing and using various colors and textures. They also lend themselves to so many interesting and ingenious artistic techniques. These are among my very favorite images, and I hope they’ll enrich your own Christmas celebrations and countdowns as well.

It’s not exactly a preview, now that they’re officially released, but I just had to share the fantastic projects that Dawn and Daniele created using the rubber stamp for Day 3:

Bits of Ivory 12 Days of Christmas Collection - Three French Hens Rubber Stamp. Hand crafted by Dawn.

Bits of Ivory 12 Days of Christmas Collection - Three French Hens Rubber Stamp. Hand crafted by Daniele.

Just as with the new digi stamps, I adore the way the same stamp can look so different in the hands of various designers! Both of these cards are so beautiful, and have such lovely little touches to make them extra special.

Bits of Ivory 12 Days of Christmas Collection - Five Gold Rings Digi 3D Decoupage. Hand crafted by Barbara.

Decoupage is not for the faint of heart. The layering of bits and pieces of an image yields a very impressive looking card- but it’s not your run-of-the-mill, slap-it-together sort of project. It takes a bit of time and effort, and it’s worth every moment of it. When you see the final project, stunningly 3-D in effect, you forget the extra time spent with the detail scissors and craft knife and sigh in contentment. It’s that wonderful.

As I was assembling these cards I remembered as a small child watching my Grandmother work on a similar project. I remember how impressive it was to see the image’s layers create the effect of a dimensional image. It was almost magical. I had forgotten all about it, and these images leave me feeling a bit nostalgic anyway, but I have to admit that now they’re even closer to my heart. I love that there are people who still take the time and effort to make a little work of art when they’re creating cards and paper crafts. I love that they’re carrying on an art form that’s generations old – and I’m so glad to be a small part of that tradition now.

Happy Christmas Creating!

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Barbara Anne Williams
Bits of Ivory
available at CuddlyBuddly

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NEW – Kim’s Christmas 2010 Collection

August 12th, 2010 | 16 Comments »

Hi There,

I’m delighted to let you know that my Christmas 2010 Collection is now available in the shop. For this winter’s adventures my Giggles Gang characters have all been placed ‘up the woods’ with their adorable labrador puppy dog gathering bits for Christmas. My teddies are acting out various nativity scenes and I’ve also drawn four traditional illuminated text images and softened them with my little cuties. To finish off the rubber stamps offering there’s a set of Christmas Round Greetings and some cute little tickets.

All of the images (except the tickets) are also available as digi downloads, as either digi stamps or pre-coloured 3D Decoupage sheets. And then to finish them all off there’s two digi paper sets – Frosted Lace and Quilted Holly. I hope there’s a little something amongst these various designs and formats to tickle your mojo and suit your budget. Merry Christmas!

Other New Stuff This Week at Cuddly Buddly Crafts

Cuddly Buddly Crafts - 50 Christmas stamp designs previously available only in rubber stamps are now also available as digi stamps.

Marianne Design – Two new beautiful Doily dies, 3D Decoupage sheets, A5 Paper Pads and sweet cute Christmas and general clear stamps.

Nellie’s Choice – Four new dies – three frames and a Christmas Trees set plus super cute little girl and Koetie cow clear stamps.

Coming Soon

Barbara Anne Williams’ beautiful 12 Days of Christmas Collection – Rubber & Digi Stamps, Digi 3D Decoupage, Digi Papers and Digi Pre-coloured clip art.

August Rubber Stamp Giveaway

There’s still time to leave a comment on the blog and be in with a chance of winning three of the new rubber stamps.

Wholesale Enquires

We are now able to confidently offer our rubber stamps to UK retailers at wholesale prices. If you are a UK craft shop retailer and interested to know more about this service please drop us a note through our contact page and we’ll get back to you with the details. Thank You.

That’s all for now my friends, ’til next time – Keep Creating!

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August Rubber Stamp Giveaway

August 2nd, 2010 | 185 Comments »

It’s a busy and buzzing time here on the Isle of Mull with holiday makers enjoying cycle rides along our narrow single track roads, wildlife safari mini buses being driven to secret locations in search of sea eagles, otters and more, bird watchers braving the moors and mountains on their walking adventures and boat trips packed with excited passengers eager to catch a sighting of the dolphins and whales that frequent our 300 mile coastline (that’s an awful lot of miles for such a small island!). At the moment the sun is shining, the seagulls are calling, the lawnmowers are humming and yet the summer holidays will soon be over for the schoolkids here on the island when their new term starts in a fortnight’s time. It won’t be long now before the extra long days and short nights we get here will be no more than memories and we turn up the heating and spend more time indoors keeping cosy and crafting in front of the fire!

This month’s Rubber Stamp Giveaway is three brand new stamps from my Christmas 2010 collection which will be released in a fortnight’s time, it’s the Giggles Gang up the woods getting ready for Christmas and features Charley with Holly (the labrador doggie), Emmy Kissing and Kyle Collecting the Tree.

To be in with a chance of winning this month’s three rubber stamps all you need to do is leave a message here in this blog entry comments section by the end of Tuesday 31st August – Be Lucky!

The three winners will be selected by the computer at Random.org and announced here, so be sure to leave your correct email addy for me to easily contact you if you win (it won’t be published on the blog) and check back next month to see if you’ve won … and enter the next giveaway too! We’re happy to ship worldwide so international Crafters are most welcome to join in the fun.

Charley with Holly, Christmas Bitties and Miss Daisy's Wordy Bits Rubber Stamps. Quilted Holly Digi Papers. Hand Crafted by Clare.

Kyle Collects the Tree, Christmas Bitties and Round Christmas Greetings Rubber Stamps. Quilted Holly Digi Papers. Hand Crafted by Clare.

The 3 For FREE For 3 Monthly Giveaway Winners for July are;

#169 – Belmira Chaves

#155 – Erica

and #35 – Jan

Congratulations Ladies, I’ll be in touch with y’all real soon so keep an eye out for me in your mail box, please.

Have a lovely August, enjoy the last few weeks of the school holidays when the wonderful sounds of children laughing, playing and sometimes sorting out their differences, float on the breeze and Good Luck to all who enter in the monthly Giveaway. ‘Til next time … keep up with us on our Facebook Pages and … Keep Creating!