Cuddly Buddly Crafts Blog

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

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!

NOW ON – Sale – 20% OFF All Rubber & Clear Stamps

Hi Everyone,

I’ve got some great news to share with you all today – the lovely Sam Salt from Lilyboo Designs is now selling her cute and whimsical digi stamps at Cuddly Buddly Crafts. Sam has a wonderful casual detailed style which always seems to have a little twinkle about it! With over a hundred digi stamps listed in the shop at only 99p each, there’s sure to be something to make you smile and keep the cardmaking mojo buzzing. Sam hasn’t come empty handed either as this lovely generous young artist has offered us all oodles of FREE digi stamps to play with too – just pop over to the Freebies section and click on the images you like and then right click and save them to your puter.

More new images from Lilyboo Designs are in the pipeline and we’re working real hard behind the scenes to get the wonderful card samples from her talented Design Team added to the products too as we know these are so helpful and inspiring for all to see.

Pirate Booty Digi Stamp. Hand Crafted by Lou.

With all of the new Lilyboo digi stamps being added to the site you might have missed some real little treasures from Bits of Ivory. Barbara has created three new Sentiments digi stamp collections plus four elegant April Blossoms flowers and pots and a deightful Soft Spring Digital Paper Pack. Each Sentiments collection contains a variety of wonderful greetings and sayings for your cards and crafts on one easy to print and colour sheet. The Soft Spring Digital Paper Pack is a collection of twenty four 6″ x 6″ patterned background papers in six different colours.

April Blossoms Daisy & Garden Sentiments Digi Stamps. Digital Paper Pack - Soft Spring. Hand Crafted by Barbara.

Have a lovely weekend, remember you’ve still got time to leave a comment on the blog post below to be in with a chance of winning three rubber stamps in the June 3 For FREE For 3 … and … Keep Creating!