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NEW Fairy Fun Family Stamps, Papers & 3D Downloads plus lots more!

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Hi Everyone,

Oh Wow, seems there’s been a touch of magic at work around here lately! I’ve teamed up with the amazingly talented children’s book illustrator Kim Sponaugle (yes, that’s two Kims now) and we’re delighted that the first members of our cuter than cute Fairy Fun Family are now ready to say ‘hello’ to you. We’ve got … Baby Fairy, Book and Cake Fairy, Grandma Fairy, Shoe Fairy and the sporty Tennis Fairy. Each fairy is available as a rubber stamp, a 3D Decoupage Card download and we’ve added eight sets of downloadable papers too. But this is just the start! More Fairy Fun Family members and other charming characters are managing to escape from Kim’s sketchbooks so keep an eye out for them too over the coming weeks and months!

Following the huge popularity of Susi’s super easy Alphabooks and Numbercards Printables and Cuttables, the printables range has been extended and a new rich ’Berries’ colour has been added. These sets are ideal for masculine cards toning in beautifully with the Country Gents and Local Lads downloads and are equally suitable for ladies cards too.

New in the shop are this month’s Creative Cardmaking and Making Cards magazines. These monthly magazines are each packed with ideas and inspiration for your cardmaking … and there’s some nifty free papers included too!

New too are the Mulberry Paper flowers by Petaloo – we’ve got lots of packs in a rainbow of tempting colours and styles that we think you might quite like too!

Also new in are the new Tim Holtz metal adornments – book corners, leaves, tiny attacher (a poshe name for a mini, mini, stapler), safety pins, etc.

All in all, lots of new goodies and lots more to watch out for. Have a great day, keep well, and …

Keep Creating!

Hugs n Smiles
Kim

New Printable Alphabooks & Numbercards, Creative Cardmaking Magazine & Friends’ Cards in Gallery

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Hoorah! The waiting is over and we’re thrilled to let you know that Susi’s Alphabooks and Numbercards are now available in Pink and Blue Printable formats for all of us who don’t own digital cutting machines. There’s plenty of space on the ‘pages’ for you to add embellishments, journaling and some sparkle, so in no time at all you can create your own little masterpiece.  Who wouldn’t be thrilled to receive such  a fantastic card on their special day!

Also new in and brand new to the scene is the Creative Cardmaking magazine published by Practical Publishing. With a cover price of only £3.99 for 84 pages and 16 additional pull out printed papers and die cuts this inspiring new magazine is already proving to be an popular choice with cardmakers.

Talking of inspiration, our Fabulously Crafty Friends, Alison, Edna, Gail and Sonia have come up trumps again and we’re so very, very pleased to be adding more wonderful card ideas by them into our Gallery #1. Do please check out their cards, these ladies really do create little works of heart.

Well, that’s about it for now, keep well, keep warm and Keep Creating!

Hugs n Smiles,
Kim & Friends

Alphabook & Numbercards for Cricut PLUS Erica Pels Stamps

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Susi’s been keeping busy with her highly popular Alphabooks and Numbercards and has now completed the two sets in SVG file format for Cricut® cutting machines that also use the ‘Sure Cuts A Lot’ independent software from Craft Edge. She’s currently working on the first of the Printables versions so that those of us who don’t have digital cutters can also join in the card-book fun real soon.

Four more brand new adorable clear stamp sets by Erica Pels are now available – On the Farm 2, In the Garden, In the Bath and Picnic. This brings the total stamp sets to eight with a further four due to be released in a few months time.

We’ve been popping lots of goodies onto our virtual shelves over the past few days and are pleased to now be stocking three new Prima Flowers ranges, Beatrix Potter, Flower Fairies & Winnie the Pooh stamps, Marvy Marker pens, an assortment of QuicKutz dies, some superb little 6×6″ K and Company paper pads at a great value for money price and we’ve even added some wooden nesting eggs for you to decorate! I think that’s the lot for now but do keep popping back in as we’ll be adding other new bits to extend our current ranges regularly over the coming days.

Keep Creating,

Hugs n Smiles,
Kim

NEW Numbercards Cuttable & Gail’s Feb ATC Challenge

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Numbercards is the companion set to the Alphabook Cuttable and contains everything you need to make unique birthday number cards for any age; numbers from 0-9 plus ‘nd’, ‘rd’,'st’, ‘th’, ‘happy’, ‘today’. Each number or word has a base card and mat. Also included are the words ‘birthday’ and ‘wishes’ each with its own mat.

As in the Alphabooks set the standard size of a page is 252 x 145mm so they will work well together without needing to resize. Included in the set is a pdf file with illustrated instructions on how the ’6 today ‘ product shot card was made – I have also included the original gsd design file which shows how the numbers and layers are lined up.

To make the ’6 today’ card I used papers and elements from the Rainy Day Bears, Sunny Day Bears and Preppy Papers Designables. The centre of the number 6 is backed with acetate to form a window with microbead ‘waves’ and a cheeky Ted from the Sunny Days set is peeping out from behind the number.

Tip: To neaten the back of the base card, flip the matting layer and cut in printed paper!

So no challenge is too great – from a 007 card for your Mr. Bond to great grandma’s 100th you can do it all!!!

Have fun creating!

Susi

Gail’s ATC Challenge on the forum.

I thought it would be a nice idea for the previous challenge winner to pick this month’s theme, so without further ado, here is what Alison has chosen;

February theme is to be Animals.

So the main image is to be a Cuddly Buddly animal stamp or downloadable image. Alison would also like a touch of glitter please, remember, you don’t have to swap your atc’s to enter the challenge … but it would be nice.

The Prize – Two Cuddly Buddly Stamps and a 6×6 patterned paper pad are up for grabs for a randomly selected winner.

Good Luck!

Gail