News ‘n’ Views, Tips ‘n’ Tricks & Candy Coated Challenges from Cuddly Buddly Crafts

The new Cuttlebug Borders and Singles embossing folders, along with the new Punch and Emboss Combo sets are now in stock.

We’ve added a few new goodies here at Cuddly Buddly to help you ‘Keep Creating!’

New Rubber Stamps - Six teenage girl characters and a set of four ‘Comic Greetings’ speech bubbles .

New Printables - Two elephant printables, ‘Ellie Fant’s Birthday Calendar’ and Ellie’s Party Time.

New Cuttables - Susi’s gathered together her most widely used boxes and made them available in two Cuttables for Craft Robo users.

New Inkjet Computer Papers - Eggshell and Linen Textured Cards, Canvas Cloth, Clear Sticky Film to make your own stickers and a real Luxury Art Paper … check out the super samples made by Elaine for ideas on how to use these high quality specialist papers.

New Prima Flowers - Fun ‘n’ funky and outright pretty Prima flowers and leaves in tubes, wee jars and packets.

New Heat Embossable Crafter’s Acetate packs and finally more Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Re-inkers.

A new step-by-step project by Edna has been added - Crafting with Metallic Foils. Edna shows us how to create a waterfall card and adapted picture frame for Father’s Day.

Through to the month end of May we’ve arranged a 33% discount off all of our Dovecraft Products whilst stocks last.

Ten new summer stamps featuring Kim’s cute kiddie stamps have been released. Charley and Robbie are dressed for the beach or garden playtime. Kyle and new girl Meggie don their chef’s hats and are ready to cook up a few yummies and Robbie and Emmy don their party clothes.

Four additional ‘Create-a-Scene’ stamp sets are also available - Garden Fence, Sunny Day Bits, Party Time and Window Dressing.

This classic and elegant step-by-step project by Edna for a First Communion Greeting Card and lined envelope is a sure winner. Consider adapting this beautiful and timeless card for other special occasions too - wedding invitations, baby announcements and sympathy cards.

Elephant Walk is a fun collection of ellies in the air, walking the walk, sitting and blowing love hearts. It’s available in two sets - a brightly coloured collection and also a black and white line image collection for those of you like to colour the images … try colouring the ellies in earthy tones for a wonderful masculine look!

We’ve added seven new stamps - Master Kyle and Miss Charley are dressed in their Sunday Best all ready for a First Communion or Wedding Service … or colour them with bright colours to dress them as a Birthday clown and flower power maiden! The village church stamp, tree, Celtic cross, hearts topper and corner plus the round texts all work together to help you create your own backgrounds and add your finishing accents.

A new collection of downloadable papers has also been added - the Kids Paper Pack offers a cheerful collection of across the occasions papers from Church occasions to Birthday and general cards in shades of soft pinks and blues.

Get Ready for Easter with our cheery Easter downloads and projects. We’ve added the cutest little Easter Bunny 3D Decoupage Collection plus a coordinating Easter Bunny Printable with cheery primrose baskets, a window box with a 3D decoupage top plus extras.

We’ve got a fun Exploding Box Project by Dawn which makes a trendy hidey hole for those oh so yummy creme eggs! And, Edna’s brought us a a classic Easter gatefold card with a coordinating bookmark. Happy Easter … He is Risen Indeed, Hallelujah!

We’ve added oodles of new goodies to the site!

A brand new collection of cute kids rubber stamps plus three downloadable Peppy Papers collections for card makers in cheery bright colours. Three fabby new Cuttables by Susi have been added 1-5 Birthday Numbers, Tiny Toppers and Card Overlays especially for card makers but handy for scrapbookers too! PLUS an adorable Ribbontail Mice Birthday Cheesecake Boxes printable - perfect for parties.

In the craft shop we’re now stocking a nice assortment of Prima Flowers for you to choose from … some of which we’ve broken down into smaller packs so you have the option of buying more ‘colours’ for your pennies! We’ve a few more Prima Flowers to still add and will have them available to you as soon as possible. We’re also expecting the new Cuttlebug Embossing Folders to arrive any day now and look forward to adding them to the site.

And finally and most certainly not least … we are absolutely thrilled to let you know that we have a new team member who has joined us - Edna Taylor. Edna is a highly talented and experienced crafter who will be bringing us some new step-by-step projects.

Keep Creating!

Hugs ‘n’ Smiles, Kim