My Hunkydory Goodie box arrived today, with lots of goodies to get my crafty mojo in gear for 2017.
Inside was one of their famous little books - this one was butterflies and contains 144 C6 toppers. There were also 6 card sets, 2 sets of Christmas laser cuts with a magazine. underneath that was another full card kit, and a die cut paper pad of colour in mandalas. Great editions to my craft stash at a bargain price.

I've also picked up this tattered lace mini shutter set from amazon. It makes dinky cute little shutter cards from an A5 sheet. It comes with all the mats and layers for all the sections plus some swirls and embellishments.

Eagerly awaiting my Secret Santa box from Hunkydory. £50 worth of goodies for the bargain price of £13:50. Can't wait for it to get here and unpack it. Also got some new dies on the way will share when they get here. Happy Xmas To all of you.

Latest free gift from Create & Craft for club members is one of Hunkydorys little books. 144 A6 toppers for every occasion in 24 different designs. Usually £9:99 club members just pay postage of £2:99.

Create & Craft have a fantastic Black Friday Deal running until Thursday. A stunning contemporary kit from Kanban. This kit comes with 144 toppers in white and kraft card in in A5, A6, and 6x6  sizes, 144 inserts, 144 cards , two sheets of sentiments and 96 A5  patterned card stock for just £32.84 - Hurry as its 60% sold as I'm writing this.

Christmas Craft Fairs

The Christmas season is well and truly gearing up. I'm off to my first pop up shop on Saturday and then have four more booked through October and November. I've been making cards like a wild thing all month and have almost 400 for sale. Hope its better than last year as a lot of the sales I went to were very poorly attended. I'll let you know how I get on.

Morning all, the latest free gift for Create & Craft members has just landed.

Just pay the postage of £2.99 and the Hunkydory Little book of Smudge and Mitten is yours. These usually sell for £9:99 so a real bargain to be had here. 24 different designs, six of each.
These little books are great for quick cards, but also really good for decopauge as you get six copies of each design.
Go to createandcraft.tv and if you're not already a member join up. It costs £20 per year, but you get £10 credited to your account, plus 10% off for the whole year, plus magazines and special offers like these. Look at my post down below of how you can get FREE membership for a year.

Good evening Crafters, Here are the latest in an occasional set of free images. Enjoy!

Free Membership to Create & Craft Club

 Just drop me a mail at  -  stephen454smith@btinternet.com  head your email - refer a friend.

I'll then send you an email with the link to the site to claim your extra £10 credit when you join.
Create & Craft are running a refer a friend program for their members club. It costs £20 to join, and you get a £10 credit on your account. With the refer a friend off you'll get another £10 credited to your account, making your first year absolutely FREE. When you join you will receive your free £10 credit

Membership gets you 10% of everything, plus four magazines per year, special promotions where you just pay postage, plus special deals with 20%, 30%, 40% or sometimes even 50% off.

Good evening Crafters, As September draws in then a Crafters mind only goes towards one destination. Yes, Christmas will soon be here, card making is in full swing, and a new kit from Create & Craft will certainly speed up your production run. The Create & Craft Pyramage and Invertage kit, contains 40 7x7 pyramge cards, envelopes and 5 layer toppers, and also 40 7x7 invertage cards, envelopes and toppers. Plus the 'wastage' from the invertage can be used to create 40 more pyramage toppers. As a free bonus you also get 45 metres of assorted Christmas ribbon too. All you need are some foam pads to create some traditional invertage and some more contemporary pyramage.

Available for £59:98 or £53:98 if you're a club member, and also three flexi payments of £20 plus postage.

Baby Blue - Special Offer.

If you're in the market for a die cutting machine, or find lugging your large machine out of the cupboard just to cut a few dies a chore, then Create & Craft have a half price deal on the Baby Blue.

At just £24:99 (or just £22:49 if you are a club member) down from £49:99 this the lowest price it's been offered at, and brings it down to the price point of the even smaller budget machines on the market.

Craft Clearance are living up their reputation for bargains, see the picture below for the top ten sellers of their wonderful goodies. They have also got 50% off Couture Creations dies, and loads of embossing folders from just £2:50,

Every Crafts A Pound, have had a revamp of their website. (I had to check I was at the right site, as it looks so different!).  If you are into gilding, or the steampunk metallic style then their offer on these metallic flakes are just the thing to add some luxury to your paper crafting.

http://www.everycraftsapound.co.uk/new-stock-13-c.asp

Bored with making the same old square shaped cards? Why not pop over to Buddly Crafts and get one of their card templates. Available in several designs for only £4:25 each.

https://buddlycrafts.com/shop/new/

Buddly Crafts have a great new Winter package from Marrianne Crafts for just £7:99.

Consisting of an A5 paper pack, two A4 topper sheets, two stamp sets, a corner die and a pack of embellishments. Bought separately they would cost over £15 so pop over to Buddly Crafts and pick up a bargain to get your Christmas makes off to a good start.

Evening all, Well aren't team GB  doing great at the Olympics. To celebrate here are some sporting images for your scrapbook pages.

Good morning Crafters. Sorry the blogs been quiet but I've been on holiday, recharging my craft batteries! Amongst the bills and junk mail on the mat there was this lovely Xmas bundle from those nice people at Buddly Crafts.

Inside is a 32 page A5 paper pack, 21 80mm square toppers in 7 designs, a Xmas die and 4 accent stamps. Bought separately they would cost almost £15, the bundle price is just £7:49. Grab yourself a bargain!

The new issue of Crafters Inspiration is out at the end of July. Issue 11 has an Autumnal feel. As well as the excellent magazine with 70 projects, you'll receive a leaf and vine embossing folder, three leaf dies with a matching stamp set, plus the usual double DVD. Disc one has 100 minutes of 12 messy projects from Sheena Douglass, while the second gives you sample images from the Autumn Morning, Indulgence, Halloween Fright Night, Opulence, Autumn Days, Timeless, and Luxury Christmas collections, plus loads of Digital Stamps from Sheena.

I usually pick my copy up from Ebay, as It's usually available on day of issue with no postage - in fact I've pre - ordered mine so I get it even sooner!

Picked up some great bargains as a member of the Create & Craft club.As a club member, every few weeks you get an offer of a product just for the price of P&P of £2:99. So far in July I've received a Hunkydory Seaside Card Kit, 36 A5 foiled cards, and a Tonic Christmas die and stamp set, saving £29:97 off their normal price. Not bad for a Scrimpy Crafter!

The Sunday Rant!

What is it about people at bootsales. I was up at an early one today at 6am, hordes of people there and looked to be a great day at first. I had 400 cards to sell, all handmade and priced at £1 each, 6 for £5, 9 for £7 and 14 for £10. So best price was just 73p a card. People were coming up and picking up bundles of 10 and offering me £2. How do they expect me to make a card for 20p, I was offering discounts off the bat but giving them away for that price was ridiculous.
To be fair there were some good buyers there too, who recognised the value in them and I came away with just over £120 in three hours which all in all is pretty good. Certainly much better than the recent craft fairs I've been to where attendance was extremely poor.
Has anyone out there got any ideas and tactics to maximise your sales at these events. Please comment below.

It's the weekend again, so time for another set of free images for you. A little more sophisticated with roses and elegant frames, but there's nothing wrong with sophistication some times! Enjoy.

Good evening Crafters. My die collection is starting to overflow its current little box, so I've invested in a die storage case from Art Bin.

Its a robust plastic case that comes with three magnetic boards which are a little over A5 size. The case can hold up to 21 of these boards, which as far as I can see is this cases downfall. I picked this up from Hobbycraft for £7 and thought I'd buy a couple of packs of extra boards while I was there. They were out of stock, so I've searched the net for some and the best price is £6 for 3 boards. It would be just as cheap to buy another box, take the boards out and use the box for storage of something else.

Good Morning All, Well what a sporting weekend, first Lewis Hamilton storms the British GP, then Andy Murray wins Wimbledon.
If you're one of the many Hunkydory fans out there, you may have heard of their new box pop sets, on the farm and safari. On their website they are £14:99 each. Ever on the search for bargains I headed over to Katies Kabin where you can pick up both sets for the much more agreeable £17:99.

http://www.katieskabin.co.uk

Good morning to all you crafters out there. I'm in a quandry today, Andy Murray at Wimbledon, or Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix. Choices, choices, its just the same at Printable Heaven, the new website I blogged about yesterday. The site is so huge you can spend hours flicking through all the crafty stash on the virtual shelves. I've been looking at their DVDs which seem really good value at £9:99, until I stumbled on this deal.

You get a pack of fifty 7 x 5 cards and envelopes and a FREE DVD worth £9:99 for £8:99, it's an absolute steal of a deal. There are 10 different DVDs available, so if you like the look of the DVDs then why not pick up a free pack of cards and put a pound back in your pocket!
If you like your cards a little smaller you can buy a pack of 50 A6 cards with a DVD for just £6:99, and at that price it would be rude not to pop them into your basket.

Just found an awesome new site for all you Scrimpy Crafters. Printable Heaven are a site that has pretty much everything for the digital crafter. Want a huge range of DVDs - check. Prefer to download them as individual packs - check. Want some free downloads to check out the quality - check again. There's even a pound store for crafting essentials, a huge list of step by step projects for inspiration, card kits, Debbie Moore Cds, dies, embossing folders, the list goes on and on. I've been trawling through the site for two hours and I'm still discovering new things,
Head over to
                       http://www.printableheaven.com
                                                                              to find out more.

Good morning Crafters,
                                       Just thought I'd remind you all that the latest issue of Crafters Companion magazine (Issue 10) has been out a little while and seems to be selling out fast. Of all of the plethora of craft magazines out there, Crafters Companion is the one I keep coming back to.

This new summer edition as well as the magazine, contains a DVD with paper kits from Verity Rose, Together Forever, Just for Men, Sugar & Spice and A Taste of India, plus a sneak peek at soon to be released English Country Garden.
Also on the DVD are loads of Sheena's Digi Stamps.
There's also a second DVD with 12 instructional step by step videos.
You also get 8 hexagon dies, an embossing folder, and a stamp set as well!
All in all you get over £50 of value.
Widely available on the web for £9:99, I picked it up on Ebay for £8:99 P&P included - Bargain!

The Weekend is looming again, so that must mean it's time for some more free downloads, so here are 10 bright and breezy papers for your stash. Enjoy!