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!

Good morning Crafters, Just to let you know there is free P&P on everything at Create & Craft all this weekend.

Just picked up the latest issue of Hunkydory Magazine (issue 30) which comes from C&C with two free paper kits worth £15. With free p&p it would have been rude not to!

Good evening to all the scrimpy crafters out there.

Create & Craft have the the super cute Do Crafts Forever Friends paper pack at a lovely 56% off list price at just £12:99.

It includes 12 cards, 48 A4 die cut sheets, borders, 60 gems, and a stamp set. There is no excuse to make some of those cards that were all the rage in the 80's. With a beautiful gold and teal colour scheme with a splash of red, this kit is super value for money.

createandcraft.tv

Those crafty bargains just keep on coming! This set of dies are not in a sale as they are new out, but I'm a great fan of these Marianne design sets as they are so adaptable allowing you to build so many different characters. These little bears are also so cute too. There are 19 dies in the set in signature pink, so you won't lose them!

Available from https://buddlycrafts.com

Good Morning everyone, hope you are all well and enjoying crafting.
Colemans have a big summer sale on offering up to 50% off a huge range of craft supplies, and the Mr Mister range caught my crafty eye.

There is 25% off this range which as the name suggests is brilliant for all your male cards.

Visit  https://www.colemans-online.co.uk

Good evening to all my scrimpy crafters out there! I've found another super deal for your stash.
Fast becoming my favourite website, Every Crafts A Pound have a great range of paper punches from Tonic Studios. They usually retail between £4:99 to £10:99,  but you can pick them up for that magic price of just a pound.

Afternoon everyone, for the start of July it sure is breezy and damp! Good job I'm tucked up in the warm scouring the web for bargains. If your in the market for some matting and layering dies then I've found a fantastic bundle for you.

Visit Craft Stash at : https://www.craftstash.co.uk/creative-dies-big-bundle.html

This bundle from Craftstash gives you a total of 30 dies for just £23:99 in six different shapes.

Doorplate - largest die 6.5" x 4" - smallest die 2.25" x 1.25"

Scalloped Oval - largest die 6" x 4.25" - smallest die 1.75" x 1.25"

Ornate Frame - largest die 4.25" x 4.25" - smallest die 1.25" x 1.25"

Scalloped Circles - largest die 4.5" x 4.5" - smallest die 2" x 2"

Scalloped Squares - largest die 4.25" x 4.25" - smallest die 1.25" x 1.25"

Spiro Circle - largest die 4.5" x 4.5" - smallest die 1" x 1"

Hello Everyone, hope you are well.The nights are drawing in and Christmas will be here sooner than you think! So get your creative juices starting to flow here are some images that will be great for cards and scrapbooking. So break out those mince pies, put the sprouts on a low heat and start crafting!

Hello Everyone, hope you are all well and your crafty mojo is in fine form. Trawling the oceans of the internet I hauled up a cheerful little site by the name of Sunrise Crafts. I popped into their very tempting bargain corner and the dies below piqued my interest.

 As you can see there are some pretty big discounts on offer, and there is free postage and packaging on orders over £10.

Sunrise Crafts is a huge site and sells large ranges of paper, dies, stamps, embellishments, pens etc.
You name it they sell it and at very good prices .

Well worth a look.

http://www.sunrisecrafts.co.uk/