Craftie-Charlie Blog

We have a fantastic offer for you this week!  From Friday 11th May to Thursday 17th May earn double Charlie Points on all your purchases.

This week only, you will earn 200 points for every £1 (or 100p!) of products you buy (excluding  postage & discounts) rather than the normal 100 

So if you spend £10 you’ll earn 2000 points which would give you £2 off your next order, spend £70 and get 14000 points / £14 off your next order and so on!

Small print! Offer runs from Friday 11th May 00:01 BST until Thursday 17th May at 23.59 BST, double points value will be displayed on the website and be added automatically at checkout.

Happy crafting!

Jane

We have a very special giveaway to announce today – you may have seen blog chat about My Prima Place a brand new PRINT publication dedicated to all things ‘Prima’.

This  bi-monthly Art-Zine is created by Prima’s in-house Editor, Sherry Mendoza.  Each issue will showcase a variety of styles and projects including scrapbooking, card making and mixed media. With beautiful photography and written step-by-step tutorials prepared by Prima’s talented international design and education team, My Prima Place will be a great source of inspiration and information. Prima will also be adding projects  from acclaimed guest-artists and designers from all over the world to keep every issue fresh and informative.

Prima have printed just 5000 copies of the first issue and just 200 of them have been allocated for distribution in the UK & Europe – we have 4 copies to giveaway to lucky Prima devotees! We’ll be giving 3 away via the blog (plus 1 on Facebook – pop over tomorrow for another chance to win!), all you need to do have a chance to get your hands on this is:

1.  Leave a comment under this post (you need to be logged in) telling us your favourite Prima line

2.  Post a link to this post on your own blog (if you have one – if not you can still enter of course!)

3. Normally all our competitions are open to everyone but just UK & European customers this time – sorry!

The draw to find the lucky winners will take place at 20:00 BST on Weds 9th May. We’ll announce the winner on the blog and they can then contact us with their mailing details for their prize! Good luck!

Happy crafting

Jane

Looking for something new?  Just some of the gorgeous items added this week…

Ranger Tim Holtz Limited Edition Seasonal Distress Ink Pads – Spring

My Mind’s Eye See Me Sew  Designer Fabric Bag DIY Kits – 9 designs

Bargain 8.5″x11″ Bazzill – bling & basic – loads of colours to choose from

Teresa Collins – Sweet Afternoon

You can see all the lovely new goodies added this week here

Happy crafting!

Jane

Despite the best of intentions Feb & March didn’t happen (so many new products, so little time!) but I was determined to squeeze in April before the end of the month

I’ve used this weeks sketch from Less is More as my starting point – I’ve not had chance to make anything for ages so definitely needed a kick start!

It’s a one layer card – I’ve take a red card and turned it inside out so the white inside is on the outside (if you see what I mean). Then I masked off a square with a post-it note, stamped my snowman and cut out the square around the snowman with a craft knife to leave a window so you can see the red inside. To finish, I’ve gently run the edge of a black pen along all the cut edges, just to give it a little definition.

Supplies used.

Red shimmer card blank, Hero Arts Create You Own Snowman, Memento Tuxedo Dew Drop Ink Pad, Craft Knife, Paula Pascual Clear Stamps – Christmas Messages.

Hope you’ve all had a great Easter Holiday… it’s been a little bit crazy around here with the kids off school but we’ve still managed to squeeze in lots of fun (if not lots of crafting!)

We have a very special offer for you on Craftie-Charlie this weekend: all Sizzix products are £2 off the normal Craftie-Charlie price from now until 23.59 BST on Sunday 15th April

Happy crafting!

Jane

New in today is the Prima Mid Release for March, Fairy Belle, and this line is truly beautiful! The Fairy Belle collection is reminiscent of Shakespeare: this paper collection is Prima’s own “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” filled with fairies and forest elements.

Designed by Jodie Lee Patterson, creator of the equally stunning Nature Garden collection – “My inspiration for the ‘Nature Garden’ and ‘Fairy Belle’ Collections come from my mother’s garden, my love of all things botanical, and my fascination with the fantastical, especially fairies ” – we’re sure you’ll love Fairy Belle too. Take a peek here!

Happy crafting

Jane

Just wanted to let you all know that we are sponsoring this weeks challenge over at Divas By Design – the challenge theme is ‘anything goes’ so why not have a go and you could be the owner of these fab goodies

Also, just a reminder that we are sending out a completely free pack of K&Co Smitten Words & Ornaments rubons (as featured in the prize above!) with every order over £10 until Valentine’s Day (while stocks last!)

Happy crafting

Jane

I love the idea of sewing but never actually seem to have time to make anything (looks over at the box of the sewing machine that she bought at a car boot in June and hasn’t used yet!) so I thought that I’d get my fabric fix with a patchwork style card!

This is very easy to do – I’ve just punched out squares from patterned paper (I’ve used Crate Paper Random but it would be a great use of scraps) and then  cut them in half across the diagonal to make a pile of triangles.  To assemble the pattern I’ve used a piece of Sizzix sticky sheet and arranged my pieces on it to make a patchwork look.

When I started out, I was going to add a sentiment but in the end I decided I liked the white space more!

Supplies used:

Personal Impressions Smooth White card, EK Success Corner Rounder, Nellies Scallop Heart Die, Crate Paper Random Paper Pad, Sizzix Sticky sheet and Ranger Pop-It squares.

Happy crafting

Jane

Hope you all had a good Christmas (doesn’t it seem like a long time ago now?)! One of my crafting resolutions for 2012 is to get ALL my Christmas cards completed in a timely manner To this end, my plan is to come up with a Christmas card design each month and then produce 5 copies so that I have 50 cards by the end of October but I don’t get bored!

The current challenge at Less is More is One Layer – Bird, perfect for a CAS Christmas card, so here’s January…  I’ve masked the ‘o’ on the sentiment and the legs of the little robin but nothing else fancy here

Supplies used:

Hero Arts ‘Holiday Cheer’ sentiment, Kars Robin & Bauble clear stamp, Memento Tuxedo Ink, Copics for colouring

Happy crafting

Jane

A big congratulations to Craftie-Charlie customer Clare Charvill who is featured artist over at the Graphic 45 blog with her amazing mini albums.  You can see Clare’s stunning work here complete with videos but here’s a little taster

Charlotte & I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year – thank you so much for all your support and we look forward to bringing you all lots of lovely new stash in 2012 

Happy crafting

Jane