May Guest Designer

Please meet Emy Buxton - you can read all about her on her blog HERE

She has been beavering away making some stunning designs for us not only designing LOs for us BUT she has also make them into easy to follow tutorials

So over to Emy - enjoy..............

“Look Learn Laugh Love” layout

You will need:

Patterned papers, including

Jillibean Soup Old World Cabbage Paper - Caraway Seeds

Maya Road Kraft Doilies

Scalloped circle punch or Nestabilitie

Butterfly

Jesse James buttons – Au Jardin Whisper

Maya Road chipboard set – Blossoms 1

Maya Road chipboard alphabet mini set – Caroline

White acrylic paint

Pink ink pad

Lace

Border punch

Sewing machine

· So I’ll start with a confession… this is the second attempt at this page. I made one page with this photo and title and I just didn’t like it. I’m learning that I love texture on pages and my first attempt was too flat.

· I added texture to this page by putting some folds into the lace border before stitching it to the page. I also stitched the circles in a line and folded up the sides to add more dimension. This layering could remain in an album if adhesive foam pads are used behind the circles.

· I painted all my chipboard elements with white acrylic and then inked with a pink ink pad. I also inked the edges of the scalloped circles, kraft doilies and border punch strips. I used buttons as flower centres.

See you soon with more from Emy

So we are back from Ali Pali and just about catching up with ourselves. Thank-you to all those who popped by to say Hi it was lovely to meet you.

We are VERY excited as his weekend not only will be seeing THE wedding but we also have a CREATE AND TAKE in the shop and we are soon to be sharing our May Guest Designer makes - wow you will LOVE them.

Anyway back to the Create and take......

it will cost £1.00 it is THIS Saturday 30th April and Tuesday 3rd May using the latest glassine paper. The project will take around 15-20 minutes to complete, and you will leave with a FABULOUS tag

Please drop us an email if you would ike to do this and let us know which day you would like.

You can also see all our LUSH new goodies - including

Websters Pages Pink Paislee Fancy Pants

Have fun xxx

FABULOUS WEEK END

is what we have ordered for you - Why? well its going to be gorgeous lovely sunshine for your journey to ALEXANDER PALACE. As well as the stunning views across london - bring your cameras we will be there

Come and see us on STAND 24 at the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show at Alexandra Palace this weekend.

We will have a fabulous array of the latest and hottest goodies to tempt you from Bo Bunny, Prima, Tim Holtz, Sizzix, Crate Paper, Cosmo Cricket, Echo Park, Fancy Pants, My Minds Eye, Marianne Design, Kaisercraft, Spellbinders, Martha Stewart, Pink Paislee, and heaps more!!

Prima Reflections

Slim Dies

Echo Park - For the Record

HAVE FUN COME AND JOIN THE REVOLUTION :)

Spring is in the air

Yes we really think at long last Spring has sprung here in the UK. We have warm weather and sunshine - perfect. Not that we are seeing as much of it as we would like as we are receiving so many new products we are kept busy unpacking and uploading for you.

So some hi-lights over the last few days include.......

The gorgeous Bo Bunny Gabrielle - we have craft packs, separate sheets and matching ribbon and of course our perfectly matched card stock

we have Prima Trinkets so many to chose from?

and staying with Prima the delicious A4 pads

Finally a couple of LO's from our recent crops - fancy joining us look HERE

Love how you can use the Nestabilities Lacy Square to add dainty accents

and you can never have enough Pom Pom Trim on a page - did you spot it round the title?

Keep watching our Latest Additions as stock is arriving all the time

Guest Design Team - DONE!!!

We are so excited about this post - because we get to share our news and you get to meet our extremely talented Guest Design Team.

THANK YOU to everyone who submitted - we had an overwhelming response. We had some amazing entries - who knew there was so much talent out there. We talked and viewed and discussed at great length as to who we should pick. You really DID NOT make it easy for us - but what a great job we had looking at all the creations that were sent to us.

So without further ado and in no particular order meet our

SCRAP REVOLUTION GUEST DESIGN TEAM

Emy Buxton

Katherine Sutton

Sandie Dunne

Ruth Magness

Ali Johnson

Christine Emberson

Watch this space for some marvellous creativity from them

We are totally in love with the new Marianne Design Dies and even more of them arrived this week. The Cupcake Die was used for this card below. To get all the detail you need to cut and then emboss with the tan embossing mat

And for the card below, you need the tag and this Flowers and Leaves set

Aren't the cards gorgeous? Wish we could take credit!! They were done by Marianne's own Design Team! Thanks Marianne for sharing the images!

Must go now and get organized for our Birthday crop tomorrow!!

......and we are back. Where have we been we will give you a clue

Yup Tims house :) - no not really we did attend his class though which is as good as! Fancy making the gorgeous canvas Lorraine made well you can watch this space for details of this class where you will be learning some FAB new techniques and try out some amazing new products.

So after being away I am sure you can imagine we have had a busy busy few days unpacking and uploading more beautiful stash

Marianne Design and Nellie Dies

Gorgeous MME Stella and Rose

and the BRILLIANT goodies from Kasiercraft

The Tickets Mini Albums would be fab Mothers day Gifts

Right need to go lots to do.......Fantastic Design team entries to look at - dont forget out call HERE

and a crop to plan for with both LO and a Card kit are you free Sunday? - have a look HERE