HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Morning All!!

Just thought I'd let you know that our sale has now started!!

We are open today until 3pm, closed tomorrow but will re-open on Monday 3rd January with normal working hours.

Come along and bag yourself a bargain with ...

20% of most lines

50% of Christmas lines

50% of Sizzix Dies

50% of Wooden mounted stamps

and 70% of selected lines (as marked)

(Exclusions apply)

It's been a pleasure seeing you all over the last year especially when we moved into our new shop and now have more goodies for you to buy LOL

So .....

to you all and see you 2011!!

Lots of Love

xx Lynne xx

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Morning All!!!

Hope you are all prepared for Christmas ... I'm working until 2pm then off home to wrap final pressies, cook ham and generally wait for Santa to arrive!!

Just to let you know we are shutting today at 2pm (see above for the rest of opening times).

When we re-open next Thursday we are starting our sale!!

We will have ...

50% OFF CHRISTMAS GOODIES

50% OFF SIZZIX (exclusions apply)

50% OFF WOODEN STAMPS

20% OFF EVERYTHING ELSE (usual exclusions apply)
SALE ENDS SATURDAY 15TH JANUARY 2011

DUE TO ALL THE BARGAINS YOU WILL GET WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER PRIVILEGE POINTS DURING THE SALE BUT .... WHEN THE SALE ENDS WE WILL HAVE A PERIOD WHERE PRIVILEGE CARD HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE DOUBLE POINTS ..
THIS WILL END ON MONDAY 31ST JANUARY 2011

All that's left to say is ......

SEE YOU IN 2011!!!

Big Hugs

xx Lynne xx

DECEMBER CHALLENGE WINNER!!!!

Afternoon everyone!!

Sorry I'm a bit late in posting the winner of the December challenge but I've had a really busy week and just haven't found the time! But ...... I'm here now and can I say thank you so much for all the lovely entries we received - they were gorgeous - each and every one!!!

We had 8 entries and I put you all in Mr Random and the winner is ......

GILL HOWARD

CONGRATULATIONS GILL!!!!

Here's the winning card :o)

Such a beautiful card :o)

When you are next in the shop Gill don't forget to pick up your mystery prize - a bag full of goodies :o)

Just to let you know that we will be giving the challenges are miss over the Christmas period but will be back in January!!

Thank you all for the lovely entries you have wowed us with this year and look forward to seeing some more of the same next year.

Bye for now

xx Lynne xx

LIGHT UP WICKFORD ... LATE NIGHT OPENING TONIGHT!!!

Morning All .... again LOL

Just thought I'd let you know that tonight is "LIGHT UP WICKFORD" ... the whole of the High Street will be closed to traffic and there will be Christmas Stalls, rides for children and most of the shops will be open late..... WE ARE OPEN LATE!!!! we will close briefly at 5pm (so we can eat dinner LOL) and then we will RE-OPEN AT 6:00pm UNTIL 9:00pm

There will double privilege points, Di and Sally will be demonstrating stamping, embossing and colouring techniques and there will be some samples for you to take away.

Réne will have some beads and jewellery making bits out for our younger crafters who can make a stretch cord bracelet

We will have Mulled Wine - to keep you warm and Seasonal Nibbles - to keep you going and lots of crafting goodies / scrapbooking goodies / art materials / models / kid's crafts and much, much more .. with double points too (exclusions apply as normal)

So we hope you can join us to celebrate the festive season :o)

Hope to see you there

Lots of Love

xx Lynne xx

CHALLENGE ENTRIES

Morning All!!

Just thought I'd pop in and show you some wonderful entries we have had to this month's challenge :o)

'fred

Marion Doyle

Kay

Marion Smith

Veronica

Wendy

Thank you so much ladies your cards are all absolutely gorgeous - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you :o)

Don't forget you still have until Tuesday 14th at 9pm to enter CLICK HERE TO ENTER or you can email me your entry at lindasalmon826@btinternet.com

See you all soon

xx Lynne xx

A SNOW UPDATE

Morning All

Just a little update - sorry it's late but we've had no internet access until now!

Today's class will be going ahead as normal starting at 10.30am finishing approx 1:00pm

Shop is open as normal today and we will be closing around 5:00pm

We would love to see you .... but if you do come out in this weather be very, very careful!!

Be back later with some challenge entries and other general news :o)

xx Lynne xx

Snow Again!!

To let you know that we are postponing this mornings class at the shop due to the fresh fall of overnight snow and the forcast of more to come today. We do not feel that we can ask you to come out in this icy weather unless you really have to. Having spoken to everyone that was due to be on the class this morning - everyone would rather do the class on another day in better travelling conditions.
We will re schedule all the postponed classes and let you know the new dates as soon as we can see the break in the weather!

We will be open at the shop today, so if you are passing - call in, you will be sure of a warm welcome.

Réne & John

Snow update ! Wed 1st Dec 2010

The shop will be open today but will probably close at 3.30 to allow staff to get home safely. This will be subject to weather conditions.
Unfortunately we have had to cancel todays class as some people will not be able to make it and we do not want to ask people to travel on icy roads. We will re book the class and let you know the new date.

DEMO DAY!!!

Morning All

Just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came along on Saturday for the Demo. I had such a good time (so much so I didn't even take a break!!!! - but anyone who knows me - knows I can easily talk for 6 hours non stop!!!!)

I hope you all enjoyed it and got some inspiration for Christmas
Thought I'd upload some of the cards I made on the day for those of you who couldn't make it - there are many more in the shop - so if you pop in feel free to have a browse through the basket of them

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon

xx Lynne xx

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

Evening All!!!

Hope you all had a good day :o)

So here is this month's challenge and this time we are back to following a sketch - any theme - birthday, christmas ... whatever you like as long as you follow the sketch

I don't mind if you rotate it but you need to keep to the basic layout ... also ... as you can see we have an added extra of Circles ... I want to see lots of circles!!!! Punches, die cuts I don't mind :o)

Here is what the DT came up with

Designed by Di Cox

Designed by Janice Rohde

Designed by Laura Barton

Designed by Lynne Salmon

Designed by Michelle Wright

Designed by Sharon Press

So ... all you need to do to enter is to follow the theme and leave a comment below with a link to your blog post not just your blog please, if you don't have a blog feel free to email your entry to me at lindasalmon826@btinternet.com or - if you live locally - pop your entry into the shop - you can enter as many times as you like but no back linking please.

But, most importantly, HAVE FUN!!!

The prize this time is a bag full of suprise goodies for you to play with - everyone loves a surprise right????

So what are you waiting for - get crafting!!!!!

Can't wait to see what you come up with :o)

Lots of Love

xx Lynne xx

OCTOBER CHALLENGE WINNER!!!

Morning all!!

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's challenge :o)

We had a total of 9 entries .... so I put all numbers into Random.Org and shuffled them about a bit and the winner is ..........

NO. 3

KAY CONEY

CONGRATULATIONS KAY!!!!

Here's her card

What a beauty!!!! Absolutely Gorgeous Kay!!!!

When you are in the shop next don't forget to pick up your prize :o)

Check back later when I will be uploading the new challenge and some lovely DT Cards for inspiration.
Until then ...
xx Lynne xx

WE ARE ON T.V.!!!!!

Hello again ... 2nd post of the day .... how exciting is this!!!! We are going to be on T.V.!!!!

On Wednesday (10th November) a BBC camera crew came to our shop to do some filming and we will be on t.v. on Sunday 21st November at midday (I think) The Politics Show.  Here are some pics taken whilst they were filming :o)

So look out for us on that day!!!

AND A FINAL WORD .... DON'T FORGET OUR DEMO TOMORROW - SATURDAY 13TH ... QUICK AND EASY CHRISTMAS CARDS WITH ME... LYNNE

LOTS OF INSPIRATION (hopefully LOL) FOR THOSE LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS CARDS THAT DON'T TAKE THAT LONG TO MAKE :o)

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!

xx Lynne xx

CHALLENGE ENTRIES

Good Morning All!!

Just thought I'd show you some challenge entries we have had from some local ladies who come into our shop regularly

Carol

Eirwen

Lorraine

Marion S

Marion S

Marion S

Marion D

Wendy

I think you will all agree that they are gorgeous!!! Thank you ladies :o)

You still have until 9pm on Sunday to enter this month's challenge CLICK HERE for all the details

Hope to see your creations before then

xx Lynne xx

JUST A LITTLE CATCH UP!!

Hi Everyone!!!

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted anything - busy, busy, busy!!!!

Anyway .... thought I'd give you a quick update on what's going on :o)

Tommorow, Saturday 6th November we have a Parchment demo with our Tutor Cherry Trapmore - she will be here from 2pm - 4pm showing you a variety of things including tools you need, embossing and pricking. Pop along and see this fantastic technique in action and then you have the opportunity to book on one of Cherry's classes either Tuesday afternoons or Friday mornings.

Then ... next Saturday 13th November I will be doing a demo on Quick and Easy Christmas Cards.  I will be here from 10:00 - 4:00pm and I will be using an assortment of stamps, papers, decoupage, embossing folders and die cut toppers to show you just how quick your cards can be but still look like you've spent hours making them!!

It's all free ... so please come along and join us and say hello :o)

Don't forget as well that you still have just over a week to enter our challenge  CLICK HERE for details - entries need to be in by 9pm on Sunday 14th November and I will announce a winner on Monday 15th.

NOW IN STOCK as well is the new promotion of DO CRAFTS - there are some fantastic things this time, the new Woodland, Born to Shop and Oriental ranges, some brilliant mini punches, beautiful flowers and much, much more!!! Pop in to take a look or CLICK HERE

I think that's all for now .... hopefully see you at the Demo tomorrow and again on Saturday 13th November as well :o)

See you all soon

xx Lynne xx

OCTOBER CHALLENGE!!

Good Morning Blogland!!

I'm back with another challenge - so sorry we've been absent for a month but due to both shop commitments and DT personal commitments we had to miss a month but ... we are back !!!

This month it's our Michelle's turn to be Guest Challenger and she has chosen :

A CHRISTMAS THEME with a Recipe

3 SNOWFLAKES (at least)

2 PATTERNED PAPERS

1 RIBBON

This month we are giving away a brilliant prize - a Flippin Women stamp set - and .. you guessed it ... it's the "Crafting" one!! (unfortunately we are only able to post the prize in the UK)

Here is what the DT have come up with

Designed by Janice Rohde

Janice has used papers from DCWV and embossed them with swiss dots Cuttlebug embossing folder

Nestabilities - tags, squares, scallop squares

Designed by Laura Barton

Laura has used a Wild Rose Studio Milton Clear Stamp and coloured with promarkers

Snowflakes are from Anitas by Papermania

Designed by Lynne Salmon

Click Here to visit's Lynne's Blog

Lynne has used Magnolia Stamps - Tilda with christmas gift and Merry Christmas Tag

Papers from Cosmo Cricket paper stack - Cosy Mittens

The snowflakes are from Marianne Creatables

Designed by Michelle Wright

Michelle has used printable Papers and Decoupage from Wild Rose Studio Christmas CD Rom

Nestabilities - Labels One

Designed by Réne Young

Réne has used punch around the page from Martha Stewart - Snowflakes

Background paper from Craft Creations

Mini Clear Stamp - Snowflake Tree - from Kars

Marianne Die Cuts - Eastern Ovals

Snowflakes from Marianne Creatables

Designed by Sharon Press

Click Here to visit Sharon's personal Blog

Sharon has used Craft Creations background papers

Cut n Emboss snowflake from Sizzix

The challenge is open until 9pm on the 14th November so you have a whole month!!

So now you have loads of inspiration I want to see lots of entries this month :o)

All you need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this post leaving us a link to your blog post (not just your blog please) and we will pop over and take a look.  If you don't have a blog, that's not a problem just email me at lindasalmon826@btinternet.com with a picture of your card, or if you live locally to the shop just pop your entry in and I will take a picture of it :o)

There are not many rules but if in doubt please check in the sidebar :o)

All that's left for me to say is HAVE FUN!!!!

Can't wait to see all your lovely creations

Lots of Love

xx Lynne xx