Come and make a card for Marie Curie Cancer Care - Saturday 13th August

If you are free between 10 and 4 why not come along to our upstairs workshop where you can use materials donated by some of our customers and ourselves to make a card, which you can either take away with you for personal use or donate it to raise even more funds for this worthy charity.

We are asking for a donation of £2 per person taking part which will be given to Marie Curie.

There will be refreshments on sale including cakes at very modest prices. Again all profits will be donated to the charity.

Gill and Karen will be on hand to assist and look after you. Stay as long as you want, have fun, make a card or two for charity plus enjoy a cuppa and cake!

We hope to see you soon and thank you for your custom.

New Promarker ultra fine Nibs

Free- while stock lasts. We have some new nib ends for Promarker Pens which will just clip on to the fine end of the pen but give you very fine line drawing and colouring capabilities. Gives Promarkers a new lease of life!

When you come in and buy some Promarkers ask for your FREE NIBS at the till. Don't wait too long though as we only have a limited amount of free ones. They also come with an end cap as well.

These nibs will be stocked soon as a pack of three for £1.99.

Also as you prepare for Christmas we have stock of Paula Pascual  Christmas stamp sets including

Joyful Bubbles - a A6 clear stamp set. Jackie is currently using these on her early Christmas workshops as well as some sentiments sets.

Recently added to our range

Just in ....after waiting for stock to be produced, we have the new Christmas Molly Blooms Stamps, some fantastic new designs to play with and create lovely Christmas cards etc.
Our range of Clarity Stamps has also increased due to demand and these seem to be popular on classes.

A range of Ink Cartridges has also been stocked. They are compatible cartridges with the main printer manufacturers. Due to the shop next door moving away, we decided as so many people were coming in asking for ink cartridges that we ought to stock some. They are made by UK manufacturer Jet Tec and fully guaranteed.

For the model maker, we have some "just released" Airfix kits, including the Valiant aircraft.

Just in time for the school holidays we have more children's craft kits in stock and more to come.

New Workshop List for July to September just published

Friday 17th June - our latest workshop list has been published.
It is available on our website and copies are available at our shop.
You can also follow the link below to download a copy .

This time we have a new tutor joining us as well a couple of "guest" tutors doing all day workshops. By popular demand we have Jenny Mayes from Hobby Art Stamps and Jane Gill from Woodware doing these all day ones.

Our own tutors are keeping up the very high standards of classes and we hope you enjoy looking through the list of different classes.
Included are:
Projects for all occasions as well as some early Christmas ideas
Card making
Scrap booking
Parchment Craft
Drawing & Colouring
Painting
Jewellery
Teddy Bear Making
Die Cutting and Embossing
Stamping and Punching

Booking commences on Saturday, so get in early to secure your place(s)

We hope that you like the topics and designs that our brilliant tutors have come up with.

See you soon,

Réne, John and all the team.

July to September 2011 Workshops

Lynne Gilbert comes to Wickford to demonstrate Grand Calibur, Cuttlebug and Masking/inking techniques

On Saturday 4th June Lynne will be here between 10 - 4.
She will be using the Cuttlebug and Spellbinders Grand Calibur embossing and die cutting machines.
Lynne will also be showing how to use inks with mists, masks and more to create beautiful effects
We will be giving double points to Privilege cardholders on the day.
Buy a Cuttlebug and get the free embossing folder with the machine and choose another one free from us.

Also we have some amazing prices on templates from WS Designs, BCE and Crafters Delight - all at up to 70% off normal price.
We have also reduced our prices on some remains of previous Do Craft promotions to clear them and make way for new stock. These are at 1/2 price while stocks last.
Privilege card holders will also get points even on these heavily reduced prices!

Our day with Jenny Mayes from Hobby Art

We've just had an all day workshop with Jenny Mayes, the designer of Hobby Art stamps.

Jenny came a few months ago to do a demonstration and so many customers asked if she could come and do classes she was happy to come and spend another day with us.

She bought with her 3 new stamp sets that have just been released.

Window Scene-It    Sentiments Scene -It      Big Bear Set

You can purchase them from the link below.

Hobby Art Clear Stamp Sets

There were 12 ladies on both the morning and afternoon sessions and they all enjoyed their finished creations as well as learning some new techniques.

We hope to have Jenny back in the future for some more workshops.

Saturday 7th May Lindsay Mason Visit

Well Saturday was great!
We had a guest visit by Lindsay Mason, who was demonstration products supplied by Personal Impressions, one of our craft product suppliers.
Lindsay enjoyed her overnight stay locally on Friday night and marvelled at the new large HD TV in her hotel room!
On Saturday she was busy with stamping, using some of her own design clear stamp sets and the new Distress Ink Daubers. She created some lovely effects with these especially when used with a mini mister!

A popular design was the rose and the stamps quickly sold out.

Lindsay used some lovely new 12 x 12 double sided papers - all fabulous with glitter on.

Some cards were designed using the Martha Stewart Punches, particularly the Butterfly.

We all had a good time on the day, John even sat in at one point to show how it was done!

Lindsay will be returning later in the year, so we look forward to that date.

Thank you to all who came along on the day.

Getting ready for the weekend!

Wow! what a busy week we have had and the next one will be just as busy!
Why?
We have had new stamps in from Molly Blooms - they are gorgeous and some have sold out already!
    Loads of new painting and stencilling brush sets have arrived. There are brushes for Acrylics, Oils, Watercolours and some lovely speciality brushes, all at competitive prices.
A delivery of Dufex die cut decoupage has come in with some glorious new designs as well as new photo glue and silicone glue. Designs include lovely flowers and colourful butterflies. So many people asked us to stock Dufex again that we just had to.
Had new papers in from My Minds Eye range
Just opened a box today to find new items from Tim Holtz, loads of interesting bits. This also includes the new Distress Ink daubers. I wonder if any will get used on Saturday? Oh yes, this Saturday we are excited as we have another return visit to us by......
                                                LINDSAY MASON.
Lindsay designs her own stamps, is a qualified Ranger Products demonstrator and works closely with Tim Holtz, when he is in the UK. She is often featured in magazines as well as on TV. On saturday she will be demonstrating products from Ranger and Personal Impressions.

Lindsay will be with us between 10 and 4. Just turn up, no need to book.

Next Monday we also have Amanda Sambrook starting her second series of miniature Teddy Bear making classes. Have you seen these? There is a bear on display near the till. A couple of places still available if you are interested to make your own "Sambrook Bear" which takes 3 weeks.
Then on Wednesday we have our first all day class - with special guest crafter - Jenny Mayes from Hobby Art. Jenny did a demonstration for us recently and was so popular that we quickly filled this workshop.
 So plenty going on at the moment.  Check back soon for more information.

Happy crafting
from
In2crafting

Bank Holiday Time is Here

Hi folks

Don't forget it's our demo day tomorrow with Jane Gill making lovely dimensional flowers using Woodware punches. You can see full details on last week's post.

The ever wonderful Clarity stamps have been flying out. And due to this we have more winging their way and should be in any day now. So watch this space.

And most of us have some time off work to look forward to soon. So we are all looking forward to the Easter break and of course the Royal Wedding.

To celebrate we are giving double privilege points on both Bank Holiday Mondays.

Oh.. don't forget too, you still have time to use your Privilege Card Holder coupons sent to you earlier this month. Including a coupon that will give you a £5 gift voucher when you spend over £50 or £10 gift voucher when you spend over £100.

Hope you all enjoy your hard earned breaks and hope to see you tomorrow at the demo.

From John, Iréne and the In2crafting Team.

Hi everyone

Hope you are enjoying this glorious weather we have been having. How bout a bit of crafting in the sun hey!

Not much time for us to enjoy the sun :-( Cos we are busy getting prepared for next week's demo with the very talented Jane Gill :-).

Jane has some great treats for us to see. Her forte is making dimensional paper flowers. Using nesties, punches, stamps, shrink plastic, glitter and much more to make some lovely creations

She'll also be using the new Crafty Edger from Woodware. This system easily enables you to line up border punches from the same range.

Here's an example of what is in store:

Don't forget it's free and there will be double Privilege Points on the day too!

Here's the deets:

Saturday 16th April from 10 am til 4pm - hope to see you if you can make it:

Have a fabulous week and hope to see you soon.

From John, Réne and all the In2crafting Team