Friday, 23 July 2010

Dreamweaver followers blog candy

Hello everyone!
As promised 
(on the newsletter and on this blog earlier this week), 
we have a  new blog candy 
especially for you Craft Barn followers
To thank you for your support, you can win
the blog candy below
Everything you need to get started with embossing 
over £45 retail value



Our brand new Dreamweaver Stencil and Pastes DVD
One jar of white embossing paste
One palette knife
One roll of magic tape
One Stampendous Glitter
One Cupcakes stencil
One Chrismas tree stencil

.
All you have to do is: 

1/ Sign up as a follower 
(if you are not one already)

2/ Post this on your blog and link to ours




3/ Add the link to your blog in a comment below

The lucky winner will be announced next Tuesday
August 3rd
This blog candy is now closed
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Shaped cards competition: And the winner is.....

hi,
First of all, we would like to thank all those who entered the competition.All entries were amazing which makes it very hard to chose.

So the winner for our Shaped Card competition is
(drum rolls)

Congratulations! 

Christa, please can you get in touch with Sandy 
to give her your address and she will send you your prize ASAP

Here is what you have won
(retail value: just under £40)


One Distress ink pad


The Crafts too Daisy embossing folder

Star dust Stickles


One lilac Paper Pen



A little box to alter

Mo Manning Ruby stamp


Lulu Bessie Stamp

Belles and Whistles' Sisters stamp
Hope you like your prize
:o)


Thanks again to you all for playing with us. 

Watch out for our new Followers only blog candy coming up soon!

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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Belles 'n Whistles samples

hi,
We were very lucky to have the talented Kay Carley at the Extravaganza working with Belles 'n Whistles stamps and she has sent me **a lot** of samples to show you. I won't post them all at once, but here are a few today.
Looking forward to reading your comments on those.
Take care
Isa



 To make this card, Kay used:


  To make this card, Kay used:
Cream ribbon coloured with Copics


  To make this card, Kay used:

  To make this card, Kay used:


  To make this card, Kay used:
 
 To make this card, Kay used:
Cream ribbon coloured with Copic markers
Tiny daisy punch
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Thursday, 15 July 2010

July competition: more samples

Hello, 
As promised I show you more samples our talented DT made for the July competition. You can find this competition HERE and remember that it closes TONIGHT at midnight, so you still have a few hours to enter.
I will make this post short as I need to run back to the site to add mooooore products in the sale that starts tomorrow. 
Yes, you read well, TOMORROW is the SUPER SUMMER SALE at the Craft Barn, and trust me, you don't want to miss this one!
Hope you have a wonderful day (crafting?)
Take care, 
Isa 


To make this card, Chris used: 

To make this card, Kay used:

 To make this card, Michelle used: 



To make this card, Ria used: 


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Wednesday, 14 July 2010

EXTRAVAGANZA NEWS - THE TRILOGY!

Hi Folks

Here is is my final post about the Extravaganza.  Sadly there are a couple of demonstrators that we didn't manage to catch photos of, and although it was our intention to take a few extra pictures Ian couldn't get our camera to work because the lens had jammed so my deepest apologies to anyone who is not featured

This was Beatrice from Katzelkraft in the pub with Michelle from Stix 2.  Michelle did some amazing things with pirntable canvases from Stix 2 .


Beatrice had lots of new Katzelkraft stamps and they were very popular. This was one of Beatrice's samples and we are really lucky to have an amazing display board in the shop with loads of Beatrice's samples on to give you lots of ideas of how you can use all of her lovely stamps

This was Beatrice's table so you can see how busy she had been.

Next up I promised a picture of Ian, he looks quite relaxed here but a bit disheveled because he had just set up all three halls,

Next up is Jane Collman.  Jane was working with My Paper World Paper Soft paints which come with their stamps and stencils and their unique "pens" to enable you to create your own dimensional embellishments.  She did a masterclass lass week which was full so we are repeating it in August and it's a great class if you want to have a play with the paints to see what they are all about.  There is a board in the shop which has lots of lovely samples and a colour chart made by Isabelle and Jane with all of the actual paints to show you exactly what the colours look like


Next we had Carol Cockbain's sister Cheryl.  This time she was working with Dreamweaver Stencils and  shrink plastic, Spica At You glitter pens and tiny beads  



Here is another view of the shop, you can just about see the 5 tills we had in the middle of the main shop.  We have got some new pictures of the shop which we will post at some point for all of you who still haven't been able to get to see us yet. 


Next up our very own Isabelle. You can just see Lexie just coming in through the door.  Lexie did a stirling job managing the staff down at the halls who were manning the coffee shop and looking after the tutors.


Isabelle was working with the PaperSoft paints, Inka gold and Crafty Secrets stamps, here are some of the gorgeous samples that she had and there are lots more things in the shop to inspire you. The little cups made from the Crafty Secrets stamps are truly scrummy



Last but not least is Chris Dark who was using Copic pens and the Green Bean Babies from Stamping Bella.  she made some wonderful samples and she has a class in August to help you to recreate two of her lovely shaped easel cards


I will be postsng picurtes of  Leandras amazing samples shortly now that I have repaired the camera!
That's it for now, see you soon

Sandy


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Thursday, 1 July 2010

Shaped card competition

Hello everyone,
Are you up for a new competition with a lovely prize to win? 
We are offering a surprise £30 goody bag to one winner. 
This competition will run until July 15th midnight. 

The theme this time is 
SHAPED CARDS
You will have to make a card with an UNUSUAL shape. 
You can use a ready made shaped card or make one yourself. 
But remember: no simple rectangle, square nor circle card.
You can enter several cards if you want to ;)

Just post your card on your blog with a link to our blog so that others can play
and post at the end of this post
The winner will be announced on Wednesday July 21st. 
If you don't have a blog, email me your card (jpeg file) and I will enter it in our competition.
Good luck!

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Bonjour tout le monde
Etes-vous prêtes pour un nouveau concours?
Nous avons un cadeau surprise de £30 à offrir.
Vous avez jusqu'au 15 juillet minuit (UK) pour participer

Cette fois, le thème est 
CARTES EN FORME
Il va falloir faire une carte d'une forme originale
Pas de simple rectangle, carré ou rond.
Vous pouvez participer plusieurs fois si vous le voulez

Postez votre carte sur votre blog en ajoutant un lien vers le notre pour que d'autres puissent jouer
et venez poster votre lien en bas de cet article
La gagnante sera annoncée le mercredi 21 juillet
Si vous n'avez pas de blog, envoyez moi une photo de votre carte par email
et je la compterai pour le concours.
Bonne chance!
*****

Here's a few samples for you made by our talented Design Team
We will post more very soon

To make this card, Michelle used:
Elusive images stamps: Funky Doodle retro
Distress inks
Card was cut with the Craft Robo



To make this card, Poupette used: 
A4 white 300gm coated card
Katzelkraft Rubber Stamps
Martha Stewart large punch: Lace heart
Martha Stewart edger punch: Looped Hearts
Nestabilities - Classic Oval, small
Nestabilities - classic Scalloped Oval, small


To make this card, Kay Carley used: 
Belles 'n' Whistles Beary Big Hugs
Wording and dotty flourish from Aspects of Design No.58 Fancy Flourishes un-mounted stamp sheet
Marianne Designs Creatables Frame - Straight
Copics


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