Thank you to everyone who played along with our sketch challenge last month - winners will be announced later this week, but we wanted to kick of the challenge first to give you all as long as possible to play along so we're kicking it off today.     This month we have a fun technique challenge for you - USE A STAMP, A DIE & A STENCIL.     You can make anything you like as long as you use all 3 of those products with the added twist that they can't be designed to go together - that is you can't count a die that cuts your stamped image as your die for this challenge, same for the stencil.    So for example if you stamp a bird, colour it with a colouring stencil and then cut it with the matching die, you can use it on the card but you would also have to die cut a branch to stand it on and use a stencil for clouds in the sky.  Get it?   We hope that makes it clear.   Our challenges are designed to make you look at yo...

We've got a fun new challenge for you all to play with this month.   If you're new to sketch challenges, the idea is that the sketch is a JUMPING OFF POINT for your inspriation and you don't have to replicate exactly (swap the circle for a star, heart, oval for example).   You can turn it landscape, turn it upside down - whatever floats your boat as long as it looks like the sketch inspired you (no back links to older projects please - the point is to get your crafting!)   Here's Tara's take on the sketch to give you some further inspiration using 4 different backgrounds (1 stamped, 2 patterned paper and one made with die cut scraps, topped with Lawn Fawn Pandas UPDATED 20th February Tara's got a second take on the sketch to share flipping it on its side and using the new Lawn Fawn release - check the main blog for details here.     We can't wait to see how you played with the sketch - whilst we'd love to see products we sell in store, you can use any...

Thanks to everyone who played along in our colour challenge last month - we had some fantastic entrants so it was hard to pick a winner!     We finally settled on the big bold bouquet of flowers created by Lynne - she picked so many of the colours from our scheme and the flowers and butterfly just really popped off the textured embossed background.       Email the store to collect your voucher Lynne.   There will be a new challenge in a couple of minutes so get ready to play along for a chance to win again shortly!      

Hello everyone, I've finally got enough movement back to make a simple card so I can kick off this month's challenge!  This month I've selected a colour theme and have been inspired by fashion so the colours are this season's colours for clothing but they work great for cards too! All you need to do is pick AT LEAST THREE of the colours from the graphic and use them on your card.  Neutrals/metallics are allowed in addition but we need to see the colours in the graphic have been the inspiration for you to play along. For my card I wanted to use the new fairytale book themed products just released by Waffle Flower Crafts so picked the red, teal, grey, green, mustard, brown and purple and came up with the card below.   Hope this has inspired you to play along - whilst we'd love to see products we sell in store, you can use any products to play along as long as you use the colours to inspire you.  You have until 11pm on 31st January to play and can play more than once ...

Happy New Year everyone - apologies that we're late starting the challenge party for 2025 but Tara got a bicep injury betwixtmas so it's been a slower start to the working year than we'd anticipated!  We hope to get a new challenge up over the weekend once she can do a little more with her dominant arm. In the meantime, we wanted to wrap up our winter challenge and announce the winner..... We went for a really simple theme for December as we know it gets crazy busy with Christmas planning for most people, so we just selected "winter" as a really general theme and we had 12 fabulous entrants!  It was a tough decision but in the end we plumped for one card with lots of layers of wintery elements so we can now announce our winner was Claire R with this gorgeous creation!     We're sure you'll agree it was a worth winner - we loved the snowy background, and all the little details like the reindeer wax seal!  Great job Claire.   Please drop an email to the ...

As everyone gets busy in December, we thought we'd make the challenge really easy to participate in - we have a theme this month - WINTER.  Any winter themed card goes - Christmas, snow scenes, winter birthdays - as long as it says "winter" in some way, then it works this month and its a good excuse to boost the Christmas card stash too. Tara's made two different cards to meet the theme this month - indoor and outdoor.  For her outdoor card Tara's given a soft frosty feeling to Concord and 9th's Alpine Village die set .  One die cut of white for the background with some light inking and a few tiny details.  The sentiment  is from Colorado Craft Company's White Christmas set - this could be Christmas, a winter birthday or even a winter anniversary with the walking couple holding hands.  For her second card, Tara took winter indoors with a fireplace dressed for winter.  The Fireside die from the Greetery is the base, decorated with elements from Hung W...