Charmed Cards and Crafts the Blog: 2018

Wednesday 1 August 2018

UK Scrappers and Charmed Cards and Crafts - second challenge

Our second challenge, in combination with UK Scrappers, is brought to you by Sue, aka MiniOwner.

We'd like you to browse our blog and scraplift any page we have posted, or if you'd prefer, why not take your inspiration from any cards or other projects that take your fancy.

Don't forget to leave a comment on this blog post, and to upload your completed page to the UK Scrappers' gallery.

Sue chose to scraplift a page which Anita posted on 16 October 2016.

Don't forget to leave a comment on this blog post, and to upload your completed page to the UK Scrappers' gallery.

We will be choosing our favourite entry to win a £10 gift voucher to spend at Charmed Cards and Crafts.

UK Scrappers and Charmed Cards and Crafts - first challenge

Charmed Crafts and Cards has joined with UK Scrappers to bring you this challenge.

Karen, aka scrapdolly, has set a recipe for you for this challenge. You can add any other ingredients you like but your page must include the following

~ Plain background (my go to background as I struggle with patterns)
~ 2 photos approx. 4” x 6”
~ 4 patterned papers
~ A tag
~ Stamping
~ Brads
~ Flowers
~ Visible journalling

Here is an example of a page with the ingredients of this recipe ...

Sunday 15 July 2018

Stamperia

Helloooo,

How are you enjoying the heat? My my it has hotted up out there! We are certainly feeling it here in London, where refreshing breezes are sadly lacking. Hope you get a little more respite than we do here. It's a little too hot to handle.

I wanted to put focus on a brand we started stocking earlier this year: Stamperia. This Italian company produces the most beautiful vintage designs and I am just totally in love with it. We are currently bringing these to you at rather crazy prices, at £9.99 for a 12x12 pad, and £1.75 per sheet of rice paper. Take a look, I bet you will like what you see.

Stamperia is perfect for every type of papercrafting; whether scrapbooking, cardmaking or mixed media the collections lend themselves perfectly.
The Christmas collections from this great company, arriving end of July and August, are just darling. Watch this space... :)

Have a great Sunday xxxx

Saturday 9 June 2018

Anthology Inspiration from Kaisercraft

Hello lovely crafting friends,

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. It's beena bit of a mixed bag here in London today, intermittent sunshine with grey skies hinting at a possibility of rain. Hopefully Sunday will prove brighter.

I wanted to show you one of the latest collections from Kaisercraft: Anthology.

https://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/Kaisercraft-Anthology.html

I really like this release, it's a vintage collection depicting antique florals, with birds, butterflies and other winged creatures, as well as feathers, sentiments, and even an apothecary cabinet - all in deep warm hues. Coordinating with the papers are die-cuts, stickers, stamps and new templates, and we put together other coordinating products you may like to team it up with.

As you can see the collection lends itself perfectly to a plethora of projects. Here are project examples, cards and layouts, from the very talented Kaisercraft design team:

Totally inspiring work there from the Kaisercraft team, all using the new Anthology collection.

Happy Crafting friends :)

Tuesday 15 May 2018

The Charmed Cards & Crafts Kits

Helloooo!! My goodness it has been a long time since we posted on here. Must try better, and indeed I will do my utmost to rectify that :)

I wanted to tell you about our kits. I have been asked for over a decade to produce kits, but it took our Cal to finally get me put something together, when she asked if I would like to supply the kits for her monthly crops. We have had some truly beautiful kits, and always provide inspiration for each one. Some of the kits have of course sold out, but the inspiration remains and there are several fabulous classes created from them. Here are some that used Graphic 45 papers as the main theme, including our latest "Sun Kissed":