Christmas Demo Day Inspiration

Happy Tuesday bloggers! Today we want to share with you some inspiration from our Christmas Demo Event from our three fantastic demonstrators. For anyone who was able to get to the event, we hope you had been inspired by what you saw and that it got you excited for crafting for Christmas.

Caz was demoing the new Hero Arts Ombre Ink Pad Colours (Red & Green) with some of the new Hero Arts woodblock stamps and clear stamp sets. Caz also used some of the new Poppystamps stamps and their matching die sets.

We love this little treat bag made using the Lori Whitlock Sizzix Treat Bag Topper die set.

Charry was demoing the Penny Black stamps and die sets and had some beautiful examples to show you how you can make the most out of using them.

Charry shared her ideas on how you could use the same stamp for Christmas and non-Christmas by simply changing the colour combination and added some beautiful artistic effects using some Archival inks and Distress Ink Pads.

Jo demonstrated the We R Memory Keepers 1-2-3 Punch Board and created some wonderful examples to show you that the board can make so much more than just your average box, envelope or bow. Take a look at some of these inspiring creations...

Create some fabulous bows!

Treat Bags

and boxes

Jo also created some cards with the board as well...

A file folder card (instructions to make this come with the board)

As you can see from the photos there was an abundance of inspiration to get you in the Christmas mood with the added help of our festive Christmas music and mince pies.

All in all it was a fantastic day and we want to thank everyone for coming who watched, shopped and got inspired!

Also to those that bought raffle tickets and helped us raise £63 for St. Catherine's Hospice. The winners have been contacted and they are as follows:-

Winner of  Signed Tim Holtz Configuration Book - Christine Tagg

Winner of Collection of Dies - Tanya

Winner of Basket of Crafting Goodies - Fern

We will be sharing the winners of the Card Competition in our Card Competition post later this week. The winners have already been contacted and we want to thank everyone who sent us their cards and took part. 

If you requested for your card to be returned to you we will be sending them out this week.

If you have any questions about any of the products that were used in the demo event please do not hesitate to contact us. We hope you all had an enjoyable day and look forward to seeing you in the shop again soon.

Create & Take: Birthday Cake

Hi bloggers, Create & Take is back and this week we have a lovely sparkly birthday card using the new Hero Art stamp and die sets and the Leane Creatief glitter tape.

So let's get started.....

Products Used:

White A6 Card Blank

Bazzill Basics White Smoothie Cardstock

Hero Arts Stamp n Cut Birthday Set

Hero Arts Ombre Ink Pad - Purple - please ring the shop

Hero Arts Ombre Ink Pad - Black - please ring the shop

Echo Park Spots & Stripes Paper - Grape

Leane Creatief Silver Glitter Washi Tape

Scor-Buddy

Instructions:

1. Stamp the cake and the cake stand onto white cardstock using the Grey Ombre ink pad and die cut around each of them.

2. Stamp the three layers onto the cake using the Purple ombre ink pad, using each different colour for each layer, going from light to dark.

3. Stamp the candle onto white cardstock twice using grey ombre ink and die cut around each one.

4. Cut a piece of Echo Park cardstock 7cm x 14cm and stick onto the front of the card.

5. Cut a piece of white cardstock 6.5cm x 10.5cm . Stamp the Happy Birthday sentiment to the left of the white cardstock and also stamp some sprinkles.

6. Use the Scor-Buddy across the top and bottom of the white cardstock to create a line of indented dots.

7. Adhere the cake, cake stand and candles together onto the white cardstock and adhere to the card.

8. To finish, add a line of silver washi tape underneath the white cardstock.

We love these new stamp n cut sets from Hero Arts, making cardmaking even quicker as you don't have to fussy cut around each stamped layer. Mix up this card design by using some of the other sets in the series, check them out here.