Welcome New team members

Crafts U Love would like to welcome Sarah, Vanessa & Jo to the team. They have now been with us a couple of months and they are all doing fantastic jobs here. Sarah is our Marketing & Web Co-Ordinator, Vanessa is the Despatch Co-Ordinator & Jo is a Retail Assistant & demonstrator. Welcome Girls! 

Geoff & Paula 

Sarah - Marketing & Web Co-Ordinator

Vanessa Despatch Co-Ordinator

Jo Retail Assistant & demonstrator

Sketched Blooms Create & Take

Good morning crafting bloggers! Monday morning brings the start of a new week and what better way to start off the week then with a new card design from our create and take on Friday. The design of this card is very versatile and could be used for many different occasions by simply adding a different sentiment.

Products Needed:

Taylored Expressions Sketched Blooms Stamp Set

Square Kraft card and envelope

Woodware Large Tag Punch

La La Land Stitched Scallop Border

Poppy Stamps Fresh Cut Grass

Woodware Mini Heart Punch

Watercolour Pencils

Crystal Stickles

White Hemp Cord

Acrylic Mounting Block

Bazzill White Smoothie Card Stock

Bazzill Parakeet Cardstock

Bazzill Cardinal Cardstock

Bazzill Baby Blue Medium Cardstock

Instructions:

1. First cut out your white cardstock 12.6cm x 12.6cm.

2. Stamp your flowers in versafine on the white cardstock and then use your watercolour pencils to add colours.

3. Die cut the grass border in Parakeet and stick on to the card at the bottom of the stems, trim as necessary.

4. Cut the stitched scallop border in the Cardinal cardstock and stick to the bottom of the grass.

5. Punch your tag in the Baby Blue cardstock and stamp your sentiment.

6. Punch a red heart in the Cardinal cardstock and add to tag.

7. Before sticking white cardstock to card base, attach smallest piece of hemp cord around the red border and attach to the back using double sided tape.

8. Then using the longest piece of hemp cord, tie a bow.

9. Attach the tag using foam dots and glue bow to the tag.

10. Finish off by adding some Stickles to the flowers.

All the products used to make this card can be found at Crafts U Love.

Remember every Friday we host a Create & Take between 10.30am and 1pm. It only costs £3 to take part, which also includes a tea/coffee.

Hope to see you there!

Little B Designer Die Cuts

Happy Friday bloggers! Today we wanted to share with you some new die cuts we are now selling at Crafts U Love by a company called Little B.

These die cuts from Little B are stencils for die cutting and embossing and all come packaged in a bonus magnetic storage binder, perfect to keep them in good condition when you are resisting to use them in all your projects. They can be used with most machines including Bigshot, Cuttlebug, Wizard, QuicKutz Revolution (for dies up to 4") and more.

There are a variety of different designs to choose from including nesting dies, including basic shapes in a range of sizes such as stars, hearts and squares. Little B have included an alphabet and sentiments die sets, perfect for cardmaking and scrapbooking.

There are also some very cute Birthday die sets, Travel dies sets and flower die sets which all add that extra touch to a card or scrapbook page. However, one of our favourite dies has got to be the mini gift box die. Once assembled the box will measure approx 1.75" x 1.75" - so a very small gift box indeed but just think of the possibilities. You could make tiny gifts for friends at Christmas or it would be ideal when giving jewellery as a gift. You also get the die for the bow on top of the box as well and since its a die cut you could use a whole range of different papers to create many different outcomes.

All the die cuts you've seen in this blog post can be bought at Crafts U Love here. We also sell washi tape by Little B as well which includes lots of different designs, from measuring tape to musical notes.

So get creative this weekend with Little B!

Create and Take - Golden Swans

The Create and Take from Friday had a wedding theme about it, perfect for this time of year and follows on well from our previous post, especially with the use of a brand new Cottage Cutz die.

Products Needed:

French Vanilla Cardstock

Woodware Gold Shimmer Card

Cottage Cutz Swans Die Cut

Penny Black Gold Script Vellum

Adhesive Pearls

Woodware Daisy Punch

Scorpal Inches

Tombow Adhesive Stick

Gold Mirri Card

Little B Heart Dies

Instructions:

1. To start, cut french vanilla cardstock 5 x 10 inches.

2. Score at 2.5 inches and 7.5 inches and use the bone folder to create a nice crisp crease. This will then give you a gatefold style card.

3. Cut the vellum 6cm x 12cm and stick down to front of card panels using the Tombow adhesive stick making sure to cover the edges with the glue and hold down until firm.

4. Cut the heart die in gold shimmer card and stick to the left hand side of the card, making sure you only stick glue on the left hand side of the heart.

5. Cut the swans out of gold mirri card and stick to the heart.

6. Punch two daisies from the vellum and stick to the heart.

7. Finish off by placing a pearl in the centre.

Remember all the products used on the Create and Take card can be found at craftsulove.co.uk

Cottage Cutz New Wedding Range

This springtime weather recently has definitely got us all in the mood for the Spring season and another season that will soon be upon us is that of Weddings. The demand for wedding cards and invitations always sky rockets coming into the Spring season as happy couples wish for the best of our English weather on their special day. Cottage Cutz will most certainly get us prepared for any weddings we may be invited to this year with their new range of Wedding die cuts.

This new range takes care of all the words and phrases you might need including 'Mr & Mrs', 'Just Married', 'Bride & Groom', 'Save the Date' and more. Alongside these words and phrases there are many die cuts including a groom's hat and veil, a happy couple, wedding cake, doves, an elegant champagne glass and many more. In association with previous Cottage Cutz dies there is enough here to make some beautiful wedding cards, invitations and scrapbook pages.

Prices range from £3.99 up to £14.99 so not too pricey and a very good investment for future wedding cards and projects. These Cottage Cutz dies can be found on our Crafts U Love website, why not check them out today!

Voting is now Open!

Voting is now open for our Crafty Space competition, so make sure you check out all the entries before you cast your vote and you may also want to check if you've made the final cut and get anyone you know to vote for your crafty space. Remember a £25 Crafts U Love voucher is up for grabs and with all the new products coming in every week, you definitely want to give winning a good shot!

To vote for your favourite Crafty Space, visit our Facebook page and like the Crafty Space photo you want to win. There are two £25 vouchers up for grab so vote for your favourite two.

Happy voting!

'Crafty Space' Competition

Inspired by Caz's Crafty Palace gaining its fifteen minutes of fame in the Daily Mail a few weeks back we have decided to launch our own competition to get you crafters out there to share your crafting space with us at Crafts U Love.

We'd like to see where you craft and we'd then like to share them on our Facebook page for a little competition. It doesn't matter if its a whole room, a table in the dining room, or a kitchen counter, we would love to see them all! We know you crafters are ingenious sorts and we can often work in a postage stamp sized space when we have to, equally if there are 10 tables to spread over we'll do that too!

To enter your crafty space into our competition, simply email your photo to us at customerservices@craftsulove.co.uk with the subject line 'Crafty Spaces'. On Monday 21st April we will create a folder on Facebook where your crafty space can be viewed and 'liked'. The TWO with the most likes on Monday 28th April at 10am will win a £25 voucher from Crafts U Love to spend on-line or in-store.

You've got just under a week left, so get snapping!