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Let the games begin...

Wow, what an amazing opening ceremony for the games, I LOVED it, especially the cauldron, awesome!!

Just a quick post to let you know that I have added more to our New Stuff section on our website, HERE

There's MORE new Craftwork Cards Card Candi, and more general accessories at what I believe to be very good prices!

This looks SO pretty!

Convert those Ikea mirrors into clocks!

 There's loads of twine on here, (in fact there's 50 metres)  great for Christmas projects!

White flowers to colour yourself with inks, pens etc...

 Leather cords, 2 variations available

  

Mobile phone cords and other embellishments for jewellery making projects

Plus, all the new Stampendous products are on with updated (larger) pictures showing fabulous inspiration from the Stampendous design team HERE

Also, a reminder about entering Asia's Blog Candy that ends on 31st July, so hurry,!!!  The prize is still a mystery, I really must make up my mind what it will be but can say it will be from the new Stampendous supplement :)

If you are in Hull this weekend, we hope to see you at the Bonus Arena on Sunday (see show dates above for details)

It looks like to weather is finally being kind to us in the north.  Enjoy your weekend whatever you are doing!

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

Celebrations!!!

Our next theme is Anything Goes - Celebrations!!

The projects can be for any celebration, a special birthday, anniversary, or a congratulatory card (maybe for all those Olympic medals that will be won in the next fortnight!)

As usual, the top prize winner will have £10 to spend on our website, www.thestampman.co.uk

I have used one of the newly released Stampendous stamps along with an assortment of their Shabby enamels to make a baby's first Christmas easel card.

Stampendous - First Christmas - Cling Rubber Stamp - CRR154

Stampendous Shabby embossing enamels

Woodware - JL711 - Chippies - Hearts & Flourishes

Woodware - JL724 - Chippies - Baubles

Woodware - JL725 - Chippies - Bracket Frames

Woodware Blending Chalks (2887)

So, are we all excited about the opening ceremony tonight and the Olympics themselves?  I'm certainly looking forward to watching the opening ceremony and there are certain events that I like to watch too, the swimming, gymnastics, athletics, and a few others.

There are so many bad things going on for people in our world these days that we really should be celebrating events like this and others we have had in the UK this year and be proud that we still have great events like this in our history to look back on.

So, let the celebrations continue!!!

We had an amazing 164 entries for our last challenge, we hope you will join us for our next challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

Jill x

July 2012 - Stampendous - new designs and inspiration

I've picked a couple of stamp designs from the new Stampendous July 2012 - Every Day's A Holiday Supplement to feature today.  These beautiful cards have been made by the Stampendous design team

The first is Stampendous - Poinsettia - Jumbo Cling Rubber Stamp - CRS5041

This card has a completely different look by stamping the image onto patterned paper

As this is a jumbo stamp it will fill the front of a 5" or 6" card and will also be great for Christmas themed scrapbooking.  

The design is not to fiddly to cut out so will be ideal for layering/decoupage.

The accompanying border stamp will be useful for so many projects, not just for Christmas!!

The second stamp set I'm featuring today is Stampendous - Snowy Postcard - Cling Rubber Stamp - CRR143

Here's some more gorgeous inspiration from the Stampendous design team for this stamp!

There really are far too many tempting designs in the new supplement!  

I'll be adding more card ideas on our website by the Stampendous design team to help with inspiration.

There are many more new designs and enamel, fragments, glass glitter etc.  They are all on our website if you dare to take a look!  

Stampendous July 2012 - Every Day's A Holiday Supplement

Thanks for visiting.

Jill x

New Stampendous products - now available! Sneak peeks are OVER!!!!!

SOOO excited, but sooo little time!!

I've got to get off to finish packing and set up for the Leeds show tomorrow today, so don't have much time for details now but just wanted to let you know that I've been working on adding the new July supplement from Stampendous onto our website, it's HERE if you want to see what I have got there so far, I still need to finish it, but thought I'd give you a quick heads up :)

Will be back soon...

Jill x

New Stampendous products - Preview

I'm getting so excited about the next Stampendous supplement of products, here's some sneak peeks from them direct from the trade show in America.

I cannot wait to start using the new gorgeous colours shown above!!

They also have new stamps of course...

I LOVE this owl card by Wendy Price, and look at all that mica!!!!

There's also some cute Kiddos

A jumbo Amaryllis

And, I LOVE this poinsettia card by Jennifer Dove Bonner too, I am just going to HAVE to have this stamp!!!

The wording gives this snowman plenty of attitude!

And then there's the Fall/Autumn/Halloween themes.  The first being a background stamp that has been used to make this owl

I am imagining all sorts of looks for this skeleton with the enamels etc!

Cute Halloween Kiddos 

Plus these sparkly tinsels!

I would imagine there are more sneak peeks to come, but I think these are enough for me to cope with for the time being!!!

Don't forget, if you enter Asia's blog candy that we are sponsoring, you have a chance of winning some of this new loveliness!!

We will have more new stuff to tell you about very soon!!!!

I'll finish with a reminder for local crafters about our next show, this Sunday, July 22nd at


Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, LS17 8GS (10am-3pm)
More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk


It is a lovely venue, a sports hall with plenty of light, free parking, a prize draw every hour plus refreshments available


Thanks for visiting

Jill x