New Stuff!

I have been busy updating our website for a while with lots of new products and generally making changes, have you visited us recently?

www.thestampman.co.uk

The New Stuff! section has been updated with pages and pages of new products.  You will also find these new products in their product categories and/or brand sections.

All the new stamps from Woodware and Stampendous are shown in their stamp ranges as there were so many new designs to add and the New Stuff! section is crammed enough as it is!!!

When you first hit the New Stuff! page you will find Clear Scraps, I'll explain about these in case you haven't come across them yet. They are clear thin acrylic shapes that are intended as one-off embellishments that are easy to cut, punch, stamp, ink, paint and even emboss.  Once the backing is removed they are clear so can be laid over photos for scrapbook projects or the frames can be decorated before adding your photos.

There are also a lot of mascil stencils/masks as well as new Dreamweaver stencils (including new cutting dies that match 3 of their stencils).

New Card Candi and other stuff from Craftwork Cards, tools, new blingy embellishments, glitters, glitter glues etc.

There are many new things to alter, including canvas on a roll that isn't self adhesive so is ideal for anyone who sews.  We used this at the Woodware retailer training days to make a hanging with Stampendous.  You can use so many inks and techniques on it.  It stamps really well and is a nice thickness to work on.

It really is worth a look at all the new alterable products, too many to mention here and believe it or not I am trying not to waffle on too much about everything, just give you an idea about what's new.

 

There are also lots of Washi/masking tapes, plain coloured ones too that you can stamp with permanent inks.

 

Also, there is a new acrylic block that is long and thin that fits Francoises' long stamps, it is a great price too.

Right that's it, no more waffle, go and have a LOOK for yourself :)

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

PS:  Also, I have finally finished adding all the images for Dreamweaver Stencils, (over 450 of them!!) plus I've generally moved things about a bit

What a week!!!

We had a fabulous time at The Great British Craft Show over the weekend, and thank everyone who visited our stand to watch Francoise and myself demonstrate our stuff.  Francoise was a huge hit with everyone that stopped by and they obviously loved her new designs as we sold out far too quickly (sorry about that, my fault for not taking enough to the show, tut, tut, tut at myself), it is really hard to judge in advance how much stock to take of stamps and accessories, sorry that I got it wrong for any of you but you can always order them from our website. There's plenty in stock and available!!!!

Thank you to all that had faith in my demos and bought the Stampendous products too, I know you will have great fun using them, I loved hearing your feedback and the ideas for projects you had in mind for using more of them.

We know that you LOVED our bargains at the show, they were very good weren't they?  Thank you for your purchases that allowed us to go home with all those empty crates :)  I think we all got a good deal on that!!

It was my birthday on Friday (setting up day), and I thoroughly enjoyed my day, (I got lovely cards and pressies :) ). Over the weekend I got to meet people who I chat to online but have never met which was so lovely, and it was great to meet up with old friends at the show too, Carol and Alan who are our very special cuddly groupies had also travelled down for the show, we were both so pleased to meet up with you both again, it's always lovely to see and chat to you both :)

In the last few minutes of the show Adam came round and took some photos of the show at our end of the hall, I was having a bit of a tidy up but Ian had decided to dig into a packet of crisps before we packed it all up.  On spying Adam with a camera, Ian was unsuccessfully heading away...

Well, I thought things were busy towards the end of last week as we prepared for the show and at the show itself but this week, on our return, it has been SO manic...

We managed to catch up on most of the website orders on Monday and got them in the post.  Our Hamish was picked up from the kennels, washing done and dried, van unloaded etc, etc...

Since then, our world has gone mad again, busy busy busy, like you wouldn't believe!!!!

Back to it all again today, will post about it as soon as...

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

Francoise's appearance on Create and Craft TV

Just a quick scheduled post as I wanted to let you know that the stamp sheets Francoise had on her show yesterday are not available for us to sell as they are but we will have the stamps as single images at the  Great British Craft Festival this weekend.

I would tell you which ones but unfortunately I've lost my list!  Well, not really lost, I've likely packed it.

You will find some of them on the following links on our website

Holly Tree HERE
Towering Parcels HERE
Holly Sleigh HERE
Christmas Stocking HERE

Francoise will be bringing her sample cards to the Stoneleigh Park show so you will be able to see them and the stamps there.  We will also have Souffle pens and some of the other items with us at the show too.

Have a great weekend!!

Bye for now

Jill x

The Great British Craft Festival - Stoneleigh Park - This weekend!!!

Well, we are all packed up ready to set off early tomorrow for the show set up.

As we've been packing it all I've been getting more and more excited about the show.  I am really pleased with all the wonderful new stamps and accessories we have with us from Woodware Craft Collection, Stampendous and the cuties from House Mouse that Stampendous are now manufacturing.

Some of you may have seen Fran Seiford, owner from Stampendous on the live Create and Craft TV show from Las Vegas recently.  Initially, some of the designs were exclusive to Create and Craft and we are so pleased that they are now on general release and we will have those exclusives with us as well as many others from the new range.  We will add these extra House Mouse designs to our website on our return from the show.

If you are able to attend the show you will find a montage of some of the new designs from Stampendous and House Mouse on boards to help with inspiration.  There are many card ideas that have been made by the Stampendous design team that you will find on our website when viewing most of the new stamps.  You will find them all on our website HERE

I love this stamp, Stampendous - Chin Up - House Mouse Cling Rubber - HMCP03

As I mentioned before, Francoise Read will be demonstrating her new stamps on our stand H4, she will also be holding make and takes that you will need to book when you arrive at the show.

I will be demonstrating with Stampendous products, we have the 3 new colour sets as well, so things will be very sparkly!!

I'll post again tomorrow to briefly tell you about something else we have with us at the show.

If you are coming to the show, please do come and say hello.

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

Reminder - Francoise Read on Create and Craft TV - 1pm TODAY!!

I'm really looking forward to watching Francoise on her first show on Create and Craft TV today.

I hope to nip back from our unit for lunchtime to watch.  We are packing for the show at Stoneleigh Park at our unit today, so it's a busy, busy day!!

Francoise will not be showing this stamp on the TV show but we will have it at the show at the weekend along with many others from the new catalogue plus some designs from previous Woodware catalogues from Francoise and Jane Gill.  We have lots of sample cards for inspiration too.

Well, better get on!

Jill x

A couple more cards from the new Woodware Craft Collection catalogue

A quick post this morning with a couple of cards I have made with another of Francoise's new stamps - Woodware Tall Vase Clear Magic Singles FRS303.  There are wording stamps included with this stamp too.  The stamp design fits well on a DL sized card.

I used the With Love wording on the card above and shaped it to fit the shape of the vase before stamping onto the card.

I then coloured the image with pencils and inks, (the inks match the background panel made using a stencil). I placed double sided sticky sheet over the entire main panel and covered it in glitter.  I added dimension with glossy accents to various areas, including the vase.  I sprinkled Stampendous Champagne glitter glass into the glossy accents on the vase to add a different texture element.

I finished it off with a wrap of green and white Woodware twine.

It does look better in real life, the glitter and dimension do not show in the photo.

I paper pieced this card adding another of the wording stamps as a panel at the side.

All the products used can be found on our website HERE

Thanks for visiting today

Jill x