Do Crafts Now In Store!

DO CRAFTS ISSUE 25 NOW IN STORE

Yes, it finally arrived late this afternoon! We only have a dozen spare mags so if you would like one, please be quick! If you have a subscription, please could you collect it before the end of February if possible.
This is a fairly small edition this time and we have very limited stocks and it won't last long!!

A few extra products will be in next week but we have lots of Cupcake papers, decoupage, embossing folders and some great mini stamps as well as the standard A5 sheets of stamps.

We also have a beautiful range of floral papers with matching embellishments and some great bird and tree sets of stamps and papers, along with the cute Country Companions range of hedgehogs and mice papers, decoupage and stamps. We have some mini stamp sets of tiny flowers and leaves - great for cards and in sets of 6.

The fabulous free gift on the front of the magazine is a mini embossing folder and a set of cupcake stamps.

See you all soon, Maxine.

Whiff of Joy!

New stamps on their way!!!
Thanks to a couple of very insistent customers (you know who you are) who are constantly feeding our insatiable need for MORE STAMPS, we will now be stocking the Whiff of Joy stamp range. Along with Magnolia (LOADS more came in last weeks ladies, along with the latest magazine), Sugar Nellie, Gorjuss Girls, CC Designs (new designs on their way), as well as lots more UK and European ranges and our traditional Aussie stock - we are a Haven for Stamp Maniacs!
Come and check out the new stuff, I'll post another blog entry when the Whiff of Joy and CC Designs stock arrives!
Thats all for today, Maxine...

News!!

Go to Facebook and follow the link for more information on the new range of Copic Ciao colours coming soon!www.facebook.com/copicmarkeraustralia

Charity Garage Sale - Ever thought you have too much stuff lying around your craft room? Well now is the time to put it to some really good use!!!!
We are raising money to help people affected by the recent flooding in Queensland and Victoria by having a Garage Sale. Here's how you can help (and have a clearout at the same time and get some new stash!!)

From now until 28th January, bag up all of your unwanted stash/products/paper/tools etc into clear bags (we have some if you need them) and bring it into the store. Give us your name and telephone number and tell us how much you are selling your bags for (they can all be priced individually if you have several).
These will all be put up for Sale in our store from 29th January until 5th February.
50% of the proceeds will go to the Flood Relief effort and you get the other 50% back in a gift voucher to spend in the store!!
If you want to simply donate items to the Sale - these are most welcome too.
All people donating items will be entered into a draw for free prizes from us!!!!

Thanks to everyone for their support with this fundraising extravaganza!!

See you all soon - Maxine & Karen.

Happy New Year!

Hello, and a Happy New year to everyone!
We have lots to look forward to in 2011 with lots of lovely new stock on it's way, new opening hours, an online shopping cart on the website (in progress) and five 'From Picture to Page' shows throughout Victoria - busy busy busy!!
In amongst all of this chaos, we are re-organising our class scheduling to include more evening and weekend classes, with lots more scrapbooking and 'off the page' projects as well as new designs for cards and some regular beginner card and layout classes with Rosemary.
We also welcome on board Kristy - a very talented lady (who is the glitter fairy in disguise me thinks!!) and a very clever scrapper.
Classes will resume in earnest in February, although we do have a few classes for January which will be posted on the web early next week including some kids classes to keep your crafty offspring occupied once they get bored with their christmas pressies!
We apologise for the late organisation of January classes as both Karen and myself are slightly indesposed at present - Karen has recently had a knee operation and is still not fully recovered and I have completely wrecked my knee and am having a reconstruction due to a sporting injury! (Note to self - stop messing about on trampolines with eleven year olds!) We are both hobbling around in the shop so please bear with us.
Exciting Stock news!!! We now stock Gorjuss Girls and Sugar Nellie Stamps - direct from the UK. We have a few designs in store and have the next shipment arriving shortly, those along with the Magnolia Designs and the CC Designs make the store a Copic Addicts Haven!!!! Lots of things to colour in. Look out for Rosemary's Copic 102 class in February along with a re-run of the Copic 101 class to learn lots of tips and techniques to get the most from your pens. We also have 36 new colours in the ciao range coming soon.
New albums - we now have a FANTASTIC brand new range of albums from W.A. in the store. We have stitched box style albums for Wedding/Babies etc and some gorgeous tooled leather albums great for Family History or Male Albums along with a few other designs. These are gorgeous - I couldn't help myself and bought loads!
Also in is a brand new range of foiled and glittered papers (12") with an all over design so it is great for cards and invitations as well as for fabulous wedding/dance/prom style layouts too. Come down and check it all out - we re-open on Tuesday 3rd January when our trading hours then return to normal after the christmas break.
See you all soon, Maxine & Karen.

Do Crafts Issue 24 is IN STORE NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone - just a short note to let you all know that we have received the latest do-crafts magazine along with all the gorgeous goodies that come with it!
The free gift this issue is a clear stamp of the cutest Woodland Creatures. These are great for colouring in and the matching paper packs, dies, decoupage, stickers and chipboard were selling straight out of the boxes yesterday, before we even got them on the shelves!

Also in are the latest Foiled Oriental papers, stickers, stamps and embellishments in really modern japanese prints. The mag has some great ideas on how to use this bounty!

We also have a HUGE dumpbin FULL of new designs of wooden stamps with some fantastic designs and phrases on them - a bargain at just $3 each. These would make great stocking fillers or Kris Kringle gifts for your crafty friends.

A couple of these along with a magazine is a fab way to introduce them to the clever world of Do-crafts.
We have an extra 60 magazines this month again over our subscription quantity but be quick - we sell out EVERY time!
See you all soon,
Maxine & Karen.

Forever Friends Christmas

I decided to get a head start on my Christmas cards with the new Forever Friends stamps that arrived this week...who knows maybe I'll actually send them out this year!

This is a really quick card and a great stamp if you're new to colouring with Copics as it has large areas to blend.  The bear itself is super easy to colour and I've used three different browns - E50, E51 & E53 with a little E40 for his nose.

I've used some Kaiser paper that I had left from last year and mounted the present with foam to make it pop out a little and added some clear Copic Spica to make it bling!  I've also coloured some white Kaiser pearls with my Copics to match.

If you'd like to learn more about colouring with Copics book yourself into Rosemary's Copics 101 class, which is being held on the 19 & 27 October in store this month.  You'll find all the details here.

Until next time 

Kirst

 

Tilda's in the house!

Hi everyone
I got a bit excited a couple of weeks ago when Karen told me she had ordered some Magnolia Stamps from Sweden. This gorgeous range of stamps feature Tilda and Edwin and there's so many to choose from! I've been wanting to get some for a while and when they arrived in store I couldn't resist, so now I have a few too many LOL!

As well as the stamps there's also a magazine (which you can grab in store now) with heaps of amazing cards and tutorials.

So here's what I've been up to with my new stamps...

The images are coloured with Copics and in the second card Tilda is sitting on the CC Designs bench stamp. The papers and embellishments can also be found in store.  If you'd like to see more samples we've added some more pics to the gallery on the website, which you view here.

As well as my  new Tilda stamps I may have snapped up some of the new Forever Friends clear Christmas stamps (they were a bargain, how could I resist!) So make sure you check back soon for some Forever Friends creations.

Until next time
Kirsty