Crop Cancelled Due to Snow

We have decided to cancel the crop tomorrow :( There is still a lot of snow here and with temperatures due to go down in the night I think it is best to make the decision now. We have people who come from all different areas and I don't want people to get stuck in the name of scrapping! If you were due to come if you could confirm that you have got the message that would be great so I can make sure everyone knows. I'll be sending out an e-mail shortly.

Basic Grey Page of the Month 2013

Well the fourth year of the Basic Grey Page of the Month programme is drawing to a close. The last two kits are being shipped as I type along with the free gift an exclusive Basic Grey bag! The last kit of the year is also made up of completely exclusive Basic Grey papers which are available only to those who get the kits.

So what is it? Well it’s a great year long programme that will get you scrapping throughout 2013. The programme will begin mid-March 2013 and run through until February 2014. There is a kit each month (you get two at a time) which contains a selection from one of the latest paper ranges from Basic Grey plus a selection of full packs of embellishments, alphabet stickers, element stickers and colour instructions to complete a double page scrapbook layout with plenty of left overs for the bonus projects and to add to your stash.

Sign up for the year and you receive an extra FREE kit at the end of the year, 13 kits for the price of 12!

If you would like to join us in 2013 you just need to pay a £15 deposit to secure your place. Then every two months you will receive two kits together costing the same as last year just £18.99 each plus £2.99 P&P so £40.97 every two months or pay for the whole year in advance and save £1 per kit. The £15 deposit will be deducted from your last kit or carried on to the following year if you decide to carry on in 2014. This is a yearlong kit programme so if you were unable to complete the year unfortunately your deposit wouldn’t be refunded.

Sign-up is open until the end of January but if you would like to join us please let me know as soon as possible as we have to book the kits in 12’s and if you are the 13^th to reply we may not be able to accommodate you.

If you would like more information please just let me know and below are the images of the last two kits from year 4!

Snowman Card

I am so excited as I have published my first video to Youtube! I have several other videos nearly completed so I'll try to put up at least one a month from now on. Please do subscribe to my channel if you can so you get notification of when they are up. I've put codes for all the products used so you can visit Cre8tive and just put the code in the search box and if it is in stock it will come up for you.

Anyway onto my project and video. This project has been made for UKScrappers so welcome if you are joining us from there. Please do leave us a comment or follow the Cre8tive blog for more inspiration. I've put details of a special offer at the end of the post so read on to the end!

This is the card and it is really easy and relatively quick to make. It would be great for mass producing and I've kept it flat and small so it is cheap to post too. I don't need to say much else as hopefully the video will say it all. Please do let me know if you have any questions.

So the special offer is 10% off everything in the Cre8tive shop for the month of December. The only exclusion is Herma refills which are already discounted so can't go any cheaper! Just enter the code SNOWMAN at the checkout. You'll find us at www.cre8tiveonline.co.uk

November Cre8tive Crop Class

Unfortunately despite remembering my camera I left the memory card for it in the pc at home so I don't have pictures of everyone else's class pages from the crop. I hopefully will get pictures at the next crop. Anyway here is my page... lots of embossing and lots of kraft card! This page would look great made with lots of different colours or with patterned papers in place of the embossed panels. Apologies for the gory photo!!

 

Cre8tive Kit 4

The latest Cre8tive kit is now available online here.

As always Sue has made some lovely pages from the kit and I have made some too. I hope you like them and they give you some inspiration. Please do ask if you have any questions about the pages or the kits.

Sue loves stitching on her pages (all three pages from this kit have stitching) but I especially like her glittery spiders web

This is my favourite page of Sue's. I love the simplicity with the white background and the black and white photo but the photo with Sophia looking down towards the flourish works really well too. Oh and what a clever way to use one of the Barn Door die cuts as an oversized photo corner!

And here is Sue's third page with an absolutely stunning sunset photo. Can you see the glitter on the patterned paper behind the photo - lovely!

For my first page I was really pleased to find these photos with the colours that matched the papers so well. The flourishes above and below the photos in purple are stamped and the white detail is added with a pen.

This page shows a GeoCache we found on a day out near us, well hidden in a tree. The plastic hand is lifesize so not very big! I wanted to add some journalling to explain about the difficulty we had finding it so I wrote around the edge. See the photo below for a close up.

And finally I used the circle on the photo to help me design this page. Some of the circles are punched from the patterned papers and others are made from the Barn Door die cuts. Some are stuck directly to the page and others are on 3D foam to give the page some dimension. The title is from a story tape that my kids loved when they were younger. Again I did some stamping and added white pen (see below) but I also carried on the faux stitching theme around the title and the circles to tie it all together.

September 2012 Cre8tive Crop Class

We had a lovely day at the crop on Saturday. Everything seemed to go remarkably smoothly, so much so that I spent a lot of the afternoon chatting which doesn't usually happen! It was great to catch up with everyone.

As always I have take photos of the class pages so you can see the same page with different photos and different twists as people make it their own. So first up here is my page and the starting point for the ladies.

 Next is Debs page. She chose to ink around her strips which really made them stand out.

Lesley made this page with a photo of her two granddaughters, the black and white is great as it goes with anything.

 Maureen had a landscape photo so she changed her page around a bit. She also added red Liquid Pearls rather than the white I used

Pat usually sneaks off before I manage to photo her pages but not this time!

I just love this photo of Penny, so great... can you guess what job her dad did?

Sheila hasn't done scrapping for a while so this was her first page for a few years. I hope she was pleased.

Su chose this photo of her daughter because the sneak peek I sent through had the stripes on it. She added some ribbon to make the page her own. Notice also how she drew around the title to make it stand out more.

I have just one class kit left so if you would like it get in touch.

£51 worth of stamps for just £14.99!!

I have just got into the shop these stamps sets which are amazing value. 10 packs of clear stamps for just £14.99. Each pack normally costs £5.10 so you are saving an amazing £36.01!! They also have some idea cards to give you some inspiration. You can find them on our site here.