It's our birthday!! We are TEN!!

Can you believe it! Charmed Cards & Crafts started trading early July 2005. That's a whole decade ago! I have no idea where that time went, but I met some wonderful people along the way. The amazing ladies on the forum and on our design teams in particular ♥ Our customers have been absolutely fantastic, and I have chatted to so many wonderful people throughout the years.   Not to mention all the wonderful stash I have stroked in those 10 years! That has definitely been one of the perks of the job :)

 I wont say it has been plain sailing, the last couple of years in particular have been incredibly tough, BUT we made it to 10! A special thank you to our Louise Brigden for creating the fantastic Charmed digital stamps and keeping us all inspired. Love you always Lou xxx

Thank you to you all! We wouldn't be here now without you. To show you how much you're appreciated we have give-aways and competitions galore until the end of August.

Here is what is happening:

• Free gift with every order (excludes downloads)
• Free Marianne Design Die, worth RRP£7.75 for ever die order above £20
• Daily Give-aways
• Final Give-Away
• EIGHT competitions

Here is our final give-away:

 I hope you will join our celebrations :) 

SKETCH CHALLENGES 2015: JANUARY

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Hope you had a lovely Christmas, and arrived safe and sound into 2015. It does sound rather futuristic, wasn't that the year of "Back to Future"? It doesn't quite look like the world envisioned by the screen writers, but we're definitely getting there! :)

New years resolution here is to get you lot crafting more! So here we go. We are resurrecting our Sketch Challenges, and will bring you a new sketch each and every month. Please please come and join us, we LOVE seeing your creations. 

Although we say "Card Maker of the Month" it applies equally to any project. You can create whatever you like: cards, layouts etc. If the winner has submitted anything but a card, you will become our "Crafter of the Month".

So, you have poetic license to create anything you like, as long as it is based on our sketch. As a little incentive, we offer a £10 voucher for the winner, plus your winning entry will be shown on our Facebook pages, on our blog, on our forum, and here on the main website.  So fame AND fortune LOL

You can submit your project is a variety of ways:

• On our Forum in the special gallery (we will put all entries in there). You can find the challenge thread by clicking this link.
• on our Facebook Page
• on your own blog then link to it via this blog post. Just leave a link in the comments
  
  
  
  
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  GET CRAFTING! 
  We look forward to seeing your wonderful creations :)

Spring Competition

I have totally forgotten to mention our latest competition. You have until 1st April to email though your entries. GET CRAFTING!! :-)))) Deadline extended so you have until 1st May now.