Sunday, 26 July 2015

Celebrate BABIES!

Please join us for our celebrations as detailed in yesterdays post. 

This post details two of our competitons: Celebrating a Baby Boy, and Celebrating a Baby Girl.  In each case please design a project featuring the theme (card, layout etc). You can enter all of our competitions and give-aways, but one entry per competition only. The pictures below depict the prizes. Click here for our main birthday page for all information...


Please link here for those if you want to submit your entry via your blog, or email through your entry to us at customerservices (at) CharmedCardsandCrafts.co.uk. If you are linking please tell your blog followers about our celebrations :)


Celebrate Love and Romance

Continuing with the competitions, here are two more: Celebrating Romance, Celebrating Getting Wed. 

Again please design a project featuring the theme (card, layout etc). You can enter all of our competitions and give-aways, but one entry per competition only. The pictures below depict the prizes.
Click here for our main birthday page for all information...






Please link here for those if you want to submit your entry via your blog, or email through your entry to us at customerservices (at) CharmedCardsandCrafts.co.uk. If you are linking please tell your blog followers about our celebrations :)

Celebrate Summer, and Tell us Why!

Our next competition celebrates summer. So simply design something that depicts summer in some way. This is what you can win:

You can enter all of our competitions and give-aways, but one entry per competition only. Click here for our main birthday page for all information...

Please link here for the Celebrate Summer competition if you want to submit your entry via your blog, or email through your entry to us at customerservices (at) CharmedCardsandCrafts.co.uk. If you are linking please tell your blog followers about our celebrations :)

The next two competitions are sooo easy. No need to make anything.

Simply tell us WHY...
 



 and why should give you one of these kits?:



To enter please leave a comment below or email us.



Celebrate Charmed Cards & Crafts

Well it is our birthday after all, and that wouldn't be complete without a birthday card or two :) Please design a card for us, and you could win this fabulous prize worth more than £160:




You can enter all of our competitions and give-aways, but one entry per competition only. Click here for our main birthday page for all information...

Please link here for those if you want to submit your entry via your blog, or email through your entry to us at customerservices (at) CharmedCardsandCrafts.co.uk. If you are linking please tell your blog followers about our celebrations :)

Saturday, 25 July 2015

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

http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/birthday_page_2015


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 :) 

Friday, 3 April 2015

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!  Hope you are having a lovely time. If you have alittle spare time then why not join our annual Easter Hunt, it's great fun. 

http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/easter_hunt.htm



Here is a very easy Easter card using Graphic 45's Sweet Sentiment range of papes, and a gorgeous die "Bunny Trio". It's a large card made by folding a piece of A4 card:



The cute little trio of bunnies at the front is cut from a Joy Craft die called "Bunny Trio". 

The background paper, main image and easter sentiment are all from the Sweet Sentiment papers. I mounted the sentiment on foam tape. 

Gorgeous metal corners and pearls are from the Santoro Mirabelle 2 range.



Happy Easter

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

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 websiteSo 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 your own blog then link to it via this blog post. Just leave a link in the comments


    Here is our January sketch:




    and here is an example card:









    GET CRAFTING! 
    We look forward to seeing your wonderful creations :)