Win a Spend...

Just popped on to tell you about our latest competition. Please join us and be in with a chance to win a £30 spend in the shop. Click the picture to find out more.

I cannot believe that it is two months since I lasted posted on the blog! No excuse, but with the website, Facebook and the blog it becomes a little overwhelming at times. Nevertheless lots of things have happened, and new goodies are finding their way into the Charmed store on a regular basis. Here are the latest products to arrive:

Check out those Spellbinders and the new Fancy Pants collections - all totally fab! There's LOADS more new stuff, so why not pop over and check it all out :-)

The next two Basic Grey collections are available to pre-order, and due soon:

EASTER EGG HUNT

There's an Easter Hunt abrewing. I'll pop the link on as soon as it's all ready. Oh and stand by for a little yummy candy over the weekend.

Thanks for visiting the Charmed corner of the web ♥

Sketches - and new products

Using sketches is a great way to stretch yourself, and perhaps create something outside your comfort zone. On the Charmed Craft Talk forum we have a monthy sketch challenge, we would love for you to join us so please pop by :-)

This was a card I made for one of the recent sketches. I used white lace, Fancy Pants paper and chipboard, Prima flowers and K&Co grand adhesions. The border was cut with a Martha Stewart border punch. I think the Thank you rub-on was Basic Grey:

That gorgeous rose cluster is K&Co from the Cut 'n Paste range.

I decorated the inside with Fancy Pants paper and another Cut 'n Paste Grand Adhesion:

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NEW PRODUCTS


I always forget to post about new products at Charmed. Here are some new goodies. We have lots of CHA 2011 releases coming soon (including Bo Bunny, Basic Grey, Spellbinders, Tim Holtz and lots more Prima) so stand by for those:

Prima pads - now in A4 as well as 6x6:





Lots of new cute stamps from artists such as Sarah Kay, Penny Johnson, Laurence Design, Mo Manning and more:


Card Candi. New to Charmed Cards & Crafts we love these fab embellishments - available in 23 different packs:




Thanks for popping by. Have a great weekend ♥

Never give up!

I hope you have been enjoying our daily card front give-aways. Remember they are only free-for-all for 24 hours so if you want them you have to go get them.

Now then; we have all heard stories about Royal Mail taking an absolute age to deliver something. At Charmed Cards & Crafts we have a collection service which means that Royal Mail pick up from us each day. We get sacks to put the parcels in and on a couple of occasions through the years we have found the odd stray letter in them. You can see how a letter could go amiss as it nestles into the creases at the bottom of a white sack. Parcels going astray is a different matter, they are not so easily overlooked. I sent a card in a 7" x 7" box to a friend on the 30th December - First Class post - and it arrived LAST WEEK! It was not damaged in the slightest, and there was nothing on the box to say where it had been all that time - but perhaps it had been nestling in a corner in one of their darker stiff bags. I can just image them throwing the empty bags onto a great big pile and then only returning to them when more sacks are needed. Only when they pack the bags into another will they discover that they weren't quite empty. I think that scenario accounts for quite a lot of smaller lost mail. So the moral of this story is "NEVER GIVE UP" :-)

Here is the card that took over a month to get from London to Scarborough.

This is such a cute image. I've used it on a couple of occasions now. I coloured it in with Copic makers then added a little glitz here and there with Stickles.

Products used:
Scallops were cut with a Grand Nestabilites die - Basic Grey alpha's - K&Co heart crystals - Bo Bunny white rose trim - Pearls - Lace. Basic Grey paper -Mo Manning digi stamp - Prima centre - Dress-it-Up Party button - Lace and ribbon.




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Second Free Download

The second free download is now available - but only for 24 hours so get it quick :)

CLICK HERE TO GET IT

Free Valentine Topper Downloads

Every day until Valentines Day we are giving away a FREE Valentines Card download. Use it as it is or re-size for tags etc. They are only available to grab without purchase for 24 hours so make sure you visit every day and get them all. Many are suitable for other occasions too, not just Valentine.

POP OVER AND GET THE FIRST ONE

Enjoy! I hope you all like them and they make life a little easier :-)

Random Followers Candy

Quick shuffle through the followers of the Crafty Goings On blog, it's time for a little thank you for following. We are giving away one of our Delectable stamps and the winner is...

........... HEIDY

Please email your address through to us within the next seven days. If I haven't heard from you by then I will draw another follower.

Bye for now :-)

New Magnolia - You're so Special Collection....

Woohoo, we have the first collection of 2011 from Magnolia landing on our doorstep on Friday. The "You're so Special" collection comprises a myriad of characters, sentiments and accessories. Click the picture below to see all the available designs.

They are available for pre-order right now for immediate delivery when they arrive:


Thanks for popping by ♥

MORE FREEBIES!!

Yep, we just keep on giving ha ha ha. Well it is Christmas after all. If you need a quick card then here are seven templates/card fronts for you. Just PRINT-CUT-STICK! Couldn't be easier! Just click the picture below to go straight there.

***The Great Christmas Give-Away ***

You must know by now that we love to give away goodies at Charmed Cards & Crafts. We like to reward lyality and what better way than some free goodies! Every year we have our Great Christmas Give-Away and this years is starting NOW! Check this out (click on images to find out more):

Available Worldwide

PLUS

How about that then boys and girls? Sound good? :-)

Moving Moving Moving...

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat! Are ya ready for the big day? You may think you have plenty of time but you don't want it to come up behind you and grabbed you unawares now do ya? It'll be here in only two weeks! Still time to make some cards so if you haven't got your supplies pop over the Charmed Cards & Crafts and get shopping ;-)

Some of our neighbours very sadly left London for Hartlepool last week, I wish them a happy life there but they will be missed.

I decorated the inside too but can't show you that as I wrote in it before taking the pictures ha ha.

I used Prima Fairy Flora papers inside and out. The branch border on the front is punched with a Martha Stewart Woodland Branch edger. I used my Grand Nestabilites for the scalloped circles. Now the smaller sizes from the large pack can be used in the normal Wizard machine, so you can use them without the need for a Grand Calibur. I love these larger shapes.

The corner has been turned down and secured with a Basic Grey glazed brad. That's a Tim Holtz Ticket (if you don't buy anything else get these!) and I used some pearls to finish. I coloured the cute Mo Manning image with Copic Marker pens.

Again I have sewn a border inside and out. I'm really getting the most of my John Lewis sewing machine, what a find!

There's a new challenge on our digi blog so please join in, there's a prize again so don't miss out.

Thanks for popping by ♥