Basic Grey Pre-orders

The latest two collections by Basic Grey are available to pre-order. We also have the latest Bo Bunny collections available to pre-order.

Speaking of Basic Grey:


SweetThread and Lauderdale arrived early last week as did this lot:







Loving it all :-)

Candy Winner

I hope you have had a lovely weekend. Personally I feel as though I've been on a long holiday with all these long Bank Holidays! A girl could get used to not working!

Thank you for entering the Easter Candy. The winner was chosen at random.org:



No 43 is lalkygirl (sorry, can't find your name on your blog). Congratulations to you, please email your address details through to us so we can get your stamps sent out.

Another candy will be on the blog soon :-)

Easter Candy

Happy Easter :-) As promised here is a little candy for you. You will get a set of Kaisercraft Circle Clear stamps; these are in varying sizes, from 1" in diameter,, to 2.5". You will also get a Magnolia stamp. Just link to the candy on your blog, and enter the link to your blog in Mr Linky below.

A winner will be chosen at random.org in a week.

Good luck :-)


THIS CANDY IS NOW CLOSED. WINNER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE

FREE Easter & Spring Cards & Tags Downloads

Happy Easter to you all. I have been busy making you some FREE cards and tags you can use over Easter, there are also some more generic designs to use anytime. These are downloads, so you can get them right now. They are only available as a grab-for-all until after Easter so get there quick. After this time you will still be able to get them for free, but only with a purchase.



Hope you like them :-)

~~~Easter Egg Hunt~~~

Come join our Easter Egg hunt, and perhaps the Easter bunny will bring you something nice :-)

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.




Thanks for popping by ♥

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 :-)