LAST OF THE SUMMER CARDS!

I'm sure that somewhere people are still enjoying hot sunny weather but here in the north west of England it has long gone.

Dreaming of sunnier climbs I have used the summery Anya from the Rain, Snow, Shine set for today's card.

How nice would it be to sit on a white sandy beach or under a parasol eating ice-cream!

Stamps: The Greeting Farm - Rain, Snow, Shine.

Embellishments and Papers: Imaginisce - A Shore Thing

Thanks for looking, Katie.

BUDDY RELEASE DATE

We are very pleased to be releasing our new designs of Buddy Bear this Friday 31st July.

We have shown a couple of the designs a few weeks ago, and before Fridays release we intend to show you the rest!

BUDDY WITH BEE

BOATING BUDDY

The stamps will be available in clear acrylic and there are 8 designs so far.

Thanks for stopping by, Katie and Colette.

LITERARY HEROES

Today we wanted to share with you a special card we made for our sisters 21st birthday. Rachael was 21 on Friday and she (like ourselves) is a HUGE Twilight fan, and most definitely a member of Team Edward!

We designed the card using the Twilight colours Red, Black and White, and drew an image to represent the lovely Mr. Cullen, which we sparkled up with iridescent glitter.

It got us thinking if you could choose any fictional book character to be made into a rubber stamp who would it be? We would love to hear your suggestions and see who is the most popular.

We got a little carried away with the Twilight theme and created a 3 tier cake to go with the card. We thought we would share the photo with you, unfortunately the cake did not last that long, but the sparkly sugar Edward on top remains... that is until someone gets the munchies!

Thanks for looking, Katie and Colette.

NEW SARAH KAY IN STOCK

We have just taken delivery of some of the wonderful NEW Sarah Kay designs and restocked some old favourites too!

Stamps back in stock include Spring Blossoms, Rosalie's Bicycle and A little help from Margot.

Also back in stock is Roses Garden, seen below.

I have coloured the image with Pro markers again, and finished with Prima flowers.

Thanks for looking, Katie.

LOVIN' THOSE PRO MARKERS!

We have some great News to share today. The Rain, Snow, Shine Miss Anya set and other Greeting Farm stamps are now restocked in our web shop, but you will have to be quick, we only have a limited number left!

I have used the Rain Anya stamp for my card today and coloured her with Pro markers which I am absolutely loving!!! I have had them for a few weeks now and have finally got the hang of how to use them. I wanted to create an older style for my card and thought the image would look good as if it were an old black and white photo. To do this I choose to use all greys for the colour and think it works well. The flowers and spotty chipboard centre are from Prima.

Thanks for looking, Katie.

INTRODUCING...

Today we would like to introduce you to Buddy Bear. Buddy is a new line of stamps that Nutcrafters will be releasing at the end of July, and there will be 8 different stamps available.

Today's cards show two of those new releases:

Gardening Buddy

Buddy with Truck

I hope you like them and keep checking for more previews and release details.

Thanks for stopping by, Katie.

BLOG CANDY WINNERS

The time has arrived to announce the winners of our Blog Candy... the numbers (chosen by Random. Org) were: 2, 107, 26

First Prize: Coldwaters2

Second Prize: Denise Young

Third Prize: Mandi

Congratulations, please send us your postal details (enquiries@nutcrafters.com)

Later this week we have some special previews of NEW Nutcrafters designs stamps that are being released very soon, and please take a look at our Nutshells challenge that we have running. To celebrate the release of the Nutshells Boys we would like you to make a Blue and Green Boy card.

I will leave you today with a card using Flutter Anya from The Greeting Farm. She is so very adorable and looks extra special glittered up!

Thanks for stopping by, Katie.