Creative Stamper Magazine - Boy stamp

Nicky Hayden has come up trumps with another adorable card using the acrylic stamps that are inclusive in ISSUE 3 of the Creative Stamping magazine.  The magazine is available at Flutterby Crafts or on-line at The Mulberry Bush at £5.99, which is available quarterly.

These stamps are an amazing quality and highly recommended by 

Nicky Hayden who designed this card.

Nicky demonstrated using her ProMarker and FlexMarker pens at the latest 

ProMarker Club explaining how to use 3 shades of colour working from light to dark.

Here is a list of the colours she used......

Hair

Pumpkin

Spice

Chestnut

Clothes

Soft Peach

Peach

Mango

Tea Green

Pastel Green

Cool Aqua

Face

Almond

Blush

Sun Kissed Pink

Warm Grey 4 (fine point)

The papers used are from the Spring Drop Paper Pad by First Edition.

The button coordinates with the colouring of the stamp.

So why not order your next copy NOW!

The next ProMarker Challenge Club will be on the 3 March 

2.00 pm - 4.00 pm

(booking is required)

(Nicky may even have some new stamps to show you!)

Workshops coming up.

Just a quick note to remind you what's coming up in the workshops.

Please click here if you would like to take a look at our workshop brochure in more detail.

February Newsletter

 

Spring is sprung the grass is riz and it is time for lots of new crafting stash!! Find out what new goodies we have coming into the shop. Find out about our new friend called Bella!!

Hi Everybody Now, I have a funny feeling this is going to be a long newsletter, I have got so much to tell you all - so I think you had better make a cup of tea (or what ever is your poison) and get yourself a comfy seat, you will need it. It has been 6 weeks since the last newsletter, a long time in newsletter world, and so much has happened. Among the things that have happened has been the new website going 'live', which has resulted in lots of new crafters requesting copies of the newsletter (poor souls, they do not know what they are letting themselves in for!). So I would like to start by welcoming all the new readers and warn you that when I suggest you make a cup of tea and put your feet up I am not joking!!! Right then, where do I begin with catching up the news? I will start in traditional style - with the weather. It took a long time for the winter weather to get underway, I was beginning to think we were not going to get a good cold snap. But it has been and gone now, although I am sure we have not seen the last of the frosty weather, and it is sure good to be feeling the Spring sunshine. Also the lighter evenings are definately coming. I drove home in the half light last night. Oh, did we have some fun when the snow was with us. Those of you that have been to the shop recently will know that there is some major building works going on in the big barn next to us. Part of the work has meant that the electricity supply box has needed moving and when it was moved we ended up loosing a lot of our power. Since then it has been a nightmare of a job. A couple of Saturdays ago, we had our power supply shut of no less than 20 times during the course of the day. I was not amused. But, hopefully, it has been fixed now and the guys are getting well on with the refurbishment - so it should not be too long and we will be back to normal (whatever normal is!!). Of course, the coming of the snow meant that it was time for our annual trip to the trade show - and that means loads of new goodies!! The girls had already got underway with picking out new STUFF for you to enjoy. They have already received some of the new Echo Park and MME paper packs. We are also expecting to take stock of the latest Prima range any day now. Nicky and Cate have also been having some fun playing with the latest toy: This is one VERY appropriately name gadget, because it does make life so easy if you like the stitched effect!! It does all the hard work for you, all you need to worry about is which design to choose and what colour thread to use!! In January we had the latest release of stamps from the Wild Rose Studio - they went very well and we had kind of decide that maybe we would move on from WRS and pick some new stamp designers - then we saw their latest new offerings at the show. Meet Bella, the cutest baby elephant and Annabelle. Once again Dulce and Matthew have pulled a corker out of the hat! Nicky cannot wait to start stamping and colouring these little beauties. I am a sucker for elephants and Bella is just delicious - you wait til you see them. WRS have also come up with a new idea for the stamped images, for those of you that would like the images but are not into stamping (that me!!). All will be revealed in the shop sometime next week - the girls don't know it yet, but I have just received an email saying they will be with us on Tuesday!! Oh, and I MUST share this with you............have you seen the latest tool from the Epiphany Craft Studio? Another 'must have' especially if you love adding buttons to your projects. What else did we order? I know, I know - KaiserCraft! There are all the new paper designs, absolutely delicious AND double sided!! Between the new Prima and the new KaiserCraft, those paper huggers amongst us will be well happy!! Flourishes and flowers, stamps and papers, new wood, the latest border punches from Tonic Studios. Does your fun never end? And all that is just in the Paper Shop!! What about the Bead and Wool Shop? We have a new range of scarf wool in stock - it is called Bolero - together with the latest colours from Starlight Revue. If you are not sure about these, come in the shop and have a try - there is a ball of both designs for you to have a little knit with. As for the beads, we have got some gorgeous glass bead mixes coming in and some crystals, Czech Fire Polished in delicious colours. I have not got pictures that I can show you at the moment, but they will start going out tomorrow. My mind is now blown, I cannot think what else we have got coming in - it is all to much!! So I am going to move on from that and talk about what is coming up!! Tomorrow (Saturday) is the Crop, all day enjoying yourself playing with photo's and paper - fabulous. If you fancy it you can come for the whole day or for part of the day, just bring your photos with you. ProMarker Club Then next Saturday, 3rd March, (can you believe we are in March already?!) is the ProMarker class - if you are really lucky you might get to play with some of our new stamp images!! Remember that it is the Knit'n'Natter on the 3rd March!! Just come with your knitting and sit and knit and natter!! There is no charge for this event, just a donation for our favourite charity in exchange for a cup of tea or coffee. Jo Sonja's Home Decor On the 10th March, Liz will be here to host the Jo Sonja's Home Decor class - remember, if you would like to start learning to paint, Liz will be running a painting class in the morning. Phone us for more details. Eureka Craft Design - Templates for Inspiration 17th March 10 - 4pm Demonstation with Alex Those of you that know the Creative Craft Cabin of Twyford, or have met Alex and Jeanette at the Art Stamp Show, will know about the wonderful template cards that they make. We are lucky enough to have them with us on the 17th March. So come and watch Alex strut his stuff and make some stunning cards, share a cuppa with us and have some fun. This is a free event, but the urn will be out to raise funds for our favourite charity. Well now, I think I have written my finger raw!! And I am sure you must have finished your cup of tea! But before I go I must say congratulations to both Deborah and Rose, they have both become Grannies for a second time. Wonderful. And I am going to finish with a little picture of my two babies (with Bridie sneaking in the background) Buzz and Kite. They look quite gorgeous in this photo........not like the pair of destructive little horrors that have created havoc in our garden. Maybe they don't want us to sell our house, thats why they dug up the middle of the lawn!! I wish I could have filmed it, I am sure it would have made us laugh one day. Ho, hum. Anyway, I am going to leave you to have a good weekend. Remember to come and take a peek at all our new goodies, join us for one of our classes and come to see Alex with his templates. Happy crafting!! Lynn and the Girls.

And when you cannot get to the shop try....... www.themulberry-bush.com If you like to paint or use Jo Sonjas paints, check out our new website: where inspiration begins............ http://www.josonjas-uk.co.uk/ And to keep up to date with all the latest news and to find a wealth of ideas take a look at: http://www.flutterbycraftsberkshire.blogspot.com/ and http://www.flutterbycrafts.co.uk/ Flutterby Crafts Ltd, The Barns, Lower Henwick Farm, Turnpike Road, Thatcham, RG18 3AP opening times : Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am 'til 5pm http://www.flutterbycraftsberkshire.blogspot.com/http://www.themulberry-bush .com/ email: lynn@flutterbycrafts.co.uk | tel - 01635 860900

 

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Creative Stamping Magazine - FREE stamps included!

These gorgeous stamps are from ISSUE 3 of the Creative Stamping magazine which is available at Flutterby Crafts or on-line at The Mulberry Bush at £5.99, is available quarterly.

There are some amazing FREE stamps with this issue and come highly recommended by Nicky Hayden our resident colouring expert!

The papers used are from the Spring Drop Paper Pad by First Edition.

Nicky demonstrated using her ProMarker and FlexMarker pens at the latest 

ProMarker Club explaining how to use 3 shades of colour working from light to dark.

Here is a list of the colours she used......

Hair

Soft Lime

Buttercup

Mustard

Caramel (fine tip)

Clothes

Soft Peach

Peach

Mango

Tea Green 

Pastel Green

Cool Aqua

Face

Almond

Blush

Sun Kissed Pink

Warm Grey 4 (fine point)

The buttons make a lovely dimensional addition to the card.

Lovely detail to the stamps....so why not order your next copy NOW!

Either visit our bricks and mortar shop Flutterby Crafts or shop
on-line at The Mulberry Bush.

Workshops this week

Just a reminder of the workshops coming up this week......

Watch this space!!

Hi Everybody

I checked today and found that it has been a good SIX weeks since I wrote the last newsletter, so watch this space - one will be coming next week.

Tomorrow we are off to the big trade show - where we find out about all the new stuff that is coming our way.

I know that Nicky and Cate have been sitting together fawning over all the taster pictures that have been coming out from the suppliers.  I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to cost me a pretty penny!!

They were mumbling words like 'kaisercraft' and 'echo park' and 'prima' and 'sew-easy', not to mention die-cuts and embossing folders, stamps, decopage, inks...............too much to think about.  I wil need a well stiff drink tomorrow night!!

Then, of course, there is Ruth - her love of beads and wool is sure to get us into trouble tomorrow.

Ho hum, I had better get off to bed and prepare myself for a loonnnggg day!!

I will let you all know how things go.

Speak soon.

Lynn x

FlexMarkers available at Flutterby Crafts

I will have some cards over the next few days to show you that Nicky and the ladies at the ProMarker Challenge Club have been making.  

Flutterby Crafts stocks a huge range of 

ProMarker and  FlexMarker pens.  

Both pens are available in the shop but also on-line at The Mulberry Bush.

So, what are Flexmarker pens?

Well, I wanted to know more about them and I thought you may too.

Click here for the link to learn about FlexMarker pens by Letraset.

So if you want to learn more about colouring in your stamps, come and join the very talented Nicky Hayden  at the next ProMarker Challenge Club on 

Saturday, 3rd March - 2.00 - 4.00pm

Workshops coming up....

Here is a quick look at the workshops coming up over the next week.....

Hope you have a chance to join in one of the classes, there is lots going on at 

Flutterby Crafts!

Creative Stamping Magazine - Happy Valentine Owl card

This gorgeous Valentines Day card has been designed by Nicky Hayden using some FREE stamps that come with the Creative Stamping magazine 

available at Flutterby Crafts. 

The Creative Stamping magazine is stunning.  These stamps come from ISSUE 3 which comes out quarterly and is available at Flutterby Crafts and on-line at The Mulberry Bush.

Included in this issue are heaps of good quality acrylic stamps worth £20 which come highly recommended by our Nicky!

She has coloured the owls in beautifully, either 

ProMarkers or Fleximarkers can be used to great effect.  These pens are also available on-line if you CLICK the appropriate LINKS.

Nicky has cut out the heart shape using a die cut heart frame and hand written her sentiment....she's so clever!!

Glossy accents or Diamond Glaze can be used to highlight the owl's eyes.

Next time you are in the shop take a look at the gorgeous sheet of stamps included in this issue of Creative Stamping or order on-line...but be warned they are selling quickly!

Yippeee!! Loads of scarf wool!!

The delivery man came yesterday and guess what he brought with him??

LOADS of TANGO and TONIA scarf wool in ALLSORTS of colours. 

He also brought a NEW RANGE of scarf wool called BOLERO!!  Gorgeous colours.

I am going to take a ball home tonight and give it a go............but, if you can beat me to knitting a scarf using a ball of BOLERO from the shop, I will refund the cost of your first ball!!!

Floral Screen Card

Julie Head was inspired by the latest edition of Craft Stamper magazine for this 

Floral Screen Card.

There are copies of this magazine available at Flutterby Crafts where you will find detailed instructions on how to make the original screen designed by Linda Elbourne.

The gorgeous paper used for the floral screen is by Prima and is from the Paintables collection.

Julie has used a Bind It All and black ribbon to secure the screens together, shown from the back of the screen in the above photo.

If you wish to purchase a Bind It All they are available at our on line shop 

The Mulberry Bush.

Early Closure Today, Friday 10th February

Hi Everybody

I hope you are all enjoying the snow!!!!

This is just a very quick message to say that, due to electrical work being carried out by the SEB, the shops will be closed from 12 noon today.

Those of you that have been up to the shop recently, will know that part of the Long Barn is being renovated.  As part of this work the electricity supply is being upgraded.  Yippee!  Hopefully, no more power loss.

I am assured that the work will be completed this afternoon, so it will be business as usual tomorrow. 

Remember that it is the Jo Sonja's Home Decorating class tomorrow afternoon.

See you all then.

Lynn xxx

Card using distress inks by Tim Holtz

At a recent cardmaking workshop held by Nicky Hayden, she demonstrated how to have fun making your own paper designs with Tim Holtz distress inks.

The strip of paper down the right hand side of the card was made using the distress inks and so was the paper for the butterflies which coordinates beautifully with the background papers.

A peel off was adhered onto the handmade paper design and then cut out.  The smaller butterflies were punched out of the paper using the distress inks and layered onto the card to give dimension.

If you would like to learn more about cardmaking, crafting, knitting and jewellery making please take a look at our workshop brochure and come along to one of our workshops.

Workshops coming up!

Well, we have some great workshops this week and next week, including knitting, cardmaking, beading, crafting, painting and scrapbooking!!!

What more could you want from your local Papercraft shop!

All details available in your Spring Workshop Brochure which is available here.

First Saturday of the Month

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, which means that it is:

KNIT'N'NATTER - in the bead shop

and

PROMARKER CLUB - in the workshop

Knit'n'Natter is a FREE event - we just ask for a donation, into our charity tin, for the tea/coffee & biscuits.  Sit in the Beadshop with your wool and knitting needles - knit, natter, have a cuppa (shhh..we won't tell anybody about the biscuit/s).  From 10 'til 2.  What could be more fun? 

The Promarker Club is from 2 til 4pm - Nicky will show you the best way to use your Promarker pens and FlexiMark pens with your rubber stamps.  The cost is £7.50 for the 2 hour session.  Please bring your pens with you (don't worry if you are a beginner and have no pens - we have a hidden supply!!).

Also, tomorrow you will be able to have the first glance at our re-furbished demonstration area, together with some of the new goodies that Nicky and Cate have brought into the shop!!

See you in the shop.

Lynn x





Love album

 

Nicky (Hayden) recently held a workshop on how to make this adorable 'Love Album' using papers from the First Edition paper pad called 'New Leaf'.

She has used a Bind It All to bind all the pages of the album together.  Wires and album covers are available in the shop.

The wooden heart has been stamped and inked around the edges with the addition of 

paper flowers, buttons and lace to give dimension to the cover. 

Lots of wooden items can be found at our on-line shop here.

Nicky has used an assortment of Kraft card and index cards to complete the album.

Please take a few moments to check out our updated on-line shop The Mulberry Bush and let us know what you think of it's makeover!