Monday 23 December 2019

HAVE A DELIGHTFUL CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, AND AN AMAZING 2020...

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post; that's Pearl, Culliesocks Kate, Pat, Craftychris, scrAPamondo, Sandma, Flo, pearshapedcrafting Chris, and Gerrina, and to everyone who is reading this blog, we would like to wish you all a very delightful Christmas, and an amazing and joyful 2020!

Here are a few bits and bobs, just photographed, to assist in the Merry Christmas wishes:

One of my most favourite festive decorations is this fabulous reindeer, who sits in pride of place on my mantelpiece every year.  His name is 'Dave', and one of my crafty 'students' Helen has a bit of a sewing session every Christmas and one year she made Dave for me, and here he is...


Here is another beauty again made by Helen...
Santa is his name...


I have several more including 'Celeste' the angel, a snowman in a flowerpot, a Rudolph (this year's make), and a robin amongst others.  Love them all Helen x

I have added this wreath made for the last Hochy shows to the centre of the mantelpiece, with its dingly dangly bells..


Here is a star card full of Joy...


 And to finish I have a beautiful card sent to us by a customer - Janet, and I though it was so pretty I had to share it with you..


So have a very Merry Christmas one and all.
Back soon,
Jean x

Wednesday 18 December 2019

MORE MAKES FROM THE DECEMBER HOCHY SHOWS....

I still have lots of good stuff to show you by the team, who as always did us proud on the early December Hochanda shows.  Tonight I have several beauties by Sylvie to start us off....









So delightful and all main stamp designs can be found here.

Next I also have another beauty by Sam (gorgeous in blues and silver embossing)..


Here are a few of my own - very bright (sunglasses may be needed) and hopefully cheerful....




...and because these are looking at me from my computer desktop right now, here is a very, very gorgeous card by Sandra....


Plus two makes by Lesley made on the shows in October.  The Happy Cat with the 'boinging' head, and the Lion King stamped and coloured on acetate...



Hope you've enjoyed tonight's show folks?!

Back soon,
Jean x

Saturday 7 December 2019

NEW TEAMIE NEWS....

We have had a couple of recent retirements from the CI Team, however I'm delighted to say that we also have a new member of the Team now too - the lovely Sally Holmes, who I'm sure many of you know already.  Sally was one of our first customers to make samples for us, some twelve years or so ago I should think.  I still have the samples now.  Sally and I were sharing candle making know how recently, and I've had a bit of an obsession with candle making (you might have noticed, lol!), so I asked Sally if she would like to join us on the team.  Thankfully she said yes, and also sent me some piccies of some of her more recent CI related samples, and here they are, starting with some beautiful candles, would you believe, ha ha ....





....and now a couple of cards...



We are looking forward to seeing lots more from Sally in the future.  Thanks Sally.

We also have a brand new private CI Facebook group, which you can find at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/573106843232980/.  A lovely lady called Chris has put it all together, and we would love it if you could join in with the group and the chat, and post your CI related samples on there too.

The other news is that we released some new stamps on Hochanda TV recently, and currently you will find them in our New Products section here: https://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/new-products
and they are on a nice special offer currently as well (for a limited time).  More about those soon, as well as lots of lovely samples to inspire.

Back soon,
Jean x

Saturday 30 November 2019

THREE SLEEPS AND WE WILL BE ON TV - 4 FULL HOURS OF LIVE CREATIVE CRAFTING....

I've been busy packing boxes of goodies to take to Peterborough, it's always a worry I might forget something vital ....  I'm guesting in Lesley's shows, and she is returning the favour as always in ours.
The Newsletter went out the other day with the sneaky peeks, I hope you got yours?!  Here they are again, plus a few more to tease and tempt:





Another sneaky by Flo, with the little bird dressed all in blue this time...


And a very festive one by Helen...


A beautiful star in blues by Sylvie..


And finally a couple more from me...




Better get some beauty sleep now so I look my best on the big day, ha ha
Bye bye, back soon
Jean x

Saturday 23 November 2019

A SYLVIE MOMENT AND MORE ON THE CI BLOG.....

I have quite a few lovely teamie Sylvie makes on my computer desktop at the moment, so I though it was high time to show you them.  Now I know it's a little late for Halloween this year, but I do love this one using our skull stamp alongside the earlier issued crow nevertheless.....



...and here is another with the howling wolf,  but this could be for many occasions....



Then here is a pretty tag using the butterfly from a recent stamp.....


......and a card using the little bird, another recent stamp - lots of glitter on this bird....


To finish I have several rather delightful Christmas cards.....






Thank you Sylvie.  Stamps used in the above makes include, CI-529, CI-500, CI-528, CI-515, CI-257, CI-359 and more.

Our next Hochanda shows are in just over a week's time, on Tuesday, 3rd December (where did the year go?),  and we will be celebrating all things festively Christmas, and we are very, very, very excited indeed!  We so look forward to enjoying your company too hopefully, and sharing some very lovely new stamps, and much more, with you x

Back soon,

Jean x

 

Tuesday 12 November 2019

CANDLES ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY......

We had a fun show at Harrogate 'Stamperama', and it was lovely to chat with old friends and make new friends.  Candles were the 'thing' for me during the show, which I decorated (thanks to Sally Holmes) with stamped and coloured tissue.  I used some fantastic new (to me) pens to colour the stamped images (much more about the candles and pens on our December 3rd Hochanda shows - one not to be missed for sure!!).

Here are three 'Christmas' candles from the show....




However the most popular stamp during the show was Happy Cat, CI-523, which was a total sell out, and here is one of Flo's beautiful cards that wowed our lovely customers.....


Thanks for reading,
Back soon,
Jean x