Our card and envelope packs are excellent value for money and one of our best selling items to card makers so we have added 2 new card and envelope packs to our range.

The first is a pack of 30 A6 Kraft cards and matching envelopes.

Kraft card, with its reminiscence of brown wrapping paper is extremely popular at the moment and these cards are A6 – 148mm x 105mm when folded.

The second of our new card and envelope packs are these lovely scalloped edge cards in white.

There are 50 cards and envelopes in a pack for just £6.99. The cards are square and measure 148mm x 148mm – just a tad less than 6 inches x 6 inches.

Either pack would make a great addition to your card making stash.

Cards with a vintage look are so popular at the moment and have been for quite a while and adding a touch of lace just finishes off any vintage design.

Our lace is so popular that we actually ran out of it earlier in the year but our lovely supplier has come up with 4 new lace trims for us that are just gorgeous.

There is flat lace in both white and ivory which is 12mm wide and perfect for card making. Here is the ivory.

The other lace is a frilled lace also available in white and ivory. The frilled lace is 15mm wide with a lovely scallop edge. Here is the white.

All the lace will add that vintage touch to your card making but if you w3ant to give lace that “antique” look then try dabbing it with Tim Holtz Distress Inks. the Tea Dye Distress Ink is particularly good for this but when Madeleine made the card below she used Victorian Velvet as the colour blended with the background papers.

We just love flowers for card making and these blooms will really make your cards stand out.

There are ten blooms to a pack with varying shades and sizes in each pack. Sizes of blooms vary from 30mm to 40mm approximately.

There are 15 different colours of packs to choose from – all gorgeous. The flowers are made by a company that’s relatively new to the British card making scene – Kaisercraft. They are an Australian company and not only do they make beautiful flowers but they do the most stunning paper packs as well – which we will be stocking.

If you’ve been looking for handmade mulberry paper for your card making you may have been surprised to see that the choice of colours has reduced considerably. Similarly if you are looking for one of our many lovely mulberry paper embellishments for card making you may find the one you want no longer appears on our website.

This is a temporary situation which we hope will be back to normal early in the New Year – and I know our suppliers certainly hope so too.

Mulberry Paper is made in Thailand and you may have heard on the news a few weeks ago that Bangkok was flooded but, although it is no longer in the news and the water is receding, there are still problems in Thailand with the flood waters.  Following the worst monsoon in over 50 years, not only was Bangkok affected by floods by 14 other provinces in Thailand as well.  Some areas still remain flooded and others, where the water has receded, are now coping with mounds of mud. This has had a major effect on transport – both road and rail. Supplies are limited and some items will take some time before they become available again.

One factory in Bangkok was flooded in the first round of floods and just as they were completing a massive 2 week clean up operation they were flooded again – the second time much worse than the first. They have still to recover from the second flood.

Please bear with us. The Thais are a cheerful and optimistic people and are working hard to get things back to normal.  We will let you know in our Newsletter as soon as stocks become available again.

The RT-200 rotary cutter is the latest rotary trimmer from Carl. It is a high quality, heavy duty, table top rotary trimmer ideal for card making.

The RT-200 can easily handle card as well as paper and we have cut 300 gsm Ice Silver card using this machine.  There are both vertical and horizontal rulers that are marked in both inches (sub divided to eighths of an inch) and centimeters (subdivided into millimetres) for accurate measuring of the card or paper to be cut.  There are also standard sizes, such as A4, clearly marked for ease of cutting and, if you are into scrap-booking, the standard photo sizes are clearly marked as well for easy cropping.  The grid-lines on the trimmer are one inch apart and help you align you card when cutting.  The RT-200 has a full 12 inch cut so can easily handle 12 x 12 inch papers as well.

With the RT-212 comes 1 straight blade and 2 decorative edge blades of your choice and changing blades is really easy.

For those of you who already have the Carl DC-212 or PRT-100 rotary trimmers, both the blades and cutting mats for the RT-200 also fit the DC-212 and PRT-100.

New from Doodey are these sets of peel off verses for card making.  There are 3 different sets: Birthdays, All Occasions, and Christmas.

Each set contains 24 different verses. There are 6 verses to each sheet and 12 sheets in a pack giving you 72 verses in total.  In other words, there are 3 sheets of the same 6 verses x 4 sheets of verses - 12 sheets in each set – 2 of each sheet of verses in gold and 1 in silver.

Whichever way it’s calculated at £12.95 per set that’s excellent value for money.

Each verse with its double embossed border is on a transparent background so you peel the verse and border off as one – no fiddling about trying to get the wording in the right place – and simply stick it on your card or insert. What could be easier?

Here a verse has been used as the main topper on the front of the card using some pretty background papers and a few flowers. Step by step instructions to make this card can be found in our Gallery.  The verses can also be used on the inserts – very handy if you get stuck for words when writing greeting on your inserts – and will certainly give your card the wow factor when it is opened.

The All Occasions set covers: On Your Wedding Day, Anniversary, Birthdays including 1 Forgot Your Birthday, Friendship - and the one that is usually difficult to find the right words –  Condolences.

The double embossed detail of the borders is fantastic and can be seen in this sheet of verses from the Birthday set.

Each sheet of verses is approx. 225mm x 200mm. The size of verses themselves vary depending on whether they are rectangular or oval but to give you an idea of size the rectangular one on the top left hand corner of this sheet is approx. 65mm wide and 90mm high.

This is a product you will use again and again for your handmade cards.