Saturday, 1st July
10:00am - 4:00pm

FREE! Ranger Demo Day

This will be a fabulous day of demonstrations as Judi Hodgkin is fresh back from Ranger University in the USA & newly qualified as a Ranger Educator.
Judi will be demonstrating a medley of Ranger’s equipment & materials including Adirondack dye inks & colour washes, Tim Holtz Distress inks, Suze Weinberg’s Melting Pot, and products from the Inkssentials range.
PLUS, don’t miss out on 10% discount off* all Ranger products, today only!
*(Whilst stocks last on the event day only.)

Sunday, 2nd July
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
(NB This is a 4 hour event and costs £16. There will be a break for lunch so please bring a packed lunch, alternatively you could visit Coffee Culture or Jenny’s Café.)

All day Crop plus mini workshop with Judi Hodgkin

The theme of today’s mini workshop is yet to be confirmed but we thought that we would announce the date so that you have the opportunity to pencil it in your diary or even just book your ‘cos you just know that you’re gonna enjoy a day of cropping no matter what the theme! Don’t forget that places are limited to six for this event. The crop event itself is your opportunity to come along to an informal scrapbooking session. You can use our tools, share your ideas and Judi will be on hand to help, advise and answer your questions. Bring photos, bits ’n’ pieces or any other ‘nik–naks’ that you want to match up and make into a scrapbooking page. Suitable for all levels. Everyone’s welcome! Don’t forget that you receive 10% discount off any supplies you purchase for use during the session.

Monday, 3rd July
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Vague about Vellum? With Julia Budd

Feeling a bit vague about how to attach vellum to the face of your cards?  Want to know which inks actually dry on a vellum surface?  Want some tips for colouring on a vellum surface?  Even if you know all of this and more, this will be a fun workshop working with a fab papers.

Wednesday, 5th July
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Paints & colour washes - creating backgrounds with Judi Hodgkin

In this workshop you will be using acrylic and watercolour paints to create washes and using paint for effect when matting & layering. You will also use Tim Holtz’s Adirondack Colour Washes as well as stamping with acrylic paint to get a different look from when you use ink pads. Once you’ve mastered the techniques there are loads of different effects that you can create with your own paints & colour washes. You will create a number of card blanks to try out different techniques.  Each of these can be embellished further for a variety of different occasions or kept as a reminder on how to recreate the effects at home for your card making or scrap booking.

Wednesday, 5th July
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Working with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder with Judi Hodgkin

An introduction to the Melting Pot from Ranger by Suze Weinberg.  You will play with a melting pot and some Ultra Thick Embossing Powder (UTEE) to create some cool embellishments for pages and cards.  We’ll also play with medical slides to create cute framed photos or embellishments. Plus there is the opportunity to bring along your favourite rubber stamp to use in this workshop – keep it fairly small and not too detailed. In this workshop you won’t leave with a completed project, but you will leave with a number of embellishments, (at least three), for you to use in your card making or scrapbooking.

Monday, 10th July
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

3d Medallion Stickers with Anne Garrood

Big on WOW factor these stickers are quite a new addition to the peel off market. If you have not seen or used them before then come & let Anne show you how they can create stunning three-dimensional kaleidoscope like layered cards. If you have already tried them for yourself then Anne is sure to have a few ideas, tips & techniques up her sleeve to inspire you even further!

Wednesday, 12th July
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Stamping and heat embossing tips & techniques with Chrissie Terrey

So you take a stamp, ink it up, print an image & maybe even heat emboss it, but exactly what else can you do with rubber stamps, ink pads, embossing powders & a heating tool? You’ll be surprised! Come & pick up some tips, techniques, ideas & inspiration! Learn about methods such as mirroring, masking & moving images, simple decoupage & layering techniques, triple embossing, brayering and spotlight stamping.

Tuesday, 18th July
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
& 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NB These are 2 ½ hour workshops and costs £10.)

Janice has come up with some fantastic ways to use brads in your card making projects. You will be using funky flower & heart brads from the Papermania collection to embellish your projects & you will also learn a nifty technique using brads to conceal a hidden message on a card.

Wednesday, 19th July
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
& 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NB These are 2 ½ hour workshops and costs £10.)

Paper Embroidery with Maria Doland

At these workshops you will learn how to use pricking templates to create shapes and patterns in card and paper, which are then embroidered with coloured and metallic threads. You can create beautiful images such as flowers and butterflies to embellish your paper craft projects with. Once you have mastered the basics this is a very straightforward and satisfying technique.

Thursday, 20th July
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30pm

Inventive as ever Mandy has prepared a plethora of projects including a clever card with a zip & another featuring football themed vellums - well it is a World Cup year after all!

Saturday, 22nd July
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

FREE Docrafts Scrapbooking demo day!

Come & be one of the first to experience the ALL NEW Docrafts scrapbooking demo day! Plus don’t miss the opportunity to purchase the scrapbooking GOODY BOX containing over fourty pounds worth of products, including a sturdy 12 X 12 box perfect for storing your scrapping stuff, for only £19.99*.
*(Limited availability – whilst stocks last on demo day only!)

Tuesday, 25th July
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

In this workshop you will be making origami outfits to adorn your handmade cards with, (well, sort of - you know what we mean - you will be paper folding!) The folds you can learn include shirts, trousers & a ballerina outfit.

Thursday, 27th July
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Dusted for effect – using chalks with Judi Hodgkin
Today you will work with chalks to create different effects and gorgeous additions, & learn how to paint with chalks and create shadows on your artwork. You will be making at least one card as well as a single-page beach themed layout, so dig out those sandy seaside summer snaps & bring them for your layout.

Thursday, 27th July
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Transfer techniques with Judi Hodgkin
This workshop is all about finding new & interesting ways to put images & words onto surfaces. There are a variety of ways of doing this & today you will explore some of them to create an ‘altered card’ & a vintage scrapbook page. Methods include the use of heat transfer sheets, packing tape & gel medium, each creating a different & interesting effect.
You should bring with you a piece of text or an image that you love copied on a black & white photocopier. Please note that inkjet or laser printed images will not work & ideally the image should have been copied recently but at least 12 hours ago.

Paper Artsy Launch Weekend with Lynda Piper!

Paper Artsy describe their products as Eclectic Rubber Stamps. We are launching this new brand in the shop with their flagship collection designed by Nea Nygard known as “Ink and The Dog”. This grungy-styled, red rubber is being talked about all over the web, and is snapped up by altered artists around the world who love the arty-vintage-collage look and the flexibility of each image on many different surfaces.

Friday, 28th July
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £15.)

Paper Artsy Workshop 1 with Lynda Piper

We’re over the moon to have secured Lynda’s services to run a trio of workshops & launch this new product range for us!
Paper Artsy’s eclectic rubber stamps are just perfect for Lynda’s unique take on rubber stamping, card making & altered art projects so come & join us for an afternoon of card making with Lynda.

Saturday, 29th July
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £15.)

Paper Artsy Workshop 2 with Lynda Piper

This second workshop once again has a card making theme but it will be different to that of workshop 1. These workshops will be enjoyable & inspirational events for all who take part so book early to secure your place as seats are strictly limited to seven per event.

Saturday, 29th July
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £15.)

Paper Artsy ATC’s - Workshop 3 with Lynda Piper

At this third & final event you will be making & exchanging ATC’s, (Artists’ Trading Cards), it’s guaranteed to be an afternoon of stimulating ideas!
Why not make a day of it & stay with us for both the morning & afternoon’s event?

Sunday, 30th July
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
(NB This is a 6 hour event and costs £24. There will be a break for lunch so please bring a packed lunch, alternatively you could visit Coffee Culture or Jenny’s Café.)

In a change from our normal monthly crop; at this workshop you will be creating an entire mini album from scratch, this project is one that Judi has had published in 12 X 12 Scrapbooking Magazine.
Many of you have seen & admired Judi’s mini baby album so now here’s your chance to create your own!
This event is going to be crammed full of techniques! You will be taking all of the skills that you have learned from Judi’s other workshops plus learning a few new ones to build a totally unique 6 X 6 album with four pages filled with pockets, recesses & beautiful bits and pieces to remind you of everything that you will learned!
Everything that you need will be provided including calico fabric, screws & hinges, extra large eyelets & board for the covers. All you need to bring is 8 to 12 small photos of one person or event. Judi says that black & white or sepia work the best but don’t worry if colour photos are all that you have, they can work too! If you like you can also bring other memorabilia & your favourite cutting & cropping tools, otherwise as always our tools & equipment will be on hand.

Monday, 31st July
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Purple flowers, diamantes & roses are just some of the materials that Mandy has combined with our vellums to produce a range of graceful greetings cards for all occasions.

Wednesday, 2nd August
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Chrissie has some all new wire work to teach you including orchids, poppies, butterflies & bees. So if you have previously enjoyed our wire workshops come & learn some new designs, however don’t worry if you have not been before, as full instructions will be provided.

Tuesday, 8th August
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
& 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NB These are 2 ½ hour workshops and costs £10.)

Come & see Janice’s unique take on shakers; dynamic eye catching cards for all occasions combining peel offs, acetate & aperture cards with punched shapes, glitter, confetti, Beadazzles & accent beads that move in the finished card.

Wednesday, 9th August
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Introduction to Scrapbooking with Judi Hodgkin

As it is the school holiday’s teenagers are welcome to attend this workshop, it could be the perfect opportunity for you to spend some ‘Mum & Daughter’ time together!
At this workshop you will learn about why is it important, when preserving precious photos, to use acid and lignin free products and how can you identify which products are safe to use?  We will cover how to organise and sort your images and suitable preservation steps you should take before you’re ready to scrapbook your photos.  We’ll talk a little about 3 basic design concepts; the rule of thirds, the z line and colour.  You’ll learn how and when to crop your photos and the best glues to use to adhere your photos safely. You should bring with you 10-15 photos of one event (please bring copies only, not your precious 80 year old originals). You will complete a layout themed around the photos that you bring.

Wednesday, 9th August
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NB This is a 2 ½ hour workshop and costs £10.)

Envelopes, pockets & pull-outs with Judi Hodgkin

Well, the workshop title says it all! Judi will be showing you how to make these fabulous little embellishments & giving you some ideas of how to work them into your card making & scrapbooking projects. They are ideal for adding an interactive aspect to your art work or for having a ‘secret message’ on your card or in your scrapbook, like that slushy bit of journaling that you simply have to include but that you don’t want everyone to see.

Saturday, 12th August
00:00 hours – 00:00 hours

‘Christmas in August’ Launch Weekend

This year we are launching our annual ‘Christmas in August’ week with a twenty four hour Christmas Card making marathon in aid of The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Living Appeal. We are going to start making Christmas cards at midnight on Friday and we are not going to stop until Midnight on Saturday. Why not join us some time during the day on Saturday to make a Christmas card or two? We will provide all of the materials and all of the cards that are made will be bagged up & donated to the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice shops to sell. If you are not free to join us then please consider bringing along some of your hand made cards to the shop so that we can bag them up & present them to be sold along with all those made on the day of our marathon.
In addition to the funds that will be raised through the sale of Christmas cards at Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice shops and any money collected on the event day we will also be donating 10% of the shop’s turnover from our Christmas Card Making Marathon day to The Living Appeal.
Please come & see us in the shop & show your support for this worthy local cause.

Monday, 14th August
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Christmas in August with Anne Garrood

‘Christmas in August’ was originally Anne’s idea and once again this year Anne’s been hard at work coming up with some new Christmas Card ideas. Some of our most organised customers have started their Christmas cards already – have you? Either way come along, try some new techniques & be inspired!

Wednesday, 16th August
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
& 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Mandy’s Christmas creations with Mandy Little

Mandy has been creating some new Christmas designs for us too! Join us for our second Festive card making workshop this week and get your creative crimbo juices flowing.

Saturday, 19th August
10:00am – 4:00pm

‘Christmas in August’ week Grand Finale Demonstration Day

The highlight of this week is going to be our big demo day with festive demonstrations both inside & outside of the shop featuring an array of demonstrators. Topping the bill is going to be Rubbadubbadoo’s Sheila Oliver who can often be seen demonstrating on Create & Craft television.
There are going to be various promotions & special offers running throughout the day including 10% OFF EVERYTHING* with some items marked down to as little as HALF PRICE! # There will also be the opportunity for all customers who make a purchase to enter a FREE prize draw to win a full Stamparty Reward card, worth £20 to spend in the shop.
*10% discount is offered instead of stamps on customer reward cards on this day.
#Items which are already reduced more than 10%, (i.e. items which are half price) will not be subject to an additional 10% discount.