New Arrivals: Crate Paper, Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp

We have a lot of new arrivals in store including Crate Paper's On Trend, Pink Paislee City Sidewalks & Artisan Collections and some goodies from Heidi Swapp.

 



As always you can find all the new items here under Specials & New Stock.  Have a great week!

New Glitz Design & More Misters & Masks from Studio Calico

Last week I had a shipment arrive of these delicious Glitz Design goodies from the Cashmere Dame & Yours Truly lines.

We also had some new mists and masks arrive from Studio Calico and new Christmas paper from Authentique.  You can find all the new items in the store here.  I still have a special deal to get a free mask with any two mists purchased.

In the next 10 days I am an expecting a large shipment of Pink Paislee and Heidi Swapp items including the beautiful Christmas themed City Sidewalks collection from Pink Paislee and the other new releases from the Craft and Hobby Association show in July.

Enjoy your weekend!

Holiday Cards & More has arrived!

I'm happy to announce that Holiday Cards & More volume 7 from Paper Crafts Magazine has arrived today.  I have quite a few of the previous volumes and it always inspires me to get started on those Christmas cards & gifts that I have been putting off making :)  With less than 3 months until Christmas the timing could have not been more perfect.

 

You can find the magazine here for purchase. 

 

Have a great weekend and for some lucky states (WA included) a lovely, long weekend.

Hero Arts Christmas in store

Here is what has arrived today.  Go to Specials and new stock to see them.

Unfortunately some of the items I ordered were out of stock so I will be re-ordering shortly.   If there is something in particular that you would like please email me at admin@willowpaperie.com.au and I will do my best to get in stock for you.

Enjoy what's left of the working week!

New In Store - Christmas Paper & Studio Calico

I've just had some new arrivals today - gold & silver Mister Huey from Studio Calico along with many wood veneer shapes and some Christmas paper pads in 6 x 6 from Echo Park and My Minds Eye.  Not only that, I've got some great card labels from Jillibean Soup in Christmas, Birthday and Thinking of you themes and some cute wood flags as well.

 

You can now find all the new goodies in one place here on the Specials & New Stock page and I will update it each time new items come in. 

 

I hope to have my Hero Arts Christmas stamp order in next week but I will update the blog as soon as it arrives.

 

 

Sharon x

Specials in Store

Just to let you know I am running some specials while stocks last.  You can find my specials page Here or on  Ebay


Have a great weekend!

Spotlight on Crate Paper Pretty Party

I've popped back in to share some cards using the Crate Paper Pretty Party line of products.  I don't normally use a lot of chipboard on my cards but it sure does make a lot of quick cards!  I used the chipboard shapes, the border stickers, the phrase stickers and the 6 x 6 paper pad.  There were a lot more cards but my friend took some off my hands :)

 

 

 

If you are every looking for inspiration for a particular line of products you should check out the blog of the manufacturer.  The Crate Paper blog is here and that is where I got the inspiration for the middle card in the second photo. There are a lot of beautiful projects there and sneak peeks of upcoming releases.

 

I think I'll try this with the Story Teller line from Crate very soon.  Enjoy the rest of your day!

New in Store - Lawn Fawn

New in store today are some stamps & twine from Lawn Fawn.

 

I love those cute little Aussie animals :)

 

I hope to be back later today with some new cards.  Enjoy your hump day!

New in store - Bazzill Card Shoppe heavy weight smooth cardstock

Today we have in store the new Bazzill card stock called Card Shoppe.  Made especially for cardmakers it is smooth, 100# heavyweight cardstock which folds with a crisp edge and will not warp when used with markers, inks or mists. Also handles loads of embellishments without sagging.  I have it in store in packs of 20 sheets in letter size (8.5 x 11") in a great mix of colours (shown below).  You can find it in the store here,

Have a great week!

New in store - Card Design Handbook

I love Papercrafts Magazine - the US edition! I really, really love the special editions that come out regularly.  This one - Card Design Handbook, contains 173 tips to design like a pro which includes the rule of thirds, quiet space, focal point, colour, balance & movement.  Not only that it contains lots of beautiful, inspirational photographs of cards to illustrate each point - the eye candy is fantastic :)

 

You can purchase it from my store here.

 

You can read more about this special edition at Moxie Fab World and Papercrafts connection.

 

Enjoy your weekend!

Hey there it's Studio Calico Heyday!

I just wanted to post a card I made using some Studio Calico products yesterday.  For a change of scene I misted this stamp (starburst - from Studio Calico/Hero arts) using Mister Huey's from Studio Calico.  I left the stamp facing upwards, misted lightly and then placed my white cardstock face down and used a brayer to gently rub the card so all the colour was absorbed.

I stamped my sentiment from Heyday sentiments (coming soon) in black memento ink and then went about matting my card and adding some drops from the mister hueys.  Lastly I added a two butterfly die cuts made from the Studio Calico heyday paper pad and added some black rhinestones as well.

You can find the stamp Starburst here and the paper pad here in store.  I also have mister huey's in stock in many different colours.

Have a great week!

New Products in Store

Hello Everyone

A good size shipment has just arrived from Hero Arts today and includes lots more cling & clear stamps,  wood stamps, stamp cleaner, neon ink pads, a stamp and die set, envelopes and gems.

If you enter Hero Arts into the search box in the store it will bring up all the products in stock.

Have a great day

Shaz :)

Craft Room Re-arranging

A few months ago I decided my craft room was no longer working for me and did some re-arranging.  I also aquired some furniture that wasn't being used in the rest of the house and put it to work.  My previous arrangement was one desk with a table next to it but it was so crowded and the laptop had to be put away all the time.

This is the new room, as you walk in the room straight in front is a desk back to back with two tables in the middle of the room.  The two tables house my sewing machine, radio, laptop and silhouette cameo.  The desk has my copics & refills, stickers, buttons, ephemera, caddy for scissors etc and another caddy for sprays, paints, stickles, twine, embossing powder etc.

I have an Alex drawer from Ikea next to my desk which has my bigshot & trimmer on the top.  In the drawers I have punches & ink, christmas, paper pads, dies and embossing folders, cardstock and more bits and bobs.  Behind the desk I have a Making Memories shelf with wood mounted stamps, clear stamps, ribbon and washi tape.  That is not all my stamps, under the desk I have two binders full of cling mounted! OMG that is a lot of stamps :)

The other part of the room has a small console table I use for packing shop orders and above that is a CD shelf I store all my magazines and idea books on as well as small scalloped doodlebug shelf for pretty things. The sleeping dog under the table is optional!

Of course it never normally looks this clean, neat & tidy, most days you can't see the white of the desk at all!  I just completely cleaned it up yesterday for the photo's ;)

Studio Calico & Paper Smooches

Today I am showcasing a card made with Studio Calico Mister Huey's mists and masks.

To make the card I cut a piece of white card stock to size.  With post it notes I masked off the diaganol section I wanted then sprayed it with pink mist.  I then continued to mask off and mist (covering the already misted parts as well) until the cardstock looked how I wanted it too.  Then I taped the Mister Huey's bubbles mask over the top of the card and misted it with white Mister Huey's until I was happy with the coverage.  Once dry I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches sentiment sampler over the top in black Memento ink.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Paper Smooches & Hero Arts

Hello again

I've got some more new cards and today I am showcasing Paper Smooches Geo-graphic stamp set which has three terrific patterns, hexagons, zig zag lines and solid dots.  Today I am using the hexagon pattern.  The flower and banner below I found in my stash :)

The bees and patterned paper below are from the Basic Grey PB&J paper pad & stickers sheet.  I improvised the sentiment from the Hero Arts essential messages set by sticky tapeing the letters I didn't want and inking the rest, remove the tape and stamp away!





For the next two cards I have used the Hero Arts Antique Engravings stamp set.  To get the background for the butterflies I flip over the clear stamps and ink up the flat back surface, stamp it and then flip it over to stamp the outline over the top, you can use a white pencil to highlight like I have below.  I have used an assortment of Memento inks in bright and muted colours.  The "just a note" sentiment is from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler set.

Bye for now.

Sharon x

New Cards

Today I'm posting some cards that use products I'll be stocking in my store www.willowpaperie.com.au !  The first cards use the Crate Paper Pretty Party Chipboard, phrase stickers and 6 x 6 paper pads.  The sentiments are Hero Arts Essential Messages and I have used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. 

The next cards used Basic Grey PB&J paper pads.  I have made one with masculine patterns and one with feminine patterns.  It just goes to show how versatile these paper pads can be.  Again the sentiment is from Hero Arts Essential Messages highlighted with some brads and with sewing machine stitching.  The banner ends were just hand cut with scissors.

Well that's all for today, will be back tomorrow with some more cards - have a great weekend!

Sharon x

I'm opening a web store

I have a web site at www.willowpaperie.com.au and will be stocking essentials for paper crafters like stamps, card stock, patterned paper etc. Grand opening is on August 1, 2012. I will be back later this week with some projects made with items I will be stocking in the store.