Our new & improved website!!

Over the past few weeks we have been working behind the scenes on lots of things, one of which has been our website.  As is usual with this type of thing, it turned out to be a bigger task than we had hoped but we now have a new and modern website.  All of the previous stock was deleted in the switch over so it will take a while for us to restock with everything we have but we are working on it.  We also lost all of our previous customer details so feel free to register on the shop to receive news and updates.

If you are attending the retreat this month we have added a quick way to pay off your balance to the shop site, full payment should be received before the Friday 19th October.  We thought that adding the balance to the shop will make things easy for you to bring payments up to date.

Please take the time to have a look around the new format shop, it is still a work in progress (ignore any images of sofas on the main screen!!) and we will be adding more stock all the time.  Let us know what you think and if you notice anything that needs our attention, the more eyes the better!! The web address is www.totalpapercrafts.co.uk

We did it!!

For the past few weeks we've been running a giveaway on the Total Papercrafts Facebook page aimed at reaching 200 'likes'. Well yesterday we reached our target!!

I used a random number generator website to draw the number 125 and the winner was Bridget Bob Edwards! We met Bridget at the Make It show in Farnborough earlier this year and she has been following the blog for some time now. Congratulations Bridget, your handmade album is on its way to you, enjoy!

Keep an eye out for more offers on our Facebook page coming soon.....

3 is the magic number!

For the past 2 weeks we've been running a free draw on our Facebook page to win a handmade mini album - I posted a pic of it here yesterday in fact. Well we only need three more 'likes' to reach our goal of 200 and then we can draw a name!!

I'd really love to be able to give this away today so if you haven't liked our page dash over there now and enter! If you have already entered then feel free to let others know about it.

You can find us at www.facebook.com/totalpapercraft

Win this mini album!!

Take a look at the fab decorated album you could win just by clicking on 'like' on our Facebook page!  When we reach our target of 200 likes we will draw a name from all of our Facebook fans to win this.  Check out the super cute bird cage charm hanging from the left spine!! The gates are held together with a padlock and key toggle clasp to close the album.

Each of the pages is covered with patterned paper and has lots of decorated tags for you to add even more photos and journaling.  It would make a perfect gift either as it is or filled with photos - we could solve one of your Christmas gift issues!!

If you are not already a fan of our Facebook page just click here and click on the 'like' button.  Good luck!!

Retreat peek!!

Here we go folks! The peeks for the retreat start here........!!

We are kicking off with a glimpse of one of the free make & takes that will be available throughout the weekend to give everyone a break from the cropping room and a change of pace.  Pauline and Sue will be running this stunning 'Christmas bauble' make & take a couple of times during the weekend so you'll need to check with them when they are running it.  They tell me that it may take around an hour to complete the project so you'll have to plan around meals/classes/sleep etc!!

Having seen the finished project I am sure that there will be a queue out of the door for this but don't panic if you don't get into the first session as Pauline and Sue are really flexible and will run it a few times to suit as many as possible.  I can't wait to make one of these myself, isn't it totally gorgeous?!

Total Papercrafts kit 1 for October

Here we go with the Total Papercrafts double page design for our October scrapbook kit. Just to start off, this is not a baby kit, its a kit that I used baby pictures on which is really different.  This is 'a really versatile page design that will work with all sorts of different photos, the rose designs will work really well with female photos/heritage photos/floral photos. 

The technique for this kit is 'cold porcelain clay' and making your own moulds using two-part moulding medium.  We will be making our own air dry clay and creating moulds from all sorts of decorative shapes - if you have an embellishment that you can't bring yourself to use for any reason, why not make a mould of it and recreate it in air-dry clay?  Dig out these embellishments and see just what you can create!

The kit contains; cardstock, 4 sheets of patterned paper, large oval doily, packages of 2-part moulding medium, length of white cotton tape, length of bakers twine, corn flour

You will also need; rose and green inkpads (the sample used Distress inks in Victorian Velvet and Peeled Paint), a decorative border punch and PVA glue.

Those attending my clubs will have the use of the punch and silicon moulds used on the sample design.

Photo prompt for w/c 1st October

Can you believe its October already?? Where is this year going? So here we go with our new photo prompt for this week.  It was lovely to see a few photos appear in our gallery after last week's prompt and I'm sure that it will continue to grow.  What struck me was the variety of pics that came from one prompt and thats what I was hoping.

So if you fancy joining in just for fun and to take more photos then drop by the forum here