It’s the last week of the summer holidays here and summer has returned! Hope it has been glorious with you too?

The new Cosmo Cricket Togetherness collection is just so fun and summery – so many gorgeous patterns, no need for anything fancy just let that paper shine

Supplies used:

Cosmo Cricket Togetherness Mini Deck, Craftie-Charlie Festive ribbon, Cosmo Cricket Togetherness 12″x6″ Ready Set Chip, Personal Impressions Double Sayings Clear Stamp set, Memento Ink – Rhubarb Stalk, A4 Kraft cardstock, Corner Rounder, EK Edge Punch – Double Embossed Dotted Lace

Happy Crafting

Jane

Have been a VERY busy bee today with so many deliveries arriving, including the first of the Summer CHA releases and loads of Tim Holtz Idea-ology…

• If you love Tim Holtz (and really, who doesn’t?! Have you seen my photo on Facebook?) we have loads of Idea-ology new in here…

• It’s no secret that I adore Cosmo Cricket and these new lines are no exception! Mitten Weather, Togetherness and Pixie-Licous – how cute are these Chipboards?! (don’t forget to take a look at the 12″x6″ version too)

• How about all the new Cosmo alphabets here…?

Have fun looking!

Happy crafting

Jane

As I mentioned, it was my DS’s birthday last week. He was 6 and he loves jokes! So when I’d spent some time scratching my head about what to do for a card, I thought I’d go with a joke (if not a very good one!) and came up with this:

Supplies used: Kraft card stock, Basic Grey Archaic collection pack, Basic Grey Archaic Chip Stickers (my last one – boo hoo!), Colorbox Chalk Inks – creamy brown, chestnut roan and olive, Memento Tuxedo Black and some little individual letter stamps – mine are wood mounted on pegs and nameless but you might want to try these, not such a nightmare for lining up!

While I was looking for a dinosaur joke, I came across this strawberry one which made me smile, so made one for this too (the punch line is ’strawberry jam’ btw!)

Supplies used: Cosmo Cricket Jack’s World paper crafting kit, Kars Fruity stamp, Copics for colouring,  Memento and letter stamps as before.

BTW this is my favourite joke of all time – it’s bad but I love it, kills me everytime! Doesn’t make a good card though

Three pieces of string are out for a walk one day. The sun is shining and as they pass the pub they stop for a drink. The first piece of string takes the orders and goes inside…
He walks up to the bar and asks the landlord for 3 pints of beer
The landlord looks at the string and says, “We don’t serve your kind in here.”
The string walks outside and tells the others what has happened.
The second piece of string says, “Don’t worry I’ll sort this out” and heads into the pub.
He walks up to the bar and says, “Look, please may I have 3 pints of beer now!”
The landlord looks at the second string and says, “I told your friend, we DON’T serve your kind in here.”
So the string walks outside and tells the others what has happened.
The third piece of string ties himself into a knot, frays up the ends of himself and walks back into the bar.
He walks up to the bar and says, “I’d like 3 pints of beer please.”
The bartender says, “Look! I told you before we don’t serve your type. You’re one of those strings who was in here earlier aren’t you?”
The string says, “Nope! I’m a frayed knot.”

Happy crafting

Jane

I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine where you are?  It’s been absolutely glorious here over the last couple of days – which is nothing short of miraculous with it being the school holidays!!

Both of today’s cards use cute flower embellishments which I’ve made by cutting notches into punched out circles, and then doodling a line round the edge – super easy but super effective, LOVE them

Check out the sunshine in these photos!

Supplies used:

Kraft cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Lil Man paper crafting kit, 1 1/2″ and 1 1/4″ circle punches, black journalling pen, various Basic Grey buttons, Fiskars Apron Lace edge punch, American Crafts Thickers Regards Geyser, Personal Impressions Wording Stamp Set, Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink

Happy crafting

Jane

Just a quick one today as I’m just dashing off for a long weekend but just wanted to share this project from Sandrine. Isn’t it fabulous?  I am particularly impressed with Sandrine’s bargain hunting skills – what a fab find the unit is

Oh, and make sure you pop back next week for a chance to win in our fabulous blog candy giveaway!

Happy crafting

Jane

Hi folks – sorry for the delay in posting, it’s been a crazy week culminating in no internet access all day yesterday – arrggh!

I think if I had to pick a favourite of the beautiful projects Sandrine has made, it would be this one. It’s just so simple but so perfect – I just love the idea of sewing the pages into the card so your letter is part of it and the punched edge is bliss!

Supplies used: A4 Kraft Cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Ready Set Chip, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Collection Pack, EK Success Binding Edge Punch

Happy crafting

Jane

It’s a very special day here on the Craftie-Charlie blog as we welcome our very first Guest Designer – so a big HELLO to Sandrine!

I adore Sandrine’s beautiful work and was delighted when she agreed to come along and be our guest designer – she’s created a collection of fabulous projects using the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl range, which we’ll be sharing during this week – get ready to be inspired!

Here’s a little taster of the treats in store and some info about Sandrine

“My name is Sandrine, I’ll be 36 years old on the 29th of April! I’m married and mother of two amazing kids: Louis who’s five and half years old and Charlotte who’s two and half years old ! They are my everyday inspiration and I’m also a half part time worker in “Kids’s Paradise” in Ikea Belgium.

And the rest of time I’m a crazy crafter! I’m mad about papers, glue, inks, ribbons, stamps, fabrics, felts, embellishments,….. (I could write an encyclopaedia with all the things I LOVE!) I love to use products to create lovely and full of colors objects and love to play with textures and try new techniques! My favourite is to learn and try I also adore to use fabric inks and lovely scrapbooking stamps to create new patterns on fabrics or ribbons: it’s like giving a second life to scrapbooking stuff! Not only for making pretty albums or journals or layouts or cards, you can also use all of these scrapbooking items for another use, creating, decorating, altering objects. I’m not afraid to try new things, new styles and others unknown things because for me it’s always a pleasure and kind of challenge. I don’t “treat” myself as a scrapbooker (even if I do “scrapbooking”) maybe I could say I’m a mixed media girl or simply a crafter !

I’ve been published several times in Belgian magazines (craft magazines & womens magazines), have been guest designer member of some european & american companies, and also designer for a famous Belgian company (Artemio & their online shop Diane Hobby)”

And without further ado, here’s Sandrine’s first project – a totally adorable altered folder:

Some tips and directions!

Supplies used: Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Papercrafting Kit, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Ready Set Chip, Cosmo Cricket Ready Set Chip Alphas – High Noon

Happy crafting

Jane

I’m soooo excited – just wanted to let everyone know that the new Cosmo Cricket lines have arrived today! I’ve added them to the website, snaffled some for myself and I’m off to get creating!

Garden Variety, Material Girl, Joy Ride

Enjoy!

Jane

We’ve been waiting on the Cosmo Cricket mini decks to come back into stock for ages   The Jolly by Golly and Earth Love have finally arrived – hurrah!! I’ve not had a chance to play with the Jolly by Golly (it keeps getting snapped up before I have a chance to pinch one!!) but I did manage to get hold of a pad of the Earth Love. Those patterns are just SO gorgeous… here are two cards I made with it – I couldn’t decide which patterns I wanted to use so ended up using pretty much all of them

Supplies used: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Mini Deck, Crate Paper Baby Bee Ribbon, Prima Life is Sweet stamp, Bazzill Bitter Chocolate, (sentiment stamp – can’t remember!)

Supplies used: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Mini Deck, SU! Twill Ribbon, Bazzill Bitter Chocolate, Hero Arts Arigato stamp set

Happy crafting

Jane

New stuff makes me happy so I’m pretty delighted at the moment!  We’ve got loads of new items in from Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey including the much anticipated Christmas 2009 ranges Eskimo Kisses and Jolly by Golly.

Go on take a peak…!