Elegance Embossed

That's what the latest Kanban designs are. I've used some of the natural card to make these cards, a great contrast to the embossed luxury of the butterfly and chantilly lace background designs. I'm feeling a bit feverish with all the ideas buzzing about in my head... so many gorgeous new cards to make! This card is one of my favourites, the embossed butterfly and frame give the luxury, and make you want to stroke it.

This card is made using one of the ladies from a sheet of 3, there are funky ones and more elegant too, both look lovely on this Chantilly pink background, and I've used the natural card again.

We also have the fabulous duo acetate sheets back in stock again, though they don't usually stay with us for very long at all. I don't think the photo does justice to the vibrant coloured acetate, but you can get the gist! The verses are embossed too :)

Paper Box

I love this, think it's so clever, this 10x10 box is just right for a large cookie, but a gift voucher or piece of jewelry would fit nicely too! The box is made from a square piece of double sided paper (not too thick because of the creasing), size of the box... it can be as big or small as you want and folds flat, It looks lovely tied closed with a ribbon, and can sit on a card or just be a box in it's own right! Andy's the folding expert, so I'll see if I can persuade him to let me video him making one... Here are some of our ladies having fun making them.

Die - ing to meet you...

Hi Andy here, it's not often I get let loose to blog to everyone....but at last....here I am!!.

Well today, I've been busy at the shop, learning some fancy folding, hopefully you will see that in the next day or two, chatting to customers and oggling at the gorgeous die cutters we've just got in. I can't wait to use them. I quite fancy a couple of Nellie Snellens but I don't know which. What do you think I should choose?










I thought they were nice but then I saw these.....












I can't wait to have a play with these...that's my Cricut put on the shelf for another week! After making that flower card the other day I wouldn't mind having a go with the flower cutters here.

Well...short and sweet, maybe I will be allowed back on again next week.

Girlie things...

I've been after the Blossom Nestability for a while, but with such a long wish list (it's not my fault there's so much gorgeous stuff), I only got round to getting one for myself last week. I planned to make a luscious blossom with lots of tissue and mulberry papers, but as they were at home, decided pretty vellums would look gorgeous too!

Andy made this pretty card this afternoon with just a couple of pink vellums, Blossom nesties, pink ribbon and an elegant brad... so not just girlie things... I don't think the photo does it justice, but you can get an idea of it below.

My girlie contribution is a basque! Another simple card, made quickly and easily, but still elegant, I like 'simple' cards, and 'space'

Inky Fingers

What a beautiful sunny day we've had today, let's hope it's a sign of things to come... especially tomorrow as it's our day off and we're hoping to get quite a bit of gardening done. Meanwhile, in the shop this afternoon we've been getting our fingers nice and inky with alcohol and distress inks and a little bit of embossing too. We had a good selection of alcohol inks for everyone to play with, earthtones, brights and lights. For some ladies it was their first introduction to these amazing little bottles, and great fun was had discovering how different they look every time you use them. Everyone had some 'cut n dry' to blend their distress inks with, and some really lovely cards and effects were created with ink and the Karantha background stamps :)

We also released our class and workshop schedule for next month, with varied classes from using your Bookatrix to shrink plastic to Promarkers, we'll be sending out lists to everyone on the shop mailing lists, and upload to the shop site too.

Beginnings...

Andy set up this blog for our shop, Fingertips. So firstly I must say a big thank you, I love the background :)

The plan is... using the term loosely... is to bring some of the inspiration from the shop to the web, tell you about upcoming events and we'll feature some of the exciting goodies that we have coming in, including of course, our own Imadagen stamps.

In the last fortnight we've had our first 2 deliveries of Sugar Nellie stamps... this has caused great excitement... especially from me :)) We only sell them in the shop not online, but here is the gorgeous wee coffee cup manga girl coloured in with Promarkers.

There'll be a few of these lovely Scottish stamps cropping up here over the near future as I'm well and truly smitten.

A big favourite at the moment, are the Kanban Wobblers. Kanban is always very popular because of the quality. These Wobblers are a bit different from their usual designs :)

Here's the cow (I have the giraffe waiting on my desk to be made up over the weekend). If you get a chance to pop into the shop, we have them on special offer at the moment... :))

The tiger Wobbler makes a great card for a Hull Tigers fan, and the striped Zebra is ideal for a Hull FC supporter... still looking for a robin