The ‘Gone Fishing’ Collection is yet another in the FQB series from NitWit Collections! Their ‘Gone Fishing’ Collection is a tribute to all of the fishermen and fisherwomen who love to spend their days casting into the waters and trying to outsmart the fish into taking their ‘lucky’ hook! In this collection Mary Fran has tried to pack up your tackle box with the best lures and floats and even gave you some bait, so take the day off and hang out the sign ‘Gone Fishing’!

Included in the set:

• 21 ‘Fat Quarter Fabric’ background papers (in various colours and patterns)
• 2 Bobbers – in case one gets snagged in the weeds
• 1 Border of water – the waves are a bit choppy today
• 3 Bows in various colours
• 1 Bubbles set – which fokelore lake monster is making these?
• 2 Fish – they’re taunting you!!
• 1 Fish bear – isn’t it nice when they fish with you
• 1 Fishing hat
• 1 Fishing line – maybe a little light for those big guys
• 1 Fishing rod
• 1 Frame – Fish Tales – there are no tales in fishing, right?
• 1 Frame – rope and hook
• 1 Plain hook
• 1 Hook baited with a worm
• 3 Journal tags – blank – to tell your tales
• 3 Lures – They’re biting on the red & white today
• 9 Phrase tags with many popular phrases on them
• 3 Ribbons in various colours
• 4 Ribbon folds
• 1 Splash – hopefully that’s not you making it as you lean over the side of the boat
• 2 Strings
• 3 String bows
• 1 Vest – part of the much needed gear
• 6 Word art all decked out and ready to use
• 1 Worm – extra bait, just in case the nibbler got away
• 1 paintchip

Materials…

• White square card blank
• BasicGrey Mellow patterned papers
• Thin corrugated cardboard
• Brown ink
• Tree stamp
• Brown ribbon
• Small piece of white cardstock
• ‘Happy Birthday’ stamp
• Brown cardstock
• Orange embroidery floss

To create…

1 Mount brown cardstock just within the white card blank itself.  Mount a smaller piece of the tree-patterned paper from the BasicGrey collection within the brown cardstock area.

2 Cut some thin corrugated cardboard to fit within one half of the tree paper, ripping the thin covering off to reveal the texture.

3 Ink the tree stamp in brown on a small piece of white card, inking the edges in brown.

4 Before you fix the stamped image, wrap a length of brown ribbon around the front of the card and tie a bow. Fix the stamped image on top using 3D foam tape.

5 Stamp a ‘happy birthday’ greeting on a small piece of white cardstock and trim it to look like a tag. Mount onto plain green patterned paper and secure a small knot onto the tag shape using orange embroidery floss. Fix to the bottom-right of the tree image.

Project by Kirsty Wiseman. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 7.

Materials…

• White square card blank
• BasicGrey Mellow patterned papers
• Green Core’dinations cardstock
• Orange ribbon
• Bazzill spotty brad
• ‘Have a beautiful day’ stamp
• Cuttlebug Dotted Swiss embossing folder
• Sizzix Fringed Flower die

To create…

1 Cut the Core’dinations cardstock to the width of the card and 1.5″ high.  Run it through the Cuttlebug embossing folder to add texture and adhere to the bottom of the card.

2 Run a length of ribbon across the card, making an incision at the side of the card and wrapping around the back and to the front again. Tie a little knot.

3 Cut the plain orange, green and brown papers from the BasicGrey collection to 6×6″ and run each piece through your die-cutting machine with the Sizzix Fringed Flower die.

4 Arrange the flower into a sunburst effect and secure with a brad. Adhere to the card as shown.

5 Rubber-stamp your greeting to the right of the flower and add a green heart above the ‘i’. Fix a star clip to the top-right of the card.

Project by Kirsty Wiseman. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 7.

BasicGrey are pleased to introduce their newest digital collection! Lollipop Shoppe! From the palest pink lemonade to the boldest shade of green apple, this juicy collection is one tasty treat! Lollipop Shoppe is an intensely bright, vibrant line of spunky patterns with a hint of retro-cool appeal. Begin creating here.

Kaisercraft have launched additional collections for July in the form of ‘Lush’ and ‘Up, Up & Away’ as well as texture clear stamps and Beyond the Page items:

Lush Collection

Be swept away by Kaisercraft’s newest collection, Lush – inspired by orient this pretty collection with its delicate patterned papers and beautiful plain papers in exotic, tropical colours and delicate flowers and flourishes, Lush will have you dreaming of an oriental holiday. This collection is comprised of 6 double-sided patterned papers and a coordinating embellishment range including die-cut elements, black and coloured rub-ons, 6″ square specialty paper pad, clear stamps, journal tags and specialty and die cut paper.

Up, Up & Away Collection

Float up to the clouds with Kaisercraft’s vintage inspired, Up, Up and Away collection. With its carnival themed atmosphere, vintage newspaper prints and soft colour pallete, this collection lends itself to scrapbooking projects dedicated to the men in our lives or vintage photos from years gone by.This collection is comprised of 6 double-sided patterned papers and a coordinating embellishment range including die-cut elements, black and coloured rub-ons, 6″ square specialty paper pad, clear stamps, journal tags and specialty and die cut paper.

Texture clear stamps

Available in 8 designs, these gorgeous texture stamps are 5×13cms in size and are available in a variety of popular designs – script, flourish, sheet music, grunge and more!

Beyond the Page

Funky Wreath: This wreath is perfect for your home or a special gift for a friend.

Dress up dolls: This is a great project to create cute little dolls for your little girl, or give to your children to make up their own!

For more information about Kaisercraft products please visit their website.

We’ve got another fab freebie for you – this month Creative Cardmaking issue 16 is available for you to download  completely FREE OF CHARGE!!

To download the entire magazine simply click on the image of the cover and save the file. If you have trouble downloading it this way, right-click on the image & choose the ’save link as’ option.

Due to popular demand, Bramwell Crafts has introduced a new feature to their website – ‘The Video gallery’ – which has great tutorials by Melanie Heaton with hints and tips. If you are looking for any other tutorials, send them your ideas and they will try to accommodate new videos that you would like to see.

Bramwell Crafts are having a prize draw in July. Come up with a catchy name for Melanie’s blog which will be available soon on their website before 10^th July and win a BoBunny pink leather bag with papers and tools worth £150. There will be 10 runners up prizes of BoBunny accessories!!

Email your suggestions for blog and ideas for the tutorials to vaishakhi@bramwellcrafts.co.uk.

Bramwell Crafts would also like to invite you to attend the Summer Crafting event in Doncaster on 17^th and 18^th July. Melanie Heaton will be hosting workshops along with other celebrity crafters on Friday 16^th July.

Melanie’s workshop will take you through the papercrafting technique of how to create floral decoration using EK Success punches on a delightful mini easel card which is featured on Bramwells website. Melanie will inspire your creative imagination with these fabulous punches which cut through card. The class also features the delicious BoBunny paper. All the products and materials will be supplied. There are still places available, so don’t miss this exciting opportunity!

Bookings can be made online for workshops. Visit www.crafting.co.uk or ring 0800 954 0070. When you make a booking, provide them with the discount code SCBramwells and you will save £10.00 on the workshop fee, making the workshops just £15.00.

When you attend Melanie’s workshop you will receive a 10% discount voucher that can be used on the Bramwell stand (stand no 4). When you make a purchase using your discount voucher you will receive a free gift of an Inkadinkado clear stamp worth £10.00 together with a fun project by Melanie using the stamp.

In issue 73 of Simply Cards & Papercraft and issue 26 of Australian Simply Cards Su Pennick created a set of magical woodland cards using templates. For those of you that would like to re-create these gorgeous cards simply click on the image to download a zipped folder containing all four templates.

To purchase a copy of Simply Cards & Papercraft issue 73 simply click here.

Materials…

• Polka Doodles Back To Nature CD-ROM
• Black Sakura Glaze pen
• Kanban gems
• Ranger glitter glues
• 3D foam pads

To create…

1 Print the background paper, flowers, cow and gate from the ’shaped cards’ section of the CD-ROM. Cut around all the pieces, leaving a narrow white border around the cow. Assemble the fence as per the instructions.

2 Adhere the background paper to the card as shown, sandwiching the fence flap on the left-hand side.

3 Colour the cow’s patches with a Glaze pen, then adhere the cow to the card behind the fence and curl forward one ear.

4 Cut out the flowers and dŽcoupage onto the flowers on the card front using 3D foam pads.

5 Print out the ‘You’ve mooved’ lettering, trim and adhere to the card. Add a gem to the cow’s flower, and apply glitter glue to the centre of the dŽcoupaged flowers to finish.

Materials…

• Polka Doodles Back To Nature CD-ROM
• Ranger glitter glue
• 3D foam pads

To create…

1 Print the shaped house sheet twice from the ‘Housey Housey’ section of the CD-ROM.

2 Cut out one whole house sheet, trim around the house leaving a narrow white border, and cut between the fence panels with a craft knife.

3 Cut the house, path and two trees from the second sheet, then dŽcoupage the cut-out pieces using 3D foam pads.

4 Print out the lettering, and mount ‘New’ with 3D foam pads and adhere ‘home’ directly to the card.

5 Add glitter glue to the flowers in the house’s window box to finish.

Project by Patsy Jackson. Originally published in Papercraft Essentials issue 53.