Christmas Craft Retreat Day - Joy To The World 

I can't believe it's been almost a week since I held my all day Christmas Craft Event. There was a flurry of excitement and preparation in the run up to it, cutting card bases, layers and elements all ready to go in the kits.

You can see all the Christmassy colours in the off cuts!

Many, many copper foil Baubles were cut.

I am so blessed to have had one of my team running the day with me. Linda is very creative and excellent at teaching. I really couldn't have done it without her.

We had a whole day of crafting, chatting, laughing and creativity. Accompanied by Mince Pies, biscuits and a flow of teas and coffees.

The ladies made four different cards, five of each.

We used punches and stamps, heat embossing, die cutting and water colouring.

We had a light lunch of soup/rolls and or Jacket potatoes crispy from the oven with cheese and butter and or baked beans - simple but tasty! There was of course plenty of cake!!

It was a Christmas Stamp A Stack event so we had to have a little Christmas music playing in the background whilst we crafted and pretended it wasn't October. Many beautiful hand made Christmas cards were completed. It was lovely!

We rounded the day off with more tea and cake and a fabulous raffle with some great prizes.

Lots of beautiful papers were used!

We had such a lovely day I can't wait for the next one. I hold a regular class every month and and all day event like this, quarterly - this generally coincides with the release of new products which means we get to play with new goodies!

It was such a fun day with an amazing group of ladies. Some experienced and some new to paper crafting. Sunday was followed by Monday's Coffee and Cards. There was no Tuesday session this week due to half term but I have been crafting as well as having some fun half term days out.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what we got up to at the Christmas Craft Day . I will be updating my Classes and Events page shortly so do get in touch if you think you might be interested in attending, I'd love to have you.

I am of course, very grateful if you choose me to be your demonstrator and you shop with me. If you shop online, don't forget to use the hostess code if your order is between £20 - £150 for a small gift from me.

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I also send a little hand made gift and card to all my customers . I really appreciate all my customers because without them I wouldn't be here.

EXCITING NEWS!!! The new seasonal catalogue has come out !!

View The New Seasonal/Christmas Catalogue Here

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Hope to speak to you soon, 

Kate x 

Christmas Craft Retreat Day Fun!

On Saturday I held an all day Christmas Craft Retreat Day!  

It was a full day of crafting, coffee, tea, cake, lunch, cake and did I say cake?

Each of the ladies received enough goodies in their kit bags to make four of each of five designs of Christmas card. with loads left over. So they could if they wished take home 20 Christmas handmade cards all ready to send for Christmas.

My fabulous team member Linda popped in for a while and helped out! Thank you Linda . It was lovely to see you!

It was a lovely day, full of laughter, crafting and lots of fun. We had experienced crafters of many years through to absolutely brand new stampers. It was absolutely heart warming to see the all the ladies helping each other along.

 Lots of stamping

and die cutting

We had a beautiful sponge cake and chocolate dipped flapjacks for elevenses, and for lunch

 soup and warm rolls followed by hot mince pies or Christmas cake - It was Christmas crafting after all!

 No foodie pics this time I'm afraid. I didn't think to take any before we tucked in!

 One lady's growing card stack.

Envelopes were stamped and embossed too. No naked envelopes here!

I did a raffle too. For this limited availability lovely stamp set.

It really was a lovely day and I am so thankful to my ladies that came and made it so special!  As always when you do an event like this you can see what tweaks can be made to make it even more fun and I am already planning the next! 

In the mean time my next monthly card class is on November 14th and I can't wait! We will be using the Painted Harvest stamp set to make a beautiful set of cards and gift box. Do let me know if you'd like to book. I'd love to craft with you. Details are in the menu bar at the top.

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I run monthly Card Classes and Memories and More Scrapbooking crops too. Suitable for all abilities. See the dates on my events page in the side bar or contact me here for more details. I'd love to craft with you.

 If you place an on line order for between £20 and £150 please add hostess code Z29XEWW3 on checking out and I will send you a little thank you gift at the end of the month. If your order is £150 or more there is no need to add the code as you will earn your own Stampin Rewards! If there is anything you would like help with, don't hesitate to ask. I would love to earn your custom.

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