Papercraft Inspirations

October issue out Monday!

Welcome to the PaperCraft blog one and all! Today in the land of paper we're busily working away on your November issue, full of some fab festive treats including your essential 'Christmas inspirations' booklet (coming soon to a newsagents near you!)

In the mean time, issue 39 is about to hit the shops on Monday the 3rd September. If you're reading this as you're a subscriber and are lucky enough to already have your hand son a copy you'll know all about what's in store! All your free downloads, competitions and giveaways will be available from this site on Monday, when the issue goes on sale to one and all!

Inside the issue we'll show you how to try glass painting, acetate and die cutting on your cards, plus we've got FREE Christmas stamps and Vintage papers and fabulously fruity card toppers. Animal fans will love our idea for a scrapbook all about your family's favourite pet.

We're torn between dog, cat and rabbit lovers here in the PaperCraft office!

Have happy weekends everyone and remember to log on on MOnday to get all your hands on all our fab freebies for issue 39!

Zoe x

Posted by Zoe Beer
Friday August 31, 2007

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Design a stamp winner

Last but not least, congratulations to our overall winner (and now officially 'stamp designing pro!' Linda Nelson, who's stamp will be added to the Personal Impressions stamp range… Linda says: "I was inspired by my current love of script backgrounds...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Friday August 24, 2007

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Design a stamp competition

In our ongoing feature about your winning stamp designs, congratulations to our final runner up – Cynthia Homer from Rugby. Cynthia says: "I’ve been a card maker and scrapbooker for there years now but unfortunately my mum died a couple of years...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Thursday August 23, 2007

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Design a stamp competition

In our ongoing feature about your winning stamp designs, congratulations to Susan Wherry – our penultimate runner up! Susan's inspiration was to "do a retro design for younger mums." You've certainly done that Susan! Yummy mummies everywhere will...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Wednesday August 22, 2007

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Stamps for mum

Congratulations to Laura Robertson, from Edinburgh, our seventh of 10 runners up in our "Design a Stamp for Mum' competition Laura says: "My design was inspired by realising just how great and important my mum is when I became a mum myself to my two...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Tuesday August 21, 2007

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Calling all charity crafters

Would you like to be involved in a special article in issue 41? Our December issue of PaperCraft inspirations will hit the shops on the 26th October and we're looking for charity card making campaigns to be featured in our news pages. If you know of a...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Monday August 20, 2007

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Stamps for mum - even more runners up

In our ongoing feature about your winning stamp designs, congratulations to Sharon Magowan, from Co.Armargh, our youngest winner at just 14 years old! We suspect she's got a long and successful card making career ahead of her… Sharon says: I love...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Monday August 20, 2007

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Stamps for mum

Congratulations to Susan Finch Noyes, from Northants! Our sixth runner up… Susan says: "My inspiration came as I was making a mother’s day card and thinking that my mum really is the best mum in the world to me. I wanted to include hearts to show...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Sunday August 19, 2007

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Design a stamp runners up

Congratulations to Catherine Carr, who designed this winning stamp for her mum… Catherine says: "I designed this stamp for my mum because she works all day and then comes home and works even harder – I think she deserves a rest!"

Posted by Zoe Beer
Friday August 17, 2007

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Stamps for mum runners up

In our ongoing special feature about your brilliant winning stamp designs, congratulations to our third runner up, Jane Hennis from Cumbria, whose stamp holds a very special meaning… Jane says: “My mum inspired me to design this stamp. Sadly my mum...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Thursday August 16, 2007

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See more stamps for mum here…

In our ongoing special feature about your brilliant winning stamp designs, congratulations to our second runner up – Marieke Vermuelen from The Netherlands! Marieke created this fabulous flower design. We love that she's taken her inspiration from some of...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Wednesday August 15, 2007

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See your stamps for mum here!

Earlier this year we ran our Design A Stamp For Mum competition, along with Personal Impressions Congratulations again to overall winner Linda Nelson and to our 10 runners up. Over the next few days we'll be posting up a different stamp winner each day...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Tuesday August 14, 2007

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Check out this fab freebies site

The Papercraft HQ offices are buzzing this week and along the way we've found this fab site Crafts By Carolyn which has oodles of free patterned papers for you to download.. Ginghams and spots are two of my favourite basic patterns for my summer cards so...

Posted by Zoe Beer
Tuesday August 07, 2007

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Whoops!

In our August issue we reviewed 'Rubber Stamping' by Kim Reigate. Unfortunately the price was quoted incorrectly! The cover price of the book is £9.99, and you can buy the book for £8.99 with free UK postage. Ring 01892 510 850 and quote Papercraft...

Posted by Alison Gibbins
Monday August 06, 2007

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Click here for your 4 FREE Totally Tropical card making papers

The sun is FINALLY shining - well, it is in Bath at PaperCraft HQ anyway!

To celebrate (any excuse to make cards!) click below to download your brand new set of exclusive Totally Tropical papers - fresh from issue 38 of PaperCraft inspirations! It's in shops later this week and includes luxury printed versions of these papers. The plus point of these files of course is you get to use them again and again!

Don't forget to send us the cards you make with them - we do love looking through your creations and picking which ones to feature on our letters pages each month. Remember everyone we feature wins a prize too.