Archive for February, 2010

It has been announced that tomorrows show has been cancelled due to the severe weather warnings that the organisers have been issued with.

We are very sorry to be relaying this news to you this evening as we have enjoyed the fun of the last two days and meeting some of our fabulous friends from UKScrappers and beyond.

Thankyou for those who visited our stand at the show and don’t forget we will be having even more fun next weekend when we host our second blog party right here on Saturday 6th March 2010.

Margaret and Claire

Hi everyone! Well, I’ve just sneaked 5 minutes to quickly post on the blog as we are off to set up for Farnborough Craft Show and are busily packing. The shop will be open the following over the next few days whilst we are away:

Thursday: 10am – 4pm

Friday : 1pm – 5pm

Saturday: 9:30pm – 1pm

Monday: 12noon – 5:30pm

All internet orders placed between now and Sunday, will be despatched Monday aftenoon.

Thankyou everybody for voting for your favorite creation in our Sketch Challenge – the poll is still open until next Wednesday evening, so make sure you vote for your favorite – it’s still very much anyone’s game so as we approach our 100th vote, make sure you have your say! (You can find the link to our poll at the top of this page).

 For now though, I shall leave you with this beautiful NEW range, which I’ve just discovered after it arrived here yesterday.

(The pictures really do not do it justice-make sure you come to Stand C18 atFarnborough for a proper look!!!)

And they even have these beautiful co-ordinating flowers…

Have Fun everybody and we’ll see you at Farnborough!

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(Picture from the blog of Donna Downey at www.donnadowney.typepad.com)

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(Picture from the Blog of Donna Downey at www.donnadowney.typepad.com)

Well, now you can with the fabulous new canvas blanks we have received today from the new Donna Downey 2010 Collection.

We also have her adorable foam stamps and lots of new prima including strawberry kisses, innoscence flowers, Cancan Flowers, Belle Arte Flowers, Grand Dame Flowers and Green Leaves Clear Stamps.

Any orders placed before 3pm tomorrow, will be sent out tomorrow before we head off to Farnborough Craft Show. Our P&P is just £1.

On February 6th 2010, we held our FIRST BLOG PARTY! After taking a look at the following sketch and the ideas of some of our design team members, we opened up the floor to you guys and asked you to send in your creations.

So, here they are in their full glory! You have until Midnight on Wednesday 3rd March 2010 to vote in the poll below for the name of the designer for your favorite creation. The winner will be revealed at our blog party on Saturday 6th March 2010 and they will win a selection of products from some of our favorite brands! (In the event of a tie, the final decision between the tied entrants will be made by the staff at Creative Moments).

1) Helen Jones

2) Katy Temple

3) Melissa Cruickshank

4) Samm Turner

5) Helen Salthouse

6) Jo Burton

Well, we went into WHSmiths to buy our dailys and who did we spot staring back at us? Only Obie Jake!!! (Obie is Claire’s fabulous little boy who is at two is into absolutly everything!!!)

Check out Nana’s glasses he found here!!!

Well this photo was just begging to be scrapped and when we were asked if we would like to appear in the Designers Scrapbooking magazine for Scrapbook Magazine, we of course had to say yes!

We wanted to do something different, something unique and memorable. Therefore we decided to decorate a Maya Road ‘Townhouse’ with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints, Gesso, Crate Paper and more. A House?!? I hear you say – well the roof lifts straight off and inside is a chipboard minibook! How cool is that!?!?

Now you will have to buy the magazine to see the full double page spread, complete with a step by step and lots of photos but here is a little sneaky peak.

Oooh! I know you are dying to see more, but that really is all we can show you! Hotfoot it down to your local W.H.Smiths to buy the magazine and see the full double page spread.

These houses sold out quick at the recent shows and we are desperatly trying to get some more in, so don’t panic they shall be back in stock VERY soon! Yeah!

Since CHA we are starting to take delivery of lots of NEW Products! Yeh

And what better way to introduce these to the world, but by offering an exclusive discount to our fellow UKSCRAPPERS and BLOG FOLLOWERS.

This weekend only (20th/21st February 2010) we will be offering 10% off any items purchase from the NEW collections from GCD Studios which are Homespun Chic & Artsy Urban as well as from K&Co’s ‘Handmade’ collection. All you need to do is to use enter code gcdkco to your basket.

This code should only be used in conjunction with items from Homespun Chic (GCD Studios), Artsy Urban (GCD Studios) and Handmade (K&Co). Other items will be charged at their full price. Our P&P is just £1 and we shall be sending all orders out on Monday.

These items are already selling fast, so be quick to make sure you bag yourself a bargain this weekend.

Here are some of our favorites that you could get yourself 10% off!

this beautiful NEW Chipboard book kit which arrived TODAY! Thats right, it was so beautiful that we just had to open it right away and put it together

This kit is from GCD Studio’s and is from the Artsy Urban Collection by Melody Ross which was released at the January CHA show. Isn’t it beautiful!

We havn’t quite finished our’s yet, but the inside has sturdy tabbed pages which have been printed in full color. Did I mention, that it also came with some gorgeous embellishments which are going to look great adorning my album. It really is so gorgeous and as soon as we have it filled, we will give you a sneaky peak!

We shall be uploading the new items onto the website over the next few days but if you are desperate for one give us a call on 01935 422499 as we only have a few and I am SURE they will sell out quick! Don’t forget Midnight, tomorrow (20th February 2010) is the closing date for our Sketch Challenge, so you have just over 24hours to CREATE something beautiful and get it sent into us at sparkleandscrap@yahoo.co.uk – We have had some lovely entries already and can’t wait to see yours!

Well, you are in the right place!!!!

Next month on Saturday March 20th 2010, we will be drawing winners for some fab prizes! Anyone who comments on our blog throughout the month , is our friend on twitter (we are CreativeMoments) or Facebook (Creative Moments) will automatically be loaded into our prize draw!

Easy peasy, nothing else to do!!!

And the more comments you leave or if you follow us on Facebook AND Twitter then the more chances you have of winning as each comment/post/friend request will automatically count as an additional entry for you!

Make sure you tell ALL your friends as you gotta be in it, to win it and by following us you’ll be the first to hear about all the latest news/offers and events!!!!

Good Luck

Firstly sorry for the lack of posting, since our manmouth Blog party! We have been so busy, sending out all your prizes and exhibiting at London Excel Craft Show! It was lovely to meet some of you there and we are off to Farnbourough next week, so make sure that you too come over and say “hello” if you are coming along!

We have also started receiving entrys for the sketch challange which we set at the our blog party, so make sure that you send your creation in to sparkleandscrap@yahoo.co.uk - but hurry as the closing date is THIS SATURDAY 20th FEBRUARY 2010!!! The winner will be announced at our next blog party on 6th March 2o1o and they will win a selection of goodies from our favorite brands such as Prima, Hambly’s and more…..

Here is the sketch:

and don’t forget you can enter as many times as you’d like…so get scrapping!!!!!!

is finally here! Before we get to the WINNERS of the giveaways from our blog party this weekend, we would like to thank everybody who came and to those who commented, without you we wouldn’t of have anywhere as much fun!!! So thankyou!

We must also say a HUGE thankyou to our design team members for some great pieces of work ( Chris, Sharon, Shirley, Kathey, Sara & Sue) and also to Sandra for her fantastic flower tutorial, Kate & Natalie for joining in the fun and letting us highjack their blogs too!

So now onto the winners who were drawn this afternoon from our highly sophisticated(!) random technique of picking the names out of a basket for each competition!!!

3 Acrylic Dabbers

Mel : Oh how fabulous! These would be great for inking the pages of layouts and mini books to give a more ‘grunged’ effect then an ink pad. Thank you for the chance to win!

One of Margaret’s top 10

Katy : Owwww what a stunning lot of goodies you have in the giveaway, i think my fav is the Embossed Chips by Tattered Angels, i could see me makign lots of mess with my glimmer mists with those.

3 Glimmer Mists

Sharon: What is the only colour every girl loves? PINK!!!

Kanban Stamp Set

Rosemary : I had to go away and think about this. I have so many that I love but right now I think my favourite is a one of the new Hero Arts stamps, the poppys. I am finding it really versatile.

Leaf Chain & Beads:

Angie: If i win, i guess i`ll have to start jewellery making! lol. my hubby will kill me! xx

Congratulations! If the winners can e-mail us at sparkleandscrap@yahoo.co.uk with their addresses then we will get your prizes sent out to you! You have one week to claim your prize.

We will be hosting our next party on 6th March 2010 with lots of new ideas and some fab giveaways!! We will also be announcing the winner of the SKETCH CHALLENGE, so make sure you join in the fun and get those entries sent in!