Colour Inspiration #24: Pink Threads

I wanted to do a colour inspiration post today; something bright and happy!  I thought as it is now February, and almost Valentine's Day, I would go for a pink theme so started hunting for pink objects around the room... I then remembered by lovely drawers filled with threads and thought they would be perfect for this post.  In the top corner of this photo you can just see a peek of the purples that live next to the pinks in this drawer.  There's something wonderful about seeing colours organised, they look so pretty together.  It reminds me of when I used to have a Saturday job working in a craft shop - it was one of my favourite jobs restocking the pretty threads and yarns, seeing the huge range of colours they came in! :)

New Paper Crafting Kits

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog recently, the reason is I have been working on some exciting new products and I’m finally able to show you what I have been doing for the last couple of weeks!  I am expanding the craft supplies section of my shop and combining my designs for scrapbooking papers with some gorgeous new supplies like ribbons, bakers twine and buttons.

There are 3 new collections of kits; ‘London Calling’, ‘Cupcakes and Roses’ and ‘Steampunk’.  Each theme will have a card making kit and embellishment pack.  I will also be selling separate sets of things like baker’s twine.  If these prove popular I will be adding more themes and colours too.

The London / British themed card making kit contains 5 cards and envelopes, printed patterned papers, collage sheet and embellishments such as ribbon, buttons and beads.  (I love the bunting grosgrain ribbon in this set!)

The embellishment pack contains the same embellishments in red, white and blue as the card making kit but more of everything – longer lengths of ribbon, more buttons, beads, brads…

This pretty Cupcakes and Roses themed kit has blank cards, patterned rose paper, hot pink stripy buttons, pastel green and pink bakers twine and more…

The Cupcakes and Roses embellishment pack contains more ribbon, buttons, beads etc than in the card making kit.  Each of the embellishment packs contains fabric covered brads which I have made using different patterned new and vintage fabrics.

The Steampunk card making kit contains card blanks made from recycled card, brown kraft envelopes, patterned papers and collage sheets featuring my steampunk illustrations and coordinating embellishments.

Inside the Steampunk embellishment pack are 4 different colours of baker’s twine, satin ribbon, mini spotty buttons, beads and more…

I’m also adding other craft supplies to my shop like this card of baker’s twine in 5 bright colours.

What do you think of my new supplies?  Is there anything else you would like to see me stock in my shop?

~*~ You can see all the craft supplies and printable papers I sell in my Etsy shop: www.hfcSupplies.etsy.com

New sets of cards now in stock!

Sets of white cards with Kraft envelopes are probably the most popular sets of cards in my shop, but I love to receive a stack of coloured cards too!  I’ve just had a new order of card and paper so have plenty of different colours in stock.  A couple of the colours I used to sell are no longer available from my supplier so I’ve had to change some of the colour schemes a little, I’ve also introduced some new colour schemes (like the pearly mermaid collection).  I can make custom sets too – so if you are looking for different quantities or colour combinations not already listed in my shop please contact me.

These are the colours of card I currently stock (numbers 22-30 are new)…

New Card Stock! - craft supplies

This is just a small selection of the cards and envelopes I received in a new delivery of stock yesterday!

There are lots of white cards for making my printed greeting cards as well as coloured cards to be listed in my supplies shop.  I also ordered a sample of some recycled paper - it comes in some gorgeous colours!

I made a larger order than usual, which will hopefully keep me going for longer, although I slightly under-estimated the task of finding somewhere to put it all!  Almost all the card is sorted now, so tomorrow I'll be able to make a proper start on printing new cards :)

I decided to make some changes to the cards which I sell in my supplies shop.  I looked at the most popular sets and have chosen to condense the number of different sets I sell, but still maintaining a good range of colours and textures.

These are the colour sets that I will now be stocking...

From top left...

• Recycled (sandstone, suede, tuscan brown, dark grey and ash)
• Berry (burgundy, violet, raspberry, pink with a hammer texture, cream with a linen texture)
• Christmas (deep red, deep green, hammer textured cream, hammer textured white and bright green)
• Nautical (deep blue, bright blue, dark cream, hammer textured pale blue and linen textured white)

The cards in these colours measure 4 1/8 x 6 inches (104 x 152mm) - approx. A6 and are available with either square or round corners.  The recycled cards come with brown Kraft envelopes, all of the others come with white envelopes.

These white cards (which have a very slightly rough surface) are the same size as the cards above and come with brown envelopes...

I will also be selling white cards with either a linen texture or with the very slightly rough surface with white envelopes in two square sizes: 100mm and 125mm.

You can see the range of cards I have for sale in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/hfcSupplies?section_id=7812465

Christmas is coming!

I have more new Christmas items to show you today – a set of printable scrapbooking papers and printable gift boxes.

These scrapbooking papers include patterns made from my illustrations of holly, Christmas trees and puddings along with coordinating patterns like spots and stripes…

The Christmas boxes are sold as two printable designs – one in brown with the Christmas puddings pattern and the other with a holly pattern.  These boxes are easy to make and great for giving small gifts!

Each box comes with a coordinating gift tag.  The boxes can be made up in two ways – as a closed box like in the photograph above or as a gift bag by cutting off the top flaps and adding ribbon handles.

Both of these sets of printables are available to buy from my Etsy supplies shop.

Buttons galore!

I've been having a sort through my button collection... I have some lovely vintage glass buttons - I spotted some just like these in the latest issue of Homes and Antiques magazine...

They are art deco Scottie dog buttons - I have two brown ones and never realised that they came in other colours until I saw red, green and blue ones in the magazine.  I like these ones too much to part with though - sorry they won't be appearing in the shop!
I do have lots of buttons which I will be selling though - like these metal picture buttons which I think are of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti...

These yellow and orange ones are in the shop now too.  The little orange ones are so thin and light weight, I think they are made of metal wrapped with plastic.

I'm determined to get through my button stash so that I can have more room for my favourite ones - hopefully there will be a lot more in the shop over the next few  days.  One day I might even get around to displaying the special ones properly - it seems a shame to just keep them hidden in a box all the time.

Colourful patterns

I've been enjoying playing with shapes and colours to make new patterns for sets of printable scrapbooking papers.  Looking for inspiration I'm starting to see patterns everywhere - I've even found myself staring at the wallpaper on tv shows!
Following on from my original sets based on spirograph patterns (Myrtle and Carolina) I have 4 more colourways ready for release: Rose, Saffron, Lavender and Scarlet...

Each set contains a slightly different combination of designs with spirograph patterns mixed with spots and stripes.

I used an old Spirograph set to draw some shapes which I then scanned and used to make the patterned papers.  Did you know that technically the shapes made by the spirograph are actually called hypotrochoids and epitrochoids?  There are lots of complicated equations for the shapes.  Basically hypotrochoids are drawn with the wheel inside the ring and epitrochoids are drawn with the wheel outside the ring (the shapes in my patterns are hypotrochoids). 

These sets of papers are available to buy from my Etsy supplies shop: www.hfcSupplies.etsy.com

I'm happy to make custom sets too - so if you like the patterns but would like them in another colour please let me know!

Cupcakes and Roses part 3

For day 3 of my Cupcakes and Roses launch I have 2 new printable products...


Each of these cute printable gift boxes measures 2.5 x 3.5 x 2 inches when made up.  They're really easy to make and are great for giving small gifts in a unique way!  You can customise the boxes you make too - I finished the one in the photo with some stranded cotton thread and a little paper flower.










See a tutorial on how to make the gift boxes here: http://hazelfishercreations.blogspot.com/2011/08/printable-gift-box-tutorial.html

You can purchase a set of 2 of these printable gift boxes from my Etsy shop or my Folksy shop.

These pretty labels are also new today...

The set comes as 2 printable sheets, each with 8 designs featuring roses and cupcakes.  Each label measures 2.4 x 3.5 inches.  One sheet has 'To...' and 'From...' text added and the other sheet is without text.  They can be used as gift tags, journaling spots in scrapbooking, cardmaking and more!
These labels are also available to buy from my Etsy shop and Folksy shop.

Cupcakes and Roses part 2

Day 2 of my Cupcakes and Roses release is for this set of printable scrapbooking papers...

It includes some of the designs from the cardmaking kit and some new ones too...

I have designed a mixture of detailed rose and cupcake patterns along with simple spotty ones - they would be great for cards, scrapbooks, collage and more!

The set is available to buy from my craft supplies shop here.  You will receive 8 digital files; each sheet comes as a high resolution 300dpi file and measures 12 x 12 inches.

There's still more to come - the next products will be released tomorrow! :)

Release of new Cupcakes and Roses craft supplies

My new range of Cupcakes and Roses craft supplies is now ready for release!  The first product I am launching is this cardmaking kit...

This pretty kit contains card blanks, envelopes, papers, motifs and embellishments to make at least 5 cards.  With a bright, spring feel this kit would be great for making cards for a range of occassions; birthdays, thank you, get well soon, Mother's day and more!

I have designed all of the papers and motifs in this kit using a combination of pencil, pen, watercolours and digital art.  There are 5 backing papers which feature spots, stripes, tiny flowers and a rose pattern inspired by vintage teasets and floral fabrics.  Also included are border strips and motifs with cute cupcakes and a selection of messages.

For a little inspiration on the many cards and gift tags you could make with the kit here is a simple card I made...

I used a cream linen textured card blank, 2 of the spotty backing papers layered with a 'Happy Birthday' border strip, raspberry cupcake motif and bright pink ribbon.

This kit is available to buy from my Etsy supplies shop here.

Look out for the next release tomorrow!

Handmade Buttons and Craft Supplies

I’ve added a new section to my craft supplies shop for handmade buttons: http://www.etsy.com/shop/hfcSupplies?section_id=11101007 and have just started adding these to the shop…

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I finally got around to placing my order for new supplies – so there should be more new items in the shop very soon.  I can’t wait to get my new cardmaking kit finished! :)