We all had a great day on Sunday 16th September when Paul Church joined us to launch Indigo Blu in store. Thanks to everyone who came along.

Indigo Blu are "quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs" – and they are all made in England. They also make the best gliding glue, called Flitter Glu, and a great range of gilding flakes.

Paul showed us how to make best use of the flakes with some stunning designs and now we've got lots of ideas watch out for our special Indigo Blu classes!

We are all excited with our new product range - Indgo Blu - coming to the store on Sunday 16th September.

Indigo Blu are "quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs" – and they are all made in England. They also make the best gliding glue, called Flitter Glu, and a great range of gilding flakes.

To celebrate these products in store, we have managed to persuade the talented demonstrator Paul Church to come and show off for us. Best of all his demonstrations will be FREE for you to come and watch between 2pm and 5pm on Sunday 16th September.

Come along and take a look at this fabulous new range.

Classes coming this week.....Monday, Tuesday

 Monday 23rd july class 10.30am till 3pm

The Night before Christmas double gatefold booklet

 Either a stunning mantle decoration or an extravagent card for a special person.

YOUNG CRAFTERS CLUB - Envelope Book

the new Young crafters summer club starts Tuesday!

Daytime: 10.30am -between 1pm and 1.30pm

 This is a great little gift book with pages resembling envelopes and fitting 3 tags per page. Use the tags for photos or journalling.

Scrapbooking Lesson - You colour my world

 Tuesday 24th July 2012

Evening 7pm - 10.30pm

 This lovely rainbow style page is sure to bring a smile to your face. pick a photo of someone who makes your world special!

Recent Class finishes.....

 Just thought i would show you some of the ladies and there recent finishes, these are from the  "Smile" class Linda and Trisha, a couple of the friday girls

and Linda from the Tuesday evening gang, well done girls looking good.

TABLE TOP CRAFT STASH SALE

TABLE TOP CRAFT STASH SALE

Daytime: 10.00am - 4pm
Have you got too much craft stash? Need to sell some off to make room for new ranges? Or maybe you're a new crafter needing low cost equipment? Perhaps you just love a bargain!
Come along to our table top sale where crafters will be selling their own equipment and stash for their own profit. This will be a cash sale only.
If you would like to buy a table at the event to sell your bits it's only £5. The shop will be open as usual.

CRAFTY DAZE OUT - Hobbycrafts show at the NEC

We all love a crafty day out - and Crafty Daze has one planned for the convenience of our customers. We have hired a coach from the shop to the NEC "Hobbycrafts", "Crafts for Christmas", and "Art Materials Live" event in November. We have chosen Friday 9th November 2012 and will leave the shop at around 8.30am, arriving at the NEC for 9.30am, and leave the NEC again at about 4.30pm to arrive at the shop at 5.30pm. Cost will be £25 which includes the entrance ticket to all 3 shows. We are taking bookings now with a £10 deposit - call us or book online.

Fridays Scrap class

This feminine layout has a few options for photographs: the total photo area measures 9"x4", and can accommodate, for example, one 4"x3" portrait plus four to six passport photos and journalling (see left), OR one 6"x4" landscape photo plus journalling, OR one 6"x4" landscape plus one 4"x3" portrait photos and no journalling, etc.........  If you're unsure whether your photos are suitable sizes, give us a call beforehand.
If you're usually the one behind the camera, and don't often feature in your own scrapbook pages, here's the opportunity to add to your 'Book of Me' (don't worry, if you're the shy type, you can substitute the 'me' for another someone special!).

We love the Basic Grey "Plumeria" paper range. Just look at the projects we've been doing with it.


There's still time for you to book on classes that are using this paper range. 


The Big One on 14th August is a homage to  Plumeria paper! This is a great value day too- you get to keep one of the most popular paper packs of the year, which alone would retail at £19.99. As well as that, Rebecca will teach you how to use some of your papers/stickers to make an elegant mini book and there will still be plenty of your pack left to take home. (But we have some examples of what you could make with that too!)

We had fun in June's The Big One class making the Wizard of Oz Starbook.  Claire learned how to make this book in a class taught by Dyan Reaveley who is Ranger Industries senior educator in Europe and decided to pass on the fun to Crafty Daze customers.

Watch out for more projects in Crafty Daze's "The Big One" series. 

YOUNG CRAFTERS' CLUB

Calling all Young Crafters.

Lots of our youngsters love their crafting but don't get a chance to come very often during term time. So now it's their chance.

Every Tuesday during the summer holidays, starting on 24th July, we'll be holding a Young Crafters' Club. Aimed at children aged betwen 8-13, we'll be doing crafty projects lasting about 2.5 - 3 hours, starting at 10.30am. We have a trainee teacher (Key Stage 2), Samantha, taking charge of the youngsters during the club, and for your peace of mind, both Samantha and Claire are CRB cleared for their respective current educational institutions. Watch out in the class page for the list of classes.

Getting to the church on time!

When you decide to make your own wedding stationery it can seem a little bit daunting. Well, just to prove it's all possible and well worth the effort, have a look at our lovely bride Michaela, who got married on 16th August, and the hardworking ladies who put all the effort in to make their own beautiful bespoke stationery.

Before they arrived at Crafty Daze they had no experience in papercraft at all, but by the time the wedding arrived they were Big Shot experts! They made all the invitations, order of services and place cards, all perfectly matched to the wedding colours - well done girls!

(And don't they look gorgeous too!)

Friendship Book Class

 Monday 11th June

@ Crafty Daze shop Melton Mowbray

With the gorgeous Gloria

This is a great little gift book, approximately 5"x5", for a special friend, with beautiful sentiments and decoration. Photos are optional and the paper will vary.

its not too late to book

email, ring or book online , all the info is on the right side of the blog

Stationary box set.....

Todays class-Saturday 9th june is a gorgeous stationary box set taught by the lovely Rebecca....hope you all have a great day girls,
wish i was with you x

Friday Girls.....

Thank you Friday girls (well some of them, others were on holidays) for making me feel so welcome, and thanks to Natalie for the endless supply of coffee and with a bit of cake thrown in we had a lovely day, everyone was very happy with their finished pages

Here are the ladies hard at work

Trisha, Chris,Doris,Sandy and Linda

see you again soon girls.

Todays scrapbooking class is being taught by Lorna S. It's her first day! We all love this page, so I'm sure things will go well. Good luck Lorna!

CHRISTMAS STARTS IN JULY

I know it seems a long way off, but us crafters need to start preparing ourselves!

Throughout July Crafty Daze will be bringing you Christmas themed classes so have a look at the July class list on our website www.craftydaze.co.uk.

"The Big One" Project in July is a beautiful Christmas Emporium discovery book, brought to you by Gloria.

We'll also be starting our 5 month Christmas Card Club. The Christmas Card Club will meet on a Saturday or Sunday each month from July to November and make between 12 and 15 Christmas Cards at a time. Each of our tutors will take on a month so you'll get a variety of card styles. We'll do all the prep work, you just put them all together. It will cost £20 per month, but if you attend all the sessions you'll receive an early Christmas present of a  £10 gift voucher to spend in the shop.

Christmas Club dates are:

Saturday 21st July - Stampin Up product theme with Rebecca

Saturday 18th August - Christmas Toppers in a Tin with Gloria

Sunday 23rd September - Contemporary Christmas Cards with Elizabeth

Sunday 28th October - Clarity Christmas with Lorna L

Sunday 25th November - Shaped Christmas Cards with Claire