IconUK Crafts: April 2015

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

The moment has arrived.

Creative Expressions new release, finally released

Ladies & Gentlemen, the moment you have been pining for has finally arrived.

The brand new Creative Expressions release, has been finally released, and we've just received our allocation.

Our magical, dedicated, skilled and now slightly weary dispatch team are busy getting all your ordered picked, packed and posted out.

All the orders should all be sent out today, and be with you shortly, and then you can all get busy with your creative hands and minds creating even more astounding works of beauty, flair and imagination.

Sorry it's a little blog today, thought I'd mention that your new goodies will be with you all shortly.

Have a great day everyone, and enjoy your new dies when they arrive.

Friday, 24 April 2015

Creative Expressions latest release images

We've just been sent the images for Sue Wilson Creative Expressions latest die release.

You can see all the dies, and information on the Creative Expressions part of the site.

Have a look and enjoy, there's quite a few to have a look at, if you're on a tablet, it may take a while to load up I'm afraid.

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1430

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1431

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1432

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1433

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1434

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1435

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1609

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED1610

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED4409

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED4410

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5406

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5407

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5408

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5505

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5506

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED5507

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6101

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6102

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6103

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6104

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6105

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6201

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6202

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6203

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6204

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6301

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6302

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6401

Sue Wilson Creative Expression CED6402

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Spellbinders pre-release has now been released

Great news, the Spellbinders pre-release's have now been unleashed upon the great and the good (that's you lot) we received our delivery in 3 batches, and straight away got to work on packing all the orders we could. The last lot arrived this morning, and our dispatch team we're all over the remaining orders like bee's making honey. It truly was a sight to behold, I ought to have taken some pictures, but they'd have been an absolute blur.

Just a little post today I'm afraid. Though I do have some rather nice examples of some of our customers handywork to show you all when I get some more sent to me.

Again, if feel like sharing your creative work to us, either post it in the comments, send us an e-mail at contact[at]iconuk.co.uk (change the [at] to an @ it helps reduce junk mail by doing this) or post it on our Facebook Page.

Have a great day everyone.

Monday, 20 April 2015

Craft in another form

This weekend I got quite crafty, not with cards, but with eggs, flour & sugar and made cupcakes. I like cooking, baking and taking pictures.
I know this has nothing to do with card craft, dies, stamping etc, however it's still creative and tasty at the same time.

So here's a few pics of said handy work.

I do particularly love this picture, I was especially lucky with this one, the light at the back, the I just put the lemons down, no placement. Lucky shot.

Zest lemons, get lemon in eye, rub furiously.
Flour and all other ingredients mixed etc.

Spoon into muffin cases.

Pop in the oven for about 30 mins.

Knock up some butter cream with lemon juic, spring a bit of lemon zest on top.

Et voila, salut Mon amis.

Lemon zest Cupcake

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Crafters your shop need you!

CRAFTERS THIS IS A CALL TO YOUR CRAFTING ARMS!!!

A small favour chums, we had a visitor in our office today, and they were thrilled to see an example of you lot can make with your crafty hands.

This got me thinking, why not make a gallery of cards that our Customers have made?

If possible could you take a picture of any card you've made, and either post it on here, or e-mail it to me at contact[at]iconuk.co.uk and I'll make a gallery of all your handiwork with your name attached of course for all to see.

I even made a poster in Photoshop just for the occasion too.

If you've not sure how best to do it, leave me a message on here, or drop me an e-mail and I'll go through it with you.

Now what would be even better would be a card with some kind of Victorian style and appeal to it, fits in with Lord Kitchener (chap above in the poster), though not essential :)

Many thanks, and I look forward to your impressive creations.

Friday, 10 April 2015

New shiny things from Creative Expressions.

It seems that the designers at Creative Expressions have been busy bees, designing long into the night creating wonderful new treats and delights.

I will apologise as I don’t have any quality descriptions, measurements or pictures yet, they're sending all the details, images and dimensions as soon as they can, but I felt this was too good an opportunity to waste. As soon as we do have further information I'll add it on here and to the web site too

Here are some of the new Creative Expressions collections which are coming out at the end of April.

Collection Name: Portuguese Collection

Consists of: background, corner, border and tag dies

Designs: Lisbon, Porto and Sintra

Collection Name: Canadian Collection

Consists of: background, corner, border and tag dies

Designs: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver

Collection Name: Finishing Touch

Classic fold over flower

Reflect Peony open petal

Reflect Peony complete petal

Maiden Fern

Dandelion clocks

Majestic Monarch

Collection Name: Configuration collection

Petit arch adornment

Lattice arch adornment

Elegant lace edger

Dainty lace edger

Collection Name: Expressions collection

“Happy Birthday” – at long last!

“Just a note”

“Thanks”

Collection Name: Noble collection

Classic adornment design

Lavish accented design

Ornate pierced design

Collection Name: Gemini collection (I sense a slight constellation theme with this particular collection)

Pavo

Pyxis

Collection Name: Stripelet collection

Stacked diamond

Lattice and lace

Monday, 6 April 2015

Bank holidays...

Here in the UK we have 6 Bank Holidays a year, a day where most of the country enjoys a day off work. Though not every one is lucky enough.

There are lots of people who have to work, Nurses and hospital staff, Police, Firemen, and other public service staff.

What about some of the others, people who work in call centres? retail staff? public transport workers, there's a whole host of people we need to applaud for their hard work 7 days a week, without whom we'd not be able to get things done on our days off (this year I'm lucky enough not to be working on Bank Holidays, but I've been there on Bank Holidays working, so i do genuinely appreciate every single person who has to work them.

So to anyone who's had to work over Easter and the Bank Holiday, thank you, we'd be lost without you. This also include our Boss shaped Man too, who works tirelessly over the weekend, as he does everyday and every weekend, keeping up with trends, requests and countless other things you do without anyone noticing, well we do notice , so Serf thank you too, we really do all appreciate your dedication and hard work, were it not for you, where would be? And from me personally, we need an office meeting, up by the whale bones on a day like today.

I've taken about an hour to write this, sat at home, kids running in and out, enjoying their day, me catching up with e-mails and web contacts, my Wife at work, and my mind naturally wondered onto thinking out our dies that say "Thank you", and thinking I should make my better half a little thank you card. I appreciate this may seem like a long winded highly tenuous ramble to point out our range of dies which say thank you, I assure you it isn't.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Last one for today :) these last few CottageCutz dies don't have a theme unlike the rest of the new dies, what they do have is have an immense amount of appeal and great design to them, have a look at them, and if you need more information then please visit the New CottageCutz page on our site.