Happy Holi

This is a new one on me I must admit, and I thought I knew quite a few different festivals, Holi a festival of colours or of love. Read more about the festival here.

Which got me thinking, colours (I sense a colour theme developing on Fridays) it's spring, there for new shoots from bulbs emerging from a cold winter underground showing us their little flashes of daffodil yellow, the snowdrops, crocuses and all the others just climbing out blinking their petals towards the sun.

Now the point of this post, what makes you decided the colours you use in cards or any craft project you're doing? Is it the celebration, Mothers Day, Easter etc, or is it guided as you create your project?

I know we've been quiet this week, we've been busy with sourcing new dies, trying to get our heads around a demo of our new site and till system, as well as the usual matters we do on a daily basis.

Aswell as wondering what this big yellow thing in the sky was, this large fiery ball drew us from the inner sanctum of the shop to point and look in awe at it, then someone pointed out what it was.

Anyway, have a great weekend, take good care and happy crafting :o)

Ooohhhh, look, it's the weekend again

I say that like it's a surprise, Friday follows Thursday, just like it's been for the last 104736 weeks (I have just worked this out from 0 AD, or rather 0 CE (Common Era) as it's now known, and BC is now known as BCE (Before Common Era) either way, that's an awful lot of Fridays.

Which then brings me quite nicely to those of us who don't have to work weekends (I used to have to work 7 days a week, and the concept of a weekend was vague at best, I only really used to be able to tell what day it was if I the kids had to go to school, a mental flow chart of Do kids need to be up? Yes - it's a weekday, No - either holiday or weekend.

Forgive me I'm rambling somewhat, the point of this particular post is: Is there anything you'd like to see on our site, and particular designer, style, brand etc.
The reason I ask, I had an e-mail from a customer asking if we could show some bigger pictures of some of our dies, there are 160 of these dies in stock, and many many more to come from the Manufacturer, so now faced with a difficult choice, do I grab 1 of each die and take an enlarged picture of said dies, or try and grab them from the Manufacturer???

Choices, decisions etc...

As I'm staring out of the office window, I notice ...

That today, truly is 4 seasons in one day, not the Crowded House song, but the actual weather, it's currently bright and sunny, but 10 minutes ago it was grey, sleet and miserable, before then we had howling winds.

Lunch devoured, pondering on the very British weather I started searching through our site for dies and stamps relating to Seasons, and was surprised (I really shouldn't be by now) at the vast array of choices available, and that's not to mention holiday specific ones, Christmas, Easter (just round the corner) and any others.

Have a look here at some of the season themed dies we have available.

And I have no idea who I need to mention about the picture above, cannot find any copyright information for it, whoever created it, thank you :o)

Anddddd it's the start of a new week...

Which means it's a brand new week, full of  endless possibilities, opportunities and excitement.

They say a change is as good as a rest, a tonic for the soul as it were.

Well, great news we've just launched an extensive range of new products for us.

Click here to see the range

Tonic Studios Dies have Twenty Five collections including Affections, Bow, Butterflies and Blooms, Christmas, Circle, Corner, Decorative Envelope, Doily, Embossing Folder and Dies, Floral, Frame and Insert, Header Fold, Keepsake, Layering, Oval, Rings, Rococo, Round Window, Semi, Sentiments, Silhouette Scenes, Square, Strip, Tag and Topper.

Their elegant collections of high quality steel dies designed to co-ordinate with each other.

Tonic Studios Dies can be used in most leading die cutting machines; Grand Calibur by Spellbinders, Cuttlebug by Provocraft, Big Shot by Sizzix and eBosser by Craftwell.

I've been thinking ...

Whilst driving home I was listening to the windscreen wipers squeak across the screen, the car in front's brake lights dazzling me, and I thought about this new blog. We ought to have our creative customers, sharing their tips and trick, advice and know how.
I'm not a crafter, I don't claim to be, however,  sure that with some guidance I might be able to make something pretty, then again it might be an absolute mess, but I could then just say it's a modernist interpretation of a card, with an ironic twist to it.
We'll see :o)