More CHA 2012 Goodies...

Another day, another set of goodies to show you.
The new compendium of curiosities is jammed packed with loads of techniques will follow on from the volume I.

I believe Tim is planning on doing a series so watch out for more volumes at a later date. Start your collection now, if you haven't already got volume I, you can order it here!

Under the Tim Holtz Idea-ology brand, there are also lots of cool new products including:
Some box corners and a fully working pulley system

These mini gears/cogs are just gorgeous and Tim's also brought out some clock keys which are a great addition to the range and brilliant for all those steampunk projects:

Here are some fab scrapbook layouts showing some of Tim Holtz Idea-ology range.

The Magnolia stand was looking pretty as always and there were lots of stunning card samples on display to entice you!

I love this calendar idea:

and even some gorgeous projects using the Magnolia stamp designs on fabric.

Here's a sneak peek of their latest release - shipping soon:

Another cool product is from Prima Marketing. its an alphabet set that allows you to create any words, in a straight line and with equal spacing. A little bit like playing with Lego!
See it in action here:

Prima Press - Assembly

Prima Press - Stamping

Already started on another post so watch this space....
- janicex

CHA 2012

It's hard work doing all this research for the shop and bringing you guys brand new products and techniques. I know you all feel very sorry for us and would like to come instead just to help us out and we really do appreciate the offer but we wouldn't want to burden you with the responsibility!! So we're taking it one day at a time and will report back as soon as we can.
Firstly, watch out for up and coming instore classes using brilliant kits from companies with product lines that can produce great projects like this:

Kaisercraft have this awesome desktop spinney tidy thing which looks amazing:

this picture doesn't show it off that well but hopefully I'll have more shots to show you in the next couple of days.
Penny Black have again come up top-trumps with some amazing stamp designs and Elizabeth from Penny Black has created these wonderful samples which show the designs off perfectly:

These designs are being prep'd for uploading on our website as we speak, keep an eye on the What's New section for pre-ordering info.
Graphic 45 is a new company for us and I was impressed with their papers and projects on their stand:

One of the hottest new products on the market has to be the Distress Inks formula in a marker pen. Absolutely amazing results. Check this out:

and here's some info from Tim about his Distress Markers: "...available individually or as a set. these markers have many of the amazing qualities you've come to love with distress like being reactive with water to allow for amazing blending and shading, and of course coloring on directly on to your stamps and stamp with them. the dual tips are a flexible brush nib on one end for great coloring effects, and a plastic detailed nib on the other for journaling or fine detail work. these new distress markers are available in 37 colors... 37? oh yes, all 36 classic distress palette colors and white picket fence (just wait until you see what this cool white marker does with the other colors)..."
Additionally, one just for you Lisa, is the Ebosser:

It's an electric die cutting machine that will hold die cutting sandwiches big enough for the bigz and bigz xl dies but also wide enough to accommodate the grand nesties - perfect.

Here's a couple of little snippets to show you it in action.

eBosser Cutting Sizzix XL die

eBosser embossing large format plastic embossing folder

What this space for availability, price etc etc...

Here's another product that our Lisa will love. It's a hot glue gun that plugs into your USB port on your computer. Great if you are on the go and don't have a plug socket but do have your laptop with you. It has a steady and fine glue flow for greater control AND no dripping when you complete your line of glue.

Sizzix have plenty of new dies coming out. Again keep an eye on the What's New section of our website. Here are some snippets of projects that the Sizzix DT have come up with:

Also we are loving the Wendy Vecchi designs:

There are some amazing little dies coming onto the marker that match the 'art gone wild' designs but also great to use with other designs:

Darcie's have some wonderful stamp designs and papers coming out too:

Coming soon instore, Stamper's Anonymous designs by Tim Holtz including this wonderful steam engine and plenty of other designs suitable for steampunk projects:

Right then, off to find more goodies, I'll be back... Don't forget to keep an eye on the What's New section of Sir Stampalot over the next couple of weeks
- Janicex

THE Demo Day

Well, it came and went, Sir Stampalot's 4th Ultimate Rubber Stamping Day and what a day it was. The girls had loads of fun demo'ing, their projects were out of this world, the weather was okey dokey, the food was yummy and plentiful and the customer support from you guys was wonderful.

Louise
Copic Louise's demo table was adorned with the most beautiful cards and projects all gorgeously coloured with copic markers.

Louise loves the Tilda range from Magnolia as well as the Molly Blooms designs too:

I love the gift idea of the sweetie topper she's created for the bag of sweets and lollies you can see here in the bottom left of the photo:

I may have to "lift" that idea for a few Christmas presents :)
One of the brilliant techniques Louise was demo'ing on the day was the use of stamp and bond and glitter to create an all over glitter effect on any die cut - check out the tree below, and also the way she's decorated the lamp post die cut from Marianne Creatables:

And one of my favourites is the way Louise has created this card using the Molly Blooms postcard and frosty stamp (cut with the postage stamp punch as it fits beautifully), with the tilda peeking over the top, the very useful Christmas verse from Woodware and the Martha Stewart punch around the page snowflake design framing the magnolia sheet of pattered mini paper.

Keep up-to-date with Louise's artwork by following her blog : Just Love To Stamp.

Crafty Lou
Crafty Lou was in her element again with versacolour cubes, magnolia stamps and cream shrink plastic:

Here's an adorable card using one of the latest stamp designs from Magnolia : Tucked Up Tilda in Stocking. Love the coordinating paper patch on the stocking heal that Lou has used which matches the background layers.

Leading upto the demo day, Lou was busy decorating this fab Kaisercraft tree:

Lou's used shrink plastic (funnily enough!) to shrink down stamp designs by both Molly Blooms and Magnolia, along with one of the latest Tim Holtz decorative strip dies : Festive Greenery.
Pumpkin 1 , Pumpkin 2 and a Halloween Tilda feature at the base of the tree to complete the look:

And here's some more of her fabulous artwork she was demo'ing on the day:

To find out more about Lou's creations, you can follow her blog at Crafty Lou's Small world.

Gina
Gina demonstrated the very versatile Rubber Stamp Tapestry sets:

This sample below used the lovely new set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Poinsettia Twist and part of the Art Impression sentiment.

Here's the new gingerbread set and the Art Impressions script sentiment.

And you guys were loving this one using the Marianne Creatables cut and emboss die Frame along with the Noel Rubber Stamp Tapestry set.

Here's another example of those two products:

In the same range as the Marianne Creatables die Frame, they also do this wonderful half frame too, called Swirls:

And of course there was plenty of glitter!! You can't use the words Gina and Christmas without also incorporating the glitter word!

Kim
Kim Reygate joined us this year after bad weather conditions last year meant she missed coming up for our 3rd Ultimate Rubber Stamping Day. Kim was busy inking up her projects with the brand new Winter series set of distress inks and the Fall set too.

She had some of the latest stamp releases from Hobby Art to show you as well as favourites from Penny Black and Woodware to name but a few wonderful.

You can see more of Kim's creations on her blog Kimx

Brenda
Now, Brenda had been very productive with her series of patterned paper wreaths (based on a design one of our lovely customers had shown her). Brenda had them displayed all around her demo area:

Here's a close up of one:

She very kindly produced an instruction sheet of how to make it (which you can pick up instore or download from Brenda's blog - Floral Fantasies).

This technique I just adore, the end result is so stunning:

Brenda's created the card by doing some simple brayering and sponging with Adirondack inkpads. The fence is hand-drawn, but the stag and tree are from Art Impressions and the sentiment stamp is from Penny Black.

Here are some more scenes Brenda created on the day:

And some more cards she brought along with her:

Brenda's Blog : Floral Fantasies

Chris
Now, I expect you've all seen Chris' fabulous advent calendar using the Kaisercraft kit: well, she's adapted the kit and used embellishments and patterned papers to create this goregous jewellery box:

Chris also demo'd the crafty edger punch system, frantage embossing powders from Stampendous, and used this lovely script stamp from MSE

And I loved this card Chris created on the day using Molly with Holly and lots of patterned paper and gems and templates from the I-Rock system.

Here's an overview photo of lots of the projects Chris created for the demo day:

See more of Chris' artwork on her blog : Always About Colour

Lisa
Our scrapbooking guru and altered art favourite Lisa Maybank needed the most table and display space to show you guys lots of her stunning artwork:

And she even found time to decorate her table with icicles - very festive.

Lisa loves her tilda's too:

This was her main project she was creating before your eyes on the day:

Lisa just can't get enough of all little trinkets and embellishments - they make a world of difference to the finished projects and give such a uniqueness. And just check out all these mini books she loves to create:

And here's one of her amazing altered art projects:

If you enjoyed checking out these projects from Lisa, keep an eye on the class schedule, Lisa runs lots and lots of classes but they fill up quickly so book early to avoid disappointment.


Next class schedule for the first quarter of 2012 will be released at midday on Monday 19th Dec 2011.


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Eddy and Steph where on catering duty and acting as runners and did a brilliant job as always, thanks guys. And if you didn't see the most amazing pumpkin on the day, here's a couple of piccies:

This was a couple of hours creative carving by Steph, isn't she just the best?

Thanks from me and the team at Sir Stampalot and the demo'ing girls to everyone who came and supported us; it wouldn't be such a wonderful day if you weren't there!

And well done to Marilyn from Woodston, Peterborough - she was the lucky lady who won the prize draw. She is now the proud owner of all these goodies (including a Slice machine and a digital camera) and boy was she excited - like a child in a sweet shop. Well done Marilyn, wishing you many more happy hours crafting.

We've decided that it would be nice that next year's Ultimate Rubber Stamping Day (our 5th!) should also be held that weekend around Halloween, so pencil in on Sat Oct 27th 2012 (to be completely confirmed later next year).

Right then, that's all for now folks.

Happy crafting - janicex