Thank you!

Hi Everyone,

We would like to say a big thank you to everybody who attended the Great Big Craft Extravaganza in Athlone.

Special thanks to those who signed up for Timi and Nicole’s classes. We hope that you enjoyed your classes and have learned new things.

It was a great weekend and we were glad to see our crafty friends again.

Big thanks to Kerry and all the organisers it was a fantastic event and we can’t wait for the next one.

We were thrilled by all the fabulous challenge entries that were brought to us. There are so many talented people out there 🙂

It was really difficult to find the best one, so we decided to put all the names in a bag and just pull one out. So Louise Furlong if you read this, you are the WINNER!!!

Special thanks to Crafty Cutting who sponsored the prize for this challenge.

Tomorrow we will be back form a great project from our DT.

Until then, have another look through the magazine,

Happy Crafting,

Crafting Ireland Team

GBCE Reminder!

Just a quick reminder for you all that the Great Big Craft Extravaganza is taking place starting this Friday the 5th until Sunday the 7th. We will be there on Saturday and Sunday teaching classed and doing make and takes and demos. You can find the class list here, and if you don’t want to do classes but just shop and watch some demos and do some make and takes you can see all that info here.

The event takes part in the Athlone Springs Hotel and you can find all the venue information here.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there. Oh and if you still have to book you can do so here!!

Want to win??

The GBCE is approaching fast, have you booked in yet? It takes place on the 5th – 7th October. All information can be found on the blog here. Crafting Ireland are attending on the Saturday and Sunday and are teaching classes and doing demos and make and takes all weekend.

CHALLENGE TIME

We will also be running a challenge all weekend. The challenge theme is Autumn/Halloween. All you need to do is create any project following this theme and email a photo of your entry to us at submissions@craftingirelandonline.ie or come up to us on the weekend with your entry for us to photograph. Entries will be accepted starting on the 5th October and final entries must be emailed by the 7th at 2pm. The winner will be announced on the 7th with a fab prize up for grabs!

So get your crafty thinking hats on and make sure to bring supplies to create an Autumn/Halloween project to get creating on the weekend!

 

GBCE Class list and timetable up! Booking now open!!!

Hi everybody,

Just a quick note to let you know that booking is open for those fantastic classes at the Great Big Craft Extravaganza 2012.

You can find the timetable here. Download the class list here

…and did you notice that Nicole and myself (Timi) and two great crafters from our Design Team are teaching a class too?!

Nicole will be doing a blogging 101 class – do you want to learn how to set up and manage and maintain a blog? She is also doing a computers for crafters class. This will show you how to create sentiments using your computer, print directly onto cards and more. Sneak peek below….

Timi will be doing a class on Arty Scrapbooking, using Inktense products from Derwent to create backgrounds andthat bring focus to your photos. This will be a funky creative scrapbooking class where you will learn techniques that you can use over and over again, on both cards and layouts. Sneak peek below….

 

 

We hope to meet you at the 4th Great Big Craft Extravaganza on 5-6-7th October in Athlone, Co Westmeath.

Happy Crafting,

Crafting Ireland Team

Great Big Craft Extravaganza Pre-Bookings open now….

Are you going to the Great Big Craft Extravaganza? We are!! We will be doing classes and demos and make and takes all weekend… Pre-bookings are open now so check it out here.

Some info on the pre booking from the GBCE blog:

You can prebook by calling the shop on 091-504692 and pay by credit card – or email me at kerry@ansiopabui.ie and I will send you a paypal request for your prebookers fee of 50 Euro.  If working on email, please give your name, your paypal email address and a contact number for us.  If you are booking for more than one person, – include both names.  I will confirm each email I recieve.

How Prebooking works:

You are basically paying a deposit on your classes – there is no extra cost – and any classes you book will be taken out of the 50 Euro until it is all used up.  By prebooking you are ensuring that you get the classes you want.  You will have first pic of all the classes and will receive the class list – hopefully on Saturday – but worst case on Sunday.  The Class list and timetable will be made public by Wednesday next week when we will open for general bookings.

We are charging a little entry fee this year of 5 Euro.  This will cover at least 1 make & take as well as all the demonstrations, and will also include one raffle ticket.  Costs have gone up all over (least of all the post!!) and I am anxious not to increase the cost of classes.  As a pre-booker – your entry fee will be waived.

I know the next question is what happens if you are coming for 2 or 3 days – do you pay 5Euro per day.  As a pre-booker you have entry on all the days free.  If you are booking as a general booker – or simply arriving over the weekend, you pay 5 Euro for the first day, and 2,50 per day after that.  You will get new raffle tickets every day and new make & takes.

Weekend of winners!!

We had a fantastic time at the Great Big Craft Extravaganza, it was fantastic to meet so many crafty people and hear how much you are all enjoying the magazine! A huge big thank you to Kerry of An Siopa Bui for organising such a fantastic event!!

Now on to the important stuff – the winners from the weekend. This post here shows the proud winner of the Day 1 tshirt – congratulations again Magda!

The day two t-shirt winner is Sue Callahan – congratulations Sue, we will be in touch to get your prize out to you!

We had tonnes of entries for our little mini quiz and the lucky winner drawn out of the hat was Elkie Smullen – Congratulations Elkie!!

Our final winner of the weekend was for our sketch challenge. We had lots of amazing entries and we used random.org to pick the winner of the fantastic prize:

And the winning entry was Robin Funge with this beautiful card – congratulations Robin!!

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you for everyone who entered the challenge and quiz, and who stopped by at the weekend to say hi. We loved meeting you all!!

A big HELLO to all our new followers too, we love having you on board!!

 

Day one winner!!

We had a fantastic day today at the Great Big Craft Extravaganza. It was great to meet so many of you and put faces to names.

We drew the winner of the tshirt from the blog sign ups at the end of the day and the winner was no 13 – Magda Louw!

Congratulations Magda!!

Another challenge for GBCE!!

We have yet another challenge for you and there is a fabulous kit up for grabs. The kit features Graphic 45 Wizard of Oz paper and is full of other bits and bobs.

So what do you need to do?

To be in the chance to win the great prize on offer all you have to do is to answer four very easy questions….

Q1 In issue one who was our first spotlighted crafter?

Q2 What exciting new technique was featured is Issue 2?

Q3 What well known artist was featured in Issue 3

Q4 What are the new seasonal magazine colours for Issue 4?

Come along to Athlone this coming weekend to the Grat Big Craft Extravaganza, fill in our answer sheet and on Sunday evening we will draw the winner. It is so easy, isn’t it?

More inspiration for the GBCE sketch challenge

As you probably all have heard about the Great Big Craft Extravaganza which takes place in Athlone, Co Westmeath from 30th September to 2nd October.

Crafting Ireland will be running a few challenges and as our first challenge we have given a sketch to work with.

You can rotate or resize this sketch as long as we can see the sketch in your project.

Here is a digi layout I made following this great sketch. I have rotated and turned into a square shape.

You can email us in a photo of your entry before the show (craftingireland@gmail.com) or else bring your entry along on the GBCE weekend for us to photograph for the prize draw. There will be great goodies up for grabs for the winners 

We look forward to seeing your entries and meeting you at the show!!

Great Big Craft Extravaganza!!

As you probably all know by now the Great Big Craft Extravaganza is taking place on the 30th September – 2nd October.

We are going to have a stand at the show on the Saturday and Sunday, and we would love for you to stop by and say hi. It would be great to put faces to names of all our readers 🙂

We will have a giveaway running on both days for some Crafting Ireland goodies…..

Plus we are running some challenges over the weekend.

The first of the challenges we will be running is the SKETCH CHALLENGE!! We have a sketch below and we want you to create a project using it. You can email us in a photo of your entry before the show (craftingireland@gmail.com) or else bring your entry along on the GBCE weekend for us to photograph for the prize draw. There will be great goodies up for grabs for the winners 🙂

You can rotate the sketch and change it from a rectangle to square etc – once we can still see the sketch in your project!

Here are a few samples made with the sketch to give you some inspiration….

We look forward to seeing your entries and meeting you at the show!!