Creativeworld recap

As you probably know by now, last week a group of us went to Paperworld as Sizzix had a stand in the Creativeworld section. I flew on Wednesday and did not come back till Tuesday very late. It was really exhausting, but all in all a great experience.

The stand look great as usual.

 The machines centre display was clever and a great focal point. And look, for the first time one of my collections was in display. Actually there were two, Fresh Moments (which is available now)and Winter moments (which you can see on the right side of the left photo). It was a very special moment to see the dies and display up.

I was really happy to be demoing for one of our UK distributors, Personal Impressions, which is a company really close to my heart. I had a blast in no small measure because I was beside the fantastic Dyan Reaveley. Such a fun and inspirational woman.

One great thing about trade shows is that we get to meet different companies, and since I love paper getting to know the people at Garza Papel (amazing 100% cotton paper) or the guys at St Cubherts Mill was great! Specially the samples I got to take home.  

Mr Pete Hughes was demoing at the Rayher stand, one of our distributors. You know, he is a big hit there, with crowds gathered around him all day long!

And behind Pete there was this lovely display made by the Rayher in house design team which was made entirely using dies from my Everyday collection, the Butterflies and Scallop Flowers. Seeing that was really surreal as I did not expected at all! 

And the super talented and incredibly nice and funny Anna was demoing at our Sizzix Stand. I stalked her like crazy!

Can you spot the new look of the Big Shot? Such a pretty machine. And the comes with a completely different set of dies exclusive to the starter kit, which you are going to love if you like Everyday.

Creativa in Madrid

 

I am back from a fab weekend working at Creativa, the craft show that took place for the first time in Madrid this year.

 



 

I was demonstrating the Big Shot and the Everyday collection all four days.

It was really nice to see that my fellow country crafters loved both the machine and the collection, so much that the dies sold out very quickly and the machine follow suit.

 

Innspiro is the Sizzix distributor in Spain, and they run workshops all four days. This is one of the scrapbooking workshops that was taught daily by the talented and lovely Quim Diaz using Sizzix dies.


Even though it was the first edition it was full of people, and on the Saturday they had to close the door as the hall was to the full capacity.

I had such a great time, it was my first time demonstrating in Spain and I thouroughly enjoyed it. Meeting all the spanish crafters was  an absolute treat!

Demo at The Glitter Pot

I had such a fab time at The Glitter Pot on Saturday where I demonstrated along other crafters. I love it there, it is one of my all time favourite shops as they stock quite a few of my most used ranges.
Of course I was demonstrating the Big Shot.

And, of course, I had my Look Book of embossing techniques. Some of them are not that clever. But many of them are!

I love that little name card. I have been demonstrating at The Glitter Pot for many years so it is a great sight every time. The boxes you can see are all made with either the Cabinet Card or the Mini Magnetic Cabinet Card.

Some other samples that I made during the day and before hand.

 And I will leave you with this photo of my view of the room. On the left you can see Alex Kamann (a master of Copics), and on the right Jenny Hayes from Hobby Art. On the other demo room you could find Kay Carley, Jackie Hucksteep, Gilly and Jane Gill (a long time friend and someone whose work I admire very much!).

I look forward to next years event already!

Demo

Just wanted to say today that this coming Saturday - 1st of September - I will be demoing at The Glitter Pot (Burges Hill, East Sussex) at their Christmas Spectacular. There is going to be quite a few demonstrators sharing Christmas crafting ideas.

No need to book, just come along to see Sizzix demos and samples like the one above, which I made using a similar method as another one that I featured here.

And the tree tutorial is here. It is made with both rosette dies from Tim Holtz, the original and the mini one.

Out and About

Last week was one busy week for Pete and I. I had a demo at Crafting.co.uk (Derbyshire) and Pete was demonstrating all weekend at The Craft Barn (Lingfield, Surrey). 

As the Craft Barn is only 25 minutes away from my house, on Saturday I went to see the demos. Over twenty five demonstrators distributed over three halls were there sharing their top tips and techniques. I have been demonstrating at this event for a while now, so to attend as a customer was refreshing and very exciting.

When I got there at around eleven am, there were already plenty of people and one of the busiest tables was this one.

Yes, Mr Pete Hughes was a hit with the ladies attending!

His samples were simply fab. (I hope he doesn't read this, otherwise it will go to his head!

One of the great things about the Craft Barn event is the variety of styles, techniques and "things" you can see. 

I love the fact that you see so much home decor, exciting products like one of my favourite medium Pebeos Prisme paints, out there ideas as well as great personalities.

Like Leandra (from Paperartsy, above), Lin Brown (one of my all time craft heroes), Julie Hickey (super talented and fab person), Andy Skinner (what the man can do with acrylic paints and embossing folders is unbelievable), Lindsay Mason (another incredible talent)... you get the picture.

A part from Pete, there were two other demonstrators showcasing Sizzix products, Carole Cann and Jo Firth-Young. Both are super talented crafters so it was really exciting to see their ideas and techniques.

And I will leave you with the display that pete had on the wall. Lovely!