Well not too sure what to say about the last two weeks! Obviously we owe people a couple of apologies.
Firstly for saying last week that everything had been sorted when it obviously hadn't been and secondly, because we have been so busy for the last week or so, the lack of response to all your emails etc. We did try and keep you up to date via the forum and the Facebook page but it really was impossible to answer every email. If you email contained anything other than "we can't get your site/papers" and you haven't received a reply, please do send again. We may well have missed it.
Now our website has a brand new gallery where we store all the downloads. Actually we do like this gallery better than the last one despite all the work it caused installing it! When you get to a single image you will find Download and Print buttons. Although you can take a look at the full sized version of the image if you wish, there is no longer any need to. Obviously we haven't had time to test the new gallery properly so there may still be minor issues and you may notice it closing for "maintenance" every now and then. Don't worry if you see this. It should last no longer than 7 mins at a time. We are well on our way to finishing moving all of the papers over although we still have quite a few in the backing papers section to do.
Due to all this extra work we only have 1 set of new papers for you this week, another traditional Christmas set. We have also listed below all the papers from the last couple of weeks as many people were unable to get them. We know for a fact that the Thanksgiving Set were never on the site properly!
N.B.. Watch the video above to find out more about using the new gallery. You can ignore the bit which says the links on the site don't work. Both the Navigation and the site map should now be sorted.
Christmas Greetings.
The first set of traditional Christmas design we did the other week went down so well we thought we'd do a second set. This is a basic set so it just has Backing Papers, Inserts, Tags, Labels and Page Curls etc.
CRAFT CALENDAR Not even going to try and list the events for this weekend as there are lots listed (a quick mention for the Hobby Crafts Exhibition at the NEC, Creative Crafts Association in Southport, Oakliegh at Newmarket and the Rural Crafts Association in Kent to name but a few). Visit Craft Calendar for more details. www.craftcalendar.co.uk
Sets you may have missed over the last couple of weeks.
Brewster Singing / Guitar.
A great set of papers for the musician in the family! This is a "Super Set" with decoupage, frames, pyramids etc...
This is a basic Set featuring some traditional fairy designs. Like the Christmas ones the other week these are based on very old images which have been "re mastered".
Just by coincidence we had a couple of emails in last week asking exactly what a reverse Pyramid card was. Well Janet has kindly done two examples using recent papers, Brewster Singing and the Carol Singers. As usual she has done great step-by-step instructions so you can make something the same (or similar) yourself.
Well the Beatrice competition has now closed. We wont be announcing a winner at this stage but will do so and award prizes as we use the suggestions. There is at least one suggestion which we feel would suit Brewster better and that will also win a prize, as will the very special set of papers coming up in a couple of weeks!
Free Craft Stuff is currently running a comp / prize draw which involves suggesting new sites to be included in that directory. Full details can be found in our Forum
Well hopefully this marks the end of a very stressful 2 weeks for us. Although we think we've manage to deal with the worse of the situation by building the new Gallery there are a couple of things left which you could help us with. Firstly please do let us know what you make of the new gallery, the little feedback we have had so far has been positive but it would be interesting to hear what others think. Email us, put a message in the Forum / Facebook page or via the contact form. Secondly if you find any broken Links on our site let us know. If you find any broken links on other peoples site please try and let them know. If you can't contact the site owners then tell us and we'll try to sort it. (Don't worry about Janets Blog, I think she has that in hand.)
We have a great run of papers between now and Christmas, starting with next week when we will not only be bringing you some "New Year" papers but we will also be introducing our 3rd Character "Bulmer".
