New colours - Capsule Collection

Two new colours have been added to the Capsule Collection from Papermania - Boysenberry and Blueberry Pie.

Only selected items have been added so far to the range - paper packs, mini buttons, ribbon and ribbon bows.

Boysenberry is filled with soft pinks and purples.

Blueberry Pie is filled with soft shades of blue.

The paper packs are slightly different offering 32 sheets in 16 different designs, and the boutique ribbon now comes in 6 metre packs instead of 5 metres. We are hoping that Docrafts will bring out more products in these 2 new colour ranges as we think they will be very popular for Spring craft projects.

Happy Crafting!

Forever Friends Spring Time

I know, I know Christmas is almost here and we are already looking to Easter!

Docrafts bring to us Forever Friends Spring Time a super cute collection of Easter themed papercraft products in soft pastel colours with hot cross buns, Easter eggs and bunnies.

Printed paper packs, decoupage, clear stamps, die cut greetings, ribbon and ribbon bows in these new card making and scrapbooking items.

These items have now arrived but they are limited in stock - once they are gone, they are gone!

These bears get cuter with every new range released.

Fab new decoupage and paper pads

Now available at Kay Dees Crafts - Trimcraft brings us a brand new batch of characters and designs from illustrator Helz Cuppleditch.

Six super cute new decoupage and paper pads with die cut decoupage, glitter effect and also double sided papers included.

Look out for The MacKenzies (teddy bears), Basil & Buttercup (rabbits), Mimi the kitten, Panda Party, Fairy Cakes and Cookie the puppy.

Pepper and Friends are still firm favourites but I think they are going to have to shuffle over a little to let these new guys in!

Happy Crafting!

Paper flowers

Paper flowers have just arrived at Kay Dees Crafts. No sooner have we finished our Christmas cards and scrapbooking pages and we are looking towards the next project.

Flowers are a year round embellishment and these gorgeous embossed flower shapes are fab for adding to cards and papercraft projects.

These paper blossoms come in a variety of colours, designs and sizes and are perfect to layer together and fix with adhesives or brads, creating a 3D embellishment for any craft or card making project.

Happy Crafting!

Merry Christmas

We have been flat out for weeks now with no time for chatting, blogging or even emailing. Things are starting to slow down as we get ready for our holiday and I am well and truly ready for the break. It is great to be busy it keeps my mind and body active but phew I am glad the rush is over :)

So what is Christmas to you and your family? Is it time to reflect, time to party, time to get together with friends and loved ones or time to relax and unwind?

For us it is a mix. We will spend Christmas day (or some of it) with our son and truly relax and think of the year gone by and how fortunate we have been. We close down the shop for a couple of weeks and really enjoy our time off together.

Whatever, wherever and however you spend this Festive period I hope it brings you peace, joy and happiness.

Karen x

Woodland Folk

Woodland Folk have just arrived at Kay Dees Crafts.
All the furry friends that feature in many cross stitch designs are now appearing in a gorgeous range of new papercraft products from Docrafts.

With framed decoupage cards, waterfall packs, clear stamps, embossing folders, brads and printed paper packs too.

Dovecraft Christmas Basics

Introducing a brand new range of craft classics for Christmas 2010. Dovecraft have a great value Christmas range including a glittery selection of stickers, clear stamps sets, die cut sentiments, ultra fine glitters, paper blossoms and A5 glitter card.

For a limited time we are offering 15% off this range - but hurry prices won't stay this low for long!

Come take a peek over at Kay Dees Crafts - we have been busy adding new products such as Anita's ribbons, Papermania craft markers & chalks, Capsule Collection cardstock and gemstones and soon to be added (when I get my breath back!) Capsule Collection mirror mosaics.

Halloween

Halloween is nowhere near as 'big' here in the UK as it is in the USA and Canada - but it is getting more and more popular every year. The shops are filled with fancy dress costumes, sweets and pumpkins.

We have one or two craft items with a Halloween theme too. New additions to the Daisy & Dandelion craft range are Pumpkin & Aubergine - two very cute (and naughty) looking cats.

We are offering the chance to win some spooky craft products at Kay Dees Crafts for one week only.....to give you chance to get some Halloween craft projects finished in time.

For ideas visit Docrafts for some fab cardmaking and scrapbooking projects such as this fun card designed by Katygodbeer.

Forever Friends Christmas competition

Forever Friends Christmas Wishes Competition

Fab selection of Forever Friends Christmas craft products up for grabs this month from Kay Dees Crafts.
Prize includes the following products:

• 20 sheets A4 die cut decoupage
• 4 x A4 Sheets Glitter card
• 6 x A4 Sheets Gold and Silver Mirriboard
• 6 x A4 Pearlescent paper assorted colours
• 6 x A4 Sheets Cardstock 2 of each red, green and white
• 6 x A4 Sheets Forever Friends Designer Paper
• 6 x Packs of Coloured Stickers - assorted festive designs
• 6 x Packs of Outline Stickers - assorted festive designs
• 2 x Packs Cardstock Stickers
• 2 x Packs of Embossed Transfers
• 2 x Packs Die Cut Message Tags
• 3 x Wooden Stamps
• 2 x Packs 6 A6 Embossed Cards with envelopes
• 1 x Pack 12 A6 Printed Cards with envelopes
• 2 x Packs Forever Friends Element Toppers

Suitable for everyone - send a hug in a card with Forever Friends.

Words like Honey

Introducing Words like Honey to Kay Dees Crafts.

Christian Scrapbooking and card making products including 12 x 12 papers, 8 x 8 paper packs, decoupage, peel offs and clear stamps.

We currently have 12 x 12 papers from the Scripture Text collection and the Love Collection.

Clear polymer stamps that include Christmas text and images, Crosses, trees and Religious text suitable for blessings, birthdays and also In Sympathy.

Words like Honey provide Christian Product to retailers across the country. Words like Honey started as a company when Mandy and Tim found sourcing Christian Christmas Stamps fairly easy but finding Easter stamps with Christian images rather than eggs and rabbits almost impossible. So they decided to start designing their own products under the name of "Words Like Honey". This has given them a comprehensive and steadily growing range of wooden backed rubber stamps and photo polymer clear stamps.

Tim and Mandy then made contact with a printer who, with the aide of some very sophisticated new technology, was able to print 12"x 12" scrapbook papers and decoupage to a very high quality - enabling them to produce papers incorporating photographs and to capture detail that is unusually lacking in scrapbooking and decoupage.

We know from questions we have received that this area of the Craft Industry is sadly lacking in high quality products and we are delighted to have found Words like Honey. This small family run business will hopefully prove to be as successful as they deserve.

Tim and Mandy you have done a fabulous job creating your designs and we at Kay Dees Crafts wish you all the very best with your business.

Christmas is coming

Where does the time go? I am positive that a year now only has 8 months, it seems to go by so quickly. Blink and you miss summer (not that difficult here in the UK) and before you know it the central heating is back on, jumpers are pulled out from the back of the wardrobe and comfy, warm boots are the footwear of choice.

Personally I like Autumn and Winter. I like the quiet it seems to bring and the fresh, crisp mornings and early evenings. I also like getting my hands on the new craft ranges that appear as summer starts to fade.

Forever Friends Cosy Christmas range is now available. Seriously cute new designs that are perfect for everyone this Christmas. The decoupage kits have twistage included and Docrafts have introduced framed decoupage packs in A4 and A5 size too.

Coming very soon are the new additions to the Honey & Hugs range - Festive Frolics. I have only seen the stock photos but these products will not disappoint H&H fans.........hopefully I will have these listed tomorrow and they will be available for pre-order.

Our novelty buttons have just arrived. New designs on old themes and brand new additions too including ivory poinsettas and Christmas cookies.

Keep an eye on our Christmas section for great deals - there really is nothing like receiving a handmade card at Christmas time. We are stocking our shelves with some great value products but some are very limited and once they are gone, they are gone.

Happy Crafting!

Cupcake Collection

Living the sweet life. 

Cupcakes are always a firm favourite with card makers, scrapbookers and crafters. Indeed I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't find cupcakes appealing. Personally I think it goes back to childhood when cake didn't have calories, you didn't care about crumbs on your clothes or icing round your face! Making fairy cakes was always loads of fun and easy to do too. Cupcakes make me happy :-)

We have put together a collection of cupcake themed goodies from Dovecraft, Studio G, Die Cuts with a View, Docrafts, Craft UK and Dress it Up and I promise there is not one calorie in sight.

Dovecraft Piece of Cake printed paper pack

These sweet things include mini stationery sets, die cuts cards, notebooks, designer papers, stickers, chipboards, clear stamps, decoupage, albums and novelty craft buttons.

Novelty Craft Buttons - Cupcakes

Happy Crafting!

Capsule Collection revisited.

New additions to this fab range of colour co-ordinated paper craft items from the Papermania Capsule Collection.

Printed Paper packs, ribbon reels, ribbon bows, glitter sparkles, ink pads and embellishment sets now all available at Kay Dees Crafts.

The paper packs are A5 size and have 30 unique designs all printed onto quality 160gsm paper.

The ribbon reels have 5 different ribbons on individual spools - 1 metre of each design per spool. The ribbon bows are made from the ribbon reels so match perfectly.

The embellishment sets are filled with colour co-ordinated brads, gems and paper flowers.

Perfect for your card making and scrapbooking projects.

Happy Crafting!

In the Pink competition

Delightful selection of pink craft products up for grabs this month at Kay Dees Crafts.

Goodies include:

Baby Pink mixed craft buttons - Pink funky fibres - 4mm pink gemstones

Pink heart shaped gemstones - Pink flower shaped gemstones - 12 x 12 Rose Garden printed paper pack 

Red Hot Sparkles - Papermania pink brads - Smirk for Her powder pink ribbon

Just one question to answer to be in with a chance of getting your hands on these goodies. 

Visit our competition page to send us your answer and your details.

Good Luck!

Peppers Christmas Party

Pepper's Christmas Party

Introducing Pepper and Friends new Christmas craft range from talented designer Helz Cuppleditch. I thought the original range was cute but this collection called Peppers Christmas Party is cuter than cute!

This Festive collection contains 21 products which co-ordinate beautifully together and have been carefully designed for use in both card making and scrapbooking projects.

Clear Stamps - Snow Fun

Clear stamps, printed paper packs, brads, chipboards and stickers filled with fabulously cheeky and sweet designs in a jolly selection of Christmas colours.

Chipboard Shapes

Available to pre-order now - delivery expected with us by 12th August. I know this range is very popular with our Australian buyers so I am delighted it is being released in plenty of time for Christmas.

Happy Crafting!

Papermania Honey & Hugs range

Honey & Hugs is the new papercraft collection from Docrafts Papermania range.

Designed by Stephanie Dyment this cute new set features owls, sheep, pigs and chicks in a palette of soft candy colours.

Have a look at the patterned papers, decoupage & pyramage, mini stamps, coloured stickers, transfers (rub ons) and sweet little notelet pads we now have in stock at Kay Dees Crafts.

We are frantically trying to add all our new ranges and products, I must admit the blog updates have lapsed somewhat. I will try to add some features about our new ranges through the week so look out for info on Daisy & Dandelion, Doodlebug and our updated products in the fab Capsule Collection.

Until then, happy Crafting!

New Dress it Up Buttons

Dress it Up Craft Buttons at Kay Dees Crafts

We have some new additions to our Dress it Up novelty craft buttons range. We have around 40 new themes including milk shakes, ice cream floats, strawberries and fruit salad perfect for summer themed craft projects.

We also have some new funky colour schemes including colour my world, princess palette and zippity do dah.

I am adding our new buttons and also our new arrivals from Docrafts too. This week has certainly been busy! I also have an editorial in a magazine coming out soon - more information about that in another blog.

Thank you to everyone who has sent comments about the new look at Kay Dees Crafts. The only niggle that was mentioned was the size of the font in the descriptions - I am working my way through everything to make it easier on the eye.

Good to hear that the wish list feature has got the thumbs up and also listing our products by manufacturer. As always we invite people to send us their thoughts on the site - it really is lovely reading through your emails.

Happy Crafting!

Smirk Stamps

Smirk for Him and For Her stamps are now back in stock at Kay Dees Crafts

16 wooden stamps and 4 different clear stamps from this fab new collection.
The Smirk for Her range features some classy girls and also one or two yummy cupcake designs.....

The Smirk for Him range is perfect for Fathers Day projects and features an assortment of mischievous characters spanning every generation from boys to men portaying superheros, fishermen, footballers and even Formula 1 wannabes.

Finding embellishments, papers and stamps for the men in our lives usually makes for hard work. The Smirk for Him collection has covered it for me.

Happy Crafting!

Papermania Capsule Collection

New Papermania Capsule Collection mini buttons. Yes I know - more buttons!

These buttons are fab and I am delighted to add them to our range of craft buttons.

The mini buttons come in the Capsule Collection shades of Red Hot, Aqua, Verde, Sunshine, Heather and Monochrome. Available as full colour buttons or polka dots.

The colours come in packs of 100 and the polka dots come in packs of 60 - fantastic value for money.

These buttons are approx 7mm and are perfect for cardmaking, scrapbooking, sewing and quilting projects.

Hopefully we will have the full Capsule Collection range at Kay Dees Crafts very soon! Particularly looking forward to seeing the ribbon packs and ribbon bows.



The only thing that I am not impressed with is the amount of packaging these mini buttons come in. The majority of the packaging is plastic which is not recycleable. I know the capsule bit is the name of the range and it is very eye catching - but it is excessive. Reminds me of the oodles of packaging Easter Eggs come in. You can open and reclose the capsule when you are using the buttons, which is handy, but it really could have been half the size it is.

Unusual for me to criticise a new range but I suppose I have got used to the minimal, but perfectly adequate, packaging our buttons usually arrives in.

Happy Crafting!

Red Hot Bed sale

50% off Red Hot Bed cardmaking kits and decoupage - this week only.

Make a card today with a cardmaking kit from Red Hot Bed.

Each topper and paper pack contains:

• 1 A4 topper sheet with glitter or foil accents
• 2 printed A4 backing papers
• 2 card blanks with envelopes

Perfect kits to create exciting and inspirational cards - suggested card designs shown on each pack or use your imagination to create a unique design.

We have also included our Red Hot Bed Christmas range for those cardmakers who like to get an early start.
Happy Crafting!

Flower Factory Embellishments back in stock

Beautiful Wool Felt flowers and adhesive glitter flowers from the Flower Factory range.

The chunky felt flowers come in a variety of sizes and colours with 22 in each pack.

Many different ways to use these flowers: as a focal point in your papercrafts, make a corsage, create funky jewellery or add to a canvas bag. Decorate each felt flower with buttons, beads, charms or gems for a truely unique look.

(The flowers are not flat, thin felt they are approx 7mm deep.)

The adhesive glitter flowers also come in a variety of colours and sizes. Perfect to use as a focal point when card making or scrapbooking.

These embellishments are proving to be very popular - more so than we imagined. Fantastic quality and great value for money.


We also now have adhesive felt alphabets in blue and pink which are going down a treat with quilters.

For the button lovers amongst you we have also got a range of felt buttons in stock too.

Happy Crafting!