Wednesday 28 November 2018



Good morning everyone,
Sorry it's taken so long between posts.....it's been a very busy but exciting time.
I'm on Hochanda tomorrow (Thursday 29th 8am & 2pm), doing  the Oakwood Archer shows where we'll be bringing you the first products from CoolKatzCrafts.......the company that Kay (Molyneux) and myself have started.
There will be some new album kits and an amazing 3D project for storing all your precious memorabilia.
The CoolKatz website is now open, but still has lots more to go on the website.
Here's a few sneaky peeks

This is a 2 in 1 project, making the roll top box and a matching album.
I used the fabulous Natures Sketch book papers by Graphic 45

This is the roll top box with a drawer instead of an album, decorated by Kay
using paint and texture paste.

Here's a selection of boxes made by some of the design team,
 thank you Sue, Anita and Rosemary


There are more pictures on the coolkatz website and a link to the blog
We have a You Tube channel and there are step by step instructions for creating the basic album cover, spine and pages. There will be more going on, hopefully by the end of next week.
Really hope you can join me tomorrow, and please email in and say hello; it would be lovely to have your support.
Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie

Wednesday 14 November 2018

Good morning everyone,
I'm back on Hochanda tomorrow at 11am and 3pm, hope you can join me;
It's Kaisercraft and we have 2 beautiful paper collections :" Let's go" which is a travel theme and "Scrap studio" which is a beautiful shabby chic/vintage/floral theme.
Both are perfect for scrapbooking, journalling, card making and for covering 3D projects.
We also have some stencils and stamps which compliment the range.
There is a fabulous MDF sleigh advent calendar ( the sample is beautifully decorated by Yvonne- thank you), MDF shapes to decorate for the tree (samples beautifully decorated by Rosemary- thank you ; and some lovely Christmas stamps.
Plus... a couple of amazing die sets - Nested postage stamps, mini envelope and 2 birds with a branch which you can do loads with!!
Here's a few pictures......
 
       MDF shapes from Rosemary                        Parchment tree star decorations, from June

                                                                                             

 

  







Mini book decorated with the lovely Scrap Studio papers, stamps and embellishments.


 
Opening out box using the "Let's Go" collection

 





Travel journal using some of the " Let's Go" collection embellishments and stencils.
 
 Cards using the "Scrap Studio" papers.
 
These 2 cards are made using the bird and branch dies by Rosemary and Yvonne


 Fabulous eclipse card made by Sue



The amazing sleigh advent calendar, beautifully decorated by Yvonne.
If you bought the MDF village scene we featured in the last show, it may fit into the hidden top slots on the sleigh
Thanks to all the amazing crafty gang for all the lovely samples- I  couldn't do any of this without your help and support. 

Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie



Sunday 28 October 2018


Good morning everyone,
Hope it's not too cold and chilly where you are.
Feeling very relaxed today as gained an extra hour....hooray!! as the clocks went back last night.

Sorry I forgot to post it earlier, here's a short video of the mini album using the "12 days of Christmas" paper collection by Graphic 45.
The album is made from a CoolKatzCraft album kit that was shown on Hochanda.




Now busy planning a couple of new album designs that should be available very soon,
Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie

Sunday 21 October 2018


Morning everyone,
Busy doing demo prep for tomorrows shows....I have to do them the day before so I can remember them as they're still fresh in my mind!
As promised a couple more pictures of cards and MDF scenes.

One of the other MDF scenes available, decorated with tissue paper, imagination crafts sparkle paste through the lovely star stencil, and the spots on the deer are from another stencil

Lovely card from Rosemary using the new papers with a teabag folding twist

Beautiful card from Yvonne, using the Christmas tree stamp which she embroidered and added beads too for more dimension.

Another MDF scene,  by Kay using another fabulous stencil with duralar matt for the windows and doors.

Thanks for dropping by and hope you'll join me tomorrow on Hochanda 8 & 12

Maggie x

Friday 19 October 2018

Morning everyone,
Thank you for all your lovely comments you've been sending me.
Another show on Monday coming up at 8am &12 noon. We'll be using products from Kaisercraft, a mixed bag of everything- embossing folders, dies, stencils, papers and an amazing sticker pad plus a couple of MDF Christmas scenes.
Here's a few sneaky peeks, but first a huge thanks you as always to the crafty gang who make some amazing samples.
This card was made just using a stencil and some stickers!

Beautiful card from Sue using the papers & stamp set

Lovely "brag book" from Anita using the 12 x 12 paper pad

Card background using stencil & dimensional paste, and a fabulous die.

One of the lovely 3D MDF kits...great fun to do
There will be a few more sneaky peaks coming up, Rosemary has been tea bag folding and Yvonne has been sewing- can't wait to see them.

Thanks for dropping by and have a lovely weekend.

Maggie x



Tuesday 9 October 2018

Hi everyone,

It was a busy time on Hochanda today- where we had an Oakwood Archer essentials show with products for album making and some lovely papers from Fabscraps.







The lovely box chest with a drawer sample that featured on the show can be found at CoolKatzCraft.
The website will soon have details of products available.


           
Kay made the lovely roses from Fabscraps stamps to decorate  the "wood effect chest"

When I've taken more photos I'll pop on a slide show showing my 12 days of Christmas mini album which I am going to fill with details of our family festive traditions, recipes etc, that we can add to each year.


Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie


Thursday 6 September 2018


Hi everyone,
It's been a busy time.......Kay Molyneux and I have joined forces to create coolKatzcraft,  and you'll soon be able to purchase album kits and other crafty project kits and book workshops from the website....The website is still being set up but we hope to be live by the beginning of October which is very exciting.
Had a busy time yesterday with 2 shows on Hochanda using lovely stamps and dies from Stampendous. We had some amazing pop up dies which sold out very quickly.
Here's a few pictures



 Cheeky elf card made by Sue,
from a combined stamp & die set.
 







 Two beautiful cards using the new House mouse designs, thank you Yvonne and Rosemary. The footprints come from a different stamp set (So sweet SSCM5004)



Bit of fun with the skeleton stamps












Using the wisteria stamp to complete two different effects and another plant with yellow flowers, a laburnam, thanks Rosemary.
                        



Two different effects using the poinsettia collage stamp, Kay has made an amazing album cover using grafix products....check out her shows this Friday on Hochanda at 12 & 4.   

                                                   


 Beautiful card from Sue using
 the 6 x 6 sunny sketch stamp.



Stamped images using the bouquet to you stamp set.









Hope you've enjoyed these,
Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie