New Cards, Mouse Mats and Calendars

My new cards are finally here! Pink Thistle Bothy, Sipping By The Stream and Stepping Stone's to The Bothy's are now available individually or as this set of six along with Heather Bothy, Thistle Cottage and Harvey The Highland Cow. 

My cards are all £2.50 each or £12 for a set of six.

I have also has Pink Thistle Bothy and Sipping By The Stream printed as Mouse Mats.

Mouse Mats £6.95

And although it's not even quite midsummer yet, I have released my 2016 Calendar.

I think it's my best yet!

I decided to go for the square format this time as all my best pictures from the last year or so were square and it makes the images really easy to frame after use.

All the favourites are included.

I have used this seascape for January.

The calendars measure 21 x 21 cm and the printed images measure 17 x 17 cm.

Pink Thistle Bothy for June

A nice hairy coo for April!

Sipping By The Stream for September.

You can see all the images used in the montage below.

I have kept the price the same as last year at £10. 

I know I sold a lot of my 2015 calendars off half price in January but that was because I had to reorder late in December to fulfill an order and I was left with quite a few. I'm not planning on doing that this year!

I do however plan to have plenty available over the next few months and will have them with me at all my events.

My next event is Falkland Craft Market on Saturday July 11th.

This was my stall earlier in the year. I'll have some cushions with me as well as some original felt pictures.

I added 'Oak Tree Cottage' below to my Etsy shop this week.

The picture itself measures 12 x 12 cm with the outer edge of the frame measuring 25 x 25 cm.

Oak Tree Cottage

£85

So that's all my news for this week. 

You can find a good selection of my Textile Jewellery for sale at 

The Rowan Tree in Falkland. 

Gemini in Thurso is also now stocking my mugs, notebooks, cards, coasters and a wee bit of jewellery as well.

You can also find my work in 

Maisie and Mac in Cupar

Room 15 in Oban

Wild Thistle in Braemar and in Braemar Castle Shop

Little Thistle in Dunfermline

Ballahullish Visitors Centre

The Craft Cupboard in Dunkeld

and The Atholl Gallery in Dunkeld

*Special Offer* Pre Order Your Aileen Clarke Crafts 2015 Wall Calendar

My 2015 Wall Calendar is now available to Pre Order.

My sample calendar arrived today and I have been busy liaising with my printers to get it just right.

You can Pre Order now at the Special Price of £8.50. This offer will end as soon as my Calendars arrive from the Printers when they will go on sale at £10 each.

The Calendar is A4 in size, folding out to A3 with a different full colour print for each month and a whole A4 page in list format to write on.

A4 measures 21 x 30 cm opening to 30 x 42 cm.

The images include Cottage Scenes, Seascapes, a Highland Cow and a Moon Gazing Hare.

Calendar comes wrapped in a cellophane envelope to keep it nice and pristine until January 1st.

You can order the Calendar now in my Etsy shop here 

Postage costs are as follows

UK £1.40

EU £3.85

US £4.90

Canada £4.90

Australia £5.20

Everywhere Else £5.20

October Events

How did October sneak up on us so fast? 

I have two fairs this month so I'm busy making as usual.

The fair at Birnam Hotel last weekend went well and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Met lots of lovely people both customers and other makers. I also sold a lot so I'm trying to make lots more for my next fair on Saturday 12th.

Falkland Craft Market is a lovely event. I was at the one in April and it was just great. Lots of tea and cake as well!

Last week I purchased some beautiful ceramic bead charms from Bo Hulley Beads to use on my Textile Trinket Boxes. Aren't the little acorns cute!

I have used an acorn on this box below which has sold already but I'll have more next week.

I have used a leaf charm on this one below which is still available here

The boxes are priced at £25 for a 5 cm cube, £30 for  7 cm cube. £35 for a 10 cm square/6cm deep box and £45 for a 14 cm square/6cm deep box. £55 for special commissions depending on how much detail is in the lid design.

I have also been busy making lots of new textile pendants and earrings.

The earrings are £15 and £18. I use handmade solid silver ear wires on some of my earrings and ordinary sterling silver wires on the rest.

New this week is this textile and resin ring.

I absolutely love these! The ring base is silver plated but very solid and although it looks big, it is comfortable to wear.

More colours coming soon including purple, turquoise and green.

Ring £18 available here

Also new this week are these Ivy Leaf Brooches. Great for keeping cardigans closed or for use as a shawl pin. All the Autumn shades have sold already but I'll try and get some more made for Saturday.

Brooches £12 available here

I will also have my 2014 Calendar with me at the fairs. They have been very well received and have been sent all over the world via my Etsy shop. Etsy now has direct checkout making it even easier to use. Payment can be made by Credit Card or Bank Transfer not just Paypal.

Calendar £10

available here 

My next Fair after Falkland will be at Pitcairngreen Village Hall on Saturday 26th October. Pitcairngreen is a village just north of Perth near Almondbank. This is a very busy fair again with lots of tea and cake! 

Hope to see some of you over the next few weeks. If you can't get along but are interested in anything you see here, please feel free to contact me at aileenclarkecrafts@yahoo.com.

I'm away now to make more things!

Aileen Clarke Crafts 2014 Calendar Now Available

The Aileen Clarke Crafts 2014 Calendar is finally here!

This has been many months in the making. 

The Calendar features 12 prints of felt pictures I have made depicting the Scottish countryside in different seasons.

Calendar measures A4 folding open to A3

That's 21 x 30 cm opening out to 30 x 42 cm.

Here are some examples of how the page layout looks.

Plenty of room on the calendar area for writing.

I have included some seascapes as well.

Calendar costs £10 plus £1.20 UK p+p

£4.50 for US/Can p+p

£3.50 for EU p+p

and

£4.70 for Australia and everywhere else.

The best way to buy is via my Etsy Shop where you can now use Direct Checkout if you wish with the option of paying by Paypal, Bank Transfer or Credit Card

Most of the original felt pictures have sold already but February, June, November and December are still available. 

Again you can see all the details for each picture in their listings here

'Glenbrittle'

£85 inc mount

'November Sunset'

£145 Framed

£105 unframed

'The Shielings'

£195 Framed

£140 unframed/mount only

'Midwinter Cottage and Coo'

£195 Framed

£140 unframed/mount only

Also back in stock today are these notebooks.

Each notebook features good quality paper pages, alternating between plain and ruled. Perfect for sketching and keeping notes.

Notebooks £5.95 each

Five designs to choose from. Available here