Upcoming Events and New Arrivals

March already and I am glad to see it. February disappeared into weeks of illness with one family member after the other succumbing to that rotten cold that was going around and I came down with tonsillitis. It has put me way off schedule but I am doing my best to catch up.

I'm delighted to have had this new design made up into printed items.

'Morning Mist' was a felt picture I made on the one day during early February that I actually got any work done. I took the photo after I had laid all the fibres out ready for wet felting. I don't usually take photos at this stage but the wisps of silk made perfect clouds and waves lapping on the beach. A lot of the atmosphere was lost during the felting process so I am so glad that I took the photo!

I have had it printed into Mouse Mat's, Notebooks, Sketchbooks, Sets of 8 Notelets and individual cards.

You can find them all for sale here

During February my faithful old sewing machine had to go and be serviced and repaired and although she is still going strong, I decided to buy a new machine as well. I needed more power for the things I make and it came as a wonderful surprise to find that the new machine has 50 different stitch settings including this gorgeous chain of hearts!

I soon put it to good use, giving these sheep some hearts to skip along.

I have been making these Felted Sheep Cuff Bracelets for my stall at Edinburgh Yarn Festival next weekend and now have them in four different colour ways.

The bracelets will be £22 and will go on sale online after the 16th March if there are any left.

Also new today is this Thistle Cottage card.

As I've said, I will have all these things with me at Edinburgh Yarn Festival on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March at Edinburgh Corn Exchange. If you are not sure where this venue is or how to get to it, the Corn Exchange website is excellent with everything you need to know here

For details about the Yarn Festival click here

More good news for March is that Falkland Craft Markets are returning with five dates set for this year! I will be at four of them (see events listing on the right). The first one will be on Saturday 21st March and I will be there with all my new things and all my popular favourites. You can also pick up your free Open Studios brochure from me at both of these events and start planning your Bank Holiday weekend in May!

Falkland Craft Market

Saturday 21st March 2015

10 - 4 pm 

Falkland Village Hall

Falkland 

Fife

I have lots of other makes on the go including this felt landscape picture.

I just want to go and live here. I will definitely have to make another of these similar to keep!

This one will be on display when it is finished during Open Studios North Fife on 2nd- 4th May 2015. You can see all the details about that on the website here 

Giveaway Winners!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered my Giveaway!

The response was fantastic and after writing out ALL the names and putting them all in my hat (Handmade by Maria at Creative Bumble Bee) the winners are ..............

Michaela Carrington

Kirsty Southwell

Sue Harris

and

Michelle Rivera!

All the new prints, sketchbooks, notebooks and cards are now available in both my Etsy and Folksy shops.

I'll be back next week with some more new makes to share! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Big Giveaway!

To celebrate the arrival of some new work in print and the wonderful amount of people that follow my page over on Facebook, I am offering a few new things in this Giveaway.

First up is this new Notebook featuring 'Rainbow Valley' as a Printed Cover.

The Notebooks have been a big hit since I started having them made last Autumn. There are now five designs to choose from with 38 pages alternating between plain and ruled.

Rainbow Valley Notebook

£5.95

Vibrant Hills, Lupins and Sheep, Harvey and Island and Gulls

New today are these larger sized Sketchbooks, again the front covers are glossy prints of my own felt pictures.

 'Cottage By The Spring' Sketchbook 

£8.95

'Distant Shore' Sketchbook 

£8.95

These measure 21 x 21 cm and feature 50 pages of sketchbook quality paper.

The coil binding makes them really sturdy.

I have been toying with the idea of having frame-able prints made so I am testing the water with these little 10 x 10 cm Giclee Prints in 15 x 15 cm mounts.

'Rainbow Valley' Giclee Print

£12

'Vibrant Hills' Giclee Print

£12

'Island and Gulls' Giclee Print

£12

'Harvey' Giclee Print

£12

These prints look gorgeous framed and the quality is such that you can hardly tell that it's not a felt original. The first time I saw one at the printers workshop I actually had to stroke it as it looked so like felt.

I have also had some new cards made featuring Rainbow Valley and Vibrant Hills.

 Cards £2.50 each or £12 for a set of six (three of each design)

So, there are four prizes up for grabs.

A Print 

A Sketchbook

A Rainbow Notebook

and a Card

To enter just leave a comment saying which Print you would most like to win and which Sketchbook design you like best.

First name out of the hat wins the print of their choice, second wins a sketchbook, third wins a Rainbow Notebook and fourth wins a card.

Please leave your email address as well so I can contact you if you are a winner.

Giveaway closes at 9pm tomorrow night (Thursday)

If you are a Facebook user, be sure to come over and like my page as it's the best place to keep up with what's new.

All the best!

Calendar Update and Sheep Brooches

Here we are more than half way through November and there are only 15 of my 2013 Calendars left!

I'm not planning on ordering any more so I thought I'd better let you all know in case you had wanted one.

The notebooks are flying out the door too with one design sold out already. There are less than 10 Highland Cow ones in stock but plenty Seascape and Cottage (I ordered more of them to start with, should have got more coo's!)

Calendars are £9.95

Notebooks £5.95

and can be found here

 I have spent the last week catching up on a few things and photographing as much as possible to list online.

All these and more are available on Etsy now.

I have been asked a lot over the past few weeks if I will be making any more sheep brooches and the good news is that yes I will!
The brooch trays have arrived and there are now a few available in my Etsy shop.

If you would like to order one just email me at aileenclarkecrafts@yahoo.com

UPDATE! Due to demand, more Calendars and Notebooks have been ordered!



Notebooks

I love notebooks. In fact I have a bit of a thing for paper products and stationary in general.

When I was a girl a got a big desk as a present one year and oh my goodness how I loved to arrange my notebooks, pens and papers on it and keep it all tidy. You'd never believe that if you could see my work desk now!

I also like the idea of my art being useful and so I had a couple of my favourite designs printed into notebooks.

 

The books are high quality, professionally printed and spiral bound. Measuring 12x12cm with 38 paper pages alternating between plain and ruled. Perfect for sketching and journaling.

To make them even more extra special, each notebook comes wrapped with a pretty ribbon and little tag making them the perfect gift or treat for yourself.



Available in both my Etsy and Folksy shops now or from me at any of my upcoming events.

Next event will be the Open Day at Gillies and Mackay, Errol. Perthshire.

I will be exhibiting my full range of items and demonstrating with the embellisher machine as well. Hope to see some of you there!