Hotshot Craft blog

Challenge #4 - One for the boys - and winner of challenge #3

2012-03-02T17:09:00.000Z

Welcome to challenge #4 at HSC and a VERY BIG THANK YOU to those of you who entered our last challenge. We had a staggering 236 entries. We are a very new challenge blog and we have been amazed by the support you have given.

We hope you have enjoyed browsing around our shop Hotshot Crafts and have bought lots of great crafting goodies. We have free shipping on many items

So onto the winner of challenge #3

Sue Walker

Congrats Sue..............can you please email me with your address. You have 1 week to claim your prize

So our challenge this time is

"One for the boys"

So lets see how you interpret this challenge. Remember any project " male" related can be entered including

E mail entries and you can enter as many times as you like.

The candy on offer is a set of the new Limited Edition Spring Promarkers

Here is a bit of inspiration for you

Looking forward to your entries

Sarah

Come and see us at Farnborough -

2012-02-24T17:45:00.000Z

We hope many of you will attend the Make It craft show at Farnborough this weekend. We are there with so many new products and loads of samples to hopefully give you some inspiration. Below are a few of the cards made.
Hunkydory Golden Oldies

Forever Friends

See you at Farnborough!

New Tim Holtz Distress - Pre -order now

2012-02-22T23:00:00.000Z

This is what you have all been waiting for. We are expecting the new Tim Holtz Distress Marker pens any day now. You can Pre - order here. The full set of 37 Distress Marker Pens is £99 with FREE shipping (UK only)
Single pens are £2.99

Tim Holtz Distress Markers are water-based inks for coloring, journaling, stamping and more. The dual tip markers are ideal for many coloring techniques.
Distress Markers are available to match the Distress palette of 36 color and White Picket Fence.

I had the opportunity to do a workshop with Tim on Saturday at the NEC. We used the new pens.This is what we made.

Order your pens now. They are not going to be in the shop for long. You have been warned!

Sarah

Challenge #3 - Flowers - and winner of challenge #2

2012-02-10T14:12:00.000Z

Thank you to everyone who entered our 2nd challenge. We had some gorgeous easel card entries.
So the moment you have been waiting for, the winner.

No.13 .......................................................Mags

Congratulations Mags. Can you email me your address so that we can send your candy out to you.

So onto Challenge #3

Flowers

We want to see flowers on your card, tag , project etc. Remember you can enter as many times as you like.

The candy on offer is

Trimcraft First Edition- Spring Drop - 6 x 6 Paper stack

Here is a bit of DT inspiration

We have all the Gorjuss Girl stamps in stock, Embossing flowers /leaf punches, embossing folders and some stunning Trimcraft First Edition paper stacks to create some beautiful cards

Looking forward to seeing your creations

Sarah

Spring Limited Edition Promarkers in stock....Grab them quick!

2012-02-07T15:42:00.001Z

Just to let you know we have the new Spring Limited Edition Promarkers in stock.They are £12.95

Sarah

Calling all Hunkydory fans

2012-01-31T19:17:00.001Z

If you like Hunkydory you will love this latest offering.

It is the Hunkydory Compendium 1 with FREE GIFT!!
It is a great magazine/book with dozens and dozens of ideas AND you get a FREE GIFT!!!!
Luxury Card Collection worth £9.99 - I already have it and it is gorgeous!!

Sarah

Kanban "Time Machine" card samples

2012-01-30T15:53:00.000Z

I thought you might like to see what you can do with the new Time Machine range from Kanban
If you can't fine them on the online shop please ring on 01902 716770 as we are updating the web with many more new items

A few Die cut gears and clock faces were added

Some embossing folders and Distress Inks were used

We would love to know what you thinkof these

Sarah

New Promarker Limited Edition - Spring 2012

2012-01-26T17:47:00.004Z

Hotshot Craft are stocking the new Promarker Limited Edition Spring 2012 colours.

Why not ring and reserve you set and they will be posted out to you.

Once they are gone that is it!

Sarah

Mr Linky is now fixed

2012-01-20T23:55:00.002Z

Apologies to those of you who have tried to enter the challenge this evening and couldn't. Mr Linky has now made an appearance and is ready to take your entries!

Sarah

Challenge #2 - Easel card and winner of first challenge

2012-01-20T11:24:00.000Z

Edited to add

Due to the Festive season this challenge will run for an extra week. the closing date will be 20th January
I want to start by saying a huge Thank you to everyone who made our first challenge such a success. Starting a challenge blog is quite scary and to be honest I didn't think we would get much interest. So you can imagine how we are feeling to see that when challenge #1 closed yesterday we had an amazing 105

We hope you all enjoyed playing along and will join us for challenge #2

But onto the winner of challenge#1

We used Randon.org to pick the winner and the winner is.................................................................
no 67 ................................ Lalkygirl.

Tracey can you please email me your address so we can post out your candy.

So onto challenge #2. We want to see

Easel cards

The candy on offer is Stamps by Personal impressions.

Here is a bit of inspiration for you

Can we make 100 entries again? I am sure you will give it a good go!
You can also enter by Email.
Hugs Sarah x

New Spring Drop paper stacks by Trimcraft

2012-01-19T16:35:00.001Z

Just a quick post to say we have the new Trimcraft First Edition - Spring Drop paper stacks. If you have any of the others you will know that they are gorgeous!

£6.95, £9.95 and £14.99

Also if you would like to try the monochrome look ( like the Fizzy Moon card I did...see below) here are the pencils you can use


£6.70

Sarah

New Hunkydory samples

2012-01-19T11:15:00.000Z

We have all the new Hunky Dory in stock.

Here are some samples to whet your appetite!

So what do you think of them?

Sarah

p.s.you have 1 more day to enter our challenge....easel cards

2 versions of Fizzy Moon

2012-01-16T18:54:00.000Z

That's the moaning over. So far I have made 85 cards for Hotshot Crafts since Friday. I thought I had finished.....silly me....of course I hadn't. I forgot I still had 20 bunting cards to do......... No housework again!

I have 2 samples to show you that I have made with one of the new Fizzy Moon stamps that are now available at Hotshot Crafts ( if you can't find them in the web shop yet just ring them and they will sort it out for you)

The first card has been coloured with Promarkers. I have also added clear glittery Atyou Spica pens on the flowers and vases. You can't see it on the photo...but it is there!.
The DP is Portobello Road

The second card has been coloured with H, B, Hb2 and HB4 pencils. I made the flowers from a die and added punched leaves.

Keep warm and safe

Sarah x

New Portobello Road papers and stamps etc.

2012-01-09T13:37:00.000Z

The new Portobello Road papers and stamps etc from Papermania are in the shop now

The papers are great and the stamps give a good clear image

Here are a couple of cards I have made with them. I will post more over the next few days.

I hope they give you a bit of inspiration.

Sarah

Have you entered your Easel cards into our challenge yet?

Our first challenge starts today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-23T08:29:00.000Z

It is so exciting. Today we launch our first ever challenge on the Hotshot Craft blog.

We really hope you will join us on each challenge where you will get the chance to win some blog candy.

So for our first challenge we thought we would give you something nice and easy

Promarkers

So get creating. A card, tag, project etc as long as you use Promarkers on it.

The blog candy on offer is a set of the New Metallic colours (6)

Here are a couple of cards I have made using Promarkers and Flexmarkers just for a bit of inspiration

You bloggers are amazing!!!

2011-12-20T18:29:00.001Z

Hotshot Crafts first challenge finishes this Friday. We have been overwhelmed by the number of entries so far. I was scared that we would only get about 10 at the most. At the time of posting this we have 93 entries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

So I was wondering, could you bloggers make it 100 entries??????????????

Wouldn't that be fantastic if we had 100 ( or more) entries for our first ever challenge AND just wait till you see the candy on offer for challenge number 2!

I shall leave it with you wonderful, wonderful people

Warm hugs Sarah x

Not to late to shop!

2011-12-18T23:56:00.001Z

Just a quick reminder. It isn't to late to order from our shop. We have loads of great crafting products waiting to be posted! We also have free postage on many items.

Sarah x

Picking a new winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-08T13:03:00.001Z

Unfortunately the winner of our first give away - reaching 50 followers - never claimed their prize so I am picking a new one. This has to be claimed within 1 week.

The winner is Kym form Kyms Crafty Cards

Congrats Kym. Can you email me your address I will send you your prize

hugs Sarah

Launching our first challenge TOMORROW!

2011-12-01T10:31:00.000Z

Hotshot Craft Challenge

Just a quick post to let you know that we will be launching our first challenge tomorrow. We have some great blog candy up for grabs so we hope you will join us and spread the word.

Hotshot Craft challenge rules:

New challenges will be posted every third Friday, so the challenge will run for 3 weeks. You may combine your entry with as many challenges as you like. But please, NO Back Listing. You can make a card, scrapbook page, tag etc. Don't forget to leave a comment with a link to your blog so we can all check out your creations!!

Looking forward to seeing your gorgeous creations

If you have any ideas for challenges you would like feel free to leave a comment below

Sarah

Our first challenge launches on friday

2011-11-30T16:59:00.000Z

Just a quick post to let you know we will be launching our very first challenge this Friday. We really hope you will join us and spread the word. We have some great candy on offer too.

Sarah

Blog candy winner............................We have reached 50 follwers!!!...........................

2011-11-29T18:09:00.002Z

Edited to say: As the winner hasn't claimed their prize within a week a new winner has been picked

We have reached 50 followers and as promised we have some blog candy to send out.

Our first ever winner is.......................................Em from Emscraftcorner

Congratulations................................Em. You win a Fizzy Moon stamp

Could you please email me your address so that we can send your candy out to you. You have 1 week from today to claim your prize

We will be launching our first challenge this week and we hope you will all join us.

Sarah

More followers needed!!!!!

2011-11-27T21:44:00.000Z

Hi
we only need one more follower to reach our target of 50 and then we can give out some Blog Candy!

What will the candy be?.......................... a stamp..........................maybe?

Sarah

How to:Flower card made with X Cut dies

2011-11-21T15:25:00.000Z

This is a very quick and easy flower card.

Cut out several sizes and layers of your chosen material ( I used Baking Parchment!) with X Cut flower die
stamp over each layer. I lightly stamped with Papermania Urban stamps ( music)
layer up the flower. Make a hole in the middle of all the layers and attach a brad to hold layers together
Brush over ends of petals with Distress inks with tool applicator
Emboss a piece of card ( cut to fit card blank) and emboss through an embossing folder. Distress ink it
Cut leaves from your chosen die , colour it with distress inks and stamp over ( music )

And that is how easy it is

We hope you will have a go. Email us with your card and we will put it on the blog

Sarah

2011-11-18T16:36:00.000Z

This card was embossed with black embossing powder and then I used several bands of Distress inks for the background

The tree trunks were coloured with Distress Inks. The background was coloured with bands of Distress Inks

This card was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

All stamp, Promarkers and Flexmarkers and Distress inks available from Hotshot Craft

Sarah