We’re back from the Brand Licensing Show now…it was very interesting and fun, though part of me is very relieved that now we don’t have to go anywhere else until the Christmas holidays! (and we can enjoy our new house, woohoo!)

Here are a couple of pics of our stand…

Now, onto the Blog Hop!

The grand prize winner has been drawn, and the winner is…

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Jayne! (at number 36) Here’s the pic:

Congratulations Jayne If you’re reading this please could you email me your snail mail address at dulcie@wildrosestudio.co.uk so we can send out your prize.

Thanks again to everyone who took part, I’m really glad that you enjoyed it.

Dulcie xx

The Festive Frolics Blog Hop is now closed – thank you to everyone who entered! (and all your lovely comments I had a great time looking round everyone who entered, there were some super cards to see including some very inspiring Pickle colourings

I’d also like to say a big thank you to the Design Team for making some fabulous cards and helping to make this happen – you have all been fab but I’d like to particularly thank Lols, Sarpreet and Sally for the extra time they spent on organising/comments etc.

So, the winners! Right now I have the individual stamp winners from each DT blog:

Dawny P’s blog – Lacey Stephens
Sarpreet’s blog – ScrappyJacky / Jackie S (6)
Lorraine’s blog – Samantha
Ria’s blog – Sandra H
Lyndsey’s blog …….. Pauline C
Sally Ann’s blog……DIANE (Dianes Card Designs)
Zoe’s blog …. Faye

So if you’re reading this and you’re a winner please can you email me at dulcie@wildrosestudio.co.uk with your snail mail address – you will have won the stamp featured on the blog you were picked on.

I’m actually at the Brand Licensing Show in London right now, so my internet connection is a bit limited. I’ll be picking the grand prize winner ASAP but I need to double check all the links first which is slightly tricky right now. But here’s a pic of the show!

There’s a Wild Rose Studio stand down there, which is being manned by Matt at the moment. I’m up in the gallery where they have seats (I’ll be back down there in a minute tho!) It’s not a craft show, but we did have a nice chat with Pat Marsh and Joanna Sheen yesterday, so there are crafty people around and about! (checking out the trends etc).

Check back for my next post with the grand prize winner

Dulcie xx

We’ve just released some gorgeous brand new designs to add to our popular 2011 Christmas range! So we thought we’d celebrate with a blog hop to show you the new designs and give you the chance to win some fab prizes too!

Join in with the Festive Frolics theme and you will have a chance to win this FABULOUS Grand Prize. You don’t have to use a Wild Rose Studio image but if you have one we would love to see it!

The prize includes two of our brand new Mia Christmas range, two Pickles, both new Xmas paper stacks plus some of our Fergus stamps and polka dot papers to give you some non-Xmas variety if you’re lucky enough to win!

PLUS there will be more candy on offer at every stop on the hop too.

So what do you have to do to be in with a chance, I hear you say? Well,  just make a Christmas card/creation and link it with the Linky below, mentioning our blog hop on your own blog post. If you have any trouble using Mr Linky, tell me in the comments and I’ll add you in.

Then you will need to visit every DT blog on the hop and leave a comment. The next stop on the blog hop is the lovely Dawny at Pink Piggy Wiggy, and this is the full blog list:

• Dulcie (WRS blog)
  
• Dawny P
• Sarpreet
• Lorraine
• Ria
• Lyndsey
• Sally Ann
• Zoe
• then back to me at the WRS blog

You have until Monday 17th October 9 am UK time (8 am CET) to join in.

This is my card that I’ve made for the hop. It’s Christmas themed (remember there is no sketch, you can make any Christmas card for the hop!) and I’ve used our brand new Mia with Sammy stamp, plus the Wintry Christmas papers and Christmas Circles greetings.

To see all our new Christmas designs click here..

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoy the hop. Good luck!

Dulcie xx

Well we’ve had a bit of an exciting time here at Wild Rose…on a personal note we’ve just moved house, which is terrifically exciting! A real proper house with much more space and a garden, feels very grown up and just what we needed because in our old place we were pretty much bursting at the seams…

But it’s been a bit of a crazy time because we ended up moving house just a few days before we were due to go to Moscow in Russia – this was a holiday with a bit of teaching Russians cardmaking as well.

We went to a consumer+trade craft show in Moscow, and I taught some cardmaking classes on the RTO stand while we were there..here are some pics!

Here the lovely Julia is translating for me, as I don’t speak Russian unfortunately.. but I have to say RTO (they are our Russian distributor) were brilliant at making us feel at home, they were very friendly and nice to us, so we appreciated that a lot.

The Russians are really into their cross stitching, fabric crafting, embroidery and making things for the home, but cardmaking and stamping are still very new there. It was very interesting to wander round and see the differences in the products on offer.

Another funny thing was that the editor of the Russian equivalent of Cross Stitch Gold/Cardmaking & Papercraft – called Craft Formula – came over to see me and was very excited that I was there. Apparently a great many of my cardmaking projects have been syndicated over to Russia via their magazine and I have a following there. I had no idea but of course it was nice to hear it! Here’s a pic..

So we did an interview and publicity pics which I imagine will go in the magazine sometime.

I have to say we had a really good time in Moscow – the people were nice and there are some stunning buildings to see…

Since I love food, another highlight was trying as many local specialities as possible! I had a proper Chicken Kiev from a Ukrainian restaurant, Borsch which is a local soup made from beef and beetroot, Pelemeni which are dumplings filled with meat, rye bread and more. Matt tried Kvass which is a local non-alcoholic brew made from breadcrumbs – it has a bit of a reputation but it was quite nice actually!

Dulcie xx

I just wanted to share with you this fab card that DT member Sally B has made with her Pickle Skating stamp…it’s a tri-fold card, made using snowflake paper from the WRS Christmas CD.

So you can only see his face when you look from the outside, framed by the glittery circles…then once you open it, you can see it’s made using two different sized circle windows on the outer flaps..

Sally’s also used the Snowflakes stamps, heat embossed to decorate it..

..and you can see it stands up like this, with Pickle all cut out in 3D.

Fab job Sally, very innovative You can see more of Sally’s cards here.

Dulcie xx