Clearance 70% off everything!!!

We are sad to announce that due to a change in family circumstances, we are closing down Crimson Cloud at the end of March.

The good news is we are having a massive clearance sale!

Just put in the code CLEAR14 when you check out your basket to redeem your 70% discount.

Offer ends at midnight on 31st March 2014
Click here to start shopping!

Best wishes

Mel and Linda

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Massive February Sale!

40% Sale off all Crimson Cloud products

We are back from our hols and to celebrate
(and to make room for our new exclusive ranges coming soon), we are giving 40% off all orders placed during February.

Just put in the code FEB14 when you check out your basket to redeem your 40% discount.

Offer ends at midnight on 28th February 2014.

Click here to start shopping!

Best wishes
Mel and Linda
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December sale at Crimson Cloud....

Massive December Sale!


To celebrate Christmas and to make room for our new ranges coming in the New Year, we are giving 30% off all orders placed during December.

Just put in the code DEC13 when you check out your basket to redeem your 30% discount.

Offer ends at midnight on 31st December 2013.

Click here to start shopping!

Have fun
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Wishing you a magical day....

Hi Everyone,

This week I decided to take a break from making Christmas cards and tags and spent some time with the beautiful Lavinia Stamps range.

I love these silhouette stamps, they are so striking and give me an opportunity to play with making my own backgrounds.

To start I took a woodgrain embossed card base and die cut my aperture.

Then I used three Distress Paints (Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey and Picket Fence) and dabbed these onto a piece of watercolour paper. I spritzed it heavily with water to allow the paint to move and blend.

Once the paint was dry I overstamped with the Lavinia Stamps Thistles stamp set in black Versafine ink and mounted my picture behind the aperture in the card base.

For my sentiment I used "Wishing you a magical day" from the Crimson Cloud Sleeping Flower Fairy stamp set

and stamped it onto a die cut banner and mounted it with foam pads onto the card front.

Finally I decorated the card with some coordinating gems from my stash.

Hope you like it!
Mel xxxx Pin It Now!

Christmas Gift Tag Challenge Winner Announcement

Hi Everyone,

Today we are very happy to announce the winner of the Crimson Cloud Gift Tag blog challenge.

Thank you to everyone who took part. We loved your tags and as usual had so much trouble deciding the winner.

This week's winner is Sammy - we loved her Gingerbread themed tag and matching gift box.

And here is a closer look at the tag

We are taking a short break on the blog challenge over Christmas but will be back in the New Year with a new theme.

Best wishes
Mel and Linda  

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Christmas Tags

Hi Everyone,

Only a few days left on this month's blog challenge - Christmas Gift Tags.

Don't forget we need your entries by midnight on Monday 25th November.

Here is another gift tag sample made by Linda

She used the Couture Creations Ivy Doily set,

and layered on top the Spellbinders Poinsettia dies

which were stamped and embossed with the Just Rite Festive Poinsettia stamp set

We can't wait to see the rest of your entries!
Good luck!
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Crimson Cloud Christmas Blog Challenge - win an exclusive stamp set!

Crimson Cloud Christmas Blog Challenge - win an exclusive stamp set!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to our second monthly blog challenge to win a Crimson Cloud exclusive stamp set.

As it is nearly gift giving time, the challenge this month is to create a Christmas gift tag.

The prize for two lucky winners is the Noel Bells  A6 clear stamp set which includes two step stamping elements.

If you would like to take part - please email your entry to mel@crimsoncloud.co.uk by midnight on Monday 25th November.

You can use any brand of stamps and dies you like on your entry - there are no restrictions.

And here is our pair of gift tags

made using the Spellbinders Mr and Mrs Snowman dies

Creative Expressions Self Adhesive Star Swirls

and the Couture Creations Wild Holly embossing folder in the background

and the sentiment from the Crimson Cloud Holly Wreath and Bow stamp set

We can't wait to see your entries!
Good luck!
Mel xx

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Reindeer Games

The cards this week have been inspired by the current Christmas Reindeer trend.

My new favourite embossing folder is "Reindeer Games" by Couture Creations from their "Wrapped In Joy" collection.

I love using Kraft coloured cardstock so I have created two cards combining my two favourite things!

On this card I blended white ink over the raised embossed areas to highlight the stag and the trees.

The sentiment is from the Crimson Cloud Guardian Angel stamp set.

For the second card I die cut an oval aperture to reveal the embossed reindeer in the inside of the card.

I used another sentiment from the Guardian Angel stamp set and both cards are decorated with the new Creative Expressions Star Swirl Pearl embellishments.

I hope you like and are inspired by these cards.

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CRAFT Challenge entry

This week we are one of the lucky sponsors of the Trimmies Craft Challenge.

The theme is Christmas and here is the Crimson Cloud entry

The card is made using the Crimson Cloud Mistletoe stamp set

I used the "emboss resist" technique. I stamped and embossed my mistletoe in clear embossing powder onto patterned paper and blended some ink over the top to create a resist image.

This technique works really well with most silhouette stamps.

Hope you like it!
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Christmas in Creative Stamping

This month we have been lucky enough to have five projects printed in a feature in Creative Stamping magazine.

A Berry Merry Christmas

Holly Wreath and Merry Christmas

Noel Bells and Love & Kisses

 All the cards were made using the Crimson Cloud Christmas 2013 stamp release - find all four stamp sets here.

For more details on how to make these cards, pick up your copy of Creative Stamper this month.

Best wishes
Mel

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New Crimson Cloud Christmas Card Challenge - win an exclusive stamp set!

Hi Everyone,

This week we are launching our new monthly challenge to win a Crimson Cloud exclusive stamp set.

The challenge this month is to create a Christmas card in either a traditional colour scheme or a contemporary colour scheme.

We will be giving away a two stamps sets - one to our favourite traditional colour card and one to our favourite contemporary colour card.

We are giving away the Holly Wreath and Bow stamp set to each of the lucky winners.

If you would like to take part - please email your entry to mel@crimsoncloud.co.uk by midnight on Friday 25th October.

You can use any brand of stamps and dies you like on your entry - there are no restrictions.

And here is our card using the Holly Wreath stamp set in traditional red and green.

We can't wait to see your entries!
Good luck!
Mel xx


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Beautiful Bells

Today we have two cards made by Linda.

Both cards are made using the Crimson Cloud Noel Bells stamp set

This stamp set includes a patterned bell, an outline bell and a silhouette bell stamp which can be used to colour in the outline bell.

For her first card, Linda created movement and dimension for her bells by mounting them at an angle through a die cut rectangular aperture.

Her first bell is stamped as a silhouette and overstamped with the wreath  from the Crimson Cloud Holly Wreath and Bow stamp set

The second bell was created using the harlequin patterned bell stamp.

To create her sentiment, she used the Love, Peace and Joy separate stamps from the Holly Wreath set.

Linda used the Noel Bells again for her second card, this time paper piecing the bells by stamping them onto some tartan patterned paper.

She used the Creative Expressions Wild Poinsettia embossing folder for her background

I love the way she has used such non-traditional colours for both her cards.

I hope you like these samples and are inspired by them!

Mel xxx

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Bells, Boughs and Bows

This week Linda has been getting in the Christmas spirit and playing with three of the Crimson Cloud Christmas stamp sets.

For her first card she has chosen a lovely colour palette of pale blues and browns - very unusual!

She has combined the Pine Bough and Fir Cones stamp set 

with the Noel Bells stamp set

She has stamped a subtle background with the pine boughs, and the fir cones look so striking stamped in brown.

For her second card, she has created an very elegant wreath

by stamping and embossing it in white, and combining it with the wreath bow stamped and embossed in silver. To add that extra bling, she has replaced the berries with silver beads.

We hope you like and are inspired by this week's samples.

Best wishes
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Fairy love and wishes......

Good morning!

We have some more fairy-inspired samples today from our lovely Design Team today.

Sandra kicks us off with another one of her fantastic dimensional projects

made using the Sitting Fairy stamp set

Cheremane has very cleverly used the sunflower from the Sleeping Flower Fairy stamp set

to create a background to compliment her focal image

Debs has used an unusual colour palette to create her elegant Fairy card

using the Fairy Picking Flowers stamp set

Linda was obviously feeling very inspired as she came up with two designs for the Fairy In The Moonlight stamp set

Her first card would work well as a Spring or even Valentine's card

And you can tell she is in Christmas mode with this very clever Christmas card

which also incorporates the Crimson Cloud Pine Boughs and Fir Cones stamp set

I hope you enjoy these samples and are inspired to use your fairies in new ways!
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Latest release from My Favorite Things and Die-namics - now in stock!

Hi Everyone,
We now have the latest release from My Favorite Things and Die-namics in stock.

Here are just a few of the products now available -

And here is the first sample

This autumnal card was made using the Plaid Builder stamp set, the Chalkboard Greetings stamp set, and the Thankful Leaves stamp set with matching Fall Leaves dies.

I hope you have fun with these new stamps and dies.

Mel xxx Pin It Now!