Couture Creations Design Team Catch Up

April 9, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

Been a while since I last caught up with the amazing makes from the Couture Creations design team so I thought it’d be nice to sit down with a brew and have a look through and see what I have missed.

Fancy joining me?

Scan N Cut Saturday – From The Archives 8

April 6, 2019June 17, 2020 John - Gentleman CrafterLeave a comment

Create doors, flaps and other creative openings with this clever technique!

Couture Creations Butterfly Garden – Foiled Dragonfly Card

April 3, 2019May 15, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter3 Comments

Adding some fun foiling to the card this time. This card uses the Butterfly Garden collection from Couture Creations.

Couture Creations Butterfly Garden – With Brave Wings Floral Card

April 3, 2019April 30, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Quite proud of the simplicity yet elegance of this card that I made using the Butterfly Garden collection from Couture Creations.

Want to take a look?

Tell The Story

March 31, 2019August 26, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

After a wee break from these, and bearing in mind how much I have been waffling about new stuff recently, I thought that this one was a perfect finale to March.

Scan N Cut Saturday – From The Archives 7

March 30, 2019June 17, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

Welded word frames can be tricky to create unless you know how.

Thank goodness for this video from the archive collection.

Shopping Direct For Craft Supplies From Overseas – and the B Word And Most Likely the F Word Too

March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Some of the links that I have posted over the last few years have been for retailers based outside of the UK, most often from the United States.

As most of you that follow me reside in the United Kingdom you often raise postage and taxes as a confusing and expensive reason for not shopping direct.

In this blog post, I would like to share my knowledge of shopping from overseas with you, it can sometimes be well worth it – but will it remain so?

Brother Scan N Cut Online Course Updated – Preparing Fabrics

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

I am very pleased to let you know that I have now been able to add a section on preparing fabric for cutting with the Brother Scan N Cut to the very popular online confidence building course hosted on Udemy.

Scan N Cut Saturday – From The Archives 6

March 23, 2019June 17, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

Ever wondered how to weld things into frames in Canvas Workspace? You are in luck with this weeks tutorial video.

Live In The Moment

March 22, 2019August 26, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter18 Comments

A message to all of us in this one.

Things can get a little fraught, a little tense and a little nerve-wracking but, if we live in the moment, these things will diminish and disappear.

The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Hot Foilers – TV Show To Be Postponed

March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter20 Comments

Well, the build-up to tomorrow’s TV show, during which I was to launch the new Gentleman Crafter cut/foil/emboss dies and more, has been intense and I have been teasing you a lot so the news that I have to share with you today is as gutting for me as it may be for you.