New Archive of Vintage Images

We're squealing with delight at the news of another repository of copyright-free images from old books.  See them all here.  It's a Flickr stream with an astounding 2.6m antique images, called Internet Archive Book Images (full web address: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with/14784850762/).

It is an invaluable resource for historical information no doubt, but for all of us vintage-ly inspired folk, this is also an amazing source of inspiration.  Thank you to all those involved in the uploading and curating of such a wonderful and important collection.

Easter Weekend FREEPOST!

We are happy to announce another of our popular Freepost Weekends running through the Easter Weekend until midnight on Monday 22nd April.

Our offer is for free standard post within the UK. Orders to all other countries will benefit from a £2.50 discount on their postage.

To take advantage of this offer use the code EASTERFREEBIE at checkout.

Please note discounts will not be applied retrospectively.  If you place multiple orders during the weekend, they will be sent in one shipment.

We will be back at work on Tuesday 22nd April and will prepare your orders then - it will be a busy day and we will be sending out orders on a first come first served basis, so if you need your items quickly, make sure you place your order early!  Our shop website is: www.jasminstudiocrafts.com

Happy Easter to all our lovely customers!

Christmas 2013 Order Deadlines & Shop Timetables

Edit 23/12/13:

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We are now closed for the holidays, but we will be back on 2nd January to prepare all your orders and reply to emails.  We thank you very much for your custom and support this past year, and we look forward to being able to supply you with lots more fab new products next year.  

With love and peace from all of us at Jasmin Studio Crafts,

Jasmin, Alodie, Michelle & Donna xx

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In order to allow us to get your festive purchases to you in good time, we would ask that you kindly note our last order dates to allow us to get your items to you in time.  The dates below are for parcels sent by Royal Mail’s standard services:

UK:  Thursday 19 December 
UK with Faster Post upgrade: Friday 20 December
Western Europe:  Monday  9 December
Eastern Europe:  Friday 6 December
USA & Canada:  Monday 9 December
Everywhere else:  Tuesday 3 December

International courier deliveries will vary, please ask for details.

We will be closed for Christmas from 24 December, but we’ll be back on 2 January ready for a brand new year full of brand new jewellery!

The Glaze is Back!

We are excited to tell you that we have received a delivery of large bottles of Diamond Glaze, and the standard 60ml bottles should be in the shop early next week are in stock NOW!  This must have been the most long awaited product to return to our shelves!

In other news, we have lots of exciting new items in the shop - have you seen our fabulous new cufflinks?

They take a 14mm glass cab or sticker, and we are quite sure you will not find a better quality cufflink.

Did you see our new resin birdies?

And hooray, at long last - our very own resin!!

Roll on Christmas - we are ready for you! 

Planning ahead, wholesale orders & lovely discounts!

Somewhat alarming considering the sunny last post, but our heating is on and in just a little while we will all be starting to get ready for Christmas.  Goodness, here we are - again!

The preparations start early for makers and sellers, and once again we anticipate a busy period.  To help you plan ahead and ensure you can obtain your materials in good time, we taking wholesale orders now.

Wholesale orders have a minimum order quantity of 100 pieces per item.  For those items where we have the 100-packs in stock already, they will be showing through the website, however where they don't appear on the website, please get in touch and we should be able to get them in for you.

To place a wholesale order we request a 50% deposit payable at the time of placing the order, and the remainder when the order is ready to be shipped.  This includes a non-refundable 12.5% fee to cover our costs in the event of a customer cancelling or changing the order (the fee will not be charged if the order is completed as agreed).

Some special order items can take as much as 12 weeks to restock so please bear this in mind when placing your order.

This year we have had supply problems with Diamond Glaze - we apologise for this, we have tried hard for very many months to get hold of some but the distributor has been unable to supply it.  Did you know however that Glossy Accents works just as well as Diamond Glaze?  Give it a try, we are sure you will love it!

Remember also that we have discounts available for other large orders.  For all orders over £100 (before P&P) you can use the code TENPERCENT at checkout and obtain a 10% discount on your order.  We also offer reduced rates for large orders of the same item (100pcs and up) - where these are not offered as 100-packs on the website, please do ask.  If we have them available we will be able to offer the discounted rate (usually 20%). Please note only one of the two discounts will be applicable to any order, not both.

Our flat rate domestic postage rate will not apply to wholesale and special orders; carriage will be charged at cost.

Happy planning!

Feeling hot?

What a scorcher of a summer, and who worried that we wouldn't get one at all?  We know we did!  For those of us who can't resist a bit of crafting outdoors, some seaside stacking rings - made with our glass cabs with some easy Sharpie drawings in lively colours, and glued onto a set of pad rings.

Can you feel the sunshine?

Playing with Words

This week we have discovered a new toy - a website really, tagxedo.com that lets you create some funky designs using your own words, favourite passages from books you love, websites, or any text...

This was what it gave us when we entered our blog address:

We can see this being a lot of fun.  With the right words, it would make some excellent backgrounds for jewellery.  And you can give form to your words...

Tagxedo works along similar lines to Wordle, which allows you to create word clouds.  Here's a link to a Wordle cloud we made earlier.  We find Wordle clouds a bit tricky to save as an image and print for the purposes of making something with them, but it is brilliant if you fancy livening up a wall with a cool new print.

We rate both apps as fab. :)

Sweetly Scrapped

Today we'd like to introduce you to a lovely shop we found on our web travels - Sweetly Scrapped.

Run by Emily from across the pond in the US, it offers a fabulous selection of scrapbooking goodies as well as a freebie section of images for download which are free for personal use.  We love the tags which we will definitely be using together with our handmade gifts for upcoming birthdays:

Cuuute!

Kids' Party Ideas

My seven year old daughter had some friends over last weekend and they soon found a stash of trays and epoxy stickers that I had hoped would have been a well-orchestrated surprise at the next birthday party.  They are all crazy about My Little Pony and Hello Kitty and I had some images that I knew would be great for making pendants and then taking home as part of the party bag.  

So whilst the cat was out of the party bag, making these necklaces kept them quiet, focussed and entertained for a good long while:  

(Incidentally, images of these and other popular characters are all copyrighted and as such you really should not make them up for sale, though I suspect a small bit of making for personal use may be allowed?)  

Next time I won't wait for a birthday - they are all asking to do it again!  But it would be a great crafty activity for a birthday party.   We have plenty of slight seconds that are cheap as chips and perfect for letting the kids loose on their creative adventures.  Get some magnets in also and some superhero images for the boys - they will all enjoy it!  

I mean really, who cares about cutting a perfect circle when the lovely Rainbow Dash is smiling at you?

What Would You Put in Yours?

As you will have realised, we love jewellery that displays little worlds and tiny treasures.  We have been playing with a few ideas for our fabulous glass vials - but we wondered, what would you put in yours?  Answers on a postcard, or leave a comment below, far easier.  The best idea will win a set of one of each of our glass vials (that is one sphere, one tube and a glass heart).

Here are some of our suggestions:

Not sure if you can see it very clearly, but there is one single dandelion clock in that tiny tube!

Teeny no-hole beads in pinks and reds

A little lock of hair - this my daughter's!

It doesn't look particularly appealing and perhaps I should have let it dry thoroughly before popping the lid on - a bit of earth from a place that I love.

What are your ideas?   Closing date for suggestions: Sunday 2nd June.