It's our {10th} BIRTHDAY !!

Here we are, very, very excited! 

This month we are celebrating 10 whole years since we started PaperArtsy !

We have LOTS planned for this month, and it all officially kicks off on Sunday as we welcome back this semester's Guest Designers for the final month of their blog contributions. Of course they have their amazing projects lined up, but....

...each designer is also doing a special birthday post on their final night using brand new rubber stamps, so we will have new stamps to release every week this month! On these special birthday posts the designer will have blog candy to give from their own blogs, and back here we will continue with our weekly challenges which will also have new stamps for prizes.

Plus....some of our past, and future guest designers are back to do special Birthday blog posts that we are squeezing into the schedule too!

From our signature designers, Lin and Jo we also have MORE NEW STAMPS this month too, so JOFY 16, JM23, JM24 will be released along with a lovely project from Jo herself.

Jo Firth-Young will be at the Craft Barn demo day this weekend, August 3rd, showcasing her BRAND NEW STAMPS. She will also be teaching with them at Birds in the Barn on August 18th, and Colemans Craft Warehouse on August 31st/ Sept 1st.

Lin Brown also has some new chipboard products and a new stamp set to share with you too ...good things come to those who wait!

Leandra will be releasing more new YouTube videos that will go up every Saturday, starting this weekend with another easy Fresco painted background idea.

On Sunday August 11th we are particularly looking forward to the Stamperama Stamping show  at Stevenage which will be a fantastic chance to catch up with many of you who visit that show. Lin Brown will be demoing with Leandra all day. It was at this very show, 10 years ago, that we first released 60 quarter-plate (A6) Ink and the Dog stamps. So expect some surprises there too!!

Out and about you can also see Leandra demoing this Saturday morning, August 3rd at Sugar and Spice Crafts, with Marion Emberson and the lovely Nina. The shop is part of the Barleylands Craft Village, near Billericay, Essex, and makes a lovely place to visit with so much to see and do there.

Monster Mondays are here! Every Monday in August, we have mystery birthday boxes available for you to buy from our website. Inside you will find products to the value of at least £50, £75 or £100 that you can purchase for £20, £30 or £40 respectively. The box sizes vary, as do the contents. They are all packed up ready to go, but we will only make them available to purchase on a Monday evening.

The birthday month will come to a perfect close with a very full week of amazing #3UP contributions from our enthusiastic Twitter and Facebook family. At the end of each semester we have a spare week and we use this to showcase the work of our PA blog followers. 

This time I think all the players were a bit surprised by how much they received in their #3UP goodie bags. When these people signed up they didn't realise it was our birthday month. Now they know, and have got stuff in their hot little paws to create with, so the pressure is on. It's all just a bit of fun, in the form of a challenge. I am really looking forward to seeing what they send in this month.

Looking ahead to September, we will be welcoming into the fold another 4 guest designers, we also will have 12 new paints to add to the Fresco range, AND of course, seasonal stamps and products in the lead up to shhhhhh Christmas. Plenty of time for all that malarkey, for now, I am still enjoying the gorgeous summer sun, lots of BBQ's, and a whole lot of birthday celebrating! Not only is PaperArtsy a whole 10, but our youngest, Hugo turned 13 last Sunday, it's my birthday this Saturday, and the following week, Miss Courtney will be 19, quickly followed by Miss Ella turning 17! WOW.

So, a huge thankyou to you, all our wonderful customers, stampers, painters, and crafty pups who have made the last 10 years so thoroughly enjoyable. We love what we do, but most of all, we love to share it with you. We have made and met so many wonderful friends across the globe doing what we enjoy most. If the next 10 are as good as the last 10, then we have a lot to look forward to!

Thank you, Mark and Leandra

PS up shortly is a blog post from Helen Chilton that has been rescheduled to tonight due to a technical hitch last night.