Well I've been working on this for a little while, and finally it's ready to announce. The Graphicus blog is moving house. You can now find the new and improved blog at
It's much easier for me to organise the content over there, so you'll find a separate section for the challenges, a What's New page and a What's On page as well as information about the Graphicus Guild.
Please come over and take a look and you'll find the winner of the April challenge over there.
If you have a link to the Graphicus blog on your own blog, please could you update the link so it points to http://graphicus.wordpress.com. Similarly, if you are one of this blogs followers, you will need to change the info so you are following the new blog rather than the old one.
look forward to seeing you over on the new blog!
Glenda
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Thursday, 14 May 2009
new on the website
A quick note to update you on some new items added to the website this week:
Enjoy!
Carrie
- Tim Holtz Lights and Brights Alcohol Inks added to the alcohol ink range
- Lots of new Ten Seconds Studio products: Kabuka molds, Big Daddy molds and lots of new colours of Ten Seconds Studio Metal Sheets.
- Sparkle and Sprinkle Embossing Powders.
Enjoy!
Carrie
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Sing a Yellow Song - Challenge Winner
We have a winner for the March challenge. What a tough job it has been as the standard of entries is amazingly high. In the end, I chose Lina Jachnik's beautiful album which features Oliver Twitter.
I know that yellow pushed a lot of you outside your comfort zone, but the results were just beautiful and I'll be sharing all of them with you very soon. Thank you so much to everyone who took part, they were all stunning.
I know that I'm a bit behind with the challenges here, but I have been working on something new to make life easier for us to showcase the challenges properly. I'm just making some final adjustments and I'll soon be ready to reveal all. Check back soon!
Linda, please can you get in touch with Judith at the office to claim your gift voucher.
Glenda
I know that yellow pushed a lot of you outside your comfort zone, but the results were just beautiful and I'll be sharing all of them with you very soon. Thank you so much to everyone who took part, they were all stunning.
I know that I'm a bit behind with the challenges here, but I have been working on something new to make life easier for us to showcase the challenges properly. I'm just making some final adjustments and I'll soon be ready to reveal all. Check back soon!
Linda, please can you get in touch with Judith at the office to claim your gift voucher.
Glenda
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Graphicus Website changes
If you have any trouble shopping from or even just seeing the Graphicus website over the next few hours, don't worry, we are moving the website to a new server this evening and it can take a while for everything to re-appear as it used to.
There are one or two minor changes - you will see a new button at the top that says My Account. If you have ever ordered online before, you can now log in and change your details such as address, password, etc. You can also view your order history - use with caution if the other half is looking over your shoulder!!
This login is nothing to do with the email newsletters by the way, that's completely separate. You only get a website login if you have actually purchased something before. If you shop for the first time, you will be taken through the process of setting up an account.
If you have any problems shopping online, you can call the office on 01833 695958, Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm and we'll do our very best to help.
Glenda
There are one or two minor changes - you will see a new button at the top that says My Account. If you have ever ordered online before, you can now log in and change your details such as address, password, etc. You can also view your order history - use with caution if the other half is looking over your shoulder!!
This login is nothing to do with the email newsletters by the way, that's completely separate. You only get a website login if you have actually purchased something before. If you shop for the first time, you will be taken through the process of setting up an account.
If you have any problems shopping online, you can call the office on 01833 695958, Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm and we'll do our very best to help.
Glenda
Saturday, 2 May 2009
May Challenge
May's challenge theme is TRAVEL and the colour scheme is BLUE.
Part of me is thinking ahead to Father's Day with this combination, both the theme and the scheme are capable of being quite masculine, but of course that is entirely up to you and very much open to a whole host of other interpretations.
I can also imagine an endless beach with tropical blue sea and balmy blue skies ... you can tell our central heating boiler is still broken can't you?
Anyway, have fun with this one - I'm having a bit of a catch up and will be announcing some previous challenge winners soon.
Closing date: Midnight on May 31st 2009.
Glenda
How do I submit my entry? (see below for help with links)
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry.
1. If you have a blog:
put a photo of your challenge entry on your blog, then leave a comment on this blog entry with a link to the right place on your own blog where people can see your artwork.
That way, our blog readers will be able to read the challenge details, then go straight to all the challenge submissions via the comments.
2. If you don't have a blog, but you have an online album such as Picasa, Flickr, Picture Trail, etc,
leave a comment here on this entry with a link to the photo in your online album.
How to leave a link in a blog comment
Bloggers can find the cheat's way to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
Great challenge, you can see my entry here
what I would actually type in the comments box would be:
Great challenge, you can see my entry <a href="http://artylicious.wordpress.com">here </a>
Winners
The winner will be chosen by Graphicus staff and our choice is final. In order for this to work, we can no longer accept anonymous comments on the blog, so you will need to register with Blogger, have a Google account, or have a valid Open ID to be able to leave a comment.
Winners will be announced on the blog during the month following the challenge and asked to get in touch with their contact details.
How do I win a prize?
To be considered for a prize, your entry needs to feature products available from Graphicus. I don't want to be restrictive about what you can and can't use, but people looking at the winning artwork will expect to be able to find the main featured items on the Graphicus website. That gives you lots of scope because as well as our own brands (Elusive Images and Artylicious), Graphicus stocks products from a huge range other companies.
Part of me is thinking ahead to Father's Day with this combination, both the theme and the scheme are capable of being quite masculine, but of course that is entirely up to you and very much open to a whole host of other interpretations.
I can also imagine an endless beach with tropical blue sea and balmy blue skies ... you can tell our central heating boiler is still broken can't you?
Anyway, have fun with this one - I'm having a bit of a catch up and will be announcing some previous challenge winners soon.
Closing date: Midnight on May 31st 2009.
Glenda
Graphicus Challenge Guidelines
How do I submit my entry? (see below for help with links)
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry.
1. If you have a blog:
put a photo of your challenge entry on your blog, then leave a comment on this blog entry with a link to the right place on your own blog where people can see your artwork.
That way, our blog readers will be able to read the challenge details, then go straight to all the challenge submissions via the comments.
2. If you don't have a blog, but you have an online album such as Picasa, Flickr, Picture Trail, etc,
leave a comment here on this entry with a link to the photo in your online album.
How to leave a link in a blog comment
Bloggers can find the cheat's way to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
Great challenge, you can see my entry here
what I would actually type in the comments box would be:
Great challenge, you can see my entry <a href="http://artylicious.wordpress.com">here </a>
Winners
The winner will be chosen by Graphicus staff and our choice is final. In order for this to work, we can no longer accept anonymous comments on the blog, so you will need to register with Blogger, have a Google account, or have a valid Open ID to be able to leave a comment.
Winners will be announced on the blog during the month following the challenge and asked to get in touch with their contact details.
How do I win a prize?
To be considered for a prize, your entry needs to feature products available from Graphicus. I don't want to be restrictive about what you can and can't use, but people looking at the winning artwork will expect to be able to find the main featured items on the Graphicus website. That gives you lots of scope because as well as our own brands (Elusive Images and Artylicious), Graphicus stocks products from a huge range other companies.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Free UK Delivery
I just thought you might like to know that we are offering free UK delivery on the Graphicus website on orders over £15.00. Full terms and conditions can be found on our delivery information pages.
Glenda
Glenda
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
April Challenge
Sorry it's late, but better late than never. So, the April challenge welcomes in Spring with the theme of BLOSSOM and the colour palette PINK & GREEN.
So show us your best artwork featuring Graphicus products and we'll give away a £25 Graphicus voucher to the winner. Please read the guidelines below before submitting your entry, thanks.
Closing date is midnight April 30th 2009.
Glenda
How do I submit my entry? (see below for help with links)
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry.
1. If you have a blog:
put a photo of your challenge entry on your blog, then leave a comment on this blog entry with a link to the right place on your own blog where people can see your artwork.
That way, our blog readers will be able to read the challenge details, then go straight to all the challenge submissions via the comments.
2. If you don't have a blog, but you have an online album such as Picasa, Flickr, Picture Trail, etc,
leave a comment here on this entry with a link to the photo in your online album.
How to leave a link in a blog comment
Bloggers can find the cheat's way to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
Great challenge, you can see my entry here
what I would actually type in the comments box would be:
Great challenge, you can see my entry <a href="http://artylicious.wordpress.com">here </a>
Winners
The winner will be chosen by Graphicus staff and our choice is final. In order for this to work, we can no longer accept anonymous comments on the blog, so you will need to register with Blogger, have a Google account, or have a valid Open ID to be able to leave a comment.
Winners will be announced on the blog during the month following the challenge and asked to get in touch with their contact details.
How do I win a prize?
To be considered for a prize, your entry needs to feature products available from Graphicus. I don't want to be restrictive about what you can and can't use, but people looking at the winning artwork will expect to be able to find the main featured items on the Graphicus website. That gives you lots of scope because as well as our own brands (Elusive Images and Artylicious), Graphicus stocks products from a huge range other companies.
So show us your best artwork featuring Graphicus products and we'll give away a £25 Graphicus voucher to the winner. Please read the guidelines below before submitting your entry, thanks.
Closing date is midnight April 30th 2009.
Glenda
Graphicus Challenge Guidelines
How do I submit my entry? (see below for help with links)
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry.
1. If you have a blog:
put a photo of your challenge entry on your blog, then leave a comment on this blog entry with a link to the right place on your own blog where people can see your artwork.
That way, our blog readers will be able to read the challenge details, then go straight to all the challenge submissions via the comments.
2. If you don't have a blog, but you have an online album such as Picasa, Flickr, Picture Trail, etc,
leave a comment here on this entry with a link to the photo in your online album.
How to leave a link in a blog comment
Bloggers can find the cheat's way to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
Great challenge, you can see my entry here
what I would actually type in the comments box would be:
Great challenge, you can see my entry <a href="http://artylicious.wordpress.com">here </a>
Winners
The winner will be chosen by Graphicus staff and our choice is final. In order for this to work, we can no longer accept anonymous comments on the blog, so you will need to register with Blogger, have a Google account, or have a valid Open ID to be able to leave a comment.
Winners will be announced on the blog during the month following the challenge and asked to get in touch with their contact details.
How do I win a prize?
To be considered for a prize, your entry needs to feature products available from Graphicus. I don't want to be restrictive about what you can and can't use, but people looking at the winning artwork will expect to be able to find the main featured items on the Graphicus website. That gives you lots of scope because as well as our own brands (Elusive Images and Artylicious), Graphicus stocks products from a huge range other companies.
February Challenge Winner
Oh good grief, it's seven days into April, I haven't told you what this month's challenge is and I'm only just getting round to announcing the February challenge winner!
Well without further ado, the winner (which was INCREDIBLY hard to choose) is this one from Laura:
There were so many fantastic entries it is really hard to choose, but this just had a quirkiness and a lot of work in it and combined the home theme and the colours together very well.
We also had some great entries sent to the office and we will try to get some piccies of those uploaded too. Thank you so much to everyone who played along - you really are a talented bunch!
Laura, can you get in touch to claim your prize - thanks!
Watch out for the April challenge coming up next.
Glenda
Well without further ado, the winner (which was INCREDIBLY hard to choose) is this one from Laura:
There were so many fantastic entries it is really hard to choose, but this just had a quirkiness and a lot of work in it and combined the home theme and the colours together very well.
We also had some great entries sent to the office and we will try to get some piccies of those uploaded too. Thank you so much to everyone who played along - you really are a talented bunch!
Laura, can you get in touch to claim your prize - thanks!
Watch out for the April challenge coming up next.
Glenda
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
new website items
It's been quite a while since I had chance to write a post to tell you about the new website items, and there have been quite a few new items up in the last month or so.
The new Elusive Images releases are all online:
Butterfly Daisy Collage
All of the following fab products can be seen in action in this post on Glenda's blog:
We also now have the Slice Machine in stock, as well as design cards and accessories.
There are few more Tim Holtz items online too: Foliage, Ornate Plates, Link Chain and Corners.
And finally for the moment, we have plenty of the lovely Perfect Pearls in stock.
Enjoy!
Carrie
The new Elusive Images releases are all online:
Butterfly Daisy Collage
All of the following fab products can be seen in action in this post on Glenda's blog:
- Funky Studio 490 stamps by Wendy Vecchi
- Shimmerz paint - little pots of shimmery goodness
- Intricate ScrapFX chipboard
- Cute little Dew Drops embellishments
We also now have the Slice Machine in stock, as well as design cards and accessories.
There are few more Tim Holtz items online too: Foliage, Ornate Plates, Link Chain and Corners.
And finally for the moment, we have plenty of the lovely Perfect Pearls in stock.
Enjoy!
Carrie
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
January Challenge winner card
Following on from the January challenge winner announcement, here is the beautiful card by Helen Baldwin that was our winning entry. Congratulations again, Helen!
Sunday, 1 March 2009
March Challenge
Ok, time to get your thinking caps on, I have the March challenge for you.
The colour scheme is YELLOW and the challenge theme is SING.
Someone pointed out to me recently that I use a lot of yellow in my work and I hadn’t realised that I did. I rarely use yellow paper (unless I’m covering it up with other colours), but when painting, spritzing or doing direct to paper techniques, I often do start with a yellow tone to give the whole thing warmth.
Yellows can range in tone from an acid, almost green toned yellow, right through daffodil to sunshine to rich natural ochre. Add white to ochre to make beautiful cream tones that go with almost anything.
You can use a song lyric as your inspiration, or it may make you think of birds, choirs, rock bands, etc. It might have a more metaphorical meaning to you - does your heart sing when you see a certain person or paint with a certain colour? (Wild thing, you make my heart sing ...)
I think I've been influenced by my yearning for spring as the Beatles song 'Here comes the Sun' is running through my head and I feel inspired to make some sunshiney little ATCs.
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry. Bloggers can find easy instructions on how to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
If you're linking to a blog entry, remember to give us the specific blog post where we can see your challenge entry, not just the main page of your blog.
Closing date is midnight March 31st 2009.
Glenda
The colour scheme is YELLOW and the challenge theme is SING.
Someone pointed out to me recently that I use a lot of yellow in my work and I hadn’t realised that I did. I rarely use yellow paper (unless I’m covering it up with other colours), but when painting, spritzing or doing direct to paper techniques, I often do start with a yellow tone to give the whole thing warmth.
Yellows can range in tone from an acid, almost green toned yellow, right through daffodil to sunshine to rich natural ochre. Add white to ochre to make beautiful cream tones that go with almost anything.
You can use a song lyric as your inspiration, or it may make you think of birds, choirs, rock bands, etc. It might have a more metaphorical meaning to you - does your heart sing when you see a certain person or paint with a certain colour? (Wild thing, you make my heart sing ...)
I think I've been influenced by my yearning for spring as the Beatles song 'Here comes the Sun' is running through my head and I feel inspired to make some sunshiney little ATCs.
If you want to take part, you need to leave a comment on this post right here with a link back to your own blog or a photo album where we can see your entry. Bloggers can find easy instructions on how to create a link in a comment on my blog. Otherwise you can use a simple bit of html code like this:
<a href="link address">your text </a>
so for example, if I wanted to create the following comment
Great challenge, you can see my entry here.What I would actually type in the comments box would be:
Great challenge, you can see my entry <a href="http://artylicious.wordpress.com">here </a>
If you're linking to a blog entry, remember to give us the specific blog post where we can see your challenge entry, not just the main page of your blog.
Closing date is midnight March 31st 2009.
Glenda
Saturday, 28 February 2009
February Challenge entries
As always, the standard is so high that choosing a winner is amazingly difficult. I have other entries to add which were sent into the office, so the winner will be selected once I have reviewed them all.
Any last minute entries will be added to the above slide show tomorrow, when I will also be posting the March challenge!
Glenda
January Challenge Winner
Well what a tough job that was. I managed to get all the online entries in one place to view, then we gathered together all the entries that had been sent to the office and put them all out by the computer so we could look at everything together.
It really was difficult, but in the end I selected a card by Helen Baldwin as the overall winner. I didn't have my camera, but I will get photos of all the other entries onto the blog as soon as I can.
Well done Helen, I'll get your beautiful card uploaded next week.
Glenda
It really was difficult, but in the end I selected a card by Helen Baldwin as the overall winner. I didn't have my camera, but I will get photos of all the other entries onto the blog as soon as I can.
Well done Helen, I'll get your beautiful card uploaded next week.
Glenda
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
more new website items
We have some amazing new rubber stamp themeplates from Tim Holtz that arrived today!
Check them out here...
Enjoy!
Carrie
Check them out here...
Enjoy!
Carrie
new website items
Just a very quick post to let you know about a couple of items new to the website:
Nestabilities
and a range of paints and sticky-backed canvas from Claudine Hellmuth.
Enjoy!
Carrie
Nestabilities
and a range of paints and sticky-backed canvas from Claudine Hellmuth.
Enjoy!
Carrie
Thursday, 12 February 2009
January Challenge - online entries
Here are all the online entries for the January challenge. If you click on the image it will take you to a Picasa album where you can see the whole lot in one go.
Again, a big, big thank you to everyone who took part - how on earth you expect me to pick a winner is beyond me ...
I'm definitely open to suggestions for how we can do this in the future as (a) it is rather more popular than I thought it would be, (b) Mr Linky didn't work for everyone, and (c) most people didn't put links in their comments.
So, we need a simple mechanism for a bunch of non techie people to share photos in one place which requires minimal intervention from me or my team, but doesn't get flooded with unwanted spam images.
Any techies out there with a simple solution?
Glenda
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| JAN 2009 CHALLENGE |
Again, a big, big thank you to everyone who took part - how on earth you expect me to pick a winner is beyond me ...
I'm definitely open to suggestions for how we can do this in the future as (a) it is rather more popular than I thought it would be, (b) Mr Linky didn't work for everyone, and (c) most people didn't put links in their comments.
So, we need a simple mechanism for a bunch of non techie people to share photos in one place which requires minimal intervention from me or my team, but doesn't get flooded with unwanted spam images.
Any techies out there with a simple solution?
Glenda
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
January Challenge - Bear with us
We haven't forgotten we need to pick a winner for our January challenge, but things are pretty hectic around here at the moment.
I may have to rethink how we do challenge submissions as it's proving quite a challenge for us to sort through all of the online submissions and the physical submissions that have been sent to the office. Choosing a winner is incredibly hard too because the standard is so high!
We will pick the winner by the end of Feb, but with everything that's going on right now, I don't want to make promises to do it any sooner than that!
Glenda
I may have to rethink how we do challenge submissions as it's proving quite a challenge for us to sort through all of the online submissions and the physical submissions that have been sent to the office. Choosing a winner is incredibly hard too because the standard is so high!
We will pick the winner by the end of Feb, but with everything that's going on right now, I don't want to make promises to do it any sooner than that!
Glenda
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