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I was wondering if any of you like to read the scrapbooking, cardmaking, and papercraft magazines from the UK? I love them and love the idea that you get something free with all the issues. Why can't our magazines here be as good. We pay enough for them. Please list the UK magazines you like.
Kathy
I LOOOVVVEEE the UK magazines! SO much better than most of the US publications IMO (although I do love some of the Stampington mag's) My absolute favorite is "Craft Stamper," but I also like"Cardmaking and Papercraft." I find them at Borders and Barnes & Noble.
I just got back from London, and am so agravated at myself because I didn't stop to check out the magazines, it was a rushed trip. I loved the drugstores though, and their kind of bandaids they had, did get a few of those stashed to bring home.
Oh Patrice, I would love to go to England. I get most of mine at Barnes and Noble but they also have a few at JoAnns and Books a Million. I love the Craft Stamper too but they don't have the free stamp on them any more so I have ordered them and they have the stamp. Even with the postage it is still about what you pay at the store for them. There is a new craft magazine called Simply Homemade and the first issue had an exclusive stamp set in it. I have been looking for it but I don't think we got that one and it is already sold out online. Has anyone seen it? I think the third issue is out in the UK but I was so hoping we would eventually get it here.
My favourite is Craft Stamper and I have been getting it for about 5 years, and have all but three of the cover stamps. I also love their Paper Crafts and Card Making (I think those are the titles). Yes they have "free" stuff with them, I get mostly the stamps, lol. But they also have lots of good ideas inside. I love the Paper Crafts one because it has templates you can either trace off or photocopy. There are others I get from time to time.
I was wondering if any of you like to read the scrapbooking, cardmaking, and papercraft magazines from the UK? I love them and love the idea that you get something free with all the issues. Why can't our magazines here be as good. We pay enough for them. Please list the UK magazines you like.
Kathy
I subscribe to Cardmaking and Papercrafts (renewed from gift subscription). I love Papercraft Inspirations, Quick Cards....oh well, ALL of them. I found the Marianne Designs dies in Cardmaking and Papercrafts before they were heard of here in the U S. I do appreciate the freebies and find a use for all of them. Another great one is Crafts Beautiful. It is for all crafts, not just us paper crafters. I find some at JoAnn and some at Barnes & Noble (we do not have Borders).
Love "Cardmaking and Papercraft". I buy it at a local craft store or at Barnes & Noble. It's a little expensive ($10.00) but love the free goodies with it. Haven't purchased any of the other ones though. I love the different perspective from the UK.
I love the ideas too! And I really like the way they show you step by step how to do something.
Oh well, I am going into town today and hope to find a new one!
Kathy
I found this thread really interesting! The only papercraft magazine I buy regularly is 'Making Cards' and if I do buy an odd copy of any other I wonder why I bothered! I had Craft Stamper for everal years from the first issue, then they sacked the editor and I don't like the way the magazine has now gone - all right for those into altered art and Tim Holtz style but it doesn't do anything for me (I'm a CAS gal). I'm sure this is a classic case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence - I still bemoan the loss of The Rubber Stamper which I had on subscription for years.....
... I still bemoan the loss of The Rubber Stamper which I had on subscription for years.....
Oh, how I miss it too! In it's heyday, it was the BEST!
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It's funny reading this thread - you wouldn't believe how many Brits hanker after the US magazines! Some of the Stampington titles are available in a few places but they're ferociously expensive (Take Ten is �15 for example - that's almost $25 at current exchange rate). I know several people who regularly get the US Paper Crafts mag, too.
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I had Craft Stamper for everal years from the first issue, then they sacked the editor and I don't like the way the magazine has now gone - all right for those into altered art and Tim Holtz style but it doesn't do anything for me (I'm a CAS gal).
I think Craft Stamper tries quite hard these days to cover all styles. Looking at this month's issue for example: there's a Magnolia/Tilda card on the cover (which is definitely not my style), the cover-mounted stamp is of stylised hot air balloons that would definitely lend itself to CAS, there are vintage, cute and grungy projects and it features the first part of a series on one layer cards. What I like about it is that it's a stamping magazine not a purely papercrafts one - I use my stamps with all sorts of materials so I like the fact the mag features things like polymer or air dry clay, jewellery projects etc mixed in with the more numerous papercraft ones.
LOL, I too thought it was maybe a case of the grass is greener... I've pretty much given up buying any magazines, although when I did get them regularly I'd say Cardmaking and Papercraft was probably my favourite. I feel there's so much advertising in them now, and a huge amount of product placement which comes to the same thing. I like ideas of how to use stuff generally rather than an idea that you must buy xy paper for.
I like ideas of how to use stuff generally rather than an idea that you must buy xy paper for.
Hear, hear Sabrina! I love 'different' shapes for cards, especially articulated ones, but get so frustrated by the longwinded instructions to cover this panel with such-and-such paper, and stick this to that, and stamp so-and-so....all I want are the 'how to make' instructions and I'll decorate it how I choose, thank you very much!
Does anyone happen to have the Simply Homemade Issue 1 they would like to sell? I have looked now for several weeks and I guess we just aren't going to get it over here in the States. I really wanted to see it and I would love to have the stamp set......I would of course pay for it and the postage. If there is, just pm me and let me know. I would also not mind getting a magazine here that you might would like to have and send it to you. I hope that it is ok to ask that here.
I agree that the UK magazines are so much better. I subscribe to their paper craft magazine. It costs me the same as it would at Barnes and Noble, but I want my subscription earlier than it hits the stands, and it guarantees that I will get it before they sell out at Barnes & Noble.
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