Join the challenge at the Stitch and Craft Show

Inspire Me Papers and Papercraft Inspirations magazine have teamed up to make Britain’s Biggest Card in a Guinness Book of Records challenge.

This will take place at the Stitch and Craft Show at London’s Olympia 2, between Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th March. The show opening times are 10 am to 5.30 pm (closes 5pm Sunday).

To enter, use one of our eight flower templates (available to registered users) to make and decorate your own unique paper flower. We will add everyone’s flowers to the record-breaking card.

Please send your finished flowers (and contact details) by post to Britain’s Biggest Birthday Card, Papercraft Inspirations, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW. You can also and bring your flowers along to the show.

Free Downloads

Once you have registered with Inspire Me, you will be able to access our growing range of downloads and templates. Our first downloads feature templates to use for your Britain’s Biggest Card entry.

For more information and ideas see our Inspire Me section or register now to gain access to your free downloads page.

Register on this site by 30th March 2007 to be automatically entered into our ‘free’ Inspiration Pack prize draw, where you could win one of the 1000 packs we are giving away! This pack features a colour theme to celebrate our fresh springtime lilac launch mood. You can read about the full range of packs in the New Products section of this blog.

To register, go to the home page or click the word register

Our design team have been busy making their own entries for Britain’s Biggest Card record challenge, for more details please read the 'help us break the record' article

What are you making for your entry? Send us a photo to mydesigns at inspiremepapers.co.uk and we’ll send a free Inspiration Pack to those we publish online.

see us at the show!

Thanks to everyone for bringing your flowers to help make Britain's, Biggest Card.

You can find us on stand FK20 at The Stitch and Craft Show at London’s Olympia 2. The show closes at 5.00 pm on Sunday 25th March.

It was great to meet you all at the Olympia show.

A big ‘thank you’ from the Inspire Me Papers team to everyone who created a beautiful flower to help us with our ‘Britain’s Biggest Birthday Card’ challenge.

We'll be putting together a few of the photographs and stories from all the wonderful people that we met over the next few posts

As you can see, it was a bloomin’ success!

Here a just a few photo’s of all you lovely papercrafter’s who we met at the show.

The Arty Crafternoon

We say a big Inspire Me Papers 'Hello' to Angela, Alex, Sharon and Christine from the 'Arty Crafternoon'. Who took a trip to the show from their ladies craft club at St. Peters' Church, Ipswich.

We look forward to hearing from you all soon!

My Mum & Me
“We had had a wonderful day out together!”

Inspire Me Papers and Envelopes!

Megan had travelled to the show in search of the perfect wedding envelope for her hand designed wedding invitations.

She had only walked by the Inspire Me Papers stand to say how lovely the flowers looked. At this point we were knee deep in fabulous flowers for the record challenge – and in need of some help!

Look no further! Megan traded an afternoon with the Inspire Me Paper team
for two hundred envelopes for all her invitations. We all wish Megan all the happiness for the 27th July this year when she gets married.

Who knows you may even see her as a new member of the 'Inspire Me' team.

Many thanks to all of you who registered on our site, or at the recent Stitch and Craft Show to enter the 'free' Inspiration Pack prize draw. We have drawn the first 1,000 names out of our hat, and all the winners will be receiving the pack by post in the coming days.

For those who won, we hope that you enjoy your Inspiration Pack and feel inspired to create something special. You may want to try it out using our Flower Bunting template from our design downloads library to decorate your home or give to someone special.

For those who haven't won this time, we hope you will next time - please keep checking the site for further competitions, offers, downloads and promotions.

Best wishes

The Inspire Me Team

P.S We’d really love to see what you create with your pack – simply e-mail a photo to inspireme 'at' inspiremepapers.co.uk

To register, go to the home page or click the word register

At Inspire Me Papers we have joined up with Scrapbook Inspirations magazine to launch our new Lucky Bag packs. Everyone who buys the exclusive May edition from WHSmith will find a beautiful free Lucky Bag nestling in their magazine.

The Lucky Bag contains several gorgeous swatches of paper - taken from a number of our 5 paper collections. Just like the good old fashioned Lucky Bags you treasured as a child - you're sure of a lovely surprise

Each pack comes with templates and ideas of what to do with this mini selection. We have also included a special free postage offer - so, if you like what you see you can save while you try some more. Why not mix your own selection?

As if that wasn't lucky enough - your Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine is the UK's best selling scrapbook magazine - full of brilliant ideas, articles and features. All conveniently available from WHSmith Britain's leading High Street stationer.

A special edition Lucky Bag will shortly be available in our online shop.

Stuck for ideas using Vellum? We teamed up with PaperCraft Inspirations to produce ten inspirational ideas for vellum, all using products from our Paper Innovation section.

The feature appears in October's issue and includes 10 gorgeous designs, from luxury envelopes to fabulous pocket cards, some of the designs are shown below.

We used Coloured Vellum for many of the designs, but for those extra special occasions like wedding, anniversary and thank you cards we used two exquisite embossings (Floral and Embroidery) from our Vintage Vellum collection. These embossings can also be found on papers and card in our Metallic and Pastels section.