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Hand Painted & Personalised Canvases and greeting cards

Stamford Artisans Guild is pleased to welcome our newest member Petra Toseland of Little-Art

Little-Art creates personalised paintings for children. They make a truly unique and enduring gift that will be treasured for years. Perfect to celebrate a new birth, a christening or birthday… or simply just because.

Artist and designer Petra Toseland has a background in wall covering, textile and stationery design. ‘I find painting for children is a joy because you can have so much fun. I love colour and pattern and want to create something that will be cherished and stand the test of time. Each picture is painted to order making it truly unique.

Petra also specialise in bespoke pieces commissioned by my customers. These pieces can either bring to life a specific idea or simply co-ordinate with an existing scheme. Please contact Petra for a no obligation discussion about your idea.

Little-Art  is also developing a collection of hand-painted and illustrated greeting cards.

Petra can be contacted by email: little-art@talktalk.net

or you can visit her website: www.little-art.co.uk

Stained Glass Courses

Stained Glass Workshops from Shedglas DesignsStamford Artisans Guild member Cathi Prince from Shedglas Design will be running a series of Introductory Stained Glass Workshops in 2010.

The Leaded Glass Panels workshop covers basic traditional skills needed to produce a colourful glass panel from a choice of patterns and colours.

The Copper Foiling Workshop is about producing a selection of small sun-catchers, again, using a variety of designs and colours.

Please see more Details of Cathi’s 2010 Stained Glass Workshops here

2010 Craft Fair Dates at Stamford Arts Centre

The Stamford Artisans Guild will be hosting Hand-made Craft Fairs throughout the year in 2010. The following dates are finalised and we are hoping to host more shows at other venues as well.

  • 16 May 2010 – Stamford Arts Centre
  • 25 July 2010 - Stamford Arts Centre
  • 26 September 2010 - Stamford Arts Centre
  • 5 December 2010 - Stamford Arts Centre

Moving Forward

In the coming few weeks we will be updating the Stamford Artisans Guild Website with updated Artisan Pages, start a Featured Artisan section and A Special Offers Page where you will be kept updated with new designs, crafts and offers from Guild Members.

We are also working on Diary Dates for Local Craft Fairs and Markets for 2010 so do watch this space!

Videos from Stamford Artisans Guild Christmas Market

Stamford Artisans Guild Christmas Market – View From the Door

Stamford Arts Centre Ballroom Stalls 1

Stamford Arts Centre Ballroom stalls 2

Stamford Arts Centre Ballroom Stalls 3

Stamford Arts Centre Ballroom Stalls 4

Christmas Stalls at Stamford Arts Center Blue Room

Christmas Fair Stalls in the Arts Center Ante Room

Fund-Raising Event at Stamford Corn Exchange

We are very excited about Stamford Artisans Guild Members Craft stalls at the Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre on 13th December 2009. It’s a great opportunity for Christmas Shoppers to support The Corn Exchange Theatre and Local crafts people while buying unique hand-made gifts for family and friends.

All Stall holders at the fair will make a donation to the Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre.

More Details about the Corn Exchange Christmas Bazaar here

We would like to thank the Theatre in giving us this opportunity.

And of course I am really looking forward to the Five Star Swing Christmas Spectacular on 13th December at the Theatre. A little Christmas Treat :-)

Pictures from Stamford Artisans Guild Christmas Market

Thank You Everybody who attended the Stamford Artisans Guild Christmas Market yesterday. And we thank the fantastic Artists, Designers and Makers who made this show a success with their unique and beautiful creations.

Here are some Pictures from the show. I will write a report later…..

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Stamford Christmas Market on 6th December 2009

Hear all about Stamford’s own Hand-made Christmas Market on BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Stamford Artisans Guild on BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Stamford's Own Hand-Made Christmas

The Stamford Artisans Guild and local Stamford area Designers, Artists and Makers looking forward to meeting you all at The Stamford Christmas Craft Fair on 6th December 2009 at the Stamford Arts Centre.

Stamford Christmas Market 2009

Come and enjoy a day of Christmas Shopping at the Stamford Art Center on St Mary’s Street Stamford. You will meet local craftsmen and women selling handmade cards, wood creations including furniture, stained and kiln glass designs, Children’s clothes and knitwear, stuffed toys, local wildlife and nature photographs, hand-made unique jewellery and more. Enjoy a perfect day out while shopping in a friendly environment.

Hand Made Christmas Show in Stamford

We’ve now got our flyers and posters available to anyone who wants to help publicise our Stamford Christmas Market on December 6th – and we’ve been quite busy putting them around and about already.  The posters are A4 in size (you can see a sample in a previous post) and we can either mail them out to you, you can call in at Stamford to pick them up or we can email you a pdf file and you can print some out yourself.  These are ideal for village notice boards, shop windows etc.

Then we have a quantity of flyers which we’ve had professionally printed. These are A5 in size and are double sided. The front advertises the show and the back has a form that people can fill out with an email address (if they wish) and a name and address section. These will be entered into the Secret Santa prize draw on the day – where all visitors will be in for a chance to win an item by one of the exhibitors.

As they are not too big, they are ideal to stick in your car window, and to put on village notice boards and things where space is limited! They could also go into schools, libraries, shops, hotels – in fact anywhere that someone might pick them up.

If you’d like some, then please let us know and we can get them out to you one way or another. I’ll be taking some along to the next shows that I’m doing, which are Grantham Arts Centre on 29th November and Fineshade Woods on 5th December.

So far there’s been a lot of interest both from exhibitors and from prospective visitors – it seems that Stamford is ready for a show that consists entirely of artisans showing their own hand made items.

I’ve been busy supplementing my stock of grown-ups jewellery with a few cheaper items for children which can be used as stocking fillers. And I’ve got to decide what I’m going to put into the Secret Santa.  I’m beginning to wish that I’d be eligible to win something as we’ve got some brilliant exhibitors!