Vote For Your Favourite Capsule Collection For Your Chance To Win A £25 CraftStash Voucher
One of the winners will go on to work closely with our editors, designers and CraftStash team to create their very own Capsule Collection to be sold exclusively on www.craftstash.co.uk.
Our four winners of the main competition have come up with an idea for a Capsule Collection, and you, the CraftWorld community will vote on your favourite! The ultimate winner will see their concept become a physical product!
A previous winner of our annual competition was Helen Griffin, who has since gone on to design her own brand with CraftStash Simply Made Crafts, here are just a few of her stunning collections!
Ashley's Collection Brief
What would your ideal kit look like?
I would like something sea or natural history themed. I’m also inspired by architectural patterns. I’m not really a ‘cutsie’ character kind of person, although I do have a soft spot for bears, cats, rabbits and cows.
I would love stamps with co-ordinating papers, stencils and dies. I’m really into vintage dictionary definitions, so stamps/stickers with key words would be useful. I love using remnant rubs so to have these in my collection would be fabulous. It would be brilliant to have inks in colours that co-ordinated with the papers too. I would love to name these after food items as I’m a real foodie!
I like the soft muted colours of Venetian marble, but also like strong blues and greens. These are photos I have taken over the years of things that have interested me because of their colour, pattern, texture or shape.
Amy's Collection Brief
What would your ideal kit look like?
My kit would be 'Delicate Dreams' promoting empowerment and positivity. The collection could be used for cardmaking, scrapbooking and home décor.
The collection would contain a paper pad, stamps and dies, with a pastel colour palette of pinks, yellows, greens, blues and purples. It would also contain metallic rose gold or silver.
The paper pad would have a selection of background papers with tie die, watercolour and ombré effect, with metallic foiling to some of the papers.
The stamps would be short inspirational and empowering quotes, as well as everyday sentiment stamps such as 'Celebrate’ and ‘Happy Birthday’, for further versatility. The set would include rainbows as these continue to be a symbol of happiness, hope and togetherness. Each rainbow layer would be individual stamp, so that they could be stamped in different colours.
For the die set the theme would be a dreamcatcher with one main circle outer die, and three different patterned interchangeable inner dies to create three different dreamcatchers. To accompany this, there would be 2/3 different feather and bead shaped dies, to adorn it and create many different variations. I would also like the collection to contain small flower and butterfly dies, which can be used to accessorise or used on their own.
I really like the effect of tags being used as a focal point on cards and I think a tag die would perfectly accompany the rainbow stamps, quotes and small flower and butterfly dies.
Jessica's Collection Brief
What would your ideal kit look like?
The theme is based around a cactus and succulents, but with a modern twist. The cactus has a couple of outfits that can be used to dress it up, and I have tried to pair it with some modern themed sentiments.
For the embossing folder and background stamp, I have gone for more basic designs; I envision monochrome with the colourful cactus. I also hope by making them a little more basic, they will be more versatile.
There are two separate stencils, but one is just making use of the wastage of the first, this will create a stencil for blending the sky and blending the rocky background. I have also added two extra stencils onto the other ends, to make use of the space and to help build a full scene.
Sharon-Elaine's Collection Brief
What would your ideal kit look like?
I’m fascinated by debossing dies to add texture such as delicate swirls, flowers and geometric designs that make tiny pinpoint dents or stitches to single layer cards.
Layered panel dies, with two or three layers included in each set, big enough for a card front, and big background stamps, with swirls, flowers, geometric designs, hearts, stars and leaves.
A die set creating 3D clematis flowers, there are so many varieties/colours but I’ve not yet found a set to make them in paper. I can imagine five and six petal flowers, with straight and frilly edged petals, plus dies for fluffy centres for double flowers and different stamen.
A mix & match layered clematis stamp set, to make different varieties, and inkpad sets in shades of pinks, lilacs, purples and greens.
Solid core smooth cardstock in shades of a colour for flowers, 180gsm-210gsm so it can be shaped, and no white core showing.