Product Reviews

With thousands of products available to crafters these days (wow aren't we lucky) it is sometimes hard to decide which are fabulous, good, ok, essential, bad, value for money or just for show (& to stroke)!

We all have our favourites & not everything suits all, but being able to read & see what the products can do is a help when deciding how to spend your stash allowance.

All our products are carefully chosen from reputable manufacturers who produce quality products,but product reviews are a great way to see what the end users i.e. you, can do with them & what you think of them too.  If you have bought a product from us that you could write a review for we would love to hear from you.

So what do you need to do?

If you have a blog or a website you can write a review & link to the product on our website & also to our blog so your readers can see other reviews. Ideally reviews should be about 50-100 words so you can explain the pros & cons and a picture of your finished craft project would be nice too. This needs to be in your own words so please do not copy & paste from the internet as that breaches copyright laws.

If you do not have a blog or website you can send us the details via email & we will add them to our blog.

Either way please email us so we know where to look.  We will then select some reviews weekly & link back to your blog if applicable & also add 20 points to your account.  (i.e. 2 reviews = free P&P) Please ensure a review has not already been submitted for that product by checking the labels tag "product reviews" in the left hand column.  Please do not be offended if we do not use your review as it will depend upon the numbers & products.

Our first review is for Stix-2 3D Glue Dots, which can be found here http://thehandmadecardblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/product-review-3d-craft-dots/

We hope you find this useful & look forward to hearing from you. :)

Our first post...

Hello everyone and welcome to our first post. :)

We wanted to bring you more features & news, so we have taken the plunge & set up this blog. Hopefully time allowing it will get updated at least once a week & hopefully more. As many people hate having newsletters clogging up their inbox we will be using this blog & our twitter page to up date you on everything going on at A Card 4 U. We will still send out the very occassional newsletter though. If you have converted to either our Twitter updates or our blog updates you can un-subscribe yourself from our newsletter in your account area.

I have become addicted to Twitter as it is a quick & easy way to make short announcements like the arrival of new products & special offers (so you will be the first to know), as well as generally chatting to our followers!! It's fun, so if you fancy ago just click on the follow us on Twitter link in the left hand column. You can see the last few entries we have made above the link. These will change constantly!! LOL To follow you will need your own account, or just pop in when you want.

OK to start with here are details of our September Competition.

WIN : £10 worth of shopping points to spend on whatever you like in our shop each month.
September School Competition
Closing Date : 31th July 2009

Summer holidays are over & it is back to school. So this months competition is anything related to back to school. It can be a scrapbook layout of your childs first day at school, or even a Teachers Thank You card or gift.

This competition is open to any craft project using the chosen theme for that month. So whether it is a card, scrapbook layout, ATC, altered item etc email us a picture of your entry and we will add it to our gallery. Maximum size of your picture should be 450 pixels x 450 pixels. If you are unable to resize your scan/photo we will be able to.

• There is a limit of two entries per person.
• All entries must be received by Friday 30th September. Late entries will not be accepted.
• Winning entry is picked at random from all eligible entries.

Full terms & conditions can be found at www.acard4u.co.uk/competitions.php

We have lots more to come (filling a huge box for blog candy as we speak ;oD ), tutorials, reviews ...

so hope you can come back soon.