BOOK NOW for CRAFTfest Best of British - 26th - 28th February 2016

Previously our events ran on a separate social network for crafters (Creative Connections) giving a fabulous community feel. This did however, mean that each of our participants had to find the time to upload all of their products onto the network, add descriptions and links etc to each one so that the customers could purchase from them. This also meant that the initial point of contact was always through the network itself and unless the customers clicked through a third time (after visiting their virtual stall and then selecting a product) the chance that the customer  made it through to the sellers own website or online store was smaller.

For our New Improved CRAFTfest events we are cutting out the middle man!

Our events will now be held directly on the CRAFTfest website. The window to your stall will take the customer wherever YOU want them to go at the first point of contact. This can be -

• Your website (home page, specific category or a new page you made especially for the event)
• Your online store (Etsy, Folksy, Amazon, Ebay …)
• Your Facebook or other social networking page.
• Your blog.
• Any other online space that you use to sell your creations.
•  An email address (not recommended but possible.
•  If you do not have any online presence at all we can arrange to host your products for you for an extra cost. Please contact us for information about this.

We will direct the customers wherever you want them to go ensuring that you get the full benefit to your business.

This also means that you have much less preparation work to do and can devote your time to marketing yourself and others who are taking part.

Book your place for £5 here http://craftfest-events.com/booking-form.html

The event we are currently booking for is for UK residents only. If you live outside of the UK please let us know where and if you would like to part in an event. If we can get enough interest we can then organise a CRAFTfest event in your country.

What's involved in taking part? Read more about it here http://craftfest-events.com/how-it-works.html

Red Team Craftfest Stalls - Part 4

Red Team Craftfest Stalls Part 4

Hello and welcome to the fourth part of the Red Team stall previews. 

Today I'd like to introduce stalls with a whole range of handmade goodies on them - Pepperpot, ByJuelz and Juesaics.

PepperPot

PepperPot makes unique gifts, jewellery and homewares hand made from beads, button, fabrics and fibres.

Pepperpot's stall is full of fantastic fabric jewellery, gifts and incredibly cute dolls that can be personalised with your own messages.









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By Juelz

Hello, welcome to, Favourite Things, By Juelz, featuring a selection of handmade gifts. I like to work with a variety of materials, but most of my designs feature flowers, in some way, shape or form.


ByJuelz's stall is full of a mixture of fabric and crocheted gifts as well as wonderful tiaras, brooches and gorgeous suncatchers.







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Juesaics

I create mosaic & stain glass art and jewellery. Each piece is handcrafted and completely unique.



For some more unique and unusual jewellery you should visit Juesaic's stall where there are dainty mosaic pendants and bracelets, as well lots of beautiful mosaic and stained glass gifts for your home.






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With over 100 stalls at Craftfest you're sure to find something you love

Red Team Craftfest Stalls - Part 3

Red Team Craftfest Stalls - Part 3

Hello and welcome to the third part of our peek at the Red Team's Craftfest stalls.
Today we've got Zenstitch, WeirdWood and the Crystal Cavern.

Zenstitch

original design cross stitch charts



This is a brilliant idea and concept from Zenstitch.  From Helen's stall you can buy and download her original design cross stitch patterns - and there are some gorgeous ones to choose from- then create your own cross stitch masterpiece to decorate your home.








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WeirdWood

David at WeirdWood is an incredible woodworker, creating the  most unusual bowls, dishes and mirrors - including my favourite the Funky small mirror!
Each piece has its own unique number and would look fab in anyone's home.










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The Crystal Cavern

Handcrafted Natural Gemstone Jewellery Especially for Men but lots for Women too.





Lori at The Crystal Cavern creates beautiful gemstone jewellery for men and women.  I love the natural, fresh look her jewellery has - making any piece a wonderful addition to your collection.








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With over 100 stalls at Craftfest - you're sure to find something you love

Blue Team CRAFTfest Stalls - Part 1

Blue Team CRAFTfest Stalls - Part 1 

Welcome to the Blue Team Blogs! Over the next few weeks you'll find out more about the incredible handmade items that are created by the Blue Team and available to buy at the March 2013 CRAFTfest!  We hope you enjoy the sneak preview! 

Craftie Chicks

Welcome to Craftie Chicks! We are a family owned business that is run my mother and me. We specialize in personalized invitations and personalized melamine plates. We also offer handcrafted topiary and wreaths that can also be made to match the color scheme of our party invitations. In addition to the invitations we also offer coordinating party supplies and decorations!

 

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Fairy Elephant Design

I like to create Mixed Media Art Jewellery with a touch of individuality. Resin and Polymer Clay are my favourite mediums, and I like to use my own artwork as well as the more traditional photo imagery. 






 
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Favourite Things

Embroidered, crocheted, sparkly gifts







 

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Booking Forms For CRAFTfest are NOW OPEN!

The March 2013 Spring CRAFTfest booking forms are now open! 

Welcome to our Community Event, hosted on the Creative Connections Social Network. This is a fantastic opportunity to put your business right at the heart of the Crafting Community. Meet people with similar interests from all over the world.

Whilst the event itself is great fun, we also have lots of fun in the lead up to it. Your stall is available for you to promote and embed into your blogs and websites from the moment you create it. Offer your customers exclusive ‘previews’ and sell, sell, sell right up to, during and after the event.

The ‘fest will be running from the 16th – 23rd March 2013 on the Creative Connections Website. http://creative-connections.ning.com/

From 2013, we now offer a 3 tiers of booking: 

Option 1 - Standard Stall Booking
(Price is per stall)
£5  

Option 2 - Stall + Initial Setup
(Ideal for people new to Creative Connections and CRAFTfest - price includes initial account setup for you on the Network and the creation of an empty stall ready to fill with your items).
£10 

Option 3 - Premium Stall Package
(Price includes initial account setup for you on Creative Connections and up to 15 products with price, descriptions and link).
£45 

Please visit http://www.craftfest-events.com/booking_form.html to read more about these options and to sign up.

Don’t worry if you don’t have good computer skills, we have a fantastic team ready to guide you through it. All that we ask is that you interact with us. Don’t be shy! Our promotions team will teach you many new networking skills and you will be promoted by not just yourself but all of the other stall holders as well!

Make new friends! Promote your business! Networking at its best!

We are the original online Craft fair! Come and Join us NOW!

See you there!
The CRAFTfest Team!

CRAFTfest is back!

CRAFTfest is back!

We are delighted to announce that the fourth CRAFTfest will be held from 

Saturday 9th June – Saturday 16th June 2012 

at Creative Connections. 

Ever fancied being a seller at a craft fair, but never had the opportunity to take part due to family commitments, travel, or costs?
Well, now you can!

At Creative Connections, we are hosting our Fourth CRAFTfest on the 9th June 2012 for ONE WHOLE WEEK.

The idea of CRAFTfest is to showcase sellers using interactive albums, 'your stall', which allows your sellers to browse and purchase items through an interactive link in your product descriptions, 'your voice'.

You can sit behind your computer screen, and sell interactively to your sellers through Creative Connections chat room, Facebook, Twitter, and many other social networking sites.

CRAFTfest is a week- long event, running all day, every day, so wherever in the world you may be, the fest is open to the public 24/7.

CRAFTfest  is held on the Creative Connections Network, which is a friendly community of online crafters. The social network itself was established in August 2009 and now has members from all over the world.

Are you interested in a stall?
If you would like to participate in CRAFTfest and host your own stall during the week we have our own dedicated website and booking for you.
Due to the huge amount of work involved in hosting CRAFTfest there will be a small stall charge of £5 for the CRAFTfest June 2012 event. This money will go towards site and admin costs.

By purchasing a stall at CRAFTfest you will also be supplied with:

· A digital flyer that you can post on the Internet and also print at home to put up in offices/schools etc.

· Various badges for blogs, Facebook pages etc.

· Free advertising on stall lists, Twitter, Facebook etc, membership to an advertising group where you can get together with other Crafters and promote each other and the event.

· The opportunity to create your own CRAFTfest stall on the Creative Connections Social Network linking customers to your products wherever they may be on the Internet. (Please note that only confirmed stalls will be permitted. All unauthorised stalls will be removed).

To grab your stall place visit
http://www.craftfest-events.com/booking_form.html

A little about CRAFTfest
We were one of the first online craft fairs, and CRAFTfest isn’t just a virtual online craft fair! The main difference with CRAFTfest to other craft fairs is that it is a community experience. The whole event is hosted on our Crafters Social Network; we are not just about uploading items to your stall and trying to sell things. We are about the bigger picture, making friends, interacting with other crafters, people who understand your passion, and your craft. We are about having fun in the forums and chatting in the chat room, exchanging tips, learning new ideas and speaking to other crafters that have years, months or weeks of experience. We can all learn something new from other people doing the same as us, running a business by ourselves and trying to make a living from crafting.

CRAFTfest View Results!

Here is some fascinating visitor information for the March CRAFTfest Event!

Throughout the week long event we had:

36,954 views!

49.02% were new visitors that have never been before!

We would like to thank you all for participating and putting in all of the hard work to make it such a success!

We hope that you will join us again for the June CRAFTfest. Booking forms will be reopening soon!

We would appreciate stall holders who had sales to email the amount to us at admin@craftfest-events.com as we would like to do some sellers features on the network.

Here is a list of the top 50 most popular stalls by views for the March event.

Paulines Passions

JennyRosemann

Perfect Patchwork

Uniquely Yours

MinXtures – Home

Pinky Minky

DM Designs

Scratchy Cat Crafts

The Very Small Company

Sparkling Rhinos

Daisy Made It

Designs by JoJo

Ravens Stained Glass

Out of the Bex Design

The Bead Bounty

Lionheart Stationers

Tangent Crafts

Crazy Little Cottage

All Things Blankets and More

Nevar

Waterlily Designs

Monkeys From Heaven

Mystic Moon

Tilly Mint Boutique

Jacqueline Jones

Scrapbookerry

AmyOrangeJuice

Spiral Fountain Jewellery

MinXtures Cards

Lorraine Dowdle Creations

JoSara

PillowTalk

Two Blue Cats

Wendy Elf

Lemur Lady

Lorraine Dowdle Lampwork Beads

FunkyArtist

Arabellas Attic

Dransfield and Proud

Simply Soaperior

Chasing Beads

Designs By Noa

Jellybean Jewellery

Slowlane Handmades

The Long Collection

Fairfield Gardens

Inari Design

Seawitch Designs

RotaArt

Als Gems

We would also like to thank everyone who joined in with out Twitter Fest Finale last night. We will be hosting one for the June event on the first Sunday of the event 10th June instead of at the end as it whipped up quite a lot of interest.

Looking forward to seeing you again for the next one.

From your CRAFTfest team

xxx

Next CRAFTfest is:

9th - 16th June 2012

CRAFTfest Stall Previews!

Welcome to special previews of some of our Spring CRAFTfest stalls!

Dysfunction Designs

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Lemur Lady


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Twinkles and Sparkles


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Lionheart Stationers


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Look out for more stall preview posts! There will be lots and lots. ;)