NEWSLETTER
January 2007
Hello everyone,
Happy New Year to all our subscribers. It's been a while since the last newsletter, mainly due to a lack of time and premises move last year. This year's resolution is to publish it more regularly. This edition includes details of competition winners, the new competition, details on the new Illusion Magazine, special offers from our shop, what's new on the site and in the shop.
This is the time of year to take stock of your kit, and hunt out the bargains that are around for replacing items such as gazebos which can usually be found discounted at this time of year, with summer still seeming a long way off. Tool boxes for your kit are also to be found in the sales at places like B&Q and Focus.
ILLUSION MAGAZINE
Illusion Magazine is a new publication designed for Face and Body artists. Illusion is packed with articles and photographs from painters from around the world.
Issue 1 features the work of Lynne Jamieson, Emma Cammack, Mark Reid and Nick Wolfe. There are step-by-step photographs of working faces, also showpiece and award winning designs. There are product reviews, business articles and information about forth coming events.
Illusion will appeal to all Face and Body Artist whether you are starting out and need help and advice in starting up a new venture or you are a professional and enjoy seeing the work of some of the great names in Face and Body Art.
It is a high quality, glossy full colour magazine, A4 size, 44 pages packed with pictures and articles. You can buy the first edition from our shop for £9.99 here
CHRISTMAS PICTURE COMPETITION
Thanks for all the entries to this competition, which must break the record for the longest running competition we've done - sorry about that.
After careful consideration (argument/discussion) we've decided the winners are as follows:
FIRST PLACE goes to Jacklyn Suiskens
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SECOND PLACE goes to Cheryl Whitfield
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Congratulations to both of you and your vouchers to spend in our shop are on their way to you via e-mail. Well done and thanks to all the other entrants who will receive an FPD No8 face painting brush as a reward for their patience (email us your details to us at competition@facepaintingdesigns. co.uk)
VALENTINES DAY PICTURE COMPETITION
For our first competition this year we thought we'd have a Valentines Day theme. So what we are looking for is pictures of painting you've done linked to Valentines Day in some way, can be the usual roses, hearts etc or your own interpretation of the day, so long as we can see the connection of course!
We've decided to limit the entries to 5 per person, mainly for space saving. Remember if you have other pictures you want shown, just send them in and we'll put them in one of the galleries on the site.
First prize will be a £10.00 voucher to spend in the shop.
Second prize will be a £5.00 voucher to spend in the shop.
All who receive the news letter are welcome to enter. (If your friends want to enter get them to sign up for the letter!) The competition will be open until the 19th February, all pictures sent in will be displayed on a special page on the web site. Email your picture or pictures (any size or format, we can adjust them to suit the site) to competition@facepaintingdesigns.co.uk
You can view the entries and pictures submitted by clicking here or by typing the address below into your browser.
SHOP NEWS
The Snazaroo 18ml standard colours are still at the competitive price of £2.69, with some reduced further to £2.09, the retail price of these will be increasing soon.
The empty 18ml pallettes are proving ever popular so that you can keep 8x18ml paints in one easy to clean/carry container. If you haven't used these before here's a few hints on transferring the paints to the palettes.
Inside the blue base of the 18ml pots is another clear plastic bowl which holds the paint. This is held into the base with a dab of glue. What you do is slide a knife or screwdriver between the two, push it to the centre and twist. This breaks the bond and the clear bowl then fits neatly into the palette.
Some are easy and some are hard depending on how much glue is in that particular pot. Sometimes the blue base cracks when doing this but usually not. It can help to put the paints in the fridge for half an hour as this makes the glue more brittle.
If you order from us and want them loosened, let us know on the order form and we'll do it for you, We're dab hands at it now and rarely break the pots, it only takes us a couple of seconds to do it as we're picking the order.
We are adding a few new designs of the tattoo stencils in the next week or so, Dragons 2 and a "Henna Design" stencil. Keep your eyes open for these because they look quite good.
SPECIAL OFFERS FOR THIS EDITION
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Theses offers are valid until the 19th February 2007
SITE NEWS
We have added a couple of new step -by- step guides in the last months, Darth Maul - kindly done by Kat from Kat-Kraft, and a small easy to do Dragon for your arm or leg. These can be found on our designs page.
We are in the process of building another Gallery page, so if you would like to see your work published on the web, send us your pictures and, if we like them, we'll add them!
If you run a face painting web site, let us know and we can add the link to our links page.
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FREEPHONE NUMBER
Remember we have a FREEPHONE NUMBER so you can place orders over the telephone if you wish, and not pay any call charges , make a note of it to save your phone bill.
0800 011 2475
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Keep on painting and best regards from
The Crew at Face Painting Designs
mail@facepaintingdesigns.co.uk