Arty Crafty News - September 2025

Hello! How are you? Have you been making time for creativity every day? Sometimes it's harder when we're tired or feel there simply isn't a single spare moment because of other things in life that are supposedly more important. But what is more important than your health? I've read so many times that when we feel this way, that is when we need creativity the most ... so make time for yourself to help defragg your brain through art.

This month's blog post was updated today, on 22nd September 2025 with a few edits throughout and new additions nearer the top :) Scroll down for 49-and-Market arrivals and Stamperia's beautiful Alice in Christmas Wonderland pack :)

This blog post is all about arty product news featuring all the latest happenings about Tim's Rock Candy Dry Glitter (Clear and Chunky), Distress Snowflakes pretties, Twinkles texture paste, A5 embossing folders and Oxide inks, Dyan's Dinky Dolls stamps, Dina's bears and inks, plus there is even more on the way - magnificent and spectacular arty treasures for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Unbirthdays and every day inbetween!

Our Creative Space has an art journal page with Dina's first bears hoping to inspire you to be yourselves while crafty and arty :D

- click here to see Everything All At Once ... this handy category (shelf) shows all the products we have inStore, displaying newest additions to the shop first. Use the sorting and filters to thin it out or use the search bar, or simply ask :) I'm always happy to help!

Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions ... How are you loving all the smaller sized bodies, heads and accessories that are in Dyan's Dylusions 'Dinky Dolls' stamp sets? I am :) They're so much fun to use with all our other favourites! Need ideas? Enjoy a wander through our Dylusions shelf to be inspired to create more art! - click here to see everything by Dyan Reaveley and Dylusions -

Check out Dyan's YouTube lessons for the groovy Nesting Boxes ... https://youtube.com/@dylusionsdyan

Dina Wakley MEdia ... Dina's Spellbinders and Betterpress Christmas release will be landing inStore 20th-22nd Sept :) This festive release is wonderful, did you see that gorgeous embossing folder and bird on bauble? Online shortly :)
... Dina's Glossy Acrylics in the pretty new colours are back in stock! :) Yay!
... Got your adorable bears and awesome raven stamps yet? They go beautifully with the friendly woodland critters, pretty splattery Glossy colours, stencils of petals and leaves, plus a very handy tool for your craft table, an excellent quality low tack art tape (masking tape).
- click here to see the Dina Wakley MEdia arty shelf -

Tim Holtz Mini Oxides - in Stock! Ranger has made gazzillions of these gorgeous ink pad sets, so feel free to watch their space to save for later or buy Now and have them to use asap. Thank You :) Happy Arty Days!
- click here for Tim Holtz Distress shelf -

Tim's Rock Candy Clear and Chunky Dry Glitters are inStore ... gorgeous sparkly treasures in fine and thick - love the shape of the bottle and that label is beautiful. Love typography, its what drew me into being a compositor and typographer in the 80's. Buy in advance, buy when they land, buy whenever you wish!
.... These are Seasonal, Special Edition products, like the Christmas and Halloween Idea-Ology range of life's essentials - Tim says we might see these gorgeous bottles of sparkly treasure every year until Ranger decides otherwise :) Awesome! Sprinkle and Pour this sparkly goodness everywhere you go! 

Tim's Vignette Card File is back inStore - along with more Etcetera Thickboards and oodles of other restocked products. Simply pop a word into the search and the products will magically appear before you so you can see what we have easily and quickly :)

Want to add to a current order? Simply let me know and use the groovy code - PleaseAddThisToo - in the Check Out. Love Arty Treasures :) Have a Happy day!

Tim's Idea-Ology Halloween ... it's all here! 
The 2025 releases are a wonderful eclectic mix of fresh designs intermingled with old essentials --- look out for Paper Dolls and Layered Elements, Backdrops (with some new backgrounds), Collage Strips, Collage Tissue, Ephemera (owls, labels, tiny books), Baseboard windows and doors with chipboard quotes, Jack O' Lanterns (pumpkin pots with faces), Graveyard (with the broomstick, headstones and cauldron), metal Word Plaques, Boneyard (little bones), packs of resin skulls, and lots more - plus more Mummy Wrap (because you can never have too much of this amazing stuff). 

- click here for our Halloween shelf -

If you wander over to our wickedly wonderful spooktacularly creepy and cute Halloween category at Art by Jenny, you'll see heaps of fun treasures. Or put Halloween in the shop's search, you will find heaps of spooky fun essentials to love, buy, use and share!

The portrait pics in the stickers are die cut so you can use the frame or the pic or both, so cool :) Love those gorgeous tiny Zorro masks too!

Tim's Sizzix re-Releases - selected designs have been revived from the vault, including the haunted house, witch and cat, cut out alphas set, Winston the snowman, St Nick, various Christmas designs, a pack of leafy foliage who's name escapes me, crochet trims, and heaps of other old faves. A perfect opportunity to buy them if you missed them the first time round :)

- click here to shop Thinlits and Embossing Folders - 

The groovy layered pumpkin, Gift Card and the other Christmas designs will be landing mid October along with (are you sitting down?) the Noteworthy set! If you'd like any of these, please do contact me as they're all in limited quantities.

Tim's large A5 embossing folders by Sizzix are named the same as their mini and standard versions with more awesome texture to enjoy! All are inStore including Engraved and Kaleidoscope.
- for all Sizzix and Tim essentials click here -

Thinlits 'Leaf Fragments', Woo Hoo! ... you'd think that something so beautiful and versatile would never be retired, but it is what it is --- so excited - back in stock :) Awesome!
- for Leaf Fragments and other Sizzix and Tim essentials click here -

Dina Wakley MEdia ... More beautiful bears (one wearing a crown), friendly woodland critters, pretty splattery Glossy colours, stencils of petals and leaves, plus a very handy tool for your artroom, a low tack art tape, perfect to use as a masking tape or decorative tape (simply stick down with your Dina, Dyan or Tim glue).
... Wonderfully tactile embossing folders, gorgeous colours, a clear glossy resist, leafy pieces, adorable bears, fabulous patterns and much more! Dina's Spellbinder's Betterpress ink pads and reinkers are inStore looking inspiring with their beautiful colours. 
... We have the BetterPress Black Reinker (use with the BetterPress Black Ink Pad or any other old Archival ink pad you have spare).
... Dina's Ledger Journals - in Stock and there is plenty for everyone! Now that Ranger knows how exceptional this book is, they will hopefully be printed more often and readily available whenever we all need another one, just like with our Tim papers and fave Dylusions journals. Yay! Have a Happy creative day!

- click here to see the Dina Wakley MEdia arty shelf -

Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions ... Diddy Stamps have got to be my new favourite stamps :D I've refreshed their info with better descriptions and sizes. These wonderful sets are fun to mix and match with all your other stamps. Enjoy swapping heads, bodies, legs, accessories and more! Any excuse to create! Here's a Dylusions link for you to use ...
- click here to see everything by Dyan Reaveley and Dylusions -

Above is a photo borrowed from Dyan Reaveley showing a few samples she created using Dylusions Dy Cuts, Stamps, Postcards, Canvas Prints and Stencils in Journals and Dyalogs :) I hope it inspires you to get artying and craftying today!

Do you wish to buy Stamperia and or 49&Market products? Which ones? They release so very much so often (100s every 6-8 weeks, just like so many other brands! it's crazy!) ... some is quite useful and beautiful, and while we don't have the space to stock the whole kit and caboodle, if you send me your lists of wishes, I can try and order those items in.

49&Market ink pads ... The 15 colours do look beautiful and I expect every other shop in Oz has them ... including us! Reinkers are planned too as there is no point buying an inkpad if you cannot refill it. The ink pads look so juicy therefore no rush, they're not limited edition - unless there are requests for getting them sooner, they'll be inStore after Tim's Halloween and Christmas festive releases are here.

I've reorganised all our Distress ink and oxide stamp pads and their reinkers - and we have all the colours - so the 3 old wire storage thingos we got back when Dyan's paint was in round tubs are now empty (omg, an empty space! quick fill it! :) lol) and Janene's ink pads can live on those.

Comes from being a Tim Holtz addict I think, for why I took so long to decide. To me, Ink = Distress or Ranger's Archival :D I've hardly used anything else (apart from the black/white StazOn) since 2011 as nothing (in my humble opinion) is as good as Tim's ... however, Ranger has developed and manufactured the 49&Market inks (and Simon Hurley's) so are quite likely just as good as Tim's ... we all love to have it all, lol, so something tells me I'm simply overthinking it all and being a shop, should just buy it all even if the colours are similar to Distress, because, well, just because. I did ask Ranger to do a comparison between these and Tim's Distress inks - and it does look like (in Instagram) that they will layer under or over Distress, and under Distress Oxides, and will work with Archival inks too.

Just like all the thousands of pencils in jars around my artroom (and on my shop desks, in my lounge, bedroom... i love pencils), and all those gel pens and crayons and paints and all our other amazing arty treasures (which I (we) don't use all the time or all together but still love hanging around), these 49 and Market ink pads can be enjoyed however and whenever either of us fancy it. At least there are only 15 colours and they look fantastic on my shelf... I'll have a play with them later!

Excitable Note ... As you've just read, I'm often indecisive about buying in new design releases by brands we don't normally carry, but this one was easy, instant favourite - I have chosen to stock 49-and-Market's collection of bees (rubons, ephemera, 6x8inch papers), bee-cause I simply could not resist! lol The designs in "Botanical Buzz" are gorgeous. The Stamperia "Nature's Haven" die cuts are just as gorgeous too (it has frogs and ladybugs - sing out if you'd like them).

It's much easier to decide these things when Tim, Dyan or Dina have anything to do with it :D lol Everything else always requires analysis! Feel free to roll your eyes at my daft overthinking brain any time! lol ;p

Above is a banner showing a selection of the Botanical Buzz range and a few of the dye-based ink pads from 49 and Market. 

The Alice in Christmas Wonderland pack is larger than it seems ... a bit like the Tardis or rabbit hole... at a glance it is 16 pages of double sided A4 printed cardstock, stickers, double sided die cut elements. Inspect it closer and you'll see there are so many elements and the imagery is stunning. No scissors required! This paper is an exceptional quality (as usual for Stamperia) with traditional festive Alice (Cheshire Cat, Hatter, White Rabbit and friends) plus fresh designs of bears, Grandfather clock, moonscapes and more for Christmas, winter, birthdays, tea time days, any excuse at all.  

Below right ... This is a page inside my Dina Wakley Ledger Journal created using the 49 and Market Botanical Bees rubons and ephemera. Using Tim's Idea-ology Remnant Rubs metal tool, I applied the rubon designs all over a painted background (Dylusions Sticks and Caykes (blues) everywhere then Calypso Teal (pencils and paint) through the large Dylusions Brush Strokes Stencil). Tip, make sure the surface under the page is hard and smooth! Their ephemera die cuts are a similar weight to Tim's Paper Dolls and are a matte finish, easy to ink and tear. The back of the pack has a few hexie frames too, one I've used and stamped Dina Wakley's quote inside. I've added a few other stamped words about (grateful, breathe, remember the now from Tim's Hashtags stamp set) and used Dyan's Dylusions glue to stick it all down.

Below left ... is inside my other favourite journal, the Dylusions Ledger Square Journal with oodles of stamped images to create a queen bee and friends scene. I used black Archival Ink with the Dylusions Dinky Dolls stamp sets (all of them!) along with the Dylusions Toadstool Town bees and larger cat head from Toadstool Tales. Slowly colouring with Dylusions 'Sticks and Caykes' and the Distress watercolour pencils.

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Dina Wakley MEdia ... Beautiful textures, amazing embossing designs, gorgeous colours, a clear glossy resist, leafy pieces, adorable bears, fabulous patterns and much more!
- click here to see the Dina Wakley MEdia arty shelf -

Distress Snowflakes and Twinkles - Doesn't it look magical? Perfect for Christmas, Halloween, Birthdays, every excuse under the moon we can think of for creating more art :) Happy Arty Tim Days! Oh, yes, Buy Now or save for later. Whichever you wish! Thank you :)

Tim Holtz ... Ooooh! Mini Oxide Ink Pads and Tiny Blending Brushes :D Gorgeous colours in sets of 4 to collect, share and use to create smiles! Remember when Tim told us that they are putting all of the Oxide colours into Mini Ink Pads? ... FYI, we have all the Reinkers as well :)
- click here for Tim Holtz Distress shelf -

Above is a photograph from when I was playing with all the new A5 embossing folders by Tim Holtz (Sizzix) and Dina Wakley (Spellbinders), using Tim's Idea-Ology Foundation File Cards and Folios, Dina's tags and watercolour paper.

Tim's large A5 embossing folders are in designs from the past are bigger and better than ever before! He keeps releasing new designs and they are amazing. So far we have Typewriter, Lumber, Foundry, Entangled, Botanical, Cracked and Foliage. I love embossing folders, even on those days when everything happens back to front and upside down, the tactile finish of embossed cardstock always makes me smile. Use these textured 3-dimensional elements to create junk journals, samples for fun, tags and cards, ATCs, scrapbook pages and journaling (die cut into shapes, layers, pockets, texture, etc). A5 is such a fantastic versatile size at 14.8cm x 21cm!
- for all Sizzix and Tim essentials click here -

Tim Holtz MM Stamp and Stencil Sets ... Can't find your favourite? I'm here to help. ... Find these fabulous sets by simply searching for "thmm" or use the link to the stamps category. Check often as we add more of these wonderful sets to our shop :)
- click here for Tim Holtz Stamps and Stencil Sets -

speaking of Tim ... actually sometimes I do talk about other things you know - anyway! Last year, he said to us all he was retiring from designing and 2025 was going to be his last year of new releases (and only going to do demos and videos, because he's an art addict just like us and who could ever live without art) - but yesterday (2nd Aug), during the live for the Sizzix Halloween designs, he said he's not retiring at all - so he's changed his mind and is now simply designing at a lovely easy to manage pace, not in large quantities of a thousand things a minute! Yay! I love all the mazing things Tim dreams up for us to use and his creative team is incredibly talented. Thank you to Tim and Mario, smaller quality output is much easier to manage than the other :) I really don't know how he kept up with himself for these past 4-5 years! lol :P Our fave professor is the best and can change his mind as often as he wishes! We have oodles of products, millions of hours of video and endless inspirational photos to enjoy!

Sizzix Studio Mixed Media Kits ... Still new in my book because I've not used them all yet (it's all about me! lol :) Have you seen them? Wonderful versatile designs by Cat Kerr and Vic Hollins are beautiful with stamps and stencils to mix and match. The sets are out of this world, destined to feed our souls with daydreams of wispy clouds and gardens of cactus!
- buy your new favourite Sizzix Studio sets here - 

Lately my main crafty moments have only been on weekends, but here in the lounge room I recall other creative moments enjoyed throughout this past week while at work - revamping an ATC to give away, making or choosing samples, rummaging around my tissue stash, adding extra splatter to my bear artwork, designing, printing and cutting up cards and flyers, wrapping parcels (its sort of crafty to tear and scrunch paper)... then after dinner when not on my ipad typing updates or chasing dragons, I colour in drawings by Colouring Heaven, Kerby Rosannes and Johanna Basford. Sometimes I cut up stamped images, colour those in or play puzzles with Simon's Cat (not crafty but puzzles are fun) ... My daughter recently gave me some pencils that have leads made of mixed pigments, and they're wonderfully relaxing to use!

I'll colour or doodle with anything that makes a mark! A young colouring addict, started when I was 3yo colouring a book under a table while others played outside, at 7yo I was using our neighbour's coloured gravel to draw on cement footpaths, and now I use arty treasures! Ah, it's hard living the life I love! lol :D

Thanks for checking our latest news. More info to be added as it arises, plus pics will be nice :)

I feel we are so lucky to have such abundance of amazing arty treasures to collect, use and share :) Thank you so much for visiting and shopping with Art by Jenny!
:)
Jenny

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