New Magazine - Creative Cardmaking

Practical Publishing, the home of Scrapbook Magazine, Simply Cards & Papercrafts and Papercraft Essentials have produced a new magazine called Creative Cardmaking.

The magazine will only be available from craft shops rather than a newsagents (or seemingly subscription), and each issue will have £5 worth of free gifts, including paper, rub-ons and stickers. In the sample copy we were given, the papers were stapled to the inside of the magazine and had a slightly shiny finish and texture, the designs were nice, but we were not sure about the finish on the paper. Die-cuts were included but there were no stickers or rub-ons in this issue. It is difficult to say if these items would be worth £5.

The magazine contains cardmaking projects which seemed to be of good quality and ideas, but were sponsored by craft retailers - good thing or bad thing?

The cover price of the magazine is £3.99. In these days of doom and gloom it is encouraging to see the launch of a new crafting magazine.

Let us know what you think.........