2016 - the happy and sad.

2016 - the happy and sad.
Here's a compilation of all my tribute sketches this year.
For each sad sketch, I've also listed a good thing that happened in 2016.
Here's to 2017! 

David Bowie

Pandas are no longer considered an endangered species

Alan Rickman 

Leonardo Dicaprio finally won an Oscar

Bombings in Brussels

Andy Murray won Men's Singles at Wimbledon

Ronnie Corbett

Tim Peake completed his mission and came back safely from space

Prince

The Queen celebrated her 90th birthday

Muhammad Ali

The number of tigers in the wild has risen for the first time in a century

Orlando nightclub shootings 

Pokemon Go got me outside in the fresh air catching 'em all

Racial abuse of immigrants

Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in one day

Roy (my kitty) passed away

After Roy's passing, God the kitten came into my life

Terrorist attack in Nice 

The Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter

Gene Wilder

Money raised from last year's Ice Bucket Challenge
brought us one step closer to a cure for ALS

Remembrance Day

Paper Panda's Guide To Papercutting was published

George Michael

Leicester City won the Premier League against 5000-1 odds

Carrie Fisher 

A solar powered plane completed its journey around the world

Richard Adams 

Team GB came second in the Olympics medal table

And The Winner Is...

The winner of our festive treat giveaway for an Exclusive Christmas Awesome Box is.....

HELEN ATKINSON!

Congratulations!! Please contact us with your postal address!
(email: admin@paperpandacuts.co.uk)


Many thanks, as always, for all your entries! Looking forward to the next one! 

Have a wonderful week!

Festive Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY!
We have a Festive treat to giveaway. Mrs P has found an Exclusive Christmas Awesome box down the back of the sofa! Huzzah! Jam packed full of goodies and full of festive cheer, it's guaranteed get you in the Christmas spirit! Head over to the post on Facebook here to enter.

Just hit that 'like' button and leave us a comment and this gorgeous festive treat could be yours!  

1 Lucky winner!
Winner will be announced here on the blog at 3pm Monday 19th December 2016!
T&Cs:
Closing date for entries will be 3:00pm GMT on 17th December 2016. The prize is a Special Exclusive Christmas Awesome Box!; no cash alternative will be offered. By entering this competition, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or any other Social Network.

Important postage date information!

Important Information! 

Check here for your last posting dates for Christmas delivery. 

Please note that due to high demand, the last order date for guaranteed Christmas delivery for our Papercutting Kits is TODAY, 9th Dec.
The kits are an entire gift in a box and make perfect pressies. Don't miss out! 
www.paperpandacuts.co.uk


:D

The Paper Panda Advent Calendar!!

Day Two of our 24 days of Christmas treats!

To see each daily offer just pop on the Website Twitter or sign up for the newsletter via your account on the website, then you'll get a nice shiny reminder in your inbox every day! Huzzah!

Have you seen the festive snow on the website?! What do you think? 

We love a bit of snow to get us into the festive spirit!

What's your favourite thing to get you into the Christmassy mood? 

In other news...

The new surprise template is out - and it's beautiful. You can find that here.

A new festive 'All The Things' colouring sheet is also available! This one would be great for the little ones to colour on those journeys to visit family over the festive season! 

Get yours here.
There are a few new additions to the store this week too! 

Jelly beans, magnetic fridge puzzles, new canvas designs and new guest artist templates from Marnie Makes too! Yay!

Book Giveaway!

A little later than advertised, but better late than never!

A huge 'WELL DONE' to these lucky 5 people,

who will have a signed book winging it's way to them soon!

Heidi Mccallum, Sandra Durling, Stacey Beca, Gill Kent, Heather Birch

Please email admin@paperpandacuts.co.uk with your postal addresses.

Thank you to everyone who entered, and thanks as always for your ongoing support!

You can buy a copy of the book here:

http://www.paperpandacuts.co.uk/books-c86/paper-pandas-guide-to-papercutting-p452

GIVEAWAY!

GIVEAWAY!

How would you like to win one of FIVE copies of my new book 'Paper Panda's Guide to Papercutting'?

Hey, I'll even sign them too ;)

Simply pop over to our Facebook page, hit that 'like' button on this post and leave us a comment and one of these gorgeous new books full of templates, advice and inspiration could be yours.

Winners will be announced on the blog at 3pm Wednesday 30th November 2016!

Lucky Winner!

Recently we held a contest on our Facebook page, to win one of our new Wonderland-inspired 'I'm Late' canvas prints!

One winner has been chosen at random from everyone who commented and liked the post. The winner is (drum roll...)

AMANDA NEWTON

Woo! Congrats! If you're the lucky one, just pop us an email at admin@paperpandacuts.co.uk to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who entered, your support means so much.

The print is available to purchase here!
http://www.paperpandacuts.co.uk/homewares-c38/canvas-prints-c61/paper-panda-im-late-chunky-wrapped-canvas-ready-to-hang-papercut-print-p877

FREE CHOCOLATE* and Christmas offers!

We are running a few Christmas template **Special Offers** over the next couple of weeks, to get you all into the festive spirit!
Many of these festive designs will be retired in the New Year, so don't miss out.

These will be announced in the papercutting group - which you can find here.

Today's offer is the 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' digital design, which is down to only £5 for the template (plus the reduced price of £12 for the commercial licence if you wish to sell). This offer will be swapped for another offer at any point over the next 3 days.



If that's not good enough, we have decided to offer a free chocolate advent calendar (while stocks last) on all orders placed over £30 for delivery from PPHQ! Yippee. 

As always any order placed for physical items delivered from PPHQ will receive our free ACEO too.

You can find the T&C's here.

Lest We Forget.

A Special Delivery for five winners!

Recently we held a contest on our Facebook page, to win one of five brand new 'A Special Delivery' prints (designed by the increasingly talented Mr P!)

Mrs P has chosen five winners and they are (drum roll...)

Tracy Bell
Collette Izzett
Sonia Nicholas Fox
Kimberly Bates
Lisette Taylor

Woo! Congrats! If you're one of the lucky five, just pop us an email at admin@paperpandacuts.co.uk to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who entered, your support means so much.

The print is available to purchase here!
http://www.paperpandacuts.co.uk/prints-c87/paper-panda-special-delivery-art-prints-by-ryan-firchau-p850

2017 Woodland Friends Calendar

Mr & Mrs P have teamed up to create this magical calendar!

Mrs P's sketches, coloured by Mr P!

It's 42x21cm in size and wall hanging.

Wirebound and glossy on a pretty decent weight paper, so you can totally frame the pictures once you're done with the calendar! Win!

Featuring vibrantly coloured Paper Panda sketches and inspirational quotes!

You can get yours here - but hurry, they're selling fast!

Rawrsome Dino Pack!

This whopping 46 page template pack contains -
"What Makes You Different, Makes You Beautiful"
"What Makes You Different, Makes You Awesome"
Blank version of the above for your own message
Infill guide for the above
Plain Dino Greeting Card
Age 1-9 Dino Greeting Card
Happy Birthday Dino Greeting Card
Blank Dino Greeting Card for your own message
Two different Dino Placecards
Dino Bunting - Plain and Alphabet.

All this for just £10! That's a pretty rawrsome bargain right there!

Get yours here!

*Previously August Surprise Template 2016'

You can't make everyone happy...

...you are not pizza ;)

Mr P Prints!

Gorgeous new prints in the store! Stunning colours and so much detail in these images you'll never tire of looking at them!

You can get yours here - limited amount available!
These are also in Awesome Boxes too!

Template sale - must end Sunday!

http://www.paperpandacuts.co.uk/kits-diy-c35/diy-templates-personal-c49

Catching Stars....

It was a clear starry night, and Bunny and Bird were settling down to sleep under a tall tree. All around them was quiet, until they heard a noise up in the branches.
*rustle, rustle*
The rustling sound was followed by a sad sounding "Oh...", and then by more rustling, louder this time, as if it was getting closer.
Suddenly, a little face popped down through the leaves.
Startled, Bunny sat up and looked around. He couldn't see anyone.
"Up here!" said the voice in the leaves.
Bird cautiously fluttered up to the tree, and was pleased to find Squiggle hanging upside down by his tail (and not a scary tree-monster).
"Oh! Hi Squiggle! You frightened us!" Bird tweeted.
"What's all the fuss, Squiggle? You were rummaging around a lot up there!" said Bunny.
"Sorry I disturbed you! I was trying to catch a star, like you two do! I've seen you with baskets full of stars, and I can't even catch just one" Squiggle replied, sounding dejected.
"Don't give up Squiggle! You don't need to climb up the tree to catch stars, come with us, we will show you!"
Bunny started walking quickly, and Squiggle and Bird soon followed.
"If we run up to the top of this big hill, the stars will be so close that we can touch them."
Squiggle ran as fast as he could, following Bunny, while Bird flew overhead.
As they reached the top of the hill, the sky filled with stars, right down to the ground.
Squiggle squealed with delight. "Goodness Bunny, you're right! This is the best night ever!" he exclaimed, as he filled his basket with stars.


*Story by our very own Admin Vicky.

Life it too short for boring pants!

This will always be one of my favourite sketches...

Made even better by the fact that my little knitted FBH has his very own knitted knickers! ;) 

You can get your own Finn Biddybum (sans Pants) in the store here.

LAST CHANCE TEMPLATES!

**Last chance** to get hold of the following 8 templates, which will be removed from the website at the close of day Sunday 1th July! You can just click on the name below to head direct to their item page!

Now just £1 or less each!!

Heart Designs
A Balanced Diet
Motivation
Fairy Folk
Beside The Sea
Wait For Me
True Friends
Teddy Bear Picnic.

Also if you'd like to get the commercial licences for any of these, please try to do so before Sunday. xx

Remembering Roy.

This week our hearts broke into tiny pieces as we said goodbye to our favourite cat.
All our love to Roy, the best cat in the whole world. 

Paper Panda's Guide to Papercutting! Pre-order information

I am so super excited about my new book!
It's packed full of exclusive templates from me and three other amazing papercutters.
It takes you through from the basics to cutting whole templates.

And it has a spiffing new cover, which looks so lovely, and better than this temporary cover!
(Which admittedly, does looks pretty cool anyway, but the new one is even better.)

This a preorder book, and the scheduled release date is Nov 2016, therefore books should be with you in Dec. Please note, this is slightly later than the original release date. Sadly this is unavoidable, the publishers have apologised and I'm sorry for the delay. At least you'll still get it for Christmas! And it's worth the wait, trust me ;) Click here to pre-order now!