Todays framing job - 60th birthday celebation signature frame

Framing is something we do at Creative Casting all the time for our baby casting kits & whilst we do not advertise, we have a lot of customers who hear by word of mouth that we can custom mount & frame pretty much anything.

We have a great machine that cuts mounts in all shapes & sizes which gave us the ability to launch our range of name frames - see the website for details as they will be great Christmas gifts this year!

Another area we have moved into is Signature/Celebration frames & where all your guests sign your photo mount as a fun alternative to a guest book.

Shown here is one we did for a 60th birthday party & today we have started one for a 40th Halloween Party.
The lady had 'heard' of us & knew she would get something special & unique by coming to Creative Casting. She want a 'spooky' theme with 5 photos for her 60 or so guests to sign around. The finished frame will be almost 1m square!

Like the idea? Why not have a look at the Signature Frame we have on Amazon & if you want something a bit more personalised, give us a call :-)

Creative Casting on Facebook

What better than a wet weekend to make some headway into the many little projects you have thought about doing.

For some of you it may be decorating but not me! I prefer to sit & fiddle about on the Internet & here's the fruits of the last 24 hours labours:




A page for Creative Casting on my Facebook profile.





A lovely new shop on Amazon marketplace: Creativecastings Amazon shop

Need to keep at it I know but let me know what you think!

Jo :-)

Olympic Athlete Castings continue with Chris Boardman MBE

Now some of our Olympic athletes are back in the UK, The National Lottery castings to promote the Go for Gold scratchcard were back on the Creative Casting agenda.

This week we visited the Manchester Velodrome to take casts of Chris Boardman, gold medal winner in the 1992 Olympics in the individual pursuit.

Chris was very laid back about having the casts done & commented on the amazing detail produced in the alginate mould. He did say it was a very weird feeling having your feet dunked in cold gloop though!

Chris has his own performance bike company: Boardman Bikes & one of his cycles was ridden to victory in the road race by Nicole Cooke in Beijing.

The Olympics are over...

....so added a little game to the left to keep you from having to return to full time work!!

Alternatively, have a look at the latest baby gift sale items on our website.

Have fun,

Jo

Summer Holidays & the kids are at home....it's tough on single parents as BBC3's 'Young Mum's Mansion' shows! Interested in joining the next series?

The summer break makes it tough for Julie & I to keep on top of things & I'm sure we're not alone! Julie's away until after the August bank holiday & I think we'll only get back to normal once the kids are back at school & nursery!

Both of us have the support of our partners when it comes to childcare, house stuff & bills but Love Productions contacted us a week or so ago regarding a new series of their 'social experiment' on BBC3 - Young Mum's Mansion.

Are you a single parent? Finding it tough juggling work, childcare, domestic chores and a social life? Would you like to meet and talk to others in similar situations?

Could you be a great role model for other single mums and are you passionate about getting your voice heard?

If you are interested in trying out a radically different support network that could enhance both your and your child’s life, this could be for you.

TO APPLY OR FIND OUT MORE:

email: singleparents@lovewest.co.uk OR CALL: 0207 067 4860 Standard Call Charges Apply

Please leave us either by phone or email your name, address and telephone number so that we can contact you to send you an application form.

Baby Prints Jewellery

Trying to catch up on the website & we have started adding our new range of Baby Prints jewellery this evening to complement our existing fingerprint range.

Have a look for yourself on the fingerprint jewellery page. The prints can be taken from a set you already have or for a guaranteed high detail hand or footprint, use our excellent inkless footprint kit specially discounted for use with the jewellery.

All items of jewellery can be hallmarked & personalised with a limited number of letters & they are sent to you within 28 days of us receiving your prints. Presented in a lovely jewellery box this is something every new Mum will want!

More Olympic Castings...

Not much time for baby casting at the moment!

Both Julie & I have been out taking impressions for Camelot & The National Lotteryof various athletes these last few days:

Lynn Davies MBE - 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Gold Medallist, Long Jump



What a lovely man! It was a busy day at the National Indoor Athletics Centre & he took it all in his stride!!!

Karen Pickering MBE - Commonwealth Games & World Championships Gold Medallist, freestyle swimming.





With more medals than I've ever seen in her hand, Karen had her hands & feet cast & spoke to the local radio & press about supporting the 2012 Olympics.

Karen has her own swim school & works to raise moeny for many good causes, such as the British Olympic Foundation.





Gregor Tait

Ahead of going out to compete in the Beijing Olympics, Gregor added his support to The National Lottery 'Go for Gold' Scratchcard promotion by having his hands & feet cast by us. Once again he was great to work with despite never having had an impression done before.


After all this excitement Julie & I had better get some proper work done before the next Olympic casting next week!

3D Castings for Nick Gillingham, Olympic swimmer

Had some fun this week! As part of some work with Camelot we took casts of two Olympic medallists this week, the first being Nick Gillingham MBE.

The press call was to highlight the role of The National Lottery Scratchcards in raising funds for the 2012 London Olympics & we were on BBC Midlands Today that evening doing our thing!

Nick was a great guy & put up with having both his hands & feet cast several times. I even got to hold his beautiful bronze & silver medals!

Thursday saw us in Cardiff creating casts for Lynn Davies Olympic Gold medallist in 1963 & President of UK Athletics. More on that very soon!

See the other pictures of the casting on our news page or go get yourself a lottery scratchcard - I never knew there were so many till this week....

Name Frames - New from Creative Casting

Just a quick post today but I know a few people have been waiting for these to go live on the site & finally they are here!



Look great don't they!




Proving to be very popular as gifts for first birthdays, bridesmaids & pageboys these lovely name frames allow you to personalise the cut out letters by mounting a 6"x4" photo behind each one.

There are 3 sizes depending on the length of your name & many mount colour options. With beech or silver effect frames to choose from there's something to suit most tastes so why not treat some one today! Take a closer look at the name frames on our website.

New casting kit frames - new contemporary style.

Having neglected the blog for some weeks it's time to tell you a few of the things we have been up to apart from sunbathing!

New Deep Rebate Frames

Adding a sleek, modern box frame to the collection has been a goal for us for many months & we have finally found a frame which we feel is perfect for our product range.

This one piece solid wood frame has a deep rebate allowing the depth needed for mounting hand & feet casts but maintaining a clean contemporary look when hung on the wall.

All our casting kits are available in this frame with two colour finishes - natural or dark wood.



The clay imprint kits are also being moved into this frame from the beech & silver effect frames currently used allowing a greater depth for your clay footprints. All the clay photo kits now have a fold out stand on the back meaning they can also be displayed as freestanding desktop gifts as well as hung on a wall.

The silver & beech effect frames will still be available in some styles for a few weeks yet but so far the new frames have proved very popular!

We have a few other lovely new ideas on their way so do take a look at our gift range on the website where some of these new baby gifts will be popping up.