‘Create a personalised coordinates wall sticker to mark a special event and location. Perfect as a gift for weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. Complete with applicator and full easy to use instructions.’

Each fortnight the most interesting / fun / unusual photo will win a £30 Spin Collective gift voucher!
(Offer ends April 30th)

As you can see the robot is armless (you may need a magnifying glass as I think I’ve resized the images a bit small!). In light of Jake’s problems we sent him some more arms and a couple of robots to fill the gaps and here’s how it ended up..

Much better and we think the room looks great! And here’s the obligatory link to our robot wall stickers and also our plane wall stickers! Remember, be careful out there in the world of sticker cutting.

If you need a bespoke sticker then please contact us as we should be able to help. A big thank you for the write-up and we’d just like to say congratulations to Laura and Neil and wish them every happiness for the future.

First up we have our Safari Animals wall sticker set and our Patterned Elephants wall sticker set. Next up we have a coffee cup chalkboard and a hedgehog chalkboard. All have 25% off and come complete with applicator and full instructions. The chalkboards also come with a free crayola chalk pack. P.S Last order date for Christmas is a.m 19th December.

First up we have our School clock wall sticker and our Alarm clock wall sticker. Each comes complete with working mechanism ‘Just apply the wall sticker (in your chosen colour) to the wall and then stick the clock mechanism in the centre. Easy… even comes complete with an AA battery.’

Next we have a patterned reindeer wall sticker set. Consisting of 6 reindeer each with it’s own unique colour/pattern. The largest being 38cm tall and the smaller reindeer 20cm tall. The set can be mirrored to face the opposite direction. We hope you like them!

James Clay importer and distributor of specialist beer in the UK to bar owners and operaters, wholesalers, restaurateurs and retailers.

A quick mention for the Scrapstore Gloucestershire. We support and donate our business waste to GRC (generous aren’t we!). It’s an easy way to recycle some of your business waste so if you run a business in Gloucestershire then we highly recommend supporting them (a friendly guy called Michal even picks it up from your place of work).

In their own words :: Everyday thousands of tons of waste are sent to landfill and everyday groups need interesting materials for their activities! We’re the link. This is a place to find stimulating materials, shop for art supplies, hire arts or play equipment, get inspired and bounce ideas around.  Everything you need to deliver exciting activities in your community group, club, and classroom or with your own children. It’s as simple as that!  Find out how to take out a membership and get started today!

We offer a regular, reliable collection and we are always in need of:

• Anything unusual
• Card and paper
• Netting
• Containers with lids
• Tubing and piping
• Plastics
• Foam rubber
• Wood – small offcuts
• Rope, cord and twine
• Foils and films
• Plastic granules
• CD’s
• Stationery
• Unused packaging materials
• Sample books
• Ex-display materials
• Sticky labels
• Envelopes
• Corks
• Textiles

To find out how to become a Scrapstore supplier and start contributing to the well being of Gloucestershire communities call us on 01452 504442 or email scrapstore@grcltd.org

We’re on Google+. That pretty much sums up this post! Being a small business having all the new social media sites starts to become a bit of a headache, as it ends up being a trade off as to what we need to be on and what we want to be on. We’ve finally got round to adding a Google+ page and we’re gonna see how it goes….. the problem is we still love Pinterest. Anyway, for what it’s worth our page is here! Follow us and try and convince us it’s the new Facebook!

In their own words : We are a boutique PR agency based in Chelsea specialising in health, beauty, fashion, lifestyle and pets. Our blog will hopefully provide some interesting thoughts, news and musings on all manner of subjects; beauty products we rate, people/places we like, designers we are lusting after, the little quirks and foibles of dogs (Tibetan spaniels in particular), anything that takes our fancy really. Hopefully we will keep you entertained and inspired…all depending on how witty and clever we are feeling on any given day!

A bit about Cliveden : A country retreat on a grand scale, Cliveden’s magnificent gardens and breath-taking views have been admired for centuries. Cliveden was once the glittering hub of society; visited by virtually every British Monarch since George I and home to Waldorf and Nancy Astor in the early 20th century. Cliveden was renowned for hosting exclusive parties and political gatherings, and later became infamously associated with the Profumo Affair.

We’re all individuals, so it goes without saying that most of us like to celebrate this fact in all aspects of life. When we’re updating a room or even just adding something new we all seem to strive to add something personal that says ‘this is me’ or ‘this is what I like’ or even ‘this is the statement I want to make’. Where is all this leading… well i’m sure you’ve guessed, but to be honest a great way to add some personalisation to your walls is a wall quote designed by yourself. Your text can be whatever you like, personal to you, a life quote, motivational quote or favourite film quote… this list is pretty endless. You can change the font, size and colour to match the scheme that you’ve chosen. We’ve done a quick mockup here with a few quotes as examples (I Love Gin is mine!). They are all done in grey vinyl and the fonts used from top to bottom are Earwig Factory, Campanile, Marketing Script, Honey Script and Rockwell. You can have a play around with our quote designer here. If you are unsure how to achieve your desired effect then drop us an e-mail and we’ll be glad to help. Right, so where was I…. “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises………”

Basically a colour wheel consists of the three primary colours – Red, Yellow and Blue. Then you have your secondary colours which are created when mixing equal amounts of primary colours… e.g Yellow + Red = Orange, Red + Blue = Purple and Yellow + Blue = Green. Finally we have the tertiary colours when a primary colour is mixed (2:1) with a secondary colour… Red-Orange, Blue-green… and so on.

That’s all well and good but what does that mean to you….!

Well, the colour wheel can be divided into cool and warm colours. These are self explanatory as in warm are the vibrant, energetic colours and the cool being the calm soothing colours.

There are lots of ways to use the colour wheel to create a colour scheme but we will go over the three most basic :

Complementary : Colours opposite each other on the colour wheel are complementary colours e.g purple and yellow. These colours provide a high impact maximum contrast effect.

Analogous : Colours that sit next to each other on the colour wheel are analogous colours. This creates a calm soothing effect and is usually made up of a dominant colour, a second supporting colour and a third accent colour.

Triadic : Colours that are evenly spaced around the colour wheel. These colours create a vibrant equality feel due to the varying colours and can be made up of a dominant colour with 2 supporting colours to compliment.

P.S On a final note… in addition to the above you can also use a single colour look using tones of a single colour and also use shades of black white and grey which can compliment any colour on the colour wheel.

‘The 50 Best Homewares’ When it comes to interiors, details matter… So from sturdy shelves to lights that make the mood just right, Kate Watson-Smyth chooses the most stylish accessories…

You can see the list here !

p.s If there is a problem with an order we will give 100% to ensure that the customer has a good experience with Spin Collective and our products, but of course if we don’t know if there’s a problem we can’t fix it!

First up we have an antique desk wall mirror, then a baroque circle wall mirror, baroque rectangle wall mirror and finally a fun porthole wall mirror. Check them out and let us know of any ideas you might have for future mirrors in the range…….

(we didn’t add the capital letters btw!)

Thank you very much. Your level of customer service will ensure that I will recommend you. – Marian

When you order off the internet you never really know the service you are going to get, and to get a great service at such a good price is brilliant. I’m now looking for a second one for my other daughter and I’m telling everyone at work to use you! - Jennnifer

Will be back soon for more! (they look great!) – Stewart

We’ve just received your parcel, and to our delight, you’ve sent us the entire new graphic. Thank you very much, you’re a star. - Lisa

Thanks very much. I think your service is very good and definitely plan on using your products again. - Sarah

Hi All, thanks so much for your help. really appreciate it. love my wall sticker. – Nic

Hero – thanks. - Donna (one of my favourites!)

Hi Stuart, You may quite possibly be my xmas angel! I’m so grateful x – Laura (my favourite!)

Wow, that is fantastic!!!! Thank you so much!!! – Barbara

Hi Stuart, Here are the pictures of the Baroque stickers that I have done on my lounge wall.  I had a bare arkward corner which I needed to fill and I think it looks absolutely stunning.  I hope you like it, it looks better in real life!!!!  Thank you ever so much for all of your help and for getting the last stickers to me so quick, I really appreciate it.  It’s so refreshing in these days to have the excellent customer service which I received from you. I will certainly be back, I need to find another wall first though!!! – Marion

Thanks Stuart, that is fab. Think you may have just revolutionised our Xmas! - Anya

No problem, many thanks for your help, it is a pleasure to deal with a company who knows what they are doing! – Caroline

Five new designs of our new wall clock wall stickers with working mechanisms. Just apply the wall sticker (in your chosen colour) to the wall and then stick the clock mechanism in the centre. Each set comes complete with an AA battery for each clock. Make an impact with our set of time zone clocks wall stickers which come complete with 3 working mechanisms. Customize the 3 cities to any that you like…..! Have a look at the Wall Clock wall sticker section…

Ed Williams ‘The Dude Abides’ The Big Lebowski
Nina S ‘What we have here is a failure to communicate’ Cool Hand Luke
Victoria Wilkinson ‘If your a bird, i’m a bird’ The Notebook
Kim Ellis  ’Promise me one thing : don’t take me home until I’m drunk – very drunk indeed’ Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Annette Johnson ‘I came here to chew bubblegum and kick a** – and i’m all out of bubblegum!’. They Live

We will contact you all shortly to check what colour / size you want your film wall sticker quote! If you want to have one made then follow this link to our bespoke wall quote designer. Stay tuned for more competitions in the future!

Small print : If a quote we choose is repeated by different entries the winner will be the first to have posted.

Spin Collective Facebook Wall Sticker Competition

We had been holding off doing any full colour stickers as we love the simpleness and classic look of the single colour wall stickers. But we’ve managed to keep them fairly simple so hope they keep a classic feel and compliment our single colour range. Printed and then precision cut, all of our wall stickers are produced to an extremely high standard. Anyway, enough jibber jabber… we hope you like them! Here’s a selection…. safari animal wall stickers, rainbow wall stickers, fantasy cloud island wall sticker, patterned elephants wall sticker set, patterned butterly wall sticker set and birds on a tree wall sticker.

Stay tuned for a competition coming soon…….. where you can win one!

Just a quick post as we’ve moved…. Our new address is Unit 13 Berkeley Mews, High Street, Cheltenham. GL50 1DY and our new phone number is 01242 577288. Apologies if there has been any interruption in service but hopefully everything is back to normal now. More posts to follow to bring everything back up to date with details of a whole range of new wall stickers, a competition and where to see us on tv, oh ….. and to any racegoers out there… hope you’ve had a good Cheltenham festival.  :)

1. We’ve had a few bits of feedback that our postage is too high when buying our smaller sets! Unfortunately this is more of an average, covering the costs of a postal tube (still need one for the small sets), Royal Mail 1st class recorded delivery and associated costs (plus we do offer free delivery on orders over £50). Anyway, we’ve still taken this on board and managed to cut some costs and renegotiate things. So now our postage is £3.99! (UK ) and a flat rate £9.99 (Rest of the World).. All orders over £50 are  still free delivery.

2. A few people have been confused with our cheque payment option. We have redesigned the payment template and made the wording a lot clearer. Basically until you send us the cheque (…..and it’s cleared) we don’t send out the order!

3. VAT is now 20% on all of our wall stickers but we’ve managed to keep our prices the same. There are some price changes though but only 10 sets have increased with 11 sets actually reduced. Of the 10 sets increasing in price we have added value to 7 of the sets (with extra stickers).

4. We also have a new instruction sheet with some added info to make things simpler. We also plan on adding another instruction sheet for help in removing stickers when only being used temporarily (e.g. Christmas).

That’s about it for now, but we just want you to know that we do listen, so all feedback good and bad is appreciated………. (ummm not too much of the bad though!)

… we’re all on Facebook right? Well, nearly all of us anyway….. 500 million is a lot of people. Anyway, to celebrate Christmas, watching the Social Network last night (brilliant film btw) and any other excuse we can think of……. we’re having a competition!

We’ll be giving away a mini snowflakes set every day next week (starting 8th Nov – 14th Nov), a wall sticker of your choice (up to the value of £30) at the end of each week until the end of November (14th, 21st, 28th) and if that’s not reason enough to enter then a £100 Spin Collective voucher on November 30th!

Interested? ………… all you have to do is follow us on Facebook and share our Facebook competition post with your friends to enter. Easy! (we think so).

In the new section we have a selection of christmas wall stickers as well as some mini value packs and some medium sized chalkboard stickers (they are in fact sized to also fit in kitchen cupboards – which is what we decided to use them for!). A few examples below with more on the site……….

First up – removing wall stickers. Now, we know that wall stickers are easy to apply. But are they easy to remove? Well, the short answer to this is yes but the ease of removal can depend on many factors including the type / condition of the wall surface and also the length of time the wall sticker has been applied for…..

Removing from walls.

The key with vinyl wall sticker removal is keeping the paint intact underneath. If you pull too quickly the sticker will probably take some paint with it too.

1. Test the wall sticker by slowly pulling at a corner to see how stuck it is. In a lot of cases it will remove quite easily without leaving any damage to the paintwork.
2. If the sticker is firmly stuck then use a hairdryer (on a warm setting) to slowly heat the corner, then once it starts getting easier to peel, apply heat to the next area as you slowly remove the sticker.
3. Remain patient!
4. Usually with the heat removal there isn’t any residue but if there is try soapy water but if this doesn’t remove it then use an adhesive remover or even wd-40 / nail polish remover (always try a small area first to test it and use sparingly).

Removing from glass.

Unfortunately as wall stickers adhere so well to glass they can be a bit harder to remove but at least you don’t have to worry about paint coming off with it! If you have a diy glass scraper then this can also be used in conjunction with the points below.

1. Straight to the hair-dryer! Use a hairdryer on a warm setting, slowly heating the corner. Then keep applying heat to the area that you are peeling off until the whole sticker is removed.
2. Again, if there is any adhesive residue, try soapy water but if this doesn’t remove it then use an adhesive remover or even wd-40 / nail polish remover (always try a small area first to test it and use sparingly).

If you follow the above instructions then you won’t have a problem. Above all be patient!

Anyway getting a bit carried away there, so here’s a few excerpts (and excerpt pictures made by us) from a few valued customers….!

‘ The star stickers we ordered were fantastic… very easy to use and look brill!!! Will email you pics when bedrooms finished…. can recommend and will purchase from you again. ‘
Julie McMillan.

‘ I just wanted to send a short message to let you know how delighted I am with the pink butterfly stickers which I ordered for my baby daughter’s room. My sister and I applied them over the weekend with no difficulty at all, and the effect is stunning, and far surpasses even my highest expectations.  We are so pleased with how they have turned out. Considering that we bought these instead of spending £600 redecorating the whole room they are a rip roaring success! ‘
Helen Henderson

‘ I got my stickers last friday…perfect thank you! ‘
Louise

‘ Thank you very much for the fantastic customer service you have provided. You have been the most helpful!
The stickers arrived safely yesterday and they look awesome! They are far better than expected and shall spread the word as much as I can.
Thank you again and once we’ve stripped some more wallpaper, I will definitely come back for more. ‘
Rosa

And the winners are……….. Kitty Ransom, Erin, Cecelia Allen, Anna Helm and Jazz Blythe (we will be in contact shortly on how to claim your custom sticker). Stay tuned for our next competition / offer which we will post on our blog / facebook as soon as details are available (meaning as soon as we think of something!).

Competition has now closed!

A couple of days ago we launched our ‘Custom wall quote and sign maker‘ and with the launch we promised a competition………… well, here it is!

All you have to do to have a chance of winning 1 of 5 custom wall stickers up for grabs (each up to a width of 2 metres) is have a look at our ‘Custom wall quote and sign maker‘, then comment on this post (blog or facebook) with whatever wall quote / sign you might make and with which font. Easy!

Competition will be closed on 11 August with winners announced shortly thereafter so get a move on!

So here’s launching our ‘Custom wall quote and sign maker’! And for examples we’ve made some wall sticker quotes using the new system and have a few images below………. happy quoting!

p.s ……….and stay tuned for a competition in the next couple of days where you can win one to the size of your choosing!

Keep Calm and Carry On was a propaganda poster designed by the British Government in 1939 during the outbreak of World War II. Incidentally though, it was never used due to the fact it was a poster for the ‘last case scenario’ should Great Britain have been invaded by Nazi Germany.

Here reproduced by us as a wall sticker in 2 sizes (60cm tall or 105cm tall)

‘Furnish.co.uk is a one-stop-shop for quality home furnishings. Shop across the finest home furnishing retailers and designers, get inspired by delicious interiors and network with like-minded home-a-holics.’

‘Furnish differs from our competitors, because we’re selective with the products and suppliers we list. We’re a tat-free zone. We focus on quality, not volume, partner only with retailers and designers you’ll immediately fall in love with and feature furniture gems from designers you’re unlikely to find elsewhere. Everything we show is someone’s perfect find.’

‘I just wanted to send a short message to let you know how delighted I am with the pink butterfly stickers which I ordered for my baby daughter’s room. My sister and I applied them over the weekend with no difficulty at all, and the effect is stunning, and far surpasses even my highest expectations.’

‘I attach a photograph of my sister (Auntie to the unborn baby whose room was being decorated!), applying the stickers! We are so pleased with how they have turned out. Considering that we bought these instead of spending £600 redecorating the whole room they are a rip roaring success!’

For the chance to win 1 of 5 available wall stickers up for grabs (each to the value of up to £30) all you have to do is become a Spin Collective fan on facebook or subscribe to our newsletter here…

Email:

and then comment on this post with your choice of sticker (do both for 2 entries – comment on this post twice!). Easy! Closing date is April 30th so why not give it a go it’s FREE!

Sorry this competition is now closed. But sign up to our newsletter for details of future competitions!

All of our wall stickers can be viewed on the main site!

Now that we’ve been snowed in for a few days we’ve been forced to get over the enjoyable Christmas break and come up with some new stickers! (after sledging of course!)

And the result : we are proud to present our new bathroom & kitchen tile wall stickers! Easy to apply and removable - a unique, simple and cost effective way of decorating your current bathroom / kitchen (without the need to re-tile). Just simply add some of our bathroom tile wall stickers onto plain tiles to add a whole new look. Available in 16 vibrant colours to suit any theme or design. Best of all – when you get bored or fancy an update they can be removed and replaced! All of our tile sticker designs have been rigorously tested and are suitable for the kitchen / bathroom as well as shower cubicles. We hope you like them and in the name of productivity long may the snow continue!