RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review CrossStitcher Card & Pattern Creator / Focus Multimedia Ltd:Cross Stitcher Card and Pattern Creator is produced by the popular Cross Stitcher magazine. The CD provides a blank canvas on which to produce your very own personalised cross stitch designs, but also includes a range of motifs to work with. These are grouped into broad subjects-hobbies, festive, alphabet, animals, children, countryside and family occasions-which are then subdivided into smaller groups. Altogether there are 1,500 motifs. You can augment the library with your own designs. The software has plenty of useful features, such as the ability to choose colours from the ranges of popular thread manufacturers, and choose popular types of fabric so you can get your design just right. Complete newcomers to cross-stitch should find the tutorial very useful. This teaches the basics using both text and video: the videos make it particularly easy to see how to create different kinds of stitch. If you would like to create a sampler but don't know quite where to start, there is a guide which covers every stage of the process up to starting to stitch. More experienced users who might normally leave a tutorial to one side may like to delve into it to examine the section called Inspiring Stories. [+]Here, in true magazine style, you can learn how cross-stitch has changed some people's live for the better. Cross-stitch is a very popular hobby, but lots of devotees rely on pre-made kits. If you would like to get away from kits and do your own thing, Cross Stitcher Card and Pattern Creator can make it happen. -Sandra Vogel.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99
Review GSP Giftbox Collection: Create your own PhotoArt (PC) / Avanquest Software:
Price: £19.99
Review Hallmark Card Studio / Sierra:Hallmark Card Studio is actually about a lot more than just creating cards. Yes you can use it to produce cards for every occasion, but it is also ideal for designing other materials like invitations and announcements, stationery, envelopes, labels, stickers-even postcards. When you want to theme a party or other event, you can choose matched sets of artwork for various paper relating to it. And there's an event calendar to remind you of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and other important events. For designing, you can choose a pre-made project or start from scratch. With pre-made projects you can add a greeting from a library or write your own, more personalised one, and then print the card. Because the sample cards are arranged by subject, it only takes a few minutes to find one you want. Starting from scratch is more time consuming. The graphics are all arranged by subject, but there are 8,000 of them to browse. Or, you can import your own images-even photos. [+]If the recipient of your card is many miles away, the Internet may be a better way to reach them, and you can create an e-card instead. Because Hallmark Card Studio has pre-made cards for a wide range of people, some might be deemed unsuitable for younger users, So you can set up a "kids lock". This requires a password to be used to provide access to some of the materials on board-those slightly risqué jokes and images that sometimes appear on shop-bought cards. With the passwording system set, you can be sure your children will only have access to the most appropriate materials. This is a vast package of three CD-ROMS with a great range of graphics to get your imaginative juices flowing. When there's a special occasion to celebrate, a home-made card can say much more than one bought in a shop. So why not be a little bit creative?-Sandra Vogel.
Price: £19.99
Review DMC The Art of Cross Stitch / Avanquest Software:
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99
Review Christmas Creator / Softkey:
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.99
Review PrintMaster 11 Suite / Mindscape 5390102436452:
Review Power Text 3-D / Canon CSP-8031-000:
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.99
Review Art & Craft Fridge Magnet Kit (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98
Review Create Your Own Greeting Cards / Focus Multimedia Ltd 5031366012531:
RRP: £29.99
Price: £25.79
Review Serif Home Creativity Suite 2008 (PC) / Serif:
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.95
Review Card Creative Triple Pack (PC) / Avanquest Software:
RRP: £14.99
Price: £99.99
Review GSP Giftbox Collection: Knitting for Beginners (PC) / Avanquest Software:
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.06
Review Greenstreet CD Labels (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
Price: £14.99
Review Organic Art Deluxe / Mindscape:
Price: £7.99
Review ARCSOFT Panorama Maker 3 (Windows/Macintosh) / Arcsoft dapa0001:
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.99
Review Greenstreet T-Shirt Maker 3 (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.00
Review Jane Greenoff's CrossStitch Motif Library / Focus Multimedia Ltd:Jane Greenoff is a bit of a cross-stitch guru, and this CD-ROM is a collection of "motifs"-that's cross-stitch talk for templates-from Greeenoff's personal collection. There are over 2000 motifs in the library, arranged into subjects like flower borders, countryside images, geometric borders, and-for those that think cross-stitch is all about pretty, cutesy stuff-scary things. -Sandra Vogel.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £13.50
Review Greenstreet Greeting Card Maker 4 (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.95
Review Art & Craft Greeting Card Kit (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.28
Review Greeting Card Magic / Cosmi Europe Ltd:
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