Glitter girls' sparkling TV show
They're known as the Glitter Girls – card-making's answer to Aggie and Kim, TV's popular Queens of Clean – with their own show on a shopping channel and a legion of fans around the country. They're known as the Glitter Girls – card-making's answer to Aggie and Kim, TV's popular Queens of Clean – with their own show on a shopping channel and a legion of fans around the country. In less than three years Babs Scarlett and Kathy Mills have built up an audience that gets them recognised in the street and sees them swamped by autograph hunters when they go to craft exhibitions. The pair have not looked back since teaming up in 2004 to launch Keepsake Card Craft in Oldbury after years of demonstrating, exhibiting and teaching card-making. When Babs invented a no-fuss system of embossing, she and old friend Kathy, a fellow crafter, applied for a patent and started up the company. They star on Create and Craft Choice on the Ideal World channel every Tuesday at 9am. It can be accessed on Freeview channel 22 or via www.createandcraft.tv Read the full story in the Express & Star.
In less than three years Babs Scarlett and Kathy Mills have built up an audience that gets them recognised in the street and sees them swamped by autograph hunters when they go to craft exhibitions.
The pair have not looked back since teaming up in 2004 to launch Keepsake Card Craft in Oldbury after years of demonstrating, exhibiting and teaching card-making.
When Babs invented a no-fuss system of embossing, she and old friend Kathy, a fellow crafter, applied for a patent and started up the company.
After finding a local manufacturer in Cradley Heath to produce their first embossing board, they took the industry by storm, selling out within days.
The idea has grown into a million-pound business, with the pair having just become regional winners of the 2007 HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards. And growing alongside their commercial success has been their meteoric TV rise.
They star on Create and Craft Choice on the Ideal World channel every Tuesday at 9am. It can be accessed on Freeview channel 22 or via www.createandcraft.tv
Their Glitter Girls tag grew from Kathy's insistence that every card should include a bit of sparkle."
