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Parchment Craft is our speciality...welcome to the home of PCA ®

A classic old world decorative paper craft that has it's roots in Latin America...it is literally PAPER LACE!

  •  It is an easy and elegant craft to learn that will not only satisfy your own creative urges but will delight the recipients of your cards and other wonderful things that you can make from parchment paper.  

 

  •  The right tools and accessories go a long way to ensuring the perfect project that you have been craving.  Here at ParchCraft Australia, we manufacture the extensive range of PCA® parchment craft, paper pricking and quilling tools. Highest quality metal handle tools engineered for long life and accuracy.

 

  •  Ask for us by our Registered Trademark name. Sometimes referred to as "The Australian Tools" in the UK by customers over the years, please be careful to ensure you only ask for and purchase the Genuine ParchCraft Australia or PCA® items!   Using this generic name is no guarantee that you will get our quality merchandise. 

 

  • Special Note/Disclaimer:  Any alterations to the manufacturer's specifications on our products ex factory are beyond our control. Our FlexiDuo grids are manufactured with in A4 size ONLY with a smooth, full approx 3mm border around all 4 sides with ParchCraft Australia engraved on the border.  Any other variation does not meet the manufacturer's (PCA®) design/sale specifications.   

    Obviously ALL parchment craft tools and most of the accessories are designed for Adult use as they may contain sharp elements such as needles for perforating. It is recommended that all parchment craft products be routinely kept out of the reach of children and pets, as you would with any possibly sharp implements in the home.  They are not designed to be children's toys.


    NEW Fine Wide Spaced Straight FlexiDuo grids!

    We are proud to release the newest member of our FlexiDuo Grid Systems.... the missing link to using your PCA Fine gauge Perforating tools!

    This grid has wider spacing between the holes to enable you to use it with PCA tools such as the Uni Fine, Fine Medium Quad, Fine Large Quad, Fine Medium TriCorner, Fine Large Quad in 4, Fine Small Half Square, Fine Large Half Square, Fine Large Leaf, Fine Large Oct and Fine Large 4 in Oct.  These are tools ( other than the UniFine) that would not fit the regular spacing of the Fine FlexiDuo grids and now of course... they will! By Popular Demand...click on title for more info.


 NEW!!  Aileen Childs (UK) Parchment Craft Patterns

NEW Parchment Pattern range is available for our stockists to order from us...  we are now reproducing and selling  (by permission) the lovely Aileen Childs Parchment Craft Pattern range and we're sure you will be interested in adding some to your collection... they are beautiful and make good use of the PCA range including the grids in particular.

Click HERE to see the whole range and contact your PCA vendor for stocks!

Example here is Pack 28 ... an elegant all occasions pack with cards suitable for any situation from birthday to sympathy....


 

In stores ...wholesale enquiries welcome

 

 

PCA® Circle FlexiDuo Grids and Oval FlexiDuo grids in Fine and Bold (click to go to the FlexiDuo grid page)

click to see info in full page advertisment  

Introducing the ideal partner products to your Straight and Diagonal FlexiDuo grids,  both grid types are available in both Fine and Bold varieties and in Circles or Ovals.  They contain concentric circles or ovals that start small in the centre (with a handy cross hair for pattern repositioning help in the centre of each) and get larger and larger as they fill out the rest of the entire A4 sized stainless steel grid

You may perforate and/or emboss small dots in the same manner as our original FlexiDuo Grids. Small Ball is used with Bold varieties for this and MicroBall for embossed dots with the Fine grid varieties.

 

These lovely design using the PCA Circle FlexiDuo grid is by Julie Doudle-Hatch

4 New Varieties available....

PCA-M4030FC    PCA® Fine Circle FlexiDuo grid, packaged individually with information sheet,

PCA-M4030FO   PCA®  Fine Oval FlexiDuo grid, packaged individually with information sheet

PCA-M4031BC   PCA® Bold Circle FlexiDuo grid, packaged individually with information sheet 

PCA-M4031BO   PCA® Bold Oval FlexiDuo grid, packaged individually with information sheet.

Like our other FlexiDuo grids, they are available also in Twin packs ( which contain a Circle and an Oval grid in your choice of Fine or Bold and these specially packaged sets contain a Free grid mat for perforating with either grid)   

PCA-M4030FT  PCA® Fine Circle and Oval FlexiDuo grid TWIN PACK (with free mat)

PCA-M4031BT  PCA® Bold Circle and Oval FlexiDuo grid TWIN PACK (with free mat)

Note; These grids require the PCA Grid mat beneath them when perforating and equally important to have NO mat under them when embossing dots.

also

Wide Spaced Twins (WiST) tools in Fine or Bold

These 2 tools have been developed especially to fit the spacing of the holes in the new Circle and Oval FlexiDuo grids to speed up perforating.

PCA-F3039   Fine Wide Spaced Twin tool (WiST)        PCA-B3033   Bold Wide Spaced Twin tool (WiST)


Beautiful NEW patterns available designed by Pauline Loweth...

PCA-P5142  Fantasy Flora

PCA-P5143  Blooming Bugs!

PCA-P5144  Christmas Greetings

PCA-P5145  Circles and Ovals ..specially for PCA Circle and Oval FlexiDuo Grids

PCA-P5146  Christmas Lace Baubles

PCA-P5147  Christmas Decorations

To see the covers of these patterns, click here   PAULINES PATTERNS  and scroll to the bottom of the page. All of the patterns are there in order, so these will be the last 6 on there.


Other products released recently....

  1. PCA-E3009 PCA® MicroShader (single tool purchase)

  2. PCA-E3016 PCA® MegaShader  (single tool purchase)

  3. PCA-P5008 PCA® The Shader Family Booklet  (booklet on it's own)

  4. PCA-K0004 Super Shader Discovery Kit  (full contents shown below)

  5. PCA-E3017 Our Special Shader Combo set of all 5 shaders for the price of 4 (5 tools in single packet)

Also scroll down the page to see 2 new pattern packs by Pauline Loweth that fully use the PCA FlexiDuo grids!

MicroShader and MegaShader   (click the words to go to Shader page)

We now have 5 members of the PCA® Shader family of wire loop embossers :  The new MICROSHADER, MiniShader, Shader, SoftShader and new MEGASHADER.   The MicroShader being the smallest, ranging up in size to the MegaShader being our biggest yet! Now there is a PCA Shader size for EVERY application!

What are Shaders?  

  • Shaders are wire loop embossing tools that have been created to give the user the opportunity to do gradient embossing, from white to grey....sweeping through in one stroke. 

  • Allows you to give "light and shade"  or 3 dimensional qualities to your projects rather than single depth embossing... more natural.

  • Various techniques for each Shader type so that you get the most of each tool

All these things are explained in depth in a 16 page instructional booklet to teach you all the techniques needed to make you confident in the use of each and every  one of the Shader, wire loop embosser family. You will learn what shading is, why light and shade are important - particularly in whitework, how to use each type of PCA® Shader in various ways with full explanations/pictures and projects to practice the techniques by yourself!

PCA-P5008 The Shader Family Booklet

NOTE:

The PCA(R) Shader family booklet in it's entirety is Copyright protected material owned by Lindy Hoad of ParchCraft Australia and reproduction in ANY form, by print, copy, electronic distribution or inclusion in web based albums etc is ILLEGAL and full Legal action will be dealt to any infringement perpetrator.

 

Want the works??

PCA-K0004 SUPER SHADER DISCOVERY KIT is for you!

It contains The Shader Family Booklet,  one each of all 5 Shaders ( Micro, Mini, Shader, Soft & MegaShaders), an A5 Embossing mat, white gel pen and 5 sheets of A4 140 gsm parchment paper. 

The ULTIMATE Shading experience!

 

 The contents of the Super Shader Discovery Kit PCA-K0004 sold in a hanging display bag.

 

Or take advantage of our....

Limited Introductory Offer!

PCA-E3017 The Limited Edition "Special Shader Kit" is a prepackaged set of all 5 Shaders (Micro, Mini, Shader, Soft & Mega) for the price of 4  as an introductory offer during June and July 2007 only.

NEWSFLASH (Aug 1st 07)  PCA-E3017 "Special Shader Kit"  is now, due to overwhelming popular demand, to become a standard item in our range... please feel free to order them from your favourite stockist! Will now be packaged in our standard burgundy packaging for future sales.

Remember though, if you have the other 3 Shaders (MiniShader, Shader and SoftShader) you are welcome to purchase the new ones individually (MicroShader & MegaShader) but we recommend you avail yourself of the Shader Family booklet in any case!

 PCA-E3017 LE packaged " Special Shader kit " of 5 for the price of 4

 

ASK YOUR PCA STOCKIST FOR THESE NEW ITEMS (Pricing available from the stockist only, we only sell directly to wholesale customers)

    

 


Finally.... A major advance in managing Gridwork/Embossed dot techniques...

PCA® FlexiDuoTM  Grid System is here - all bases

covered!

Proudly announcing 4 fantastic new ways to do ALL of your grid

work, emboss dots, use your PCA® Multineedle tools with

precision and ease in Straight 90 deg & Diagonal 45 deg in both

Fine and Bold... all in full A4 size, with matching size FlexiDuo Grid

mat!    So many advantages... 

 

Be sure to read the full page dedicated to our fantastic new grids to be

aware of all of the benefits, never before available in a grid system!

 Retail Customers, our stockists should now have them in hand, or can order for you immediately! Just ask them...

Wholesale customers, please note, now available for you to order directly from us, new trade enquiries always welcome!

sales@parchcraftaustralia.com


NEW!!    A highly informative & instructional DVD by Alison Yeates -

"Parchment Craft, Grid and Lace with a Splash of Colour!"      © Alison Yeates 2006

Available to order from PCA® Stockists!

A treasure trove of useful information by Alison, this professionally produced DVD runs for approx 2 hours and contains detailed and invaluable lessons on the use of grids to make beautiful lacework. It includes wonderful use of PCA® Multineedle tools with your grid and the application of various methods of colouring in parchment craft.  The 8 projects are absolutely ideal for creation using our new FlexiDuo grids as well as wire mesh grids for those who already own them!

The colouring techniques demonstrated in great detail are coloured pencils, Oil pastels, painting etc and it is like having a hand to hold as you learn the techniques. It is suitable for all levels of experience from Beginner to the Advanced parchment crafter and there is something on here for everyone!

The subjects covered in the DVD are not often covered in such detail and yet form very important areas of parchment craft to master.  Alison's delightful teaching manner makes learning a fun and easy process, her DVD is entertaining and will be watched over and over!  The projects are presented with colour pictures and full instructions to work with alongside the DVD and by it's end you can be proud of your own versions of the 8 special projects shown below.

Alison, a knowledgeable British Parchment Craft teacher, of Kingfisher Crafts, has been teaching the craft since 1994 and is a Fellow of the Parchment Craft Guild.

Truly, this DVD is not to be missed and we are proud to be able to offer it to our customers for purchase where you buy your PCA tools, as part of our stock lines of product. Ask your vendor to order them from us if they don't yet have them in stock!

Wholesale enquiries most welcome!  

 


The quickest way to see our range....go direct to the page!

 

PCA EasyCross 

PCA Fine Perforator Basics inc FINE Uni,Twin, Quad, TriCorner, Quin and SemiCircle 

 PCA FlowerPal 

 Pauline Loweth   Complete pattern range and Techniques book

PCA StampEdges and MiniStampEdges

4 and 2 needle in a row edge cutters

 PCA BoldPerforator Basics inc. BOLD Uni,Twin,Quad, Tricorner,Quins and SemiCircle

 PCA Accessories Pads,  scissors etc

FlexiDuo Grids

PCA Online Stockists  and

Shops that stock PCA

retail from web guide

PCA V-Edge tools  

4 zigzig shape edge cutting tools in FINE and BOLD, Small and Large

 PCA SpecialEmbossers such as Suntools(Micro,Small, Large and Mega) Scriber, Twin Scriber

 PCA Patterns Memories, Gail Reed,Emily Younkins,Jackie Paishon and Melinda Walker

PCA Perforator Shapes 3x3,Bow,Corner,Crescent,CrossSection, Daisy, DiamondDuo, Diamond tools Hex,GridSquare,

Leaf,LoveHeart,Oct,

Slot,Tri and QuadRow and TwigTools and CIRCLE Tools in Fine and Bold

PCA Shaders

inc. Shader, MiniShader, Soft Shader and Micro & MegaShaders

 PCA BasicBall Embossers  inc Micro, Small,Medium, Large & Mega Ball

PCA Sales Info

Retail sales guide- physical store locations

PCA Quilling Corner  a complete learning guide to the art of quilling

 PCA UK Courses

  Quilling Tools

Punch Art Tool

 
 PCA PaperPricking Range  PCA ScallopEdges ( 5 types) Fine and Bold  PCA Grids in Fine and Bold A4 size and MiniGrids PCA Tool Caddies

 

  PCA® ToolChart - view whole range in b/w pictorial table

 

For some of our PCA® Vendors -Click here

For some of our Online Stockists - Click here

 

NEW!!   Parchment Craft CD Vol. 1 and NOW! Volume 2, Volume 3 and a DVD Parchment craft Basics!

PCA is now stocking 3 new pattern filled parchment craft CDs and a basic tutorial DVD Vol 1 all by Wendy Walters of Gemini Crafts, from which you can browse and print your pattern directly via your home computer. Vol1 contains 33 projects in various categories and a hints and tips section.  Vol 2  and 3 contain many projects and much, much more!   Click on title to see more details about this item. You MUST get the DVD if you want to learn the basics of the craft the easy way!

Ask your PCA Stockist to contact us for your copies today!


Patterns and Training....

Pattern packs designed by Pauline Loweth are available from ParchCraft Australia from all PCA(R) Stockists! Ask your vendor to order them in from ParchCraft Australia for you now...

Click here to see pictures of the whole range!

We are proud to announce the inclusion of Pauline's Pattern range to ParchCraft Australia's line up!  Pashanna Patterns are a lovely range of parchment craft patterns originating in the UK that make extensive use of all of the PCA tools, including all the more complex multineedle perforators. Now you will be able to fully enjoy using them in combination and creating cards like Pauline's that are unique and desirable.   The booklets contain very detailed  step by step instructions and many pictorial features that allow you to make alternative versions and more.  Contact your favourite PCA® stockist to order.


Highly recommended!

Magmaker Ltd Parchment Craft Magazine - great monthly parchment craft publication

Click the logo to link to their website and read more about the magazine by clicking on the Magmaker button in the navigation bar on this page.


 

PCA UK courses ... with PAULINE LOWETH of Parchment Express... Click HERE for DETAILS!     

  •  Now, with Pauline, you can do a detailed and intensive Parchment Craft course learning to use every one of your PCA tools to their best capacity!

  • You will learn all the tricks and tips and become confident in your handling and experience with our tools in these specially prepared and extremely valuable lesson modules.  Valuable Certification after assessment of work.

  • Like having a guiding professional holding your hand as you work... the ultimate instruction manual on all the "HOW TO's" of PCA tools!  

 

Also ...if you want a straightforward easy hands on approach to learning to do parchment craft, written by a fellow Australian from Bookara Parchment Craft in Western Australia.... go no further than Gail Reed's book ... recommended...click here to see more!

NEW! From Gail Reed   Kaleidoscope - Colouring Techniques for Parchment Crafts


PCA® Quilling Corner Quilling is a very old papercraft that is sometimes called Paper Filigree, delicate, easy to learn, economical and an appropriate companion craft to Parchment craft. 

 We manufacture 2 special Quilling tools, perfect for the job! To find all about Quilling, just have a look or to get involved more deeply and learn to quill, please click here or our QUILLING CORNER link to the left.

  • I have designed a comprehensive basic learn to Quill course that is in 12 sections to be followed in order or is you are already a quiller...

  • There are 3 projects to work through ...each concentrating on important aspects of Quilling.

Contact your local vendor for pricing and to make your order... WHOLESALE ENQUIRIES ARE WELCOME in the case of wholesale please contact sales@parchcraftaustralia.com


Contact Us

We are proud to share with you our new Tools and accessories and welcome wholesale enquiries     ParchCraft Australia is a manufacturing small business that sells direct to retailers/wholesalers only in an ever growing world wide market.   

  We regret that we cannot sell directly to the public.

                 For individual retail sales please refer

                PCA     Sales Info  

                Contact Information for             

                 ParchCraft  Australia 

                 PO Box 1026, Elizabeth Vale

                 Sth Australia  5112 Australia

                  Email:  sales@parchcraftaustralia.com    

 

Beautiful traditional white work photo frame project near top of this page was created by  © J.Paishon 1999

                       New content added October 2006

 
                                                                  Copyright © 2000-2005 ParchCraft Australia

 

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