Five weeks and a bit to go and my head is spinning with the thought of gift ideas.

After making homemade jams and chutneys, presenting them is a job in itself, but a little help with some fab stamps makes it all a little easier.

For my lid cover I used a christmas sentiment stamp and a snowflake stamp from designs created by Marion Emberson at sugar and spice.

Funky alpha stamps are great for labels and by adding glossy accents gives great dimension.

And finally a tag finishes off the gift bag, I stamped this Ho Ho Ho with a glue pad and then covered with gold glamour dust.

Bye for now and happy crafting for christmas P x

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Friends

This week marked my friends 30th birthday, so the girls and I threw her a party. I wanted to get a photo of us all together, My bestest friends!! So I just had to scrap the photo.




I used a small flower stamp from the SCRIBBLE SENTIMENTS CLEAR STAMPS to create a little flower border which I added a little bling to.



I also used the FAT & FUNKY ALPHA STAMPS to create a small title.



I added bling and felt flowers to represent the glitz of the party.

Happy Birthday Sarah x x

Hope you liked x x

First of all, an apology, I'm a bit late with this posting.

So, before the Christmas season grips us fully, if it hasn't already in your house, I thought I'd do a layout that didn't include red, green or sparkles. This picture is of my Aunt Edith, and her son and daughter and grandchildren, my 'extended' immediate family.

I let the paper lead the way on this one, using the blue writing on the pattern to give an accent colour. I stamped an L shaped border on vellum using the Scribble Flowers stamps without the words, and used the same set for the handmade embellishment. Making your own embellishments like this really makes a layout unique and very personal to you, it also allows you to make things exactly in the colours, sizes and textures you want. And in this current financial climate it makes good money sense too. Stamps are an excellent investment for scrapbooking as they are so versatile and can be used again and again.

The flower was made from a punched out daisy base, with a long strip of paper pleated, I then stuck the two short ends together to form a circle and glued it to a scrap of card to make a good strong base. The stamped flower was then layered on top with another flower from my stash and a coordinating brad.

If you're about to start making your own Christmas Cards, Marion now has the Scribble Christmas range in the shop.

Happy birthday Elli Woo!

Well that's it, my baby is 6! For Elli's birthday she had an ice skating party. Now this party was very well organized by the skating rink so much so that I felt unorganized as I hadn't had to do anything! Now to feel like I had something to do with the party apart from pay, I decided to make some personalised part bags for the kids I was worried that the kids wouldn't give a stuff what was on the front of their bags but the whoops of joy said it all! The Fat and Funky alpha is a set of stamps I cant help but grab for when ever I need an alphabet. A simple paper bag and a bit of glitter as can make a little project fab!. How about a 'goody bag' for the kids on Christmas day?This way the bag will double as a place card and the kids are quite during the yummy dinner.

Happy Birthday Elli Woo!
Love and bugs
Nina
x

Autumn glory

Hello everyone,

One of my favourite Sunday pastimes is to take myself off for a woodland walk and two of my favourite seasons to do so are Spring and Autumn. I wanted to create a LO with contrasting scenes from my walks and used stamps from the Alpha set to help me create the look I wanted.

I started by using the small swirl stamp from the Alpha set to stamp a continuous border onto yellow cardstock. I used two different colours - toffee and green moss versafine inks, overlapping the two. I then placed my border on my page to create a link between the two photographs.

I then used the lowercase alpha letters to stamp around the circular frame for the smaller photo and to make the letter tiles which form part of the title.

The patterned papers I have used are from bobunny - calypso and Magenta - shades of the season ranges.

TFL, big smiles,

Nic xo.

Button Wreath

Well it's countdown till the big day. And I'm getting all festive. So I'm thinking Christmas decks and the lovely Cute As A Button stamps from Sugar and Spice and came up with a Button Wreath.

I mixed red and green ink pads and paper and traditional buttons. I love red and green for Christmas. I painted a polystyrene wreath with dark green acrylic crafters paint as a base so that the gaps between the buttons did not show through.

Some buttons were stamped on patterned paper, some on plain cardstock. Some I covered with Glossy Accent and some I edged with Glamour Dust. Some I tied with thin red ribbon and some I pinned onto the wreath with pearl topped pins.

I joined together J O Y with Glossy Accent, painted them a Christmas red with acrylic crafters paint, then covered with glue and red glitter from the Pink Paislee Pixee Stix-Strawberry colour.

I hung this in my hall to take the pic and the postman just remark "bla bla bla your early but I like that"......... Gob Smacked........ Not that he liked it, but that he was here on the doorstep in light of the problems. LOL