sugar and spice

Well there's My Little Shoebox, Bo Bunny, Best Creation, Jenni Bowlin, Teresa Collins, Robins Nest and Sugar and Spice, just for starters... If you LOVE glitter papers then we've got the BEST for you. You really need to check out the new stock just arrived in the shop......We've got summer, halloween, christmas, princess' Baby, USA, Wedding, in fact the list just goes on. My Little Shoebox has arrived in ALL it's GLORY bringing with it, 6 new lines each containing 3 NEW papers, 1 NEW Scallop paper, 1 NEW die cut sheet, sparkle alphas and the ever popular mini alphas Bo Bunny swung in with some of the MOST gorgeous NEW paper lines with MATCHING Brads, Rub-ons, stickers and Clear Stamps, and as for the RIBBONS , well what can I say...ribbons Mmmm. BEST CREATION has come out with some of the BEST glittered papers EVER . The designs are simply stunning and the plain glittered cardstock is the BEST I've EVER seen. It is of the highest quality...AND the g...

Hi everyone, where has the summer hols gone.......................just wanted to share this layout with you as this is one of the few things I've been able to get around to doing as the time has just flown. Just loved these photos of my son Jack and our dog Marley while we was walking on the costal path in Cornwall. I felt the photos were brought to life by the paper, purchased from sugar and spice , as the photos themselves seemed very neutral due to the stone work on the mines. Before I go on just check out these fab button stamps from sugar and spice , I only used one , but there are more designs in the pack with a lovely quote 'As Cute As a Button'. I loved this layout for its simplicity of a few stamped buttons. Some layered felt, card flowers and a title brought the whole project together. Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the hols. Bye for now and happy crafting x

Hello all, What a day, My computer is playing up and I didnt think I was going to be able to post my new project.... but luck was on my side and I have managed to get it working woo hoo!!! So now I can share with you my new project before the computer goes wrong again. Its a simple little card I made for one of my lovely staff. I wanted the stamped quote to take centre stage lol so I stamped onto card using the Quote Set and Staz on ink. I then mounted this onto alcohol inked acetate. I cut a little butterfly from the acetate and glued this above the stamped quote and also used a little mirror flower to add a little bling, as us girls love a bit of bling!! You could change the quote to suit the theme as the quote set has some really lovely stamps. Hope you like Louise x x

Ok well, please excuse the terrible pun, but this contribution is an altered frame. Take one plain wood frame, this is a Willkinsons 12" x 12" pine decoupage one, ideal for presenting layouts. I painted it with two or three coats of acrylic white metallic paint to get the level of coverage I wanted. Then, on with the stamping! Using the tiny scribble flower from the Scribble Sentiments range, I went over the frame in a random pattern, allowing some of the flowers to go over the edge for interest. I used Versafine, which had the advantage of giving a nice crisp image but did dry slowly, but that allowed me to use a wet wipe and remove any mistakes as I went along. If you want a quicker solution you might try Stazon. I then inked a chipboard corner swirl, and covered it in a thick layer of glossy accents to give it a real shine, adding it with more glossy accents to the frame and then topping off with a layered flower with a brad centre. Just to add an element of bling I then ...

I love finding different ways of using things (as you know!) and this card is no exception! My dragonflies wings were from the fab Scribble Flowers set of Sugar and Spice stamps. Once I picked which petals I wanted to use I then used the masking technique to only stamp out those petals not the whole flower. This is achieved simply by covering the piece of the stamp that you don't want with a piece of paper and the inking the rest. Ta dah! His body was made with a few stitches and a little bit of bling for his trail. Because the yummy paper had swirls on I couldn't resist using the tiny swirl stamp from the Alpha stamp set and I thought the 'Hello' just finished it off. I have also got to say that I am addicted to Kraft paper and card! Happy Sunday Love and bugs Nina

I have a couple of things to show you today as my sugar and spice stamp sets have sure been busy over the past few weeks, as I've been stamping away due to having quite a few birthday's in July and August :) I made the following card for a friend using the happy birthday and circle scallop stamps from the 'In a word' set and the medium and small flower stamps from the 'Scribble flowers' set. I stamped the happy birthday stamp using a clear 'perfect medium' ink pad from Ranger and embossed the image with olive embossing powder. I then used the circle scallop stamp to make the tag border. I finished by stamping the flowers onto co-ordinating cardstock and attaching to the tag. I also used the heart flower and small circle stamps from the 'Made with love and laughter' set to make a very special lady (aka my Mum :) ) a little extra pressie. My Dad has bought her an ipod for her birthday so she can download all her fav podcasts to take on holiday an...

My niece Laura, has beautiful almond shaped eye's, that she is learning to use on us her family to get just what she wants. So what a lovely tool to use as the subject for my little square book. I used the Fancy Flourishes and Clear Alphabet stamps from the Sugar and Spice clear stamps range. 2 x 3.5" pieces of card, covered with contrasting papers, 3 ribbon hinges and punched holes threaded with the same ribbon tied in a bow forms the fastening. The surprise is when you open it. A pretty little pop-up book. This was inspired by a little book that I saw whilst on holiday in Suffolk. Embellishments glued to one side of the crease float as you open and close the book. Open the book fully and tie the covers together and it forms a pretty little square ornament for the coffee table. The pages are quite easy. A 12 x 12 heavy paper cut into 4 6 x6 squares. Each square is then folded in half on the vertical and horizontal. The only difficult bit is to decide on the pattern of you...