sugar and spice

Hello everyone, I don't know if anyone else is the same but I have a bit of tendency to scribble messages, notes, reminders on any bit of paper I can find close to hand, with the result that I have lots of scrappy little bits of paper on my desk, in my handbag, by the phone etc... and it goes without saying that I can never find the bit I am looking for when I want it! So in order to try resolve my paper chaos, I decided to make myself a little notebook that I can fit into my handbag and carry around with me and this is what I came up with: I started by cutting two pieces of chipboard to size - my book is 5" x 6" but you could adapt to any size preferred. I chose my patterned papers to cover my book - I used MME - wild asparagus and green cardstock for the insides and cut the binding holes using a Bind It All machine. I then stamped the circle scallop stamp from the 'In a word set' using black versafine ink. I wanted my stamp to have distressed look to match the p...

Evening blogland! My creation this week is a little project that I have made many times for myself, others and taught many ladies ( and one bloke!) in a class. Its a flag book. Now these are wonderful if you have loads of photos from one subject or one event, like me in this instance. Me and my family went to Longleat for a couple of days this summer holiday and I took 329 photos! Not that you can fit 329 photos in a flag book but you can fit a Maximum of 64 photos. Now in Sugar and Spice we sell these fabby books in kit form. So yes you still have to make it with your own fair hands but we have taken some of the hard work away, like choosing the matching papers and supplying the instructions. These kits are £7.99 - cool huh?! It add a little bit of yum I used the 'Happy' and 'Smile' stamp from my favourite Sugar and Spice stamps - Scribble Flowers and the Alphabet stamps too . Hope you enjoyed! Love and Bugs Nina

How lucky was I. Only happened to be in Sugar and Spice when Marion's new stamps where put out. So I had to have them to add to my collection. They are yummy. Go in and Have a peek. I decided to use the All Lined Up set for a simple layout featuring my niece and nephew. I just have to say "I want a nice photo of the you two" and they start mucking around, squeezing each other tight, digging each other in the ribs, but producing great pictures. Believe it or not, these were taken at the crematorium whilst taking flowers to Dad. I have to say, he would have got a kick out of the laughter and jokes that day. I used three pieces of card stock; Dark brown, Royal Blue and White layering them on top of each other. The blue matched the lining of Jamie's top and gave way the whole colour scheme for the LO. The lime being the perfect contrast. Keeping the design to straight lines was again taken from the design of Jamie's jacket and the name of the stamp set used. The two ...

Beautiful. That is what this set of stamps i've used this time is! I love scribble sentiments ! I firstly cut a mask (I used a circle) and glimmer misted all around the edge, the mist I used was Wheatfields (which I do believe we had in the shop today although not many left...), it's one of the more versatile of the colours and goes with alot of different things. It gave the paper alittle glimmer and a distressed and grungey feel. I added three photographs along the top that were approx 4" x 3" and then a whole strip of patterned paper underneath. I used a pre-printed journalling card and some thickers (which we also have in the shop in LOTS of colours and fonts!) which I embellished with a button, a little flower and a cute embellie. I then stamped a line of 'love you' using the scribble sentiment stamps...! I masked off the journalling block with a scrap of paper so as the sentiment went right across the page, evenly and centred. I added alittle cluster of e...

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