sugar and spice

You'd have been hard presssed to have missed the recent launch of the remastered Beatles Albums, which meant that there was a lot of their music playing on the radio recently. All you need is love seemed like the perfect title for a wedding layout. I love this photo, taken by our mutual friend Phil Bradley, it shows the couple looking relaxed and enjoying their day. He's a bit of a whizz and turned it black and white for me, just leaving the flowers in colour it highlights their colourscheme for the whole day. I used my faithful standby, the Scribbles Sentiments to stamp 'love' along the bottom of the white mat and the hearts from the same set on the photo itself in a blank space. The choice of font for the title and the relaxed way I set it out hopefully reinforce the less formal feel of the picture, but the papers keep a more classic wedding feel. I hope you like it.

Hello everyone, Are you a savoury or a sweet person? I am definitely in the sweet camp, I have a really sweet tooth and love all things sugary, so when Marion sent me the gorgeous 'happy birthday with a cherry on top' stamp set, the first thing that sprung to mind were all the delicious sweet treats I love to eat. I decided to create a LO recording all my favourites and used the number stamps in the set to record my top ten (took a bit of narrowing down LOL) and stamped each number using black versafine ink onto patterned paper which I then cut out and stuck onto my cardstock. I then used the cupcake and the cherry stamps to make an embellishment for my page. I wanted the cupcake to be three dimensional, so began by stamping the bottom half of the cupcake twice onto patterned paper, then I scored and folded the image like a concertina and glued each piece together, to make the paper case. I then stamped the top half onto pink cardstock and gave it a generous coating of stickles...

Hello peeps! Phew we have been super busy in the shop the past few weeks. Not only have we had HUGE amounts of new stock, we have had the arrival of Edith the EPOS machine. She is wonderful and very clever! And then to top it all off we have had to get ready for The Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show at Ally Pally. Are you going too? So when I sat down to relax with paper and wine, I produced this..... Now stitching on your page might seem like a brave thing to do but it really is quite easy. There are a few thing that do make it easier though, like my fave piercing tool and a nice springy matt so you don't get loads of random creases in the page. Now starting off with a frame like mine is a good start. I didn't want it to be all lined up and straight as this didn't go with my fun page. This means that it can be wonky but right! Also the other brave party of the page was using naked chip board! Hey why does he always have to be painted? After all there are no rules in scrapbo...

This is a LO designed around a picture of two very special ladies in my life. Both have been through the same horrible illness and both have come through it with a determination to live life to the fullest. I thought I would have a go at producing my own pattern paper with matching ribbon and embellishments for this entry. Both Marion and Sandra love gardening and so flowers had to be the theme. The colours were inspired by Marion's top. I started with a white card stock and randomly stamped large scribble flowers over it using a watermark stamp, and heat embossed them with white pearl embossing powder. Then using a baby wipe, I padded contrasting green and blue ink over the whole page. I used the more textured side of the card stock as it kind of looked like a rough weave when inked. I then repeated the embossing process, this time using the Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today stamp and this time, white heat embossing powder. I wanted the sentiments to be and el...

As all the leaves are falling from most of the trees around us and during the early morning there has been a bite in the air I have taken my colour choices from the season Autumn. It's well on its way! And for many of us our kiddos have returned back to school... with a little 'yippee!' from us crafty peeps out there :) I used the scribble sentiments set, which if you haven't laid your hands on yet... you need to! It is one of the most versatile, with lovely words in the most delish font. I *heart* this one so much. After layering all my paper on my layout up, I freehand (yes!) cut some wobbly and shaky circles. The whole layout just needed alittle bit of plain to balance up all the patterns. I then inked around the edges (I love the momento brown ink we have in, it's one of the best dark, deep browns that i've found) and still using this ink I stamped the 'love' and 'you' from the scribble sentiments. I stamped around the random sized, freehan...

Hi everyone, kids back at school, husband back at work, what better than to have a photo 'wall hanging' to see them all.....................anyone would think that I missed them! For this project I cut some frames out of chipboard using a die cutting machine, mine being a cuttlebug, I also cut out the same amount of frames in acetate. The chipboard frames are painted in a black acrylic paint and then overlaid with the acetate. Before overlaying, I used a lovely frame stamp from sugar and spice and stamped on the acetate using stazon cotton white . The stamps used in this project are called fancy flourishes and also contain some fab corner stamps. I covered the back of the frames in a black and white paper continuing the theme. I also added an extra solid frame at the top of the 'wall hanging', and by writing on it made it personal to me. Bye for now and happy crafting!

Hello again everyone For my project this time I wanted to do something a little different. I was inspired by my friends baby shower. Someone bought her a mobile, it was so beautiful and I decided to have a go at making one. Not a great photo. but I will replace with a better one ASAP For this I used the scribble flowers stamps. I stamped onto pink card and cut the flower part out. I covered them in glossy accents to make them slightly stronger. Once dry I pierced a hole in the middle for my thread to pass through. I used an acrylic flower that I coloured pink using alcohol inks as the top of the mobile and then strung beads and the flowers onto thread, the embellishments stay in place on the thread by making little knots. I attached pink ribbon at the top to hang the mobile. I hope you like my project Louise x x