sugar and spice

I love to make my own embellishments to use on both my cards and my scrapbook pages, whilst there are lots of beautiful embellishments on the market out there, I think there is always something extra special about creating your own embellishments - they are unique, you can adapt / match them to your project (and you can recreate as many as you want at a fraction of the cost!!)  For today's project I chose to use three of the stamps from the Sugar and Spice 'love and laughter' set to make a handmade flower embellishment which I've used on this birthday card: The Love and Laughter set is one of my favourite sugar and spice sets - to make my flower I've used both the shadow flower stamp and the overlying petal stamp.  I stamped the shadow shape onto red patterned card using crimson versafine ink, then stamped the petal shape twice onto matching pink paper. I cut around the shadow shape and the first petal shape.   For the ...

not when you're trying to get into work anyway. I may make it in for a couple of hours today, but with more snow forcast for this afternoon it seems unlikely. Although with all the supplies and food in the shop it wouldn't be a bad place to get snowed into . LOL !!! If you're off work take this opportunity to get some great winter wonderland shots and then SCRAP them. After all what else is there to do whatever you do have fun and take care xxxx