sugar and spice

Hi all, from sunny and snowy Colorado where I'm staying with family for Christmas and New Year in a place called Broomfield, just outside of Denver. And yes, I travelled with a scrapbooking kit :) It's lovely here, and the shopping is marvellous! It's fun scrapping whilst away too, I brought along some essential supplies and got a chance to use my new Cricut Personal for the first time. This layout combines cutting, stamping and matting, all bread and butter techniques with some lovely silver and blue wintry colours, it's been my first white Christmas this year since I can remember and I loved it. The stamp is from the Christmas personal impressions set designed by Marion, which I've used again and again this season on cards and layouts. Here it's the centre of the large snowflake I cut and stickled within an inch of it's life. I hope 2009 has been a good year for you all, but that 2010 is even better. Don't forget to treat yourself - the Sugar and...

Well, it's not long to go now, one more sleep then the big day is with us!!  I bet most of us have been frantically trying to do all the things we need to to prepare for tomorrow recently and one of the things I've been busy making are money wallets.  The teenagers I give presents to all tend to want money as their gift these days so I make a special little wallet envelope to present their money in as I think it just adds a little extra something and they are really quick and easy to make! You can adapt the wallets for both christmas and birthday and as I've had both this month here are photos of two I've made.  The first is for christmas - I've used Luxe patterned papers, an American crafts topper and the happy stamp from the scribble flowers set which I've stamped in perfect medium ink then heat embossed using tinsel embossing powder. The second is a birthday wallet I made for a birthday gift.  I used the number and part of greeting stamps...

........ this little project is a Christmas present..... This little nifty project was made from a little calender kit I had hanging around in my stash and loads of scraps. I used the fab Fat n Funky alpha stamps again as its not often that you get numbers in an alpha set and you know how much I love em! I couldn't resist using these Number and days of the month stickers. Now lets hope my hubby is happy with the results! Hope everyone has a really super Christmas and I'll see you in 2010! Love n bugs Nina x

Well its nearly upon us, just four days to go. And still I find that I am short on hand made cards. People expect them now. So here are three simple black and white Christmas cards with just a hint of colour. I love the three designs of Christmas tree's that Marion has used in her clear Christmas stamp sets. For this one, I stamped and cut out the three Christmas trees, added a different coloured gem for the top of each one and mounted them on the card with foam pads. My card was too narrow for "With Love" sentiment from the Christmas scribble writing set, so I chopped it in half. Each word then sat perfectly between the trees. I left two thirds of the next two cards with "white Space", stamping on the bottom third only. For this card I stamped straight onto the card and again on another piece of card, cutting out two trees which I then mounted using foam pads. This time I added clear gems to the smaller trees and cerise gems to the larger to look like bauble...

Thanks to Jayne johnson for showing us these little gems, I did a video so that I can share with you..... Enjoy xx

Hi everyone, how exciting it's nearly christmas and I'm in my usual chaotically organised state. Here's a little card I made today, it's a 'thinking of you' card for a husband of a dear friend, who has been in hospital. I personally find cards for men sometimes a bit daunting and today I used a dreaded topper, (but sometimes it soooooo needs to be done). By stamping a boarder the plain white card is transformed and adds a more personal touch, and finally this lovely thinking of you stamp is from a fab sugar and spice stamp set called Happy Birthday Flowers. Here's wishing everyone a very happy christmas and a fab crafting new year Bye for now P x

Firstly apologies for being a day late, This time of year means my life gets a little mad I have started to arrange my 30th birthday party and yes folks you've guessed it....I'm making my own invites! I wanted a simple design that I could repeat quickly and easily. Of course I went for pink!!!! I used the SUGAR AND SPICE CLEAR STAMPS FAT & FUNKY ALPHA I stamped the word PARTY using a pink stazon ink, then I mounted this onto a piece of cardstock. I also used the scribble flower from the SCRIBBLE FLOWERS CLEAR STAMPS set as an embellishment, you could change this to suit the invite as SUGAR AND SPICE have some lovely stamps including cup cakes. This was stamped onto card and hand cut. I added a little button to the flower. You could add glitter or bling. Hope you like x x Now I'm off to start my next project......My Stamped Canvas