sugar and spice

Hi everyone, I thought I'd share a page I have just completed. After completing a year book that has been a working progress for the last 12 months in a class with Nina at sugar and spice, I felt I needed one more page of the lovely ladies I have spent so much time with, that are now my friends. I used a great set of stamps on this project that include words, numbers and a journal block. I made the outline of the flower with diamonties using an old template I had. I made a promise that this year I would look though old stash and reuse thing that haven't seen daylight for a while. Enjoy the rest of February and happy crafting P x

Hello and happy valentines to you all :) For my project this time I have made a card I used a butterfly punch and cut 2 colours of butterfly. One dark and one to match the card. I layered them together and bent the wings slightly to make them stand off the card. I stamped the quote onto a piece of card to match the card blank and again layered this onto dark card to match the butterflies. You could change the quote to for different occasions. I hope you like Louise x x

Good afternoon fellow paperholics At Sugar and Spice we're all a little cupcake orientated, you might have noticed this. When I saw this giant cupcake mould I knew I had to have it, so on my last trip to the USA I managed to find a silicon version, making it easy and light to transport back. This was my first attempt using it and I think it's come out quite well. And of course, it had to be captured in pictures for prosperity! I used the cupcake stamp bordered with a stamp from the fancy flourishes set so as to give a 'watermark' effect on this layout. Using a doilly seemed appropriate given the cake theme and the colours, pink, white and brown/bronze reflected the colour of the cake itself. I'm a great buyer of brads, then I end up with boxes of them and using them like icing sprinkles on this layout has given me the opportunity of using some of my favourites from different sets. And I've managed to use two patterned papers, this year's resolution is to g...

Well its all about babies at the moment. People are either newly pregnant, waiting to drop or have the bundle of joy in their arms! So it was only right that I made a baby card.... For this card I decided not to stick to traditional baby boy colours but thought the Sugar and Spice Cute as a Button stamps gave it the cute edge. Now, as you know I love stitching on my paper crafts and as these are buttons, I thought why not stitch them on too. This is easily done by piercing holes through the middle of the button holes and the card using a poky tool . I couldn't resist adding a bit of bling too ;) Congratulations Kim and Mark. Love and bugs Nina

February has started with a couple of family birthday's to celebrate which means cards to make :-)  I used my Sugar and Spice 'In a word' and 'Scribble Flowers' stamp sets to make the following card: As the card was for a my brother in law, I wanted to make something with a 'male' feel so used strong colours - greens and yellows toned with blacks and whites.  I started by stamping the Happy Birthday tile from the 'In a word' set onto black chipboard using white ink.  I then inked up the edges of the stamp with yellow and green ink and overstamped onto the white image.  I cut out two strips of yellow cardstock and stamped the small happy birthday wording over them to make my borders. I finished by stamping several images of the largest flower from the 'Scribble flowers' set using black ink.  I cut around the petals to make a funky border which I used underneath my green patterned paper as a subtle accent. Thanks for looking, Big smiles...

Hi everyone..........................February already and the days are getting lighter, yey! This month I thought I'd share a cup cake Birthday card with you. This is the nearest thing to calorie free cup cakes. I used Happy Birthday with a Cherry on the Top stamps from sugar and spice. To make the cup cakes I stamped on decorative paper and cut each of them out. The stamp set also has happy birthday quotes too, a must for any cup cake addict. Have a fab February and Happy Crafting P x

Hello peeps My turn again :) Its nearly upon us.......Valentines!!!!!! I thought as its my first valentines with my new man I would make his card. I layered some burgundy card onto a black card blank and used a Jenni Bowlin Kiss bingo card as the main feature of the card. I added some black ribbon and finshed the embellishments off with some black adhesive gems. I used the With Love and hearts stamps from the SCRIBBLE SENTIMENTS CLEAR STAMPS Hope you like Louise xxx