Baked Brown Sugar in the Spotlight !

Aah , my little brown lovely , I forgot you yesterday so today you can have your moment !

Baked Brown Sugar is the super soft, sweet brown shade in the current In Colors, it looks so good combined with it's sister colours and is perfect as a wood effect when the cardstock and ink are used together with the Hardwood stamp...

This card uses the Label Framelits layered with a sentiment from Perfect Pennants and flowers stamped from Petite Petals and punched with the elusive Petite Petals punch, I think all my Ladies have finally received theirs, this was such a popular item from the Spring catalogue it just kept selling out !

Here's a little close up, for artistic reasons , of course !!

Enjoy your Tuesday everyone.

Nicola xx

Easter Makes ...

Hello again everyone, I hope you all enjoying the long Easter Weekend and having lots of quality time with family, friends and of course CHOCOLATE !

I made lots of pretties for Easter and I did intend to share some of them with you a lot earlier but I guess its better late than never!

I wanted to make some cute things and some more vintage things too, this little basket is filled with real moss and some papier mache eggs I bought, I've decorated them with paper that I punched with the Hexagon punch, lots of hexagons all glued together to completely cover the eggs.  

They are decorated with roses made with the Spiral Flower die and Floral Fusions die and a little butterfly from Papillon Potpourri. The trims are Pool Party Seam Binding and Vintage Crochet, I'm really pleased with how they turned out :)

Next is another egg that was inspired by one on Pinterest, this uses Subtles coloured  cardstock punched with Petite Petals punch and fixed to a polystyrene egg with dressmakers pins, again the Pool Party Seam Binding matches beautifully and it hung so prettily from a vase of Pussy Willow stems on the dinner table.

I made some cards and little chocolate bunny holders too , I'll share those tomorrow.

Thanks for popping by.

Nicola x

Busy busy !

It's been busy here at my mini Stampin' Up! HQ !! I've been making cards and making swaps and making thank you tags and it's all such fun !

The latest makes still need photographing and as the evening light isn't great those will have to wait, I can share with you a card I made with one of the stamped tags I made for recent swaps at my Suffolk Stampin' Up! Demo's training evening. We all got together made some pretty projects and swapped some crafty lovelies with each other.

 They are really such a lovely group of Girls & Boys and made me feel very welcome, if you are considering becoming a Demo or have any questions please let me know , it's a fabulous 'job' and I'd recommend it to anyone x

My swap was the scalloped tag you see on this card, I've used the gorgeous Hardwood Stamp and my one of my favourites of the moment the Petite Petals stamp and punch set it makes stunning little flowers in no time at all :)

I used the stamps again to create a quick background and there it is a really pretty card with minimal effort or fuss!

That's it for tonight but come back soon, my Easter stamps arrived today and they are so cute I'll have lots of fun making and sharing with them real soon:)

Nicola xx

Happy Saturday !

Hello everyone , its a lovely day here for the moment ...I seized the opportunity to snap some pics of a card I made this week.

A lovely fresh combination of Real Red, Pool Party and Crumb Cake which are the deliciously Spring like colours in the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Block, available in the Spring Catalogue. I've used the Banners Framelits Dies to get perfectly cut banners and stamped the sentiment using the Perfect Pennants stamps. A few little flowers from the Petite Petals bundle of punch and stamps at a bargainous  £18.95 completes a really pretty card.

I hope you like it ! 

If you'd like to treat yourself to anything from the Spring catalogue simply click on the 'Shop Online' button at the top left of my blog to take you straight to my online Stampin' Up! shop, or contact me directly , I'd love to hear from you :) And don't forget for every £45 spend during Sale A Bration you get a FREEBIE too !!!

Have a great day and thanks for reading 

Nicola xx