Morning all, hope you're all well?

I absolutely love this stamp set by @JulieHickey called Sunflower bee stamp with matching dies.

I love the flower and the bee is just so cute!

Hope you have a lovely day

take care

another distressed one!!!

As soon as i saw this stamp set from Sugar and Spice, i had to have them, they are just so pretty! Love the flower, altho i think its a dandelion isnt it? Anyway, the stamp set was the inspiration, remembered i had a cuttlebug embossing folder with similar flower so thats the background, stamped all over a plain piece of card the leaves from the set and yes it was all distressed! but i do like how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon?

Take care

Sugar and Spice

Here's a snippet of my Sugar and Spice creation i made (you probaly forgot i got chosen as DT member?) well everyone has been posting and today is my day! Woohoo! Full image will be shown on here in a week.... but if you cant wait, pop over to Sugar and Spice and see it in all its glory!

One for today.... so far!

This was a take i did on a card in the July Craft Stamper magazine, the owl stamp was a freebie! its soooo cute! might have to get the set, apparently its a sugar nellie stamp! Papers are freebies i downloaded, (embarrassment - cant remember where i downloaded them from! oops!)
The phrase i used Sugar and Spice alphabet stamps, which has tons on it! theyre brill!

Still here....

Hi all, just to let you know, i havent disappeared off the face of the earth, just had so much on work wise, have had to do some samples for the Crafters Companion Download of the month (cant put them on here till tomorrow, so you'll have to wait for that i m afraid) had to do my monthly design for the Sugar and Spice design team as well as other stuff that im working on, which obviously i cant let you know about just yet! but i hope your all ok?
on another quick note, the Stampin Up 10 group, im still looking for a few more ladies to join us, details on my SU webpage, so look forward to hearing from a few of you about this - cheeky i know, but how else can i get your attention on this? lol
CAtch up with you all soon
take care
Nicki
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Im on the Design Team for...

Got an email today and was thrilled to have been chosen for the Design Team for Sugar and Spice! how brill is that? To say im chuffed is an understatement, but i would like to Thank Marion and everyone who chose me for this, also would like to congratulate the other ladies who got onto the team (Sound like im practicing for the Oscars speech here! lol)

PAULA POSTON
JAYNE JOHNSON
NICOLA BOOTH
SAM MADDIN
LOUISE SAMPSON
PAULA BROWN
NINA BURGESS

Sugar and Spice is such a FAB shop and i love visiting (as often as poss! much to hubby's delight!), the products are gorgeous, staff are so friendly and i love the creations that they come up with too, they give me so much inspiration. So a HUGE thankyou to Sugar and Spice for making my day! Keep checking back here and of course the Sugar and Spice blog as well as the other ladies blogs, to see what we come up with each month and hope you enjoy our creations as much as im sure we all will creating them!
Take care
Nicki
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Just the one today!

After my marathon crafting session yesterday, ive only done this today!
Its a 'Post-It' wallet, (the orange inside are a pad of Post-it notes!)
I used a nestabilitlies die to cut the shape of the cover and Stampin Up 'Totally Tabs' stamps for the tab on the side and used the Stampin Up punch to cut out the tabs.
I used Memento Rich Cocoa ink for the colouring and Sugar and Spice sentiment stamps for the verse on the front, finished off with a bit of ribbon (docrafts i think it is?)

What a horrid day!

Thought we were supposed to have a fab hot bank hols weekend.... bit yucky this end of the country! so had to spend the day crafting! oh dear! such a shame i hear you all cry! LOL
I made some cards for the June Download of the month, so once they are up on Crafters Companion site ready for you to download, i will post the pickies here for you!
Was going to wash the car.... kept raining, so that idea went out the window, so took my daughter and her friends to Barleylands to pop into Sugar and spice to get myself some goodies! needed cheering up as ive been working my socks off lately. Bought some stamps and some dies, so thrilled with that, dog was going to get washed yesterday... needless to say she wasnt!!!! maybe today... she needs wash she stinks! lol bless her.
Anyway, have a fab day all and catch you soon, hopefully will post some pickies later of some more stuff im going to make today!
Have tried to catch up on some of your posts.... theres sooo many!!! but im trawling through all your blogs and seeing what youve all been up to, and i must say am well impressed. Love blog hopping to, get stacks of ideas!
Take care
Nicki
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Another stamped card...

This card i made using completey stamped images too, the one on the right is the inside! I used various stamps, Personal impressions clear stamps, Kaiser scrapbook stamps, papermania clear stamps and clear stamps by Sugar and spice. Tim Holtz inks and stamping up inks for the colours as well as letraset markers to colour.

Stamped flowers

This card i made with Rhonna Farrer clear stamps - flower stamps. I bought these from Sugar and Spice, which is becoming one of my fav shops for shopping, Marion is fab and so helpful and friendly.
I stamped the images and coloured them using letraset permanent markers, added some glitter glue to the flowers and stamped the words, used some Tim Holtz ink to add a bit of edge effect, bit of ribbon and voila!
Im pleased with how it turned out, considering it was entirely stamping.

WOW! Glimmer Mist!!!

Cor WOW! Glimmer Mist sprays are just absolutely gorgeous! bought 2 yesterday from Sugar and Spice (fab shop by the way!), but knew id have to go back and get some more......which i did! hahaha
Look at these colours?

And this is a card i made, yep changed my colour scheme from pink, brown and blue to these really gorgeous rich colours, which i decided on after id messed about with colouring the cuttlebugged part. I glimmer misted the polka dot cuttlebug background, found some really yummy orange ribbon lurking in the depths of my ribbon box and stamped some of the little flowers and hey presto! was rather chuffed with it.


Off to play some more with these glimmer mists! will post them later.....
take care
Nicki
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My new toys!!!!

I been buying some inks, gonna have such fun with these!

Bought them all from Sugar and Spice as Marion was just soooooo helpful in converting me and convincing me that they were a must have!

Will post my pickies soon........off for a play now! oooooohhhhhhh the excitement! lol