All day Scrapbooking workshop

I held my first all day workshop on Saturday and it was a great sucess! We had a lovely time and made loads of fab layouts

Here are my lovely ladies...

working away...

and a finished masterpiece!

Thanks for stopping by

Niki x

Mum's the word!

With Mothers' Day fast approaching, I thought I'd better sort one out for Ben's mum (I sent my mum's ages ago as she's in Florida - lucky for some!) Great sketch over at Sketch Saturday which I followed

and this is what I came up with

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Niki x

For the Losers...

It is the annual Birkett Long quiz this Friday and I have been put in charge of sorting out the wooden spoon prizes for the losing team. I've opted for creme eggs but prettied them up a bit!

The fabulous Julie taught me how to make these little boxes and I just LOVE them! I use them all the time!

I'm going to enter these into this week's Truly Scrumptious challenge which is 'Good enough to Eat' (although I obviously haven't followed the sketch!) and Cute Card Thursday's challenge 'Lucky Green'

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Niki x

Happy Birthday Vix!

It was my lovely secretary's birthday at the beginning of this week. Unfortunatley she's been a bit poorly recently so hasn't been around much but she came into the office to see everyone on Monday which was fab.

I followed the sketch over at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and came up with this:

I hope you had a great day Vix!

Thanks for stopping by

Niki x

Happy Birthday Siobhan!

Another crafter's birthday this week, so the card has to be up to scratch - it is Siobhan's birthday today so happy birthday to you hun! Have a fab day!

I based this card on this week's Sketch Saturday sketch

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Niki x

Colour Create Challenge

I am a member of a ladies lunch club (something encouraged at work!) and they have recently elected me Club Secretary. This coming Wednesday is our first meeting with me in my new role so I thought I'd make everyone a little gift to say thank you for having the confidence in me. Hopefully I'll do a good job!

I made these cute little bags using my cricut and filed them with Lindor chocolate eggs (yummy!) and then decorated in co-ordinating colours which just happened to fit in nicely with this weeks Colour Create challenge: red, black and off white!

Here they are all together, I hope they like them!

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Niki x

Rosy!

Fab sketch this week over at Sketch Saturday and I needed to make a fab birthday card for fellow crafter SJ. I also wanted to try out my new Rose is a Rose stamp set and this is what I came up with...

I hope you like it SJ - happy birthday!

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Niki x

Julie's all day class

What a fun weekend I had last week - me and a few others went up to Leeds to visit Julie and go to her all day class - we did a lot of chatting and not much crafting but we all had lots of fun!

Here are a couple of treat holders

and here is a lovely tin we decorated to hold our cards...

and here are the cards we made...

and these are the ones I had to finish off at home (because we were too busy chatting!)

These are all made using the Sale-A-Bration sets Whimsical Words, Happy Moments & Vintage labels & the Sunny Day Simply Scrapping kit (tempting turquiose, pink passion, old olive and pumpkin pie). I wasn't too sure about the colour scheme at first but I actually love it!!!

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Niki x

Green plus one!

Hi Everyone!

Who's looking forward to Eastenders tonight?!!! I want to know whodunnit! I will defo be glued to the TV tonight so no crafting for me until I know the answer!

Anyway, on to this week's crafting creation - I needed a 'thank you' card for a card commission so I decided to utilise this week's My Time To Craft challenge: 'green plus one' and this is what I came up with...

Colours used were So Saffron and Old Olive: inks, cardstock and DSP - all SU
Stamps & wheel: SU
Ribbon & buttons: PTI
Nesties

Thanks for stopping by

Niki x

All you need is Love!

Well Valantines Day is here again! I wasn't here for most of the weekend because I was up near Leeds having a lovely time with Siobhan and Julie and some of the other Jems! (I will post some pictures of my projects in a few days time). I therefore thought I'd better make him something special so here is his matching card and milk carton filled with goodies!

I used a sketch from Sketch Saturday (last week's) and the milk carton came from Sarah-Jane's blog - I love it SJ!!!

I'm entering these two in this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge 'Have a heart' and Cute Card Thursday's challenge 'In the name of Love!'

Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines Day

Niki x