Echo Park Yours Truly - Valentine Cupcakes

A rainy Saturday afternoon.......it's CUPCAKE making time!!

And keeping with this week's ongoing Valentine theme - I prettied them up with little Hearts on Sticks.
Which brings me to my favourite item in the Echo Park Yours Truly Collection - the 6x6" paper pad:

These pads are just perfect for paper hoarders (like ME!). They have 24 pages of 6x6" papers - that's 2 pages from each of the designs in the collection. So handy for card making and for other little paper projects like these hearts. I simply cut the shapes out using a heart shape stencil and threaded them onto bamboo skewers.

Oh, and I had to 'bling up' at least one of them, didn't I??!!
Red Spotted Heart features 2mm Ruby Red Sticky Bling

Have a great weekend!
Aunty Vera :)

25 Days of Christmas - December 6th

A card for St Nicholas' Day:

I love the St Nick page from Crate Paper's 'Peppermint' collection! Here I've cut a piece of it and used foam dots to sit it on one of the accents from the same collection's Accent Cuts. Doilies and Pearl Sticky Bling Runners give it an old world charm.

Happy Scrapping.
And for those parts of the world that celebrate it - a Very Happy St Nicholas Day!

Aunty Vera :)

25 Days of Christmas - December 3rd

Gift wrapping......are you the Mad Night Before Christmas type of wrapper who is up till the wee hours wrapping all the gifts you had hidden in the back of the wardrobe and forgotten about? Or are you the Organised Wrap Them As You Go wrapper who kicks back and enjoys Christmas Eve knowing they are oh-so organised?

Me? I'm definitely the President of the Mad Night Before Society!! But this year we're holidaying over Christmas so I'm having to do everything a little differently. And that includes gift wrapping nice and early for our pre-trip Family Christmas Get Together. So I'm finding myself wrapping Christmas gifts during the first week of December. Unheard of!!!!

There IS quite an advantage to being this organised. You can actually take your time and add extra touches and  little bits of sparkle to make your gifts look extra pretty. And who says Sticky Bling is only for scrapbooking?

I know - it doesn't show up very well in the photo (Bling is VERY camera shy) but I have scattered 3mm Diamond Sticky Bling all over the cellophane of this pretty parcel to give it some sparkle. Looks really special.

(: Happy Scrapping :)
                                     and Happy Wrapping!