Royal Wedding Fever

Well those of you who know me will know it doesn't take much to make me tear up. I just started watching the Royal Wedding build-up and yep I've already started with the waterworks. Probably thinking of my wedding to Danny in 1996 and also all those fond memories of Diana, her wedding and the sadness of losing her in 1997. But who doesn't love a wedding? And Mum, Jo and Sophie are off to London town to see the Prince and Princess today how exciting! Im celebrating with my very own Princes Robert and Stephen with Fish and Chips, and wearing my very own tiara!

I'll leave you with my latest wedding card. It uses the gorgeous new Decorative Label punch as the centrepiece on the Love Letter paper. I have used a very cool trick by a clever lady called Carla Bazhenow. The trick mounts the label on another layer which looks like I have 2 punches, but I swear its only one! Looks great and its very easy!

Enjoy!

Eat-ster wishes

All my love and homemade Easter wishes to my friends and customers in blogland. Don't you just love these Wabbit Cupcakes my Aunty Trish made for us yesterday. Super cute and very yummy! Hope you are having a terrific long weekend and enjoying time out with family and friends. I have been scrapbooking again, so nice to have time to pull out all my toys and not have to pack them up for qute a few days!

I will being doing my Stampin Up order before the weekend is out so let me know if anything from the new Autumn mini catalogue takes your eye, or you need a top up of supplies. Here are some of my recents creations along the animal theme:

If you have any questions or comments about my cards please drop me a line or use the comment button below, I'd love to hear from you and see if anyone is reading my blog!

Love Carolyn xx

Happy 1st Birthday Princess Sophie

Here she is, my darling niece Sophie in her element surrounded by family and friends (in this case cousins Mollie and Keira), centre of attention and in her new handmade Peter Rabbit party dress - sound like anyone you know? LOL Its so cliche but I cant help but say how incredibly fast time flies when your'e having fun, it seems only yesterday that I became an Aunty for the first time, and I'm loving every minute! Looks like Soph is loving the fun and games at her Hello Kitty Birthday party:

Love this party stuff !  Q .is this a magic wand??

To celebrate her first year I decided to make Soph her very own scrapbook of memories and milestones. As my sister Jo and Soph are all the way over in the UK, most of our communication is via email, texts, Skype and the like, obviously not the same as real life but nevertheless I appreciate our ability to keep in close contact via modern technology. So much valuable information - thoughts, feelings, precious memories are recorded that way nowdays, so I typed up all the text messages and Facebook updates that Jo has sent me. This was the perfect journalling in the scrapbook and those precious memories will never be lost or forgotten.



Girls gotta love shoes: Soph and her friend Matilda comparing styles

Now to the crafty bit - I used the Stampin Up! Nursery Suite Specialty Paper with the Nursery Suite Quick Accents (sticky diecuts) which meant I could fly through the pages and also keep my colours coordinated - Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, Regal Rose and So Saffron. These are gorgeous materials just perfect for scrapping the little people, and also make lovely and quick cards. I also used the Timeless Type Alphabet through the Big Shot for the letters and a few other dies through the album such as Top Note and Hearts and Brackets. Here's the titlepage of Sophie's Scrapbook:

Speaking of scrapbooking, its Scrappin Sunday again on the 1st May - May Day in fact! So let me know if you can join us for an afternoon of creative fun, choose your own projects, share inspiration and use all my SU tools including the amazing BIG SHOT - the best way to cut and emboss cardstock! If you havn't tried this genious invention why not try mine.

Will try to post some more Tigergirl Creations over the wonderfully long Easter weekend, but for now HAPPY EASTER, stay safe, eat chocolate, create and enjoy life!

Love Caz xx

Baby Bundle Baby Shower

Two weeks ago my cousin Sarah brought tiny Mollie Claire into the world, 7 weeks early but fairly good size (4 lbs 13 ozs) and well. Just a week before we celebrated the imminent arrival at her baby shower but had no idea that only a few days later Sarah would be a Mum for the first time! I'm pleased to hear today Mollie has no more tubes and getting stronger every day.

I made this card for Sarah's baby shower and decorated the baby bath hamper with matching butterfly punchies and ribbon. I absolutely love Bashful Blue with Rose Red, a great contrast don't you think?

I'm planning another scrappin' card day soon and my newsletter will also be out in the next few days so stay tuned for my May specials and more crafty ideas. I'm off to my friend and mentor's Michelle Dyson's home tomorrow for a day of therapeutic papercrafting. Happy weekend!

Love Caz xx

New Autumn Winter Product Range

April has to be one of the nicest months, lovely mild weather, Easter and lots of holidays which leaves extra timeout for being crafty and making something for someone special. I plan on doing just that this weekend, I am making a cute little album for my Niece Sophie's 1st Birthday, plus a matching card and wrapping - gotta love the coordination! What do you plan to do in April?

I've gotten lots of fresh inspiration from this new mini catalogue and absolutely love the new Botanica product range! So Vintage, warm and natural - did I say I love it!? There's a great new Big Shot Embossing Folder which will feature in a lot of my creations over the next few months, plus a gorgeous new stamp set called Strength and Hope which was designed specifically to raise money and awareness for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Stampin Up! you are such a generous and community minded company! Am also loving the Cupcake punch, matching Create a Cupcake stamp set and single Motorcycle stamp - so great for male cards!

If you'd like your very own hard copy of the catalogue just let me know and I'll pop one in the post to you, otherwise you can view all the stampy goodness online here

I'll be back soon with details of my next papercraft workshops, Autumn special offers and some new Tigergirl Creations. Until then enjoy every minute

Carolyn xx