Give me a moment........

It was a sad day yesterday in the HOS, we received some bad news that had us reaching for the kleenex. I don't usually take personal or emotional stuff on to the blog, but this time I bend the rules, me being me I would find it hard to say these things out loud.
Forgive me today for I have a friend who needs to hear this, not everyone out there wants or asks for sympathy a lot of people including myself would keep things private, but she knows who she is, it's her story to tell not mine but these are my words to you babe.

You are a wonderful and honest person.
A much loved Mother Sister Wife and Friend
You are beautiful inside and out no matter what looks back at you in the mirror today :P
but most of all
you are strong.

I am woman Hear me ROAR!

I am here for you, anything, anytime.
hugs
Karen
xx

New Artist Clue #2

Good morning Sugar Babes, well yesterdays little competition leads me to believe we have a leek in the House of Sugar, or maybe even a spy! How on earth did so many of you get it right! LOL, maybe you just had to google my quote, was it that easy?

No clue today, you don't need it.

I am delighted to welcome Kathy Hare to our family of illustrators, I am sure that she will bring something new to the world of stamping. I have carefully picked out 6 new stamps based on works in her gallery, you will not know which one until the blog hop, but it would be interesting to see if you and me are on the same wave length here, which one would you  choose?

Kathy Hare Galleries

If you would like to know more about Kathy she also has a blog, go over and give here a huge welcome. I have not been working with Kathy for long but her work is flawless, sketches are perfect first time around and I think she will much appreciated for her true artist talent by stampers.

 I am delighted to add another illustrator to our family, along with a great DT, Gayle and her Sweeties over on the challenge blog, Fiona who overseas the forum on SCS and last but not least Kate and Mark in the House of Sugar. We all work together to bring you the best we can and are always looking forward to changing times and try to keep up with all that fashionable in stamping. For those of you who have been with us from the start will know, it has its ups and downs but its has been a lot of fun, long may in continue.

I will come back later and draw a winner from yesterday, I will be back later once I get to my desk at the HOS.

Karen

New Artist

Stamp is Little Artist from our Home Grown Range

I might have hinted at this before, you know I love to tease you LOL. We do have a new artist, rubber is due to arrive anytime this week and I would like to get that out to the DT so that we can do a fantastic welcome blog hop at the start of June.

 My fingers are itching to show you a peek, I have no self control or patience, but for now we will play a little guessing game.........................who do you think our new artist might be?

Clue #1;
"My name is ************ and I'm a Freelance Illustrator based  in the U K.
I have always had a passion for drawing, so after raising my children I decided I wanted to make a career out of this talent.
After five years of study, I graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with a BA (Hons) degree in Illustration.
I am a traditional Illustrator and work mainly with pastels and coloured pencils but still enjoy experimenting and playing with all types of media."

I have no idea how quick you will get this one but I will be very interested to read you answers ;)
If more than one of you gets it right, names will go in a draw for a full set of six new stamps when these are released.
Now you know that Sugar Nellie ever disappoints, the rubber stamps business is beyond saturated with cute stamps, we are moving forward to bring you better quality stamps, something different, you deserve the best artist with style and professional qualities, we would like to offer you that and over the next few months you will see little changes.
Take care
Karen

Team Nellie

Those of you who know me, learnt along time ago that I have OCD, yes that's Obsessive Cullen Disorder, team Edward and Twilight crazy and for someone my age that's my guilty pleasure. Having done the books and films over and over I spent the last year on fan fiction and still to this day read far too much!

When Kate arrived for work in the HOS today she showed me this card, Team Nellie I had a little laugh to myself, its delightfull with Cheerleader Manga and those too cute pom pom flowers. The card style is one she used in her class last night but being far too easy on her pupils she had it all cut and pre folded, me I am a hard task master and would have made them do it all, how else are they going to learn!

Is there any addict out there who attend classes local to you? Here at the HOS we have been thinking about Sugar Nellie may going on the road this summer? Would you attend a day of sweetness, demo, classes and lots of sugar? Sorry but at the moment we will only be trying out Scotland, but if you are further a field and fancy a Sugar Nellie day at your local shop, let them to get in touch with us and we can see what can be arranged. It might be a long summer if flights are going to disrupted, I can't see me going any where soon.

Take care and I hope there is no snow where you are today, stay warm.

Karen

Do something new with your stamps...

Have you ever layered you stamps? It's like home made decoupage. Well now is a good time to try it out as that is the challenge over on SCS forum and you can join in with Fiona and the sugar addicts, try challenge 6 and you could win three stamps of your choice, easy peasy :)

News in theHouse of Sugar and a great tutorial with distressed inks, we love those colours.

Karen

Candy time........

So girls here are the last two from the set of six new Mary Hall stamps, I think these are her best ones yet :)

There is no doubt that at the House of Sugar we like to offer you variety and in having different illustrators we can keep a fresh look to our range.

SO I have a little candy bag to give away, as always before a launch we offer up a set of stamps to our faithful followers, I am also on the look out for some fresh new talent to help with an up an coming blog hop this summer, leave me a link to your blog so I can see your work and you will also be included in the draw for candy. This is open to followers, there are plenty of you so don't be shy.

Karen

A little bit of Tartan

Kate who runs the retail store, Papercrafts in Elgin, has been playing in her spare time, how she finds the time I do not know, but a lot of the amazing samples in store are done by Kate. Its a shame my photography lets  the side down because this card has got to be seen for full effect.

Here we have another delightful stamp coming to you next week, I know that Mark at Funkykits is waiting for another delivery of Magnolias before putting these online, but he does have them all. So do the DT and keep an eye out for them on their blog's.

He has also been going to our list of followers and  looking out for our logo on your site, he has visited many of your blogs and only found a few with the logo, did you miss out on a prize?  Pick this logo up and show it on you blog, linking back to here, thank you :)