Oooh thank you, I have won a Liebster blog award

Thanks so much to "the life and times of minky P noo" http://minkypnoo.blogspot.co.uk/
blog for nominating me for the Liebster blog award! Im am muchos happy and very flattered.

I now need to chose 5 brilliant blogs with under 200 followers to pass the award on to....
Tick...tock...Tick...tock, I need to have a little think xx

Time for a catch up!

Oh dear, I havent posted since February, sorry!

Its been very busy at Button Box Cards head quarters making lots of cards, gift tags and cupcake flags to name but a few! My Etsy shop is now ticking over nicely which is great ( I do love Etsy) and I have even had orders for Australia which is very exciting.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ButtonBoxcards

We are also under going a new kitchen so our house so it is upside down, messy and full of dust...boo! Its half way there now but we had a blooper with the paint, we where going for Farrow & Balls "Blackend" which turned out more like "baby blue" which was a massive clash with the units, opps. So last night was a mad dash to choose another shade, fingers crossed the new ones looks ok! Marley is hating the upheaval and can often be found hiding in the bath away from the kitchen noise of drilling and banging!

Well thats all for now, I hope you all have a fabulous Easter weekend full of lots of eggy goodness.

xxx

My Salty sailor dad...

about 1 week ago I was sent a box of old photos that used to belong to my dad that had been in storage.

It was such a joy to open up the box full of old photos of dad, you could certainly "smell" there age and history as I lifted them out of the box! The main treasure of this box was a beautiful photo of dad on one of his first boats when his love of sailing began.

I am yet to find a worthy frame but as soon as I do this beauty is going on the wall! I feel so proud to have had such a talented dad.
Also in the box was his old sailing charts from when he made his journey from the Channel Islands over to Barbados. They are so beautiful, tea stained and creased with all the pencil markings dotted along the journey he made from island to island..complete with a doodle here and there!

Hello

Good morning bloggers, I sit here writing this post with bright sunshine blasting through the window!
Spring is on its way..yay!

I have been such a busy bee recently making cards, morning noon and night. My Valentines designs went down really well, here are a few to show you...

 ( love is in the air- copyright Button Box Cards 2012)

 ( PS i love you- copyright Button Box Cards 2012)

I have been such a busy bee recently making cards, morning noon and night. My Valentines designs went down well, here are a few pics to show you.

Today my mum is here to Visit me from the Cotswolds so i'm taking her out for a little treat of tea and cake at The Vintage Cupcake Kitchen in Saddleworth! http://www.thevintagecupcakekitchen.co.uk/ Its so lovely in there drinking tea out of beautiful vintage china and obviously eating the cakes- I think she is going to love it!

My Etsy shop is open!!

Wahoooo, My Etsy shop is finally open, yay!!

Please pop over and have a look. Many more items to come!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ButtonBoxcards?ref=si_shop

( Copyright Button Box Cards 2012 )

Happy new year Blog land!

Hello blog land, wishing everyone a happy new year!!

Well i have been busy beavering away since my last post. Most recently I have been making and designing some cute little cupcake flags which will be on sale in The Vintage Cupcake Kitchen, Uppermill, very soon. I have covered wedding flags which read "i do" and "Mr & Mrs", "Love" for Valentines and some vintage florals. Im really pleased with them, here they are all packaged up ready to go!

( all flags and packaging copyright of Button Box Cards 2012)

Lots of new goodies to upload over the next few weeks so watch this space xxxx

A few new designs to feast your eyes on...

I have been working on a few new designs and here is a little sneak peek!

The first is called Moonbeams ands its made up of scanned collage detail, hand stamping and a teeny tiny dimante.

(Copyright of Button Box Cards 2011)

My next design was made for a little girl, Jasmine, its a collage rainbow with hand stamped details.

(Copyright of Button Box Cards 2011)

Hope you like them! 

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hello and a very Merry Christmas to you all! I am so excited about christmas, I have all the cards and gifts all finished and posted out and have now started thinking about valentines day.

But first things first, look at theses lovely mini cupcakes I had made by the lovely Danielle at Crumbs cupcakery! I had them made as little thank-yous for people! I just love the tiny little buttons complete with cream stitching! http://www.crumbscupcakery.co.uk/

I made the little "thanks" flags out of Washi tape and cocktail sticks!

Pre xmas giveaway......

Hello all!

I hope you are all well and getting ready for christmas! I am very behind on the christmas shopping but we have the annual work craft fair tomorrow where I am hoping to get lots of goodies.

I am running a little giveaway on Facebook at the moment-the winner will receive a selection of Button Box Cards absolutely free! All you have to do is go to my Facebook page and click LIKE, you will then be entered. Pretty please feel free to spread the word. You can either follow the link on my blog or just go onto your Facebook account and search Button Box Cards.

Thanks in advance. Ho Ho Ho xxx

Christmas is coming...

Hey all, Christmas is firmly on its way and Im feeling very festive today. We went off for a spot of Christmas shopping today and have also added a new piece to my Button Box Product line!!

Introducing the bespoke handmade glass baubles with a beautiful printed white feather inside, finished with snow white ribbon!
Its comes in two sizes and would look fabulous on any tree! The feathers come in Wish, Joy and Noel.
Take a goosey below, Im actually quite tempted to keep them and put them on my tree!
xxxxx

(copyright button box cards 2011)

Hello Blog land!

Hello Blog Land!!
OOh its busy at the moment,  Im trying to get all my goodies ready for three craft fairs and other card orders. My jars seem to be going down very well to-yay! I have more jar ideas in the pipeline!

As I may have mentioned my talented husband has re-branded me and created a fab new Button Box Cards logo...thanks Steve I love it!

( copyright button box cards 2011)

Hubby also sent away the logo to get some rubber stamps custom made for me, and they have arived and I absolutely love them!!! Can not wait to get stamping!!

( copyright button box cards 2011)

Jar Crazy

In preparation for the christmas fairs I have been going jar crazy making wish jars, button jars and also a special request of a guardian angel jar with stamped angels feather inside.

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Special Wooden xmas tags

Heres a little sneak peek at the wooden Christmas gift tags I have been making.
I have hand stamped them and added ribbon ties. Thought they would be perfect for a special gift or even to hang from the tree.

(Copyright belongs to Button Box Cards 2011)

Button Box updates!

Hello - So much to tell you all!

Firstly I launched a Face book page last night which was very exciting and a great new way to let people know about my cards. I just need to pop a link on here to it and then you can all "like" me, or if you would like a sneaky peek now just search Button Box Cards on Face book.

My fabulous Husband Steve has also been busy designing me a fab new logo which I have used on the face book page, I'm so chuffed with it so big thanks to my vert talented husband!

Also I am getting prepped for my two up and coming christmas craft fairs where I am going to be selling hand stamped gift tags, wooden gift tags, cards and gift jars ( I'm getting really excited ).
So lots of photos to come of new exciting christmas products!!

xxx

Spoon Full Of Sugar-new stockist

Hey Bloggers!

Saturday was a lovely day, I met up with friends who took me to a lovely cupcake shop in Uppermill!

We enjoyed tea and cake in beautiful miss-matched china teacups in shabby Chic surroundings. The cakes there where to die for, I went for a Malteaser cupcake! 

I also took a little batch of my cards along to show the owners to see if they may like to stock them, they said yes so I am thrilled to say they are now on Sale in "spoon full of sugar" Uppermill in Saddleworth...so if your in the area drop in for a cuppa and cake!

A little selection of my zoo photographs as promised!

Wedding Bells

My lovely friend Lesley is getting married this weekend and I wanted to make her a little something
for luck on her big day. I made a little tag completed with printed feather and large shell button and a little four leaf clover.

( copyright of button box cards 2011) 

What a great anniversary weekend...

I have had the most amazing anniversary weekend in Chester with my husband, I am still smiling now!
We started off with a trip to chester zoo which was great, particular highlights where the butterfly house and the Monkeys. There where baby orangutans playing around, bopping there mum on the head I could have watched them all day long!  We also saw a family of meerkats which had tiny babies which looked like tiny cuddly toys. (going to upload my zoo pics later )

Next we went off to a boutique hotel in a converted Georgian town house in Chester which was really quirky, great styling, great experience and a giant egg shaped bath! We then went out for a fantastic meal in the evening and eventually rolled back to the hotel (we ate until we popped!) So a great weekend in great company.

Happy anniversary Mr Rowe!

Thanks for my cotton reel!

It is mine and Hubby's 2nd wedding anniversary this Sunday! How the time has flown!

I arrived into work today to find this beautiful cotton reel sat on my desk. Cotton symbolises the 2nd anniversary! Thanks Amanda Green, very thoughtful and very talented, I will cherish this little reel!

Hooray, its cards time

Today I have finally had some time to get stuck into my cards, its been a while. I started the day by making Bridesmaids jar gift which was commissioned by a bride for her sister. The jar is packed full of goodies all wrapped in hand stamped brown paper.

I have also started designing a new range of cards with cheeky sayings and cute icons (see below)

I'm really loving the camera one.

I have also made and designed a selection of Christmas cards..I still want to design a couple more before I put them onto my blog as a full range.

(all cards above copyright belongs to Button Box Cards 2011 )