Birthday cake

Here is a picture of the birthday cake I baked for my aunties birthday last week. I baked a vanilla sponge filled it with jam and buttercream, frosted and covered it with sugarpaste on the Wednesday, then on the Thursday my 11 year old cousin came to help me decorate it. In reality I gave him some coloured icing, a pile of cutters, showed him what to do and he did the rest! Even the piping was entirely him, I didn't even help him space the letters out. He probably did a better job than I would have. He really enjoyed doing it and his mum loved the cake.
We used little pink and white edible pearls from Asda and pink and white edible glitter to decorate some of the flowers to make them really pretty.

Some more cards

Here are some more cards which I made at the weekend. The first card uses a little wooden embellishment from Michael's in America along with some sheet music backing paper, other coloured papers/cards and a simple peel off.

The second uses casino themed card stock from an american set, a die embellishment, papers and a peel off.

This card uses birthday and guitar peel offs, silver and black card and a background paper I have had for many years. 

Finally I have cannibalised an old birthday card my Dad received and used it to create a new card (for either my Mum, Dad or Brother...).

Some Men's Cards

Here are some of the men's cards that I made on Saturday, I managed to make 14 cards by the end of the afternoon (and my Mum made another 12 ladies and general cards). I wont post them all in one go so will add some more later :).

This card uses an old fashioned car peel off which I stuck onto cream card and cut around, it was then layered on dark red and gold papers. 

This card uses part of a birthday card I have recycled as well as two car embellishments. 

This is a decoupage layered formula 1 car which I mounted on white followed by a pearlescent green which matches the green of the car. 

Finally here is another decoupage card this time of a classic car, it is mounted on gold pearlescent paper which doesn't show up well on the photo. 

Twinchies

So in my last post I mentioned making some Twinchies, which basically is a two inch square embellishment (like the old card toppers which were popular a while back). My first one uses a Tea party cupcake brad from docrafts, some textured paper, pink card square and purple card background. I then added some Tea party purple twine and a little glitter glue (also docrafts).

My second attempt has a celebrate theme and also uses the Tea party range, with the twine making a little bow and bunting triangles. The little celebrate embellishment tag is also from the same range. The base is backing paper from a paper pack from a magazine and then I added a little flower gem and put little dots of glue onto which I sprinkled fine white glitter.

My third attempt is my favourite by far and has a beach theme. The base is card from a travel themed card stock pack from America which looks like sand. I then added textured paper to represent a towel, and torn paper layers to make the sea hitting the beach. I added a little glitter glue to the white layers of paper and flip flop and starfish embellishments from two different sets from America and finished it with a mini pearl from one of the sets. 

New Blog

Hi,

I have decided to start a new blog, (hopefully one I will keep up!) to show all the crafty and baking things I do. To start with I will post the birthday card I have made for my Mum this afternoon. It uses a tatty ted embellishment and sentiment from The Range, rose backing paper from an issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine, some pale pink paper and a standard white card blank. My mum had hinted that she would like that embellishment earlier in the day when we were making some other cards and Twinchies (more info and pics to come later).

Laura x