Musical 18th birthday …

Well, I’m still enjoying attending cake class and learning more and more each week. I know I still have a long way to go and still have lots to learn, but I’m having a fab time. And it’s so great that all my card making skills can be used in a similar fashion with sugar crafting – only wish I’d cottoned onto that years ago – think of all the fun I’ve missed!

So when my friend asked me to make a cake for her son’s 18th birthday I was both flattered and honoured to be asked, and so happy to do it as she is such a great friend.

Deborah gave me a brief – she’d made a card and wanted me to do the cake the same. This is the card Deb did using Stampin’ Up! products …

What a great card, and so appropriate as her son is a musician in a local band and got a guitar for his birthday!

Debs is a fellow Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and a member of the Pink Ladies team. You can see more of her great projects on her blog here.

So, set with the brief and photos of her card, this is the cake I made …

 

 

Everything on the cake was edible – including the strings – as long as you like raw spaghetti that is.

Apparently, Lewis had cake for breakfast on his birthday … sounds good to me!

 

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Creative elements get well soon …

I love my new Creative Elements stamp set from Stampin’ Up!  The images are just so beautiful – as soon as I got it I just had to ink it up for a get well card for Jenni…

I added a few embossed flowers, cut out using my big shot machine and the flower burst embosslit die in whisper white cardstock and adhered to the card with dimensionals. 

I stamped the butterflies in real red ink, then cut out using my paper snips. I then wrapped linen thread around the butterflies and tied a knot, leaving short ends to look like their antennae, and popped them up on the card with dimensionals.  A few rhinestones added some bling to their bodies, and I added a couple more either side of the sentiment from the sincere salutations stamp set, stamped in real red ink using my stamp-a-majig to help me line it up. 

I can’t wait to use the Creative Elements stamp set on another project!  I love, love, love it! 

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Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: whisper white, crumb cake; stamp sets: creative elements, sincere salutations; inks: real red; accessories: stampin dimensionals, rhinestones, linen thread, stamp-a-majig.

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Under the Big Top circus fun …

Some friends came round the other evening for some crafting fun. We used the Under the Big Top stamp set and matching Big Top Birthday designer series paper from Stampin’ Up! to make colourful children’s cards. I fell in love with this make and take project I got at a Stampin’ Up! regional training event a little while ago. It has 4 gift cards and envelopes, and the carriage is a little box to keep them in …

We also made a penny slider card – inspired by a card by Laura Southam, one of our team of Pink Ladies, displayed on her inspiration station at Michelle’s craft day earlier this year. We used tempting turquoise, daffodil delight and real red cardstock to co-ordinate with the colours in the dsp. The clown looks like he’s tumbling across the card – wheeee!

The font of the sentiment from the happiest birthday wishes hostess stamp set was just perfect!

Then my friend asked me to make a card for his little girl’s 2nd birthday, so I used the same design to make another card but this time made it a bit bigger so I could also add her name and age …

It doesn’t seem that long ago since I made her first birthday card.

Kids grow up so quickly, huh?!

Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: whisper white, real red, tempting turquoise, daffodil delight, crumb cake; stamp sets: under the big top, happiest birthday wishes; inks: black stazon, daffodil delight, real red, tempting turquoise; punches: word window, large oval, 1/2”, 1”, 1-1/4”, 1-3/8” circles, scallop circle, scallop edge border, 1-1/4” square; accessories: timeless type junior alphabet dies, blender pen, 1/4” daffodil delight grosgrain ribbon, stampin dimensionals, tombow adhesive, mini glue dots.

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Silver Wedding wishes …

We celebrated our Silver Wedding anniversary last week – and they said we wouldn’t last! 

My husband loves any card I make for him – bless him – but I wanted something special and something he would love, so made a pop up box card.  With some silver heat embossing and dry embossing with the big shot machine, the card came together … and I couldn’t help adding a little bit of bling.  And the two hearts joined as one were a reminder of our wedding cake …

The card folded flat into a C5 envelope.  He loves cards that move so I knew I’d be onto a winner with this one!

My hubby bought be so many beautiful presents – a fabby new food mixer (in silver of course!) beautiful flowers, chocolates, bubbly and this little box from Tiffany’s!

And what was inside? …

A Tiffany cupcake – gorgeous! (might just be my favourite kind of cupcake …)

I would like to say a big thank you to my friends and family who gave us so many lovely cards and presents – we were truly spoiled. 

One in particular brought a tear to my eye when I opened the box – it was a beautiful Silver Anniversary rose bush from my daughter and future son-in-law.  We’ll have to find a special place in the garden for it.  Thank you guys! 

The weather was a little different 25 years ago – we had a lovely sunny day for the wedding, and the cherry blossom tree in the front garden was in full bloom, so as the wind blew, pale pink petals fell like confetti. 

It was not an elaborate affair…we didn’t have much money – no little blue Tiffany boxes back then! I drove myself to the registry office in my little mini-metro car, I’d  made all my own wedding flowers – headdress, bouquet, corsages for the ladies and button holes for the gents – helped by my lovely mum.  My dress had to go back after the wedding, I made a buffet for the small reception back at the house with the help of my two nieces and my maid of honour, and had made my own wedding cake…

My mum baked me a fruit cake and my mum, being my mum, made two …in case the first one didn’t turn out.  So, I had two heart-shaped fruit cakes but didn’t really know what to do with them. I ended up cutting a piece out of one and pushed the two together …two hearts joined as one.  I covered them with ready to roll icing and bought lots of those little silver cake decorations you find in newsagents … silver horseshoes, bells, wedding rings … things like that… and pushed them into the cake.  That was the extent of my cake decorating skills back then …

As the saying goes, we didn’t have two ha’pennies to rub together – but we were happy.  And when we got to the registry office we met with the Registrar, went through the usual checks and then he asked for the £10 we were to pay for the hire of the room where we were to be married.  My hubby turned to me … I was sat there in my wedding dress, holding a bouquet … I didn’t have any money on me!  And he’d been out on his stag do the night before so didn’t have any money either!  So I had to go and ask the congregation could anyone lend us a tenner whilst we got married!  At least we can laugh about it now.  And our honeymoon?  Well that was a day out in Southport and then we were straight back to work next day …

We made up for it a few years later with an impromptu renewal of our vows whilst on holiday in the Maldives.  The locals pulled out all the stops to give us a special day.  We had Maldivian bridesmaids throwing flower petals as we walked to the beach where there was a wedding bower of arched palm leaves and a display of tropical flowers.  As we renewed our vows to the sound of the waves lapping on the shore, they broke open a coconut to reveal our wedding rings.  We had a procession  along the beach with the musicians playing and bridesmaids decorating our path.  The final surprise they’d arranged was to decorate the honeymoon suite with flower petals and leaves.

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Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: whisper white, brushed silver; stamp sets: everything eleanor, confetti, sentiment (retired); inks: whisper white, versamark; accessories: silver embossing powder, stampin dimensionals, adhesive rhinestones, pattern designer series paper pack in neutrals.

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