Tiny tags hugs and butterfly kisses…

 

 

I love these colours together!  And the lucky limeade colour from the new in colours set is quickly becoming my new favourite!  I’ve been using it a lot on my Christmas cards too … more on that soon…

I cased this card from the ideas book and catalogue from Stampin Up, which is full of great ideas and card examples -  and it is such great value and around the same price as a craft magazine, but with nearly 200 hundred different projects in - wow!    

I’ve been busy, busy, busy making projects lately, and I am so excited that I will be at the Hobbycrafts event at the NEC in Birmingham this weekend, helping on the Stampin Up stand with some of my fellow Pink Ladies …

The show runs from Thursday 3 November, to Sunday 6 November 2011 – and if you’re coming along please be sure to stop by and say hi – we’ll be on stand C16  (not far from the small coffee and seating area). 

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We have all been busy making lots of beautiful things for the stand, and there will be lots to see, demos to watch, a prize draw, show specials and FREE make and takes for you to enjoy – you can check them out on the Hobbycraft website here.

There’ll be lots of projects on display to hopefully inspire you …

 

Have a great day and hope to see you there… 

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Flight of the Butterfly…

Cake course … week 3 – butterfly cake… 

Last time in cake class we iced a round cake, so this time we had to ice a square one… now that was interesting!  Mine was square-ish …

The first job was to cut butterflies from flower paste and leave them to dry while we iced the rest of the cake.  Then, we embossed butterflies all over the cake and cake board and painted them in different colours using powdered food colours mixed with alcohol…

I was really rushing towards the end of class and was virtually speed painting… but unfortunately still didn’t manage to finish painting my butterflies in time. All my flower paste butterflies crashed and burned so I had nothing to stick to my cake …

Next time I think I should drink the alcohol … it might improve the look of my cake! 

 

 Still, once I added some beautiful blushing bride ribbon from Stampin Up around the base of the cake it finished it off… and hid some of the rough edges… 

 

Keeping with the butterfly theme, I made a vintage butterfly card for my friend, Jackie, for her birthday…

I used one of Jackie’s favourite designer series paper from Stampin Up, which has sadly now retired, but it is so beautiful I just had to use it. 

One of her favourite colours is green, so I added some of the beautiful seam binding ribbon in pear pizzazz, and a designer button in so saffron tied with some linen thread completed the card. 

We had a lovely day together last weekend.  We visited a craft fair in Port Sunlight, and went for lunch at the local French restaurant – Le Petit Bistro – delicious!  And then it was back to my house to cut into the cake! 

I’ve still got a lot of improving to do, but bit-by-bit I can see my cakes are getting there…

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Meander with me….

I made this mini album or meander book some time ago after seeing one on Peg’s blog.  Peg is a fellow Pink Lady and Stampin Up Demonstrator and she was kind enough to send me the instructions to make this cute little memories book…

 

 

And some of the inside pages:

 

I made a card label for each pocket from whisper white card topped with different coloured, co-ordinating card which I punched out with the round tab  punch.  Each label has space for adding photos or journalling, and I also added labels to each page for titles or journalling.  

I made this book for my friend and it’s a great handbag size memory booklet.  I had a lot of fun making it and can’t wait to have a go at making another.

Stampin Up supplies used:

Cardstock: whisper white, certainly celery, melon mambo, tempting turquoise, pumpkin pie;  Inks: tempting turquoise, melon mambo; Stamp sets: flight of the butterfly, oval all; Punches: round tab, curly label, designer label, scallop oval, small oval;  Accessories: dsp in tempting turquoise, dsp from the sunny day simply scrappin kit (one of my favourites but sadly retired), tempting turquoise grosgrain ribbon, scraps of heavy weight card from the SU packaging for the cover.

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Otherwise engaged…

Penultimate engagement thank you card today.  One more tomorrow, together with a joint pic of the whole collection, so please pop back again for a peek:

 

 

Stampin Up supplies used:

Cardstock: whisper white, blushing bride; Inks: pink pirouette, pretty in pink; Stamp sets: flight of the butterfly, tiny tags; Punches: scallop trim border; Accessories:  stampamajig, basic rhinestones.

 

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