Lilies for Lily – an everyday enchantment …

Well, my cake class has finished for the summer, so I have a break now until class starts again in the autumn term.

For our final project we made lilies. I had lots of homework to do, as well as class time, but here’s my finished cake – all made from sugar – what do you think?

The lilies took hours of work, but they were hours of fun too!  They are not perfect but they are not bad for a first attempt.

My mum would have loved it, and I finished the cake on what would have been her birthday last weekend – this only made me think of her even more than usual – lilies for Lily…

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Do you remember this floral card I made a while back?

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I made if for my cake teacher as she loves Cath Kidston, and this was my tribute to Cath Kidston using the Everyday Enchantment designer series paper.

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This beautiful paper is available for a limited time only and on special offer for £9.95 a pack.

Also,  with every £45 you spend you will also receive a matching accessories pack FREE.

So, give me a call, or drop me an email, and I’d be happy to help you get your freebies.

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Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: bashful blue, whisper white, stamps: sincere salutations, four frames; inks: real red, early espresso; accessories: everyday enchantment sale-a-bration designer series paper, bashful blue polka dot dsp, real red grosgrain ribbon (retired), decorative label punch, stampin dimensionals.

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A tribute to Cath Kidston …

It was my cake class teacher’s birthday this week – she was so excited that her hubby had taken her shopping and bought her a Cath Kidston handbag for her present – lucky girl!

So, in a tribute to Cath Kidston, I put a card together for her using the everyday enchantment sale-a-bration designer series paper …

I adhered the dsp to the front of a bashful blue base card, and teamed it with some polka dot designer series paper from the soft subtles collection in bashful blue. I stamped the polka dot frame from the four frames stamp set in real red onto whisper white cardstock, and used my stamp-a-majig to line up the sentiment from the sincere salutations stamp set and stamped it in early espresso ink. I punched out the stamped image with the decorative label punch and popped this up on stampin dimensionals then adhered this to the card. I finished off by adding a length of real red grosgrain ribbon (retired) tied in a neat knot.

Judging by her reaction in cake class this morning, I think Tracey liked her card!

All supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: bashful blue, whisper white, stamps: sincere salutations, four frames; inks: real red, early espresso; accessories: everyday enchantment sale-a-bration designer series paper, bashful blue polka dot dsp, real red grosgrain ribbon (retired), decorative label punch, stampin dimensionals.

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Crafty goodness…

Some friends came round the other day for a cuppa, cake and crafting.

There was lots of laughter and we had so much fun making and creating together…

 

My theme was “white card and texture”… 

Each project was based on a piece of plain white card, and with the addition of a little designer series paper, ink and some ribbon we were able to make these cards and a gift box.

The first was inspired by a card I made recently for my friend’s mum. 

I adapted it a little to make a smaller, A6 size card …

The ladies loved making all their own embellishments for the card.

Stampin’ Up! make it so easy to get professional results because the punches co-ordinate perfectly with their stamp sets.   

Genius! 

We used dsp to make the dimensional flowers, which are super easy to do but look so effective.  And because all the products from Stampin’ Up! co-ordinate with each other, the dsp matched perfectly with the ink on the labels – super cute!

The flower is very dimensional so this is definitely a card that would benefit from being hand delivered.

Next we made a matching set -

a birthday card…

with flower embellishments that were a little less dimensional this time,

so the cards could go more easily through the post…

 And a matching gift box…

We used the scraps and off-cuttings to make more embellishments with the Stampin’ Up! embosslits – sweet buttons and beautiful wings.  Nothing went to waste! 

All the ladies did so well  and completed all 3 projects - having so much fun in the process!  Some are very new to crafting but you would never guess as their projects looked absolutely beautiful.  Well done ladies! 

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For a classy mum …

My friend asked me to make a card for her mum who is a very classy lady… 

I used this colour combo on another card here, and loved it so much I decided to use it again - 

whisper white for the base and topper, mat and layered with so saffron, some matching ink and dsp, and crumb cake for the sentiment.

  

I’m totally in love with the embossing folders from Stampin’ Up! – especially the manhattan flower… 

I added “mum” to a separate piece of whisper white and added it to the corner of the card like a flower ribbon -

I thought this looked so cute! 

My friend loved it … I hope her mum did too! 

 

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