baked with love ...

• 'express yourself' by stampin up!
• 'stitched squares' dies and 'baked with love' stamp and dies set by lawn fawn 
• copics
• memento ink pad
• black glitter pen
• craftwork cards cardstock and a printed card blank

I die cut the square matt using the stitched square and stamped it with the sentiment. I added the cute little heart onto the end and coloured it in with copics. I stamped the three images and coloured them to coordinate with the coloured card blank. I then used the matching dies to cut them out. I taped the matt onto the card blank and foam pads to stick down the images for some dimension. I added some glitter to the sentiment using the black glitter pen.

 

inside the card

For the inside of the card, I took the matching insert for the card blank and added a sentiment. This message stamp is a single line, so I masked each half off to stamp the sentiment as two separate lines. I stamped, coloured and die cut the spoon to embellish the corner. The final touch was some glitter on the sentiment to match the front.

 

Challenges: simon says Wednesday 'anything goes'

 

Mx

12 days of christmas...

so ive been a little busy this year and haven't done an official 12 projects for Christmas, but ive put together some of my favourite projects from this year ...

 

 

Christmas cake simply decorated with icing, using the holly leaf cutter, with a little help from the family in the spirit of Christmas !!

 

I used craftwork card products to create this door hanger... you could take this idea to make your own version using any scraps and off cuts of paper or card left over from this seasons makes!!

 

 



 



 

I hope you have all enjoyed my makes this year, have a lovely Christmas and a fab new year !!

 

 Mx

the edible edition !!

 

I thought id share a quick post to show some of my other creations. these are some of the festive designs i've added to cupcakes recently. the snowman and snowflake are vanilla flavoured, the santa and star are chocolate fudge (yum!!). each of them are decorated with icing and details like the eyes drawn with an edible pen. some edible lustre by sugarflare adds that extra festive feel. the really great thing about the designs is that you can have them made in advance and ready to add to the cupcakes when you've baked them. the star and snowflake are beautifully simple with the swirled frosting. snowmen and santas are a little more work but worth the effort for the fun they bring ... kids love them (I hope you do too!!) 

 

 

 

 

Mx

beach party!!

as promised, here are the pictures from a recent party. it was a joint celebration for my parents silver wedding anniversary and my sisters 21st!!

 

for mum & dad's (fruit) cakes I flat iced it, first in marzipan, then sugar paste. I added two colours of ribbon to the base of each tier. I then piped on the coral. I added flower paste shells, I made by pressing the paste into a chocolate mould, (bought at the cake decorating store.)

 

 for abbie's cake I made a topper with little beach huts. it was all made edible with sugar paste and brown sugar as sand.

 

pinwheels were bought from pipii.co.uk

ice-cream  cupcakes (which my dad loves... he thinks cupcake cases should be banned and only cones allowed!!) traditionally you would add a chocolate flake, but those are a little messy, so I think the chocolate wafer(from Tesco) was the perfect finishing touch for these.

 

these beach cupcakes use some brown sugar as sand a sugar paste towel and a paper drinks umbrella I got from asda

 

hope you like all the beach themed sweet ideas if you want any more details just leave a comment and ill help as much as I can...

 

Mx

2 milk bottles...

sitting on the cake... lucky me none fell off!!

 close up off the bottles

this is a retirement cake i have just done for a milk man. the milk bottles are made from a krispie recipe to make them light enough to go onto the cake, which caused some trouble this week when decorating. i am pleased with how it turned out in the end though, hope you all agree...

Mx

 

christmas cake project!!

i have used roll out sugarpaste, and a selection of patchwork cutters. i also painted with edible dusts to colour the penguins and text and finished off with some ribbon out of my christmas stash.

i used red roll out sugarpaste, and pme snowflake plunger cutters and some white satin ribbon from my craft stash. i have added extra sparkle with edible luster dusts.

this was done using white roll out icing, dusted with luster. then cut out some pme snowman plunger cutter and i have painted them to match my merry christmas ribbon.

i have iced with royal icing and peeked, i added blue luster to renshaw edible icing ribbon and added a snowflake using the pme snowflake cutters.

 

i peeked this cake with royal icing and added a few pme snowflake cut outs dusted with blue luster.

these are a few christmas cakes done for friends and family to be enjoyed over christmas.

a big thankyou to mum for all your help and the washing up!!

Mx

bauble biscuit project!!

i have baked these ginger bread shaped bauble biscuits, which i have decorated with a thin layer of red roll out sugar paste. i then piped on extra decoration with green coloured royal icing.

i have put holes in the tops so they could be hung on the tree, however i dont think they will last that long!!

i have put a few biscuits into bags and made a card topper or just tied with ribbon, ready to give as gifts.

 

Mx

and the countdown begins...

well with only 85 days to go christmas is almost upon us, the shops are starting to put out their stock and online you can already order your christmas shopping so its about time i made my christmas cards.

 

i am normally well oraganised, by this time of year i would have been at it for month and all the cards are made and in order ready to be written, but sadly not this year.

but im sure it will all get done in time...

 

i have however made my 1st christmas card so i have at least made a start. 1 down,64 to go...

(kraft card stock, lili of the valley topper, stampin up punch & message stamp, papermania bakers twine, 6x6 paper <i think was from a forever friends xmas paper pack> tim holtz distress ink pads)

 

i will try not to over load you with christmas card but with sooo much lovely craft stash about, plus the fact that i generally love holidays, im sure more than a few will slip in, plus i can feel an idea brewing!!

Mx

theres nothing better...

... than a nice day to get in the garden after a busy week!

i de-leafed the tomatoes, planted out some leeks,

pulled up some beetroots and a few carrots and found

a wonderful carrot

as if the fab legs were great enough

i laughed when i turned him round,

i am sure you can all quess why...

well enough said about that.

the cake picture as promised

i final finaled the cake for the 21st.

 although i wasnt overly happy with it it turned out ok

and she liked it so thats all that matters...

Mx