Donut treats

• Mama elephant: donut treats stamps & dies
• Stampin up!: hello you thinlits dies
• Craftwork cards: guilty pleasures paper pad(sprinkles)
• DCWV: fresh florals (dots, i think only had a scrap left)
• Neenah classic crest cardstock
• Memento ‘tuxedo black’ ink pad
• Copics: mice-W00,W1,R01. donuts-E41,E31,E55. frosting & hats- Y08,Y11,Y15. V01,V12. R81,R83,R85. BG34,BG23. box- BG10,BG11.
• zig wink of stella 'clear' sparkle brush pen

I covered the front of my card blank in the pink dotty paper. I cut a mat of sprinkle cardstock as a layer. I diecut the ‘thanks’ from the centre top. I glued this onto the card.

I stamped coloured and diecut the mice and donut images. I played about til i had an arrangement i was happy with. Then glued all the pieces down using both glue and foam to add dimension. 

The final touch was to add sparkle to all of the donut frosting.

 

To decorate the inside of the card, i added a coordinating sentiment from the stamp set in the centre. I also stamped, coloured and die cut a small image, and glued this to the bottom corner of the card.

 

 

Mx

I would like to enter the following challenges (linked below):

 

Simon Wednesday says- ‘use a die or punch’
 

The paper players- #402 'use negative space on your card'

edna loves icecream!!

• stamping bella- edna loves icecream
• mama elephant- Madison avenue framed tag die
• LOTV- for her sentiments (set20)
• tim holtz distress ink pads- shaded lilac, spun sugar &tumbled glass
• Neenah classic crest cardstock
• memento 'tuxedo black' ink pad
• copics- skin:E50,51,21. hair:E34,57,59. skirt:BG11,32,34,57. dark pink:R56,85,83. light pink:R83,81,RV19,000. wings:BV00,RV00,BG10. cherry:R24,29,59. chocolate:E47,49. icecream:E40,41,42. ground:C1,00
• white funky foam
• wink of stell 'clear'
• ranger glossy accent

i die cut a piece of cardstock with the frame die. i stamped the central section with my image and sentiment. i coloured the image using copics and added sparkle to the wings and glossy accents to the glass and cherry. while i left these to dry, i worked on the frame section. i inked the frame with 3 colours of ink to make a ombre effect. i then die cut a piece of funky foam, with the same die. i glued the foam to the cardstock frame together, to create dimension. i glued the raised frame to the card blank and added the image panel inside, gluing this flat.

Mx

 

the challenge i would like to enter:

simon wednesday says: 'anything goes'

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

Happy Birthday Mum !!

 

happy birthday to my mum

card and chocolate bar wrapper was made using

tim holtz distress picked raspberry ink pad, tim holtz printed tissue paper, kraft cardstock, stampin up! mixed bunch stamp set and matching blossom punch, and oval punches and petite pairs messages, lili of the valley tag message, and a few buttons and string.

happy halloween!!

As you can see from the halloween bounty i have been busy this week, but i do love this season.

not sure what to do with all the cards,

had bit too much fun making them and

got carried away with numbers!!

 

these were using tim holtz distress inks, halloween silhouettes stamps, matching emboss folder, and alterations movers & shapers bat and skull die set

to make it into a birthday card for a friend

i added a birthday stamped message from stampin up! and used stampin up! punches to mat& layer

i also used stampin up! products to make this card for my little cousin's, 

i used tim holtz distress inks and stampin up! googly ghouls stamp set, for the background stamps i used inky antics halloween hijinx clear stamp set.

 

 

for these cards i used the inky antics halloween hijinx clear stamp set and tim holtz distress ink

 

little else was used to make all the cards other than basic pre-scored card blanks (black/white) black card and black ink and a few pro-markers

 

chocolate & vanilla pumpkin patch cupcakes

royal iced vanilla & almond cookies

today i had a little helper in the form of my cousin lucy (6), who came to the house to help decorate the cupcakes ready for the bun sale at her school.

she did very well at making the little pumpkins, but little hands make nice little balls i always say

so thumbs up lucy !!