21 pineapples!!

inside

• totally tropical pineapple die, stamp & embossing folder set (from a crafting magazine)
• lawn fawn- large & small stitched rectangle stackables
• lawn fawn- small stitched circle stackables
• lawn fawn- Louie's 123's dies
• copics- YG05. G05. E99. Y19,18,15.
• memento 'tuxedo black' ink pad
• Neenah classic crest white cardstock
• gold mirri card & black card
• black funky foam
• SU!- wacky wishes

 

To make this card I cut a piece of white cardstock using the largest die. I stamped a pineapple image all over the mat then coloured these using copics. I cut a frame from gold mirri card using the largest die and a slightly smaller one. For the topper, I die cut a circle of mirri card and then die cut the numbers out of the centre. I repeated this in black funky foam and glued them together making sure they lined up perfectly. I die cut another circle to back this. Finally, I glued the frame and number topper to a card blank. You could add sparkle or sequins, but since this was for a male friend I chose not to.

To create the inside of this card I diecut a panel of white cardstock. I stamped the large pineapple image in the corner and coloured using copics. I then stamped a happy birthday sentiment and glued the panel to the inside of my card to finish.

Mx 

fruity!!

I have decorated some tea towel as a gift and felt they needed some packaging.

 I cut 2 pieces of white card to 14x19cm, I used them as a guide to fold the 2 towels neatly and to the same size. I next made a label I cut a 14x4cm piece of cream card, I used coffee archival ink pad and the SU! skinny mini alphabet. then I cut a 35x5cm band of kraft card, this was scored at 15cm, 16.5cm, 31.5 & 33. glue is placed on the left over 2cm flap, the label  is added to one of the long sections and a handmade stamp added to the 2nd. the final thing to do was stack the tea towel, wrap the band around and glue the flap to join the band. I put the finished item into a card bag and sealed it, to keep the tea towels nice and clean.

 

check out how I made these tea towels, on my other blog here...

Mx

summer strawberries...

• 'strawberries' stamp from LOTV
• 'because you care' stamp set from SU!
• 'fresh floral stack' from DCWV
• 'stitched stackables' dies from lawn fawn
• archival ink 'deep purple'
• memento ink 'tuxedo black'
• copics: R12, R14, R17, YG 21, YG23, YG25, V12, V15, V17,C00, C001, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5
• wink of stella glitter brush tip pen, uni ball white pen and sekura micron pen
• craftwork cards digi cardstock
• 6x6 white card blank

For this card, I have stamped part of the strawberries stamp to fit inside the square die. I then stamped the strawberries from the foreground of the image onto another piece of card.
I added the sentiment above this, (as I didn't have lilac ink, I second generation stamped to create a softer tone of the deep purple ink). I also stamped the butterflies again onto an offcut of card. I coloured all of the images with copics. I then die cut the two main images into panels using a stitched edge dies. I cut the spotty paper to matt and layer onto my card blank. I then added the two panels on foam pads for dimension. I fussy cut the extra butterflies and placed them on the card as embellishments. I used my sekura micron pen to add their antennae. The final touch was some glitter on the butterflies and white highlights on the strawberries.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

• Freshly made sketch #193
• Simon says 'summer' Monday challenge

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