owl be home for christmas

 

• Hunkydory cute Christmas collection 'owl be home for christmas'
• 5x7 & A5 white cardblanks

 

 

To make this card, I trimmed my cardstock to fit and glued it to my card blank. I stuck the topper down flat and added the frame using foam pads for dimension. I added an insert to complete my card.

 For the second card, I cut my remaining cardstock to fit the front of my 5x7 card blank and glued down. I added the topper using foam tape for dimension. Finally, I added an insert.

 

Mx

challenge I would like to enter
abc Christmas challenge blog- c is for 'creatures'

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'

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...

 

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