Birthday Card

Here's a card I made last month for a member of the birthday list on the CM&P Forum. For anyone who visits my blog you will recognise it is very similar to the card I made for Mother's Day. However it is different colours and the inside is slightly different.

The card:

The inside:

Best wishes

Cupcakes

I attended a baby shower for an ex-colleague a few weeks ago and made these cupcakes to take with me. We weren't sure whether the baby was going to be a boy or girl so I decorated them with both pink and blue.

The cakes are a plain sponge with a raspberry jam centre baked inside and the frosting is white chocolate flavour.

I made the flowers with a simple punch cutter and then piped a small yellow dot in the centre of each. The butterflies were cut out using a 'Patchwork Cutter' and then decorated with shimmer powder This was the first time I had tried any of the Patchwork Cutters; it took me a while to get the hang of them but I was very happy with the end results.

Some of the photo's haven't come out very well, but hopefully you get the idea!

I made 2 cards for a friend of mine. She was due to have a baby just before I went away on holiday and I knew I'd need to send a card whilst away. My problem - was it going to be a boy or a girl? I decided the simplest answer to this was to take 2 cards and send whichever was appropriate. Therefore I have made two new baby cards which are practically the same, the only difference being one design of paper is girly and one is for a boy.

I went for a very simple design, made templates for the letters on the computer and simply cut the out and embellished them a little. Simple but striking, well that's my opinion anyway!

Here they are:

Handbag box

I've used another free download from Seneca Pond Crafts to make this handbag box. It was so easy and looked great without any embellishments but I decided to decoupage both the butterfly and the flower to add some dimension. I have given this away as a little extra birthday gift to a friend. I made some chocolate covered honeycomb and popped a little bag of it inside.

I did change one thing before giving it away and that was the ribbon handle, I swapped it for a pink one instead as I just wasn't sure about the green one after attaching it!!

The front:

The back:

And from the side so you can see the decoupage and also the shape of the bag:

Best wishes

Bookmarks received

I have received some amazing bookmarks from people who have joined in my swap, I thought I'd show you some other peoples work today. There are quite a few more to arrive but here are the ones I have received so far.

Sally:

Kerrmiya:
Rhea:

I'm sure you'll agree they are all great

Bookmarks

I'm currently hosting a bookmark swap on the CM&P Forum. I spent ages trying to come up with a design for my bookmarks which was interesting and a bit different. I finally decided; why does a bookmark have to be a rectangle?? So mine are round!

The swap is for 3 bookmarks and each of mine has the same basic design but a different image.

The back reads:

A book is pages, pictures and words

A book is animals, people and birds

A book is stories of queens and kings

Poems and songs - so many things!

Curled in a corner where I can hide

With a book I can journey far and wide

Though it's only paper from end to end

A book is a very special friend.

I found this poem on the web and I think it is just perfect.

Thanks for looking

Easter Weekend

I know it's not really Easter until Sunday but I just wanted to say to everyone -

I hope you have a lovely long Easter weekend, don't eat too much chocolate!!

Fat Page RAK

The two fat page swaps are being hosted by a lovely lady and I wanted to make her an extra page to thank you. I've made a page which is very similar to my favourite of the four I made:

The front:

The back:

Thanks for looking

Black & White Fat Book Pages

There is a second fat book page taking place on the CM&P Forum at the moment and I thought while I was making the oriental pages, (see yesterdays post), I may as well make some Black and White ones as well! The swap is for another 2 pages.

Here's the first:

And the second:

I forgot to take a photo of the back of these ones!

Thanks for looking

Oriental Fat Book Pages

I haven't really joined in with many swaps on the CM&P Forum for a few months now as my crafting mojo was awol for quite a while. However as it seemed to make a welcome return about a month ago I thought I'd sign up for a new swap. I thoroughly enjoyed making these and am glad I signed up, can't wait to see the swaps I get in return.

I was required to make two fat book pages, (for anyone who doesn't know they are 4 inch squares), to the theme of 'Oriental'.

Here's the first:

Here's the second, a waterfall fat page:

And the backs:

Thanks for looking