Big Bold Birthday

I should have posted this yesterday but I had to focus on Zac as he didn't have a good weekend health wise and needed to see a Dr. Got to keep an eye on him but my little lad is on the mend now thankfully.

So it's challenge time over at Die Cut Dreams and this fortnight we have a colour challenge for you. We want to see you using Pink, Brown and Cream on your creations. Here's mine:

I've used Pretty in Pink as my card base layered with Early Espresso and Very Vanilla card. The Vanilla card has been embossed using the Vintage Wallpaper folder, love it! I stamped the cake in coordinating colours and cut them out, sticking them down with Dimensionals and added a button from the Subtles collection rather than a cherry or candle.

The fabby cake is from the retiring set Big Bold Birthday and you only have until Friday this week to order it before it is gone for ever. Mind you, you might want to be quicker than that 'cos I posted a card using On A Pedestal the other day and then it sold out pronto! the Early Espresso Striped Grosgrain ribbon is also retiring (boo hiss). The sentiment is not a Stampin' Up! one, it's a digi image from my friend Lynn on our Design Team.

My boxes of the brand new Idea Book and Catalogues have arrived, so if you'd like one you can buy from me at just £5.95 including post and packing to your door.

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You're as young as you feel

I was having a chat with a good friend of mine last week about our birthdays and our ages and we both decided we're still very young at heart. Ms Sugar is a massive fan of anything pink so I made her a little girl's card instead of a grown up one!

I've used a variety of pinks including Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose mixed with Crumb Cake. The giant cake is paper pieced using Big Bold Birthday. The pink birthday girl was stamped using All in the Family with a crown from Every Little Bit. The heart balloons are stamped with I {Heart} Hearts and punched out with Heart to Heart punch. I chose the sentiment from the level one hostess set Afterthoughts. What a combination on one card! I decorated the inside to match:

 

The present is a combination of Playful Pieces (Level 3 hostess set) and Big Bold Birthday. I know I'm safe to blog this now as Susie has her card!

Had a fun afternoon with the boys and Zac's best friend Aimee and her Mum. It stayed dry after lunch for us to play out in the garden and nowmy bubbas are shattered - yey!

Back tomorrow.
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Itty Bitty Cupcakes

Ooh I've had a lovely day in sunny Pudsey! I went to Jules' team training with my downline Tracy and had a ball. I also drove on the motorway for the first time ever and overcame a fear I've had for many years. Tracy and Julie kept me calm on the way - thanks girls.

As is the norm at any training we all swap and here are mine:

 

I've used Early Espresso for the base layered with Pink Pirouette after embossing with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder - expect to see me using embossing folders a lot! Next there's a strip of Early Espresso DSP to match in the dots and a fun flower in Melon Mambo cut using the Big Shot (have to be careful when we type this don't we ladies?), The two circles have been punched and the sentiment is from Occasional Phrases. Finally, three cupcakes from Itty Bitty Bits and the co-ordinating punch.:

Jules organised a fab day, laid on a great lunch and just check out pudding:

 

 

I have lots more to share with you but haven't had chance to take photos yet. Thanks to everyone who swapped with me and shared tips, ideas and products!!!

Curry and wine time now.
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Fruity Butterfly

Well it was very sunny earlier but now it seems not so. I'm trying to get myself healthy again and have dusted off my juice machine and am drinking fresh juices every morning. So here's a fruity creation to match:

 

I was very much inspired by a gorgeous Birthday card I received from my friend Susie and had to have a go at making something similar. I've used Melon Mambo and cut a Top Note die and folded in half to make my card base. Next I added a strip of Basic Black narrow grosgrain ribbon and a sentiment from Thank You Kindly. The large Daffodil Delight flower is die cut with the Fun Flowers die and then popped back through the Big Shot using the Square Lattice embossing folder. I decorated a piece of Whisper White scrap card with matching colours and the orange from Tart and Tangy. This and the black flat butterfly have been die cut too. The pearls started off as pearls but I daubed black Stayzon ink to transform them.

 

 

I can't stop as Blake is snoring away and Zac is attempting to prod him and to be honest - I like the quiet!!

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Jumbled Up

I had absolutely the best day at Stampin' Up! regional training at Leeds yesterday, what a scream! I met some amazing people and received some beautiful swaps, even though I didn't have many swaps myself - so thanks to everyone who was kind enough to give me one of theirs, some real works of art in there.

Today I have a to do list as long as my arm to try and get through so I'm quickly going to share the card I made this morning for my MIL to give to my FIL on Tuesday:

It's a big card as my MIL prefers them to my usual smallish square ones! I've used Jumble Alpha stamps for the main sentiment and Basic Phrases for the smaller words. Papers and adhesive strips are out of the Good Times Simply Scrappin Kit and the cupcake is from Big Bold Birthday set. Bit of a mix eh?

Fingers crossed I get through all my jobs before dinner time!

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Frosty on the cake

I'm going through a bit of an addiction to making these cute cakes out of candles. If you'd like to see how to make one, just book a party with me during January or February and I'll come and show you how to make one and leave it with you to keep too.

This one is based on a winter birthday theme:

I've used the owl and the Birthday sentiment from the Sale-A-Bration set Punch Bunch and also the cake and sentiment from Big Bold Birthday. I did cut the ears and feet off my owl as at first I was going to make him in to a penguin, kinda changed my mind part way through! Here's the card on it's own:

It's come out a bit dull as the light isn't fabulous today, I think it's going to rain some more and my conservatoire is likely to get wet in the process too (it's so old and falling to bits!). I hope the icing looks like snow and the scalloped white card beneath the sentiment too. Here's the inside of the box with the lit candle inside:

Again due to poor light, you can't really see all the patterned papers I've used, except on the cake top. I added some white icing to look like snow. And finally here is everything together with the box open:

I've had so much lovely feedback about the punch art chocolates I made yesterday - thank you so much.
OK, these are the challenges I'm going to join in with:

• Stamp with Fun - Snow
• Papertake - Cold, frosty morning
• Stampin for the Weekend - New and blue (not used the Big Bold Birthday set before)
• Cute Card Thursday - Monochrome

Well, it's time to go and make lunch now, but I have to share this cute pic of Blake in his new bath towel before I go, makes me giggle so much:

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