Wednesday 22 February 2012
21ST FEBRUARY - NIKI'S BIRTHDAY
This card was for her 19th birthday. I wanted to create something fun & colourful. Once it was completed I thought it was a little bit over the top but she really did love it!
21ST FEBRUARY - JOSH'S BIRTHDAY
I used a dinosaur off a piece of wrapping paper to create a card for josh's 11th birthday adding a piece of thread to hold the balloon an show texture.
GRAY'S BIRTHDAY BUNS!
Gray loves lemon cakes so I made him lemon cupcakes with coloured vanilla butter cream with a sweetshop twist - gummy bears, smarties & popping candy! They were so colourful & looked exciting!
20TH FEBRUARY - GRAHAM'S BIRTHDAY
For Gray's birthday last year I got him the cath kidston cowboy mug. This year I thought I'd stitch it for a card design. I layered it up with red & white spotty fabric :) it was hard work but I think it was definitely worth it.
Tuesday 21 February 2012
14TH FEBRUARY - VALENTINES DAY
I made Graham some buns with fondant icing on top & then I dyed the icing to create pink heart shapes for the top of the cakes. They were delicious & really cute!
I ordered this personalised card from CARDTOWN online because I saw on television a code to get a card for free :) I was really impressed with the quality & finish of the card.
Monday 13 February 2012
13TH FEBRUARY - LISA MARY'S 24TH BIRTHDAY
For Lisa's birthday card I wanted to create something pretty & colourful. The pastel shades I have chose are not the colours I would usually go for but I think they look really good. The lace & buttons add a feminine touch :)
Thursday 2 February 2012
1ST FEBRUARY
Over the christmas period my Grandma picked up these cookie cutters for just £1 from morrisons. I had totally forgot about them & yesterday when i was bored I remembered that I hadn't used them yet. So I made some biscuit dough & cut out some little winnie the pooh characters. My favourite was the butterfly, I then decorated them with glittery writing icing! They were delicious & FUN!
19TH JANUARY - RICHARD'S BIRTHDAY
My brother was 27 last month & I hadn't got a clue what to put on his card. I wanted to keep it young & fun as he wasn't too happy about being that old! I decided to go with a colourful stegasaurus with lovely balloons tided to his tail. I used crayons & watercolour pencils.
I felt like something was missing from the left hand side of this card, & I decided to use a stencil. When we were kids me & Richard used to love doing stencil writing, so why not do it now in an attempt to embrace the childlike card :) !
CROCHET
For christmas I got a Cath Kidston kit on how to crochet & I thought I would share some of my first attempts. It was very tricky to start with but with the help of Graham's Granny Pat I have cracked it.
Single Crochet
Bigger Single Crochet
My first attempt of a Granny Square
I love the effect of the granny square, I am just practicing with left over wool that I have from when I did my knitting. I'll keep up to date with my progress on here!
GRAHAM
I always find it so hard to do birthday cards for boys never mind other occasions such as christmas. So for Graham I thought I would do a personalised snow globe as it's a little bit different. I used brown paper & very few colours to make it simple & effective. My favourite part is the candy cane effect on the name.
RICHARD & JESS
I wanted to do a stocking for each of them with their initials on as this year as hopefully they will be in their house for next christmas! I love the use of traditional christmas colours & the glittery gold!
GRAHAM'S PARENTS
I used the same design as I had previously done for my parents as I really like the festive robin, I just wrote Merry Christmas & edged it with gold thread.
MUM & DAD
I hand stitched a robin from a photograph for my mum & dad this year as it is very christmassy & traditional & a little bit different to something i would usually do for them.
SCARLETT DAISY SHAY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS.
I wanted to do something special for Scarlett's first christmas, this christmas tree is simple but with added sparkly gold thread & little beads. Her parents absolutely loved it & will keep it to put out every christmas.
DECEMBER 2011 - STITCH
I wanted to come up with something hand stitched yet simple enough to make quickly for a lot of family members & this is what i decided on.I used pink's for Graham's sister & used purple & silver for my uncle & fiance as they are quite trendy.
I used traditional red, gold & green for the older people in my family.
DECEMBER 2011 - CHRISTMAS CARDS
I have definitely been slacking with my blog updates over the festive period! & to make this worse i forgot to take pictures of all my cards. I sent my friend a picture of them all out on the floor & although the quality is not the best you get the idea...
[coming soon!]
4TH DECEMBER - MUM & DADS ANNIVERSARY
I went to Paperchase to look for inspiration for an anniversary card when I saw this card. I couldn't resist it, I absolutely love the Rob Ryan inspired design with paper cut outs & not to mention the fabulous amount of gold glitter!
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