Flower Birthday Card

I made this card for a friend of mine but I liked it so much I made several more in different colours!!

 The inked background is made using a stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge set from Stampin Up, the flowers I made using clay and moulds also froom Stampin Up, the clay is coloured using distress inks and co ordinates with the stamped background.

 I punched out leaves in different shades of green and silver, although the silver does not show up in the pictures!!

Happy Birthday is stamped onto white card which has then been matted onto green card.

Hope you like them.

After Eight Caddy

 Here it is, an After Eight Caddy, as you can see from the picture below I ate several whilst making it but they kept me going!!

This is made the same way as my previous posting of the tea caddy, but this time I added a platform for the chocolates to sit on, when doing a google search a picture came up with the base looking like this and I thought it was a fab idea, unfortunately I do not who did the original.

 I kept the After Eights in the holder they were in when in the box, I took my measurements from this holder as the tea caddy and After Eight caddy are different sizes, but how they are put together is the same.

 Here are both together, the sizes are quite different, tall and thin, short and dumpy!!

Tea Caddy

For ages, years even, I have wanted to make a 'Tea Caddy', I don't drink tea or even like the smell of tea but there is something about a tea caddy that I love!!

So I was really pleased when I bought the May issue of Card Making and Papercraft magazine and found a template and instructions ready to make my very own.

I used kraft card for the base, bazzill card for matting and papermania paper for decoration.

 It was so easy to put together, I decided not to embellish the caddy as the person I will eventually give it to is a kinda embellishment free gal, the less fussy the better for her!!

I even managed to find matching teabags to go inside.

When I give this as a gift I will place the caddy in a cellaphane bag tied with curly ribbon.

I am now going to make a caddy in the same way to hold After Eights, yummy!!

100th Birthday Card

My step Grandmother has just celebrated her 100th Birthday, there was a lovely tea party for her with many friends and family. The card from the Queen was on display!!! We also had a book for people to sign so that her sons and daughter knew who had been there.

Nana loves the colour green and teddies so thats what I put on the card.

The decoupage is from the Mackenzies paper pack.

1st Birthday Card

I made this card for a gorgeous little girl who also had a birthday at the end of April.

To make the card I used punches from stampin up, buttons and a Tim Holtz die to cut the letters and number.

The picture really does not do the card justice, the glitter paper is very sparkly in real life!!!

Male 21st Birthday Card

I cannot believe my eldest was 21 at the end of April, he hates it when I say he is still my baby!!!

I decided to make Jake this tri-shutter card. The base card is made using kraft card and because Jake is obviously special I used Basic Grey paper matted onto brown card stock.

I cut the 21 on my cricut then embossed the mirri card and ran brown stazon ink over the embossed bits. The 21 ribbon I bought from my local craft shop. Also if you look closely you can see the metal cog embellishments and embossed happy birthdays on the far side of the card.

I added an ink coloured rectangle to the back of the card to write my message on.

I am pleased to say that Jake thought the card was 'okay', which coming from him is high praise.

Rocky Road Bars

We always get so many easter eggs and my three like to eat the goodies that come with them first, leaving the chocolate eggs stacked up in the kitchen.

This year I made use of them and made these very yummy rocky road bars.

 I used;

100g butter

300g easter eggs

3 tbs golden syrup

140g rich tea biscuits, roughly crushed

3 large marshmallows (maybe equal to 12 normal ones?)

1 turkish delight bar, chopped up

55g maltesers, halved

1 tin, mine was 15cm x 23cm, lined with foil

 

To make:

Melt the butter, chicolate and syrup in a pan over a low heat, stir well so that it is all well mixed together and smooth. leave to cool for about 10 mins.

Next stir in the biscuits and sweets, make sure all are covered in chocolate mix. Tip into a tin foil lined tin, spread out and push down then leave to cool.

Finish chilling the mix in the fridge, when hard cut into bars and enjoy.

Hope you like them as much as we do.

 

Also did you know if you break them in half the calories fall out!!!

Well that's what I tell myself xx