Christmas Scenes Christmas Cake

I enjoyed making this very seasonal Christmas cake. I used moulds for the Kings, sheep and baby Jesus but had fun playing to make the rest. Christmas 2014.

Shepherds Watched Their Flocks Christmas Cake

I have to admit to little time so covered this cake and decorated it using moulds for the shepherd and his flock.  It was seasonal and colourful.... did the job!

Gingerbread House

My first attempt at making a gingerbread house. It was fun but messy. I think it would be easier second time around. Christmas 2014.

Making Mince Pies

Teaching our grandson to make mince pies... that's what comes of moving nearer to where they live so we can spend more time with him now. December 2014.

Pirate Party Cake

Our Grandson's Pirate Party Cake. The sweets were a favourite with the little ones... and the not so little!!!

Handbag Card in Lime Green

I have a daughter who loves handbags AND lime green. I was onto a winner with this.  A simple idea embossing the card in a leather look.. and adding the trimmings. It was a great hit. November 2014

Doggy Card

A birthday card for my brother 2014. It isn't easy to come up with ideas for men's birthday cards I don't think.

Patchwork Lesson

My dear friend Chris of 'Purple Peonies' blog (see below) gave me a lesson on patchwork. This was the result.  So I may be adding sewing ventures to my crafty cakes and cards!

Birdcage Card

A birthday card in 2014 for a friend who loves birds. I cheated with the scallops and bought these papers, but embossed them and used my friends die cutters and stamps to create the leaves. The birdcage is a gate with a few bits cut off.

Elsa's Birth Card

Our lovely friends Mary and Michael have become grandparents again to a most beautiful granddaughter, who will be sister to Rory. This is the card I made to send to the parents to congratulate them.

Pulling together many different elements from different places, I made this VERY pink card because  I love pink for girls and well remember wanting everything pink when I had a baby girl myself so it does tend to be a dominant factor for me when planning birth cards for little girls.

We wish you a good life Elsa.

3-D Garden Gate Birthday Card

This 3-D card came about when Chris gave me some lovely card with flowers and butterflies on it, and Sue (with a little persuasion from me) bought the fabulous Memory Box gate and fence die cutters.

I set about thinking of the best way I could use these materials to make a birthday card for Fiona.

I had great fun cutting/pressing out the various elements and the skill came really in arranging it correctly. I think I managed that okay.

To support the delicate gate and fence, I used acetate, a clever idea suggested by Sue.

The most important thing was that Fiona was delighted with it.

Nurse Gill's 50th Birthday Cake

Jenny asked me to make a cake for her daughters special birthday. Well knowing Gill was a nurse I suggested a cake on that theme, and used the colours she wears in the hospital where she works to dress this model I made.  

The cake was sponge with no marzipan for people who may have a nut allergy. This is not the best or my favourite kind of cake to make as there is little time in which to make it, get it decorated and eaten before the cake becomes inedible, and creating a good finish isn't so easy either... but I managed it.  How could I say no when Jenny has been so good to look after my dog for all these years.

I have posted several pictures because no one photo really shows it up.

It was fun making the nurse, patient and all the bits and pieces to decorate it. I used Squires modelling paste.

Cotswold Crafters Stamping Card

The Cotswold Crafters got together for another card making day. For the first time all six members were together and this was our second challenge of the day, stamping a card demonstrated by Chris with the original idea coming from Dawn's blog.

How differently these have all turned out..... lovely.

At the bottom is an extra card Fiona sneaked in when we weren't looking!

Cotswold Crafters Name Cards

What a lovely day we had today with a full compliment of the 'Cotswold Crafters' present.

This was our first challenge.... an oval card with a chosen name.

It is so lovely to see how each person took on the same challenge and put their own slant on it.  Don't they look so colourful and so different?

Thank you ladies....

Ann's Birthday Card 2013

Sorry to everyone who checks out my blog from time to time. Life has been busy and creativity has taken a back seat of late, whilst work and studying have taken my time.

However, I did manage to find time to make this card for Ann. She is my much loved and appreciated teacher.

To make the card I cut out the shape using  my oval nestabilities as well as the layered papers.

For the name, I went onto the computer, found a suitable font, adjusted the size, and printed out an 'A' and an 'N', cut them out and used them as templates to cut out the gingham paper.  To hide any imperfections in my cutting out, I used a damp watercolour pencil to colour the edges giving highlight to the name.

The decorations I made using die cutters with the exception of the butterfly which I saved from a Mothering Sunday card I received last year.