And there's more :)

Apart from this first one, seems to be a Kanban Christmas today :)

Friday Offerings

I made this card for my friends sons birthday, he is a keen Liverpool supporter so I copied these images from the website and made him a personalised card - Happy Birthday Liam!

Denise (another friend - and yes, I have more than one!) had asked me to make a Millwall Football card so below are the results
Liverpool 1-Millwall 1



Back to Christmas, the following are from the A4 Forever Friends paper pad I got recently.
The images were perfect for decoupage and are mounted onto 8x8 cards to maximise the space.

More Christmas

Managed a few more today to add to stock.

This one was from an A4 pad of Forever Friends Christmas papers. Mounted and trimmed onto an 8x8 card and then 2 other sheets cut for decoupage.

This one was a pyramage sheets from Forever Friends, backed with the top of the sheet above and mounted onto a CWC silver scalloped edge square.

These are cardstock stickers that say Noel.

This was on the same work sheet as the pyramage. I cut the robin from the leftover piece from the first card.

Finally - I've made some cards....

Finally managed to make some cards today, albeit only 3.

Early start I thought, ha ha, an hour later I began - washing, phone calls for Dad, etc etc etc.

Made with a Kanban kit, loved the way these look.

I added a concertina of black card and added the layers forward on this one giving extra dimension.

And then I had a phone call......and had to stop :)

The end of an era

A sad end to the week as Dad closed up the caravan at Bognor Regis for good.
He doesn't want to go without Mum, obviously, and the ground rent etc is quite high.
We went down Thursday and sorted out what he wanted to bring home, stayed in a Travelodge Thursday and Friday nights. Robert came with the van after work on Friday so we loaded up yesterday and came home. Some of the neighbours & Management at Copthorne caravan park came to say goodbye and I hope they manage to keep in touch with Dad - he really needs his friends to keep him going!

Today, Sunday, Lianne's boyfriend Sam was complaining of stomach pains. He then started being sick so we were quite worried. We suggested they went to the Urgent Care Centre at Darent Valley and TG we did. He is currently undergoing sugery to remove his appendix!
We wish him a speedy recovery.

Hopefully a happier week to come?

Destroying the evidence.

This is the birthday girl cutting the cake, carefully watched by Derek, my brother.

Birthday Cake

Last week my brother asked me to organise a cake for his wife's surprise 50th birthday party.
Nothing like a bit of notice as I only had 4 days!!
As he wanted fruit cake, I bought one from M&S ready iced in white and thought I'd have a go at making flowers to decorate it.

Due to the lack of time (I had 2 classes this week) I went to Hobbycraft and bought some fondant icing in pink and lilac and some cutters to make roses and carnations.

Fondant was not the correct choice I later found out to make flowers with as it "flops" :(

I used the cutter for the roses which is the same as the retro daisy paper punch, and cut 2 sizes, made indents on the smaller sized petals and layered them. I coloured some white fondant yellow and made little balls which I pressed into discs using my sieve to add texture for the centres. The leaves were made with ivy cutters and some fondant I coloured with green.

I already had letters and numbers as I used to make novelty cakes for Lianne's birthdays so I used these too.



I changed the ribbon to coordinate with the flowers and added a bow.



Not as I had intended, but it seemed to go down well :)