How Does your garden grow ? .................

Well Lucy's grows like this! This cake was for my friends daughter, who I'm told is a real girly girl and loves pink and thats all I had to go on. So this is what I came up with and I have to say I Sooo enjoyed making this cake, I just love it. I love the springy flowers and pink ladybirds and the way the green looks with the pinks. and the best thing?...... no stressin, no not once did I stress. Bring on more cakes like this, I like em. ;)

Birthday Treats

I know, its a bit sad to make your own birthday cakes. But I couldn't resist! I was going to go the whole hog and make a proper birthday cake but Gary said that really was sad, so I settled for some fancy cupcakes instead. I feel much better about these than the last disasters, the butterflies stayed put and I actually managed to make some half decent roses which didn't look old fashioned or like big blobs. Then sods law my mom bought me a birthday cake and Jack got me a Hello Kitty cake, bless him. So now I've got cake coming out of my ears, It will be such hard work to eat it all ;) Xxx

Rubbish Cupcakes!!!

Ok so I decided to blog them after all, and we all make mistakes!! These cupcakes are quite frankly rubbish. What went wrong?? Well firstly the icing was meant to be black but it just wasn't happening, then after spending loads of time hand painting the butterflies they wouldn't stay in shape and are still soft even now, must be because I mixed the sugar paste with fondant. Any way we learn from our mistakes and as I'm determined to do these cakes ( I've been dreaming about them for ages) next time I'll use fondant to cover the cakes, and colour the sugar paste by hand, a longer process but better results me thinks, and even though they look a bit crap they did taste good and jack loved them...bless him he's biased Xxx

This weeks secret crafter challenge is right up my street..Plain and simple is the theme, I love the less is more approach and hate to overcrowd my cards with things that may draw attention away from the focus piece. I've been camping for a few days with my husband Gary and our little boy Jack, and only got home last night, so wasn't planning on doing any crafting but they both went out shopping for my birthday leaving me with a few hours to myself..what luxury!!! So I whipped up this little card, using a stamp from rubber romance and some left over papers from my stash. I inked the edge of the card to give it a vintage feel and water coloured the image giving her some funky bright red hair for a little bit of rock n roll!! I did also have time to make some cupcakes this morning, however they didn't turn out as I wanted and are a bit rubbish so I'm still debating whether to blog them...we'll see Xxx

Christmas come early

I made a few cards with these stamps from pink petticoat last Christmas and loved them, so as I had a few images left over I thought I get a head start and combine it with this weeks secret crafter challenge. Even though I've made this card so early you can guarantee that I'll still be there a few days before Christmas frantically making last minute cards. I have got some ideas for mini cakes to give away as presents though and will be making a start on those in the next few weeks. And today I've had a bit of a card mad day today so I'll be posting those in the coming days. Xxx

Rock n Roll Inspiration

I always see and hear little things when I'm out and about, that really inspire me. But this week I've just seen loads of stuff, the first is what inspired this card which I'm hoping to turn into a full on project of a set of cards and maybe some cupcakes. Gary my hubby was driving home from work when he saw a wedding, the bride had Pink hair and was wearing a black wedding dress and black top hat. I wish he could have stopped to take a picture as i would of loved to see it. This is really my kind of thing, I would LOVE to have pink hair, but idiotic work restrictions forbid me from doing so. Apparently if you have any hair colour other than the ordinary your not able to do your job as well and your rude to everyone!! Any how I really wanted to make a set of cards that would appeal to people who have this kind of wedding/lifestyle. So here's the first one, I used a digi stamp from pink petticoat, and water coloured the image. I think the watercolour on the dress looks great as it gives the impression of fabric rather than just being flat. I mounted on pink velum and added a few pink diamonds. I really don't think this card needs anymore, sticking to my less is more approach. I'm already thinking of black cup cakes with pink butterflies..... Xxx

Left Overs

Just a quickie to show you the cupcakes I made using the left over royal icing from Shauni's cake. See there are some advantages to being so stressed. Yum Xxx

Vintage Knickers

As Promised here's Shaunis card. As she originally asked for a lingerie cake, I knew these Flirties from Pink Petticoat would be perfect. I wanted to give the idea of an old fashioned dressing screen and wanted the whole thing to have a vintage feel about it. To be honest I don't really think I achieved that and think it would have looked better with the papers mounted on black card. So when I've got a mo I might have a bash at making another for my stash. Saying that I really love the colours in the papers, which are actually valentine papers!! Anyway on to the next...Mmmm what shall it be? Card? Cake? wait and see! Xxx

Shaunis 18th Birthday Cake

Well after much stressing and sitting on the kitchen floor, her is the cake I did for my cousin Shauni's 18Th birthday. She had originally asked for a lingerie cake but after doing a bit of research I couldn't find one I really liked or inspired me. They were all boobs and basques which wasn't what I wanted, as I was looking for something Classy and sophisticated. So after some discussion and lots of pics we opted for this kind of theme. I was so stressed over this cake, there was no way I was gonna mess it up, too important!!!! But what a long time it took to get here, first I iced the board then took it off as I didn't like the colour, next I started to make the bow then wasn't happy so left it alone for a while, then I iced the top layer but thought it not smooth enough so that came off too, then I decided I hadn't got enough sugar paste for the bow so had to make an emergency run to hobby craft for more!....after all that I'm pretty happy with the final result. :) And I'm told there wasn't a scrap left after the party, so I'm glad it went down well and that Shauni had a great time. Happy 18Th!! Xxx

Flowers and butterflies

Well here it is...this is the cake I made for my Nans 75Th birthday. We had a surprise BBQ for her and she didn't suspect a thing !! My little boy Jack came up with the theme, which I thought was a great idea as Nans always in the garden and loves her flowers. I started off hating this cake as I couldn't get the icing right, but when the flowers and butterflies went on, I just loved it!!! I actually couldn't believe that I had made it. Everyone at the party loved it including nan, and all said it was too pretty to cut! And as they say one thing leads to another, as my cousin Shauni will be 18 in August and has asked me to make the cake!!! Better get my thinking cap on! Xxx