Happy Birthday Ellie!

Morning all, yesterday was our friend’s little girl Ellie’s 3rd birthday. I’m not so sure where the three years have gone – I remember holding her at 3 days old – she’s certainly grown since then! As with many little girls, Ellie’s favourite colour is pink, pink and more pink. I dug out my crazy for cupcakes stamp set, which is the perfect choice for girly cards, and used a colour combination of pretty in pink, pink pirouette and so saffron to create a card and matching gift bag.

the top note gift bag is made using a tutorial over on Becky Roberts’ blog, using the top note die, so saffron cardstock and pretty in pink DSP from the subtles DSP stack. I also used my new ‘daisies’ die for the first time since buying it 2 months ago! hopefully it fulfilled Ellie’s criteria of being girly and pink.

Right, from girly to masculine. This evening I’m focussing on the design of my next class which is ‘Cards for Dads and Lads’ – the most difficult kind in my opinion. Class is on Saturday 23rd July, and further details can be found here - be sure to email me to reserve your place.

Birthday Bash with Fox & Friends

It’s the weekend – hooray! and better still, it’s a BANK HOLIDAY weekend, which hopefully means an extra day in my craft room this weekend, that is if Darren doesn’t make me do some more DIY….
In the meantime, I’ve got my ‘Birthday Bash’ class today, where we’re making a selection of kid’s birthday cards using ‘Fox & Friends’ and ‘Party This Way’ in bright bold colours using a few funky folds, so here they are…..

The second project of the day features ‘crazy for cupcakes’ and we’re making a card reminiscent of a cake shop window, and a matching cupcake box, which, if everything goes to plan, will contain cupcakes that is assuming I don't munch them all on the way to class….

And finally we’re making a flip album to record birthday party memories, using Celebrations DSP.

After all that I think I’m going to need a large tub of jelly and ice cream and perhaps even some fizzy pop I’ll hopefully be back later with some photos of the lovely ladies in my class – if they’ll agree to pose for some!
Tomorrow I’ll be starting my samples for my next class, which is on 18th June and features the ‘Occasional Greetings’ stamp set – we’ll be making cards for all occasions. If you fancy joining us for that one, be sure to email me to book your place.