JJ friends birthday card

JJ's little friends birthday was the other day and we made a card together.  We went for a wild jungle theme.  Large chipboard letters spelled his name and age 4 but the rest was made up as we went along.  I used a sheet of acetate across the front, bowed to create depth and used the cropodile to punch holes along the top of the acetate which I then tied green ribbon onto to create a treeish junglish theme.

The  little animals are cut from foam using the cricut expression animal kingdom and I used a pipe cleaner or as they call them on the shopping channels .....chenille sticks :o)........to bend round into loops to look like a main on the little lion.  Then as a final touch I put tiny googly eyes on both the elephant, monkey hiding behing my ribbon tree and the lion to make them a bit more comic. One chipboard word clip saying wild thing finished the card.  I can see where I would like to change the card but the recipient was after all 4 years old so I left it and resisted temptation to take bits off and change them.

JJ's birthday cake

JJ (Justin John) had a birthday the other week and I felt like baking a cake rather than buying one.  So I opened one of his new birthday toys.....oh dont panic he still got to play with it after the icing was washed off........and I used it to help decorate the cake.  A standard sponge with a layer of green icing which I rolled using a patterned roller to imitate grass and dirt.  Then I used coconut mushrooms as trees, chocolate sprinkles as the hole in the ground and then bob and the digger.  Simple and relatively plain but he loved it.

origami rose made from florist ribbon on a place card - WEDDING

Here are the place cards I made the origami roses for.  I made 120 in silver and white and attached them using hot glue to the place cards I cut using my zutter page cutter.  I cut each sheet of a4 linen card in 3 using second row of bladeson page cutter then put every 3rd back through the first row of blades. So I got 6 place cards from every sheet of A4 linen card.  Then I used my zutter pink half inch corner chomper and softened the corners.   Finally I used a silver pigment ink pad to colour the edges of the card.

silver rose on the place card

white rose on the place card

wedding table centrepieces -one down FOURTEEN to go :op

The wedding I have been making invitations for is looming ever closer and now I am at the stage of making the table centres.  Today I made the first one and I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.  To be honest I had to make each individual flower separately so there is a lot of work in preparation and only about two hours building the cone and hotgluing on the flowers.  The flowers took three days to prepare.  Full 8 hours shifts as well, Oh my goodness I have alot of flower making ahead to complete these.

I also made 120 origami flowers and stuck them to the place cards.  The bride saw this idea in a wedding magazine and it was priced at £150 each, and place cards £5 each.  I made them for a lot less!  She was delighted with the result but even more delighted that we created this look for such a huge saving.

A good day all round!