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.