Tiled Card

I thought it was time that I revisted the tiled mosiac card I have made a few in my time but after seeing it again on Nichole's blog I thought I'd give it another whirl with a delicate look, so out came the lavender and white and a Music Plate Stamp by Stampsmith.

I used the Cut'n'Dry foam by ranger to sponge the lavender ink over the edges of the tiled pieces

As you can see from this shot I left a small gap in between the tiles when I was fitting them back together

Arte y Pico Award

Oh my I've received an award.

I was given this award by Em, I feel very privileged.

Thanks Em, you are a wonderfully sweet person.

The idea behind the award is to pass it on to 5 bloggers whom you think are creative and contribute a lot to the blogging community.

So here I go to award the Arte y Pico

I would like to award this to Alli Miles for her sheer inspiration in the crafting world.

I would also like to award a good friend Peejay for her blogging Ramblings.

Also Toni Poyser for trying her hand at everything crafty.

next is Katie who is always around to leave a comment and is a wonderful crafter.

Last but by no means least is Michele Lovely blogspot and always a cheery outlook.

How Sweet it is..

I just love the Celebration stamp set by PTI, lots of matting a layering here, then a clever
little folded card added to the centre with a matching ribbon to hold it in place topped with contasting circles and a PTI stamped cupcake.

How sweet it is.........

This is the inside of the centre fold piece

with the cup cake image attached,
Stamped sentiment and patterned
paper by PTI.

To have & to hold........

A trifold card, the stamps used were from the wedding range from Papertrey Ink also the new Palette Hybrid colours exclusive to them Sweet Blush and Berry Sorbet.

I stamped the oval and cut out the aperture then stamped through the aperture to ensure that I got the words lined up correctly I layered up a couple of the flowers to make them pop, and stamped the leaves and corner swirls in the Sweet blush.

The piece that I cut from the oval I folded the card up and popped this back into the oval and opend up one layer of the card holding the oval shape in place then stamped around the oval shape to make a background.

For the insert I used PTI background paper stamped the sentiment and layered onto contrasting card before attaching in to the centre.

Double opening as shown below

Helppppppppp !!!!!

Why on earth do I not learn to keep my mouth shut?
You would think at my age I was old enough to learn but no!

My eldest daughter Lauren is getting Engaged 16th May and what did I go and do, offer to make the cake or should I say cakes. 3 in total.

The cakes have been made and are all ready to marzipan and ice, those that know me will tell you I gave up cake decorating over 10 years ago and the type I specialised in was sugar craft making all the delicate flowers, the reasoning behind giving it up was everyone expected them done yesterday giving me very little time to complete.

Lucky for Lauren I didn't throw away my tools I hid them away in the loft. Now the hard part Lauren wants something a little funky arghhhhhhhhhhhh I don't do funky and this little engagement cake project has cost me roughly £150.00 so far.

I expect it will all turn out fine it is just that I am stressing over it a little.
Below is the last cakes I made for a friends Wedding (the second time round).