Celebrate with a Wonky Cake!!!

Hello there :0)
How about a calorie free birthday cake to tempt you into the new week???...
if only *wink*!!!... it's a bit wonky too but that's on purpose, pretty much like my own Victoria sponges sometimes..hehehe. Actually they're much better since we had a new oven fitted which is LEVEL..quite an important requirement for baking!!!

The square sentiment in Cake and Candles just reminded me of a layered cake so I embossed it on three different colloured cardstocks... did you spy the jam and cream middle :0)
I was inspired by the current sketch over at the AEIHeartU challenge blog so I layered three strips of washi tape to ground my cake and added candles from AE Fill the Blanks stamp set along with stars and confetti :0)

             
Right, all this talk of cake has made me feel quite peckish... shame I haven't any cake in the house, a coffee and biscuit will have to do :0)

Jenny x

AEI♥U March Challenge

Hello there :0)

My new Avery Elle stamp sets arrived this week and I had to get them inky straight away

 and play along with the March AEI♥U challenge....

Below is the photo inspiration..... it took some thinking about but hopefully you can 

see that I picked out the horizontal and vertical converging lines as well as the 

colours and texture. I love the diagonal stripe border, it really gives the impression 

of texture on these recycled card blanks from Paperchase .... I went with a 

one layer design so that pattern could show through behind the bike :0)

The weathered jetty gave me the idea to use White Distress crackle paint on Sahara Sand card

before punching out the stars and lightly sanding the edges for a wooden effect :0)

Avery Elle stamps are available here in the UK at Make the Day Special

The sets I used below are Roll with it and Celebrate... aren't those bikes 

brilliant with all the extras you can add to them :0) 

 

Right that's all from me this week, we are going to fetch our girlie home from Uni this

weekend for her Easter break... can't wait to give her 

a hug again, James is more excited than normal for a Friday evening too :0)

Thanks for looking

Jenny x

Patterns and Circles

Hello there, I've got two cards to share with you today as the challenge deadlines are looming at the end of the day :0)

First up is a zingy little number for the Avery Elle AEI♥U challenge which has a bright table setting in the photo inspiration below, not 'go to' colours for me but you have to push those box edges sometimes!! 

I have just three AE stamp sets at the moment so I got creative with the small retro diamond stamp from Merry and Bright which I love, and teamed it up with speech bubbles from Picture it.

My fiskars stamp press came in soooo handy when making this pattern but don't look too closely because it's a bit dodgy in places!!! A few glitter dots to add some sparkle and I was quite chuffed with my first attempt at creating a geometric pattern with such a small stamp :0)

Now for something completely different (as they say) and my card for this weeks Circle challenge at CASology which was also my DT card yesterday at Make the Day Special where I shared a small tip I found in blogland about using stamps and diecuts together..... see the blog post here.

I've used the Love Birds stamp and die set from Wplus9 for this card and used hessian/burlap again through my bigshot to get that lovely texture on the raised panel.

Now for a shameless plug as both these stamp companies are stocked by Make the Day Special here in the UK, just pop over here for a trip round the store ...... and join us on Facebook here for updates of new arrivals in store :0)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x