Cake for work

At work there's a lot of people that like cake A LOT. And there is no occasion that's to small or big to celebrate with cake. Besides the normal celebrations like birthdays, jubilees and anniversaries, we also bring cake when we go on vacation, get a new car, buy a new house, sign the deed for the house, sell a house, become pregnant or a grand parent, etcetera. When I had my last day before my summer vacation, it was also my last day in that department, since I moved to a new one, when I came back, so of course I had to bring cake. So I made this cake for my colleagues:

I made it very girly since that is my favorite, just as I prefer to make girly cards. I'm not a hundred % sure, but I think it consists of 3 layers of champagne cake, a layer of elderflower mousse and a layer of rhubarb mousse. It turned out to be a very good combination, definitely something I have to try again at some point.

Anniversary card

June 3rd it was my Godparents wedding anniversary, 55 years they have been married (55½ now), so I made a card for them.

The paper with the blue flowers are from UHK Gallery, the green paper, which has a little glittery effect, is from something similar to a dollar store. The butterfly die is the Majestic Monarch from Sue Wilson and the circle die is also from Sue Wilson and it is the Decorative Frames from the Italian collection. I think the ribbon is from Wild Orchid Crafts, and I have used a Spectrum Noir marker to color it a light green to match the green cardstock. And then I added a few half pearls in the upper corners.

My very first layout

Well I think it's about time I show you guys my first layout. I made it as a present for my Godparents, since I thought they needed some updated pictures of the kids. I chose the colors for the layout to match the colors my Godparents have in their house. And as you can see, 2 of the kiddos actually have on shirts that matches the papers, I plan ahead you see, LOL, no it is just a coincident, but a good one I think.

I used papers from UHK Gallery and Lemoncraft, the chipboard clock is from Scrapek (Anemone), and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts (WOC) and a local craft store. For the frames around the pictures I used the Regal Frame from Spellbinders, and I cut out 3 frames that I glued together for each picture, this way it got a little thicker and looked more like a piece of chipboard. I also used some Gesso toghether with the Rings and Puddles stencil from Memory Box. The letters are made with a die that came with an issue of Die Cutting Essentials. I cut out 2 of each letter and glued them together to get a bit more chipboard feeling to it. "Tiden flyver" means Time flies. And then I added part of cake doily and some half pearls here and there. I was very happy with the result, since I hadn't tried it before, and my Godparents were very happy with it as well.

My nephews birthday

Back in September last year my oldest nephew turned 18, which is a big deal here in DK, cause then you are legally an adult. So of course my sister and brother-in-law had a party for him. I offered my sister to bring a naughty cake to surprise my nephew with. This is what I made for him:

Let us just say his cheeks turned a darker shade of red, when he saw it, but his friends really liked it. It consisted of 2 layers of vanilla cake with Verdi, 1 layer of chocolate cake, raspberry mousse and Baileys mousse.

Of course I also had to make him a card to go with his present, which was a lot of moving-away-from-home-kitchen-supplies. On the picture he is about 2 years old, so a lot has happened since then, because now he is over 2 meters tall.

For the card I used papers from 3 different Maja Design collections: From Home for the holidays I used Snowydays BS, from Vintage Frost Basic I used 22th of December BS and from Vintage Spring Basics I used 7th of April BS. I love how you can mix the papers from the different collections and they still match together. The dies I have used are Elegant Ovals from Spellbinders Nestabilities. The chipboard gears are Anemone from Scrapek.pl and the numbers are some I found at a local grocery store.