Birthday cake to a teenager

Recently I made a cake as a surprise to a Mille who turned 14. Mille likes fantasy books especially "Klintespind" (Danish series) and Harry Potter. I chose to make a Klintespind theme with a few small Harry Potter elements:

The cake consists of 3 layers of chocolate cake, 1 layer of raspberry mousse and 1 layer of white chocolate mousse. I coated it with UCF and covered it with homemade fondant. For the web I used RI which I painted with silver edible paint.

50th birthday card

A colleague asked if I could make a birthday card for a friend that turned 50. The friend had biked to Paris, so he would like if somehow I could implement that in the card. I knew I had some paper that had Paris and the Eiffel Tower on it, and so I made this card:

From UHK Gallery I used the "Le Bistrot" paper from the "Allo Allo" collection and the small picture with the bike, and from Dovecraft I used papers from the 6×6 paper pad called "Sweet Paris". I have used dies from Spellbinders: Matting basics 6×6 and Elegant Ovals (inside the card), the Happy Birthday is from Tattered Lace, 50 is a magazine freebie die and for the leaves I used a China die. I inked the edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, used flowers from WOC and some halfpearls from my stash.
Here is how the inside of the card look's like:

Grey and pink wedding card

Another colleague was getting married, and I was asked to make the wedding card. This time it was up to me which colors to use, so I went for pink and grey, inspired by the colors in Lemoncrafts September challenge.

For this card I used papers from Lemoncrafts Heart Painted and Just Love Me collections. I have only used dies from Sue Wilson this time, flowers are from WOC, fat silk ribbon, cheesecloth, halfpearls and lace is from my stash. Around the edges I have made some fake stitching.

30th birthday card with pepper

Here in Denmark it is a tradition that when somebody turns 30 and they haven't gotten married yet, they have to get pepper in some variation. So when my colleague turned 30 I added pepper to his card.

The paper with pepper corn is something I printed from the net, and besides that I used some black cardstock, white cardstock and red and black quilling strips. I used dies from Spellbinders Matting basics 6x6, Sentiments One and Labels 40 and the numbers are cut out with a Marianne Design die. I covered the numbers with glue and added grinded pepper to them, and even though I made this card more than 1 1/2 years ago, I still remember how much I was sneezing when I made the card 😊. Finally I added some pepper corns as decoration.

Lemoncrafts summer challenge - Christmas in July

This challenge was a bit tricky for me since I don't have any of the Christmas collections from Lemoncraft (yet), so I went through all the Lemoncraft papers I have, and realised that it was possibly to use some of the paper from the Gossamer Blue collection. And there is actually also a sheet from the Heart Painted collection that could also be used, since it has the sheet music for Little Jack Frost. But this time I went for the Gossamer Blue.

The light blue wood pattern is from the 12x12 collection and the other is from the 6x6 paper pad. I used some white cardstock to create the little hills and for the trees, which are cut out with Sue Wilson Christmas Trees dies. The squares are cut out with Spellbinders Matting basics 6x6. For the tag I used a Nellie Snellen die, some snowflake dies from Impression Obsession and the wording is a Tattered Lace die. I used some Frosted lace Stickles for the trees and the hills and decorated with some halfpearls from my stash. Finally I drew with a very fine brown pen around the Happy Christmas wording to make it stand out a little more.

This was the first Christmas card this year, I better get started on making some more, since Christmas will be here before we know it.

You can read more about Lemoncrafts summer challenge HERE.

Lemoncraft summer challenge - Back in time

As I have written before Lemoncraft is having some summer challenges, their first one was with the theme "Back in time". I decided to make another LO for this challenge, originally I was going to make one with a picture of my son, but I wasn't satisfied with the match between the picture and the colors on the paper I had, so I went through my photo's and found a couple of old pictures of my oldest daughter, Isabella, who is now 13. On the pictures she is only 1 year old, and it was her first trip to a zoo, and she was very excited to see all the animals.

For this LO I used paper from the Everyday Spring collection, I just love the greens and pinks in this collection. I painted the paper with clear gesso and after it dried I used modelling paste and a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, and stenciled two doilies. After the paste was dry I sprayed with 3 different inks from Dylusions: Cherry pie, White linen and Black marble. I diecut 2 doilies in dark pink cardstock using a die from Intricut. I handcut some squares to put behind my pictures and I diecut some flowers using Spellbinders Make a wish-die. All the flowers are from WOC, the butterflies, sequins and halfpearls are all from my stash. For the sentence I used a stamp that was a magazine freebie and used some cream colored embossing powder.

Some close-ups:

You can read more about Lemoncrafts challenge HERE.

Lemoncraft summer challenge "My favorite"

Another of Lemoncrafts 4 summer challenge is creating something inspired by the words: My favorite. So I decided to create a very girly card, which is my favorite, and I also used some of my favorite dies, which are the Elegant Ovals from Spellbinders.

For this card I used paper from Lemoncrafts two collections "Everyday Spring" and "Just love me". As I have already mentioned I used dies from Spellbinders but also from Marianne Design, LR0455, which I haven't had for very long yet, but it might also turn into a favorite. The flowers and the center of the ribbon is from WOC, the ribbon is from IKEA, halfpearls and cheesecloth from my stash. The largest of the Ovals is inked with Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet from Tim Holtz. I didn't distress the edges this time, but I made the edges wet and used my fingers to "distress" them. You can read more about Lemoncrafts challenge HERE.