Christening cake for Frey

One of my colleagues had a son back in March and they asked me if I would make a cake for the party, which was here in August and so I made this cake:

The cake did have the boys full name on it, but since it is a very special name I have removed it on the picture for privacy reasons. It was my first attempt at making an elephant but I think it turned out really cute. I found a vidoe on YouTube and just followed the instructions in it.

The cake consists of 3 layers of vanilla cake (drømmekage), 1 layer of elderflower mousse but this time I had added white chocolate with lemon to it and 1 layer of strawberry and rhubarb mousse. It is coated with buttercream with elderflower juice and covered with homemade fondant. All decorations are also made with homemade fondant and then I used Royal Icing for the border around the cake.

Mint and peach birthday card

 Back in July I made this card for a friend of mine, since it was her birthday.

Materials used:

Mintay - Celebrations 6x6 paper pad

Lemoncraft- Yesterday collection
Marianne Design - banner die
Tattered Lace - Congratulations die
China die - Leaves
Flower from WOC
Straws, half pearls and yarn from my stash

Birthday card

Lately it has been really nice weather here in DK, so I must admit I haven't spend much time at my craft table, when it is this warm I prefer to be outside, and it can be a bit tricky to sit with paper etc. outside, so instead I have being working on my chrochet skills, because that is easy to do outside, but today I will show you this birthday card I made for a friend:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Denim and girls collection

White cardstock

China die (round frame)

Sue Wilsom butterfly die

Flowers from WOC

Halfpearls and sticker from stash

Crochet

When my summer vacation started 3 weeks ago, I decided I wanted to use some of the time on learning to crochet. So I have been watching lots of videos on YouTube and made several little samples, and I have so far made 3 dish cloths, but I will only show 2 of them here, since the third one got very crooked, so I didn't finish it with a border. But here are the 2 I have made:

The striped one is a corner to corner (C2C) and turned out to be really easy, and I can definitely recommend trying this pattern if you are a newbie like me.

25th wedding anniversary exploding box

Back in March a colleague ordered an exploding box for a silver wedding anniversary, so I made this:

Materials used:

Craft o'clock – Ladies & Gentlemen collection 12x12

Dusty blue and green cardstock

Silver mirror card

Spellbinders – Borderabillities die

China dies – heart, love, leaves, letters in the big hearts

Joy Crafts die – letters and numbers in the small hearts

Marianne Design – big numbers

Flowers – Wild Orchid Crafts

Chipboard – Laserowe Love

Butterfly – AliExpress

Halfpearls and silver embossing powder from stash

Birthday card for my husband

My husband celebrated his 53rd birthday last month, so I made him this card, which for me is a CAS card. I was able to use some old scraps of paper with alcohol ink, that I made in a class a while back:

Materials used:

Scrap piece with alcohol ink

Dusty blue cardstock

Spellbinders D-Lites – Make a Wish

By Lene Design – Dagens mand

Lindys Stamp Gang spray – Blazing black

A card and a cake

Recently one of my nephews turned 20 and his parents and girlfriend arranged a surprise party for him. And no party without a cake, so I made him a naughty cake with big boobs 😉.

The cake consisted of 3 layers of vanilla cake (drømmekage), 1 layer w/elderflower mousse and 1 w/strawberry and rhubarb mousse. It was iced with IMBC and covered with homemade fondant.

I also made a card to go with the present for him and that turned out this way:

Materials used:

13@rts – His & Hers Remastered collection 6x6

UHK Gallery – Old Fashioned Christmas collection

White and kraft cardstock

Crealies – Star die

Marianne Design – COL1347 (numbers)

Spellbinders – Triple Tear and Matting Basics 6x6

Dixi Craft – Alphabeth

Banners – cut by hand