Cardmaking, Birthday gifts & Cake

I couldn't post this on Tuesday as I had planned as my sister didn't make it to mine on Tuesday for the EG meeting and only got her gifts on Wednesday.

As I mentioned in my post on Tuesday, its my sister Theresa's 60th  birthday, shes having a 'Hippy themed party on Saturday and we have been getting out outfits organised for that.

I went to choose a card for her a few days ago and couldn't find one I liked,

instead I bought this magazine......with free things

a book of papers and 2 sheets of card decals

I make the occasional card for  a special occasion but don't make them all the time, I used to a few years ago but there are so many stamps and inks and punches and cutouts etc that I find the whole business a bit overwhelming at the shows and so I opted out of card making a while back,

that said I decided to make a special one for Theresa with my freebies.

So I used one of the sheets of paper as a backing, some rik rak and lace a paper/sequin flower combination then attached all this onto a folded A4 sheet of pearlised card.

I made a butterfly from another sheet of the paper and added a couple of paper roses

then some ribbon to one of the tag decals with a 'with love' sticker from my stash

next some little music sheet flowers and seed beads

I'm pleased with how it turned out

and I also used them to decorate a wreath I had made for her from my sheet music.

two more butterflies

 paper roses from my stash

 and some of the decals in the spaces

I saw a beautiful heart pendant on pinterest a while ago,
 encrusted with pearls and crystals and made of silver at £85
 it was a bit out of my price range

so I had a go at making my own version,

a sterling silver heart with a hammered finish and pearls,
crystals and diamante stones silver wire

in some of her favourite colours . .

teal chiffon ribbon looped on which allows it to be worn at any length

 I hope she likes it,

these are little icing flowers I made in advance for decorating the cake

which isn't made yet ... I will post pictures of it on Saturday.

this little lot will be going on cupcakes.

Yx