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

Sew it's Tag Tuesday!

It's my sisters Theresa's 60th birthday today so my creative efforts this week have gone into her card & gifts and sugar flowers for her cake, which I'll be making for her fancy dress party on Saturday

I will be posting more about all this later tonight

(after I have given her the gifts)

I haven't had a lot of time this week to think about,

never mind make a tag for this weeks theme 'Sewing'

I made this last night about 11.45pm when I finished Theresa's present

Sew! this is a very quick offering of a tag, but I kinda like it.

The gold zig zag stitching was already on this clothing tag, so it was a good one to use

A rummage in the button jar and 'allsorts' drawer produced the embellishments.

A closer look at this sweet little vintage glass button in its brass casing

 with vintage green thread still attached,

 

 and the metal screw handle from my old sewing basket which is long gone

 At the bottom, a cute little vintage shoe button and miniature scissors hooked onto a safety pin stitched at the ends to hang from the zig zag stitching to finish.

Tag: Re purposed clothing tag, linen thread label

Embellishments: Buttons, hooks, safety pin, metal sewing basket handle, miniature scissors.

Tie: Ribbon.

On the subject of sewing, Embroiderer's Guild tonight, returning after a long hiatus 

We are doing beaded fringing..... looking forward to it!

Yx