Stertch Your Stamps 2 Colouring and Tiling (not so much...)

So I don't have a background stamp suited to this colouring technique so I decided to go in a whole different direction. I took a stamp set I had recieved free with a magazine and paired it with Hampton Arts Clear Expression stamp set Beach Bum.
This technique is from day 2 of Stretch Your Stamps at Online Card Classes. As you can see I used fussy cutting instead of tiling . . . Hey whatever works, right?

Today I also used Gelatos in the following colours, Black Licorice, Blueberry, Butter Cream, Butterscotch, Margarita Mix, Metallic Blueberry, Metallic Grape, Metallic Melon, Metallic Mint, Red Cherry and Snow Cone. Phew that's a lot of colours lol. I also used Hero Arts White embossing powder, an embossing buddy and the Stampin' Up blender pen. I think I'd like to try the Dove one though as my Stampin' Up ones are almost dry I think.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

A Very CAS Birthday With Gelatos

Hi everyone :) Still having computer issues and well to be honest issues with the freezing winter we are having in Aus this year. It's that time again though and this time for the Purples it's ANYTHING GOES at Eclectic Ellapu. Sorry for the glare on my card but I forgot to take a pic before I packaged it up to sell lol.

This was a very easy card to make. Basically I stamped my image straight on to 300gsm white cs that is made so you can work right on it. I got it from a craft show I went to last year and I'm hoping when I go back in November that they have more. I  coloured using Faber-Castell Gelatos I used with a waterbrush straight from the tubes so I could get the intense colour. I made sure not to use too much water so the cs wouldn't warp and the colour wouldn't bleed through.

I went around the edge of the card with blue and smudged it with my finger and then did the same with a Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Label with a pink gelato. I used foam tape to raise the label for a little dimension. As you can see this was a nice quick card to make and I was trying out another CAS idea. I'm getting there I think lol.
Thanks for stopping by
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Gelato Watercolour Stamping.

Both these cards are stamped using Gelatos from Faber Castell. The first card uses a Stampin' Up stamp. I coloured the inside with pink first and then used purple around the edges and green for the leaves and stems. I lightly misted the stamp with water and stamped, repeating this three times. I used distress ink with my ink blending tool around the edges. The background is a leftover from Creative Chemistry 101. On my yellow card base I stamped the Prima Notary stamp I coloured with Big Brush Markers.

My second card is actually a second and third generation stamping. My daughter wanted to try my Gelatos and she picked an Mpress stamp set. There was so much gelato left on the stamp I didn't  want to waste it so I grabbed some water colour paper, misted the stamp and stamped, re-misted and stamped again. I then scribbled some of the purple and pink gelatos on my Ranger Craft Sheet and spritzed them with water. I picked them up with a paintbrush and flicked them all over the image. With the leftover gelato on my craft sheet I created a border of the two colours.

I am not the best at stamping with gelatos. I need to do some more work at it lol. But so many techniques, so little time!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Whimsy Blossom Berry Sitting Pretty With Gelatos

Another sketch challenge, this time at Simon Says Stamp, they also have a chic to be shabby challenge as well so I decided to try and combine the two as well as add a little spring for all those spring challenges about at the moment.

I started by stamping the Elisabeth Bell Whimsy stamp Blossom Berry Sitting Pretty with black Archival ink on watercolour paper and using a Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Square die to cut around her. Looks like a rectangle in this pic but its not lol.

To colour her I used both Pitt Artist Markers (my big brush are packed away atm) and gelatos, sometimes mixed together. I was surprised by how well they mixed together to make new watercolours!I scribbled down some colour then either spritzed with water or used a waterbrush to add the water to mix my colours depending on how light I wanted them to be. Be light with the metallics, a little goes a very long way!

I mixed some on my mat some on an acrylic block, depending on how much space I had on the block at the time. I will post a list of the colours I used and what for at the end. Those with a number after them are markers, those without, gelatos. I added some gold highlights to some strands of her hair. The only way I could get them to photograph was to do a super close up :)

The crochet flowers are repurposed off an old bag that was made entirely from these flowers. They were cream though, so I took the Metallic Melon and scribbled down a fair bit on my craft mat and spritzed several times with water. I spritzed my flowers and then painted and dabbed on the colour with a paint brush.

I chose three papers from the KaiserCraft Pink Gelato 6.5" stack, 2 of which I cut with the same die I cut my image out with. The other piece I cut with a larger die to fit my pre-made card base from twiddlybitz. I used watered down Metallic Melon around the edges of the last two pieces.

I then used my scissors to distress all the edges on each piece of paper as well as my image as my edge distresser is MIA . . . After I stuck the large piece to the card base I worked out where I wanted the other two positioned and used a black pitt pen to put a teeny dot just under one corner of each piece so I could lign them back up. I used double foam tape on my image to allow enough height for the lace which I glued down with Matte Multi-Medium.

Colours Used:
Skin is Peach,  Light Flesh 132 and Cinnamon 189
Bird is Lemon, Cream and a touch of Tangerine
Sun and flower centres Lemon
Grapes Metallic Purple
Wild flowers are Tangerine
Hair flowers are Pink Madder Lake 129
Leaves are Metallic Mint and Spearmint
Book pages are Ivory 103, Green Gold 268 and Raw Umber 180
Bench is Butterscotch, Green Gold 268, Walnut Brown 177  and Chocolate
Undershirt stripes are Metallic Mint and Metallic Blueberry mixed with Cotton Candy
Roses are Metallic Blueberry and Cotton Candy
Shirt Metallic Melon
Jeans are Idanthrene Blue 247
Grass is Green Tea and Lime with accents in Green Tea and Chromium Green Opaque 174
Hair started with a base of Raw Umber 180, followed by Dark sepia 175 mixed with Chocolate and a smidge of Black 199. Highlights added with Gold Champagne
Sky is Light Cobalt Turquoise 154
Book cover is Gold Champagne
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Chic to be Shabby
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sketch
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times - Spring is in the Air
One Stop Craft Challenge - Spring
Make It Monday - Anything Goes 

Another Hero Arts Watercolor Petals Card

When I stamped these flowers from the Hero Arts Watercolor Petalsfor the Simon Says Challenge in blue I decided to stamp them a couple more times as well. As you can see this time I stamped them in pink for a pink and black challenge. This time I used the Faber Castell-Big Brush Markers in Pink Madder Lake, Magenta, May Green and Chromium Green Opaque. I stamped first generation then misted with water for the second and third gen stamping. I used the Lifestyle Crafts Frame die in black cs to frame the image.

For the sentiment I used a butterfly stamp from the same stamp set coloured with the two pinks and Dark Sepia. This is a second gen stamping of the butterfly. I then Cut it out with a Lifestyle Crafts Labels Die and added Black Gelato around the edges and blended with a paintbrush. I aded more and bended with my finger. I decided I wanted  things to sparkle so at this point I started adding my home made shimmer spray to things lol. You can see a tiny bit  of shimmer  in the pics. I added a border around the label in the same pink as the base of the card and used foam tape on both layers.

In this pic you can see how under the label is a piece of pink cs I stamped with the watercolour butterfly using lightly misted black gelato. I only put gelato on the stamp twice to go round the whole mat piece, I just lightly misted after each stamping. I also added black gelato around the whole card base. The sentiment from inkadinkado is stamped with archival.

In this pic you can see how the ribbon I chose has an off whitish pattern on it. I wanted to change it up so I grabbed my big brush markers in the same colours I stamped my flowers and coloured them. You need to colour a section, heat set it and go over it again til you get the colours you like.

I decided I wanted to give this card to my mum for her birthday next month. I bought her two tickets to see The Seekers in May and wanted to add them into the card. So I made a little pocket to tuck them in to. I stamped the butterfly again using my markers onto pink cs to add to the pocket and misted it. As I was stamping on the pink cs this time I used Dark Sepia as the butterfly body colour. On the opposite side I stamped a Fiskars sentiment in archival.

I really hope she likes the card even though it is very pink lol. Her fave colour is red but I do remember growing up with her having pink bed spreads and things so should be all good!

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

I am entering this at:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Pink and Black

613 Avenue - Anything Goes/Pile It On

Crafty Cardmakers - Blooming Images

Moving Along With The Times - Lovely Ladies 

Joyful Stamper - Anything Goes 

One Stop Craft Challenge - Mothers Day

Hero Arts Watercolor Petals Card

I decided to try another sketch challenge. This one is from Moving Along With The Times. I also wanted to do an entry for Simon Says using a stamp set that you love that hasn't been used in a while or never used. (mine was never used even though I have owned it for a while). Here is the sketch.

 

Sorry about the big gap but that's how the pic uploads lol. The stamp set is Hero Arts Watercolour Petals. I used the metallic Gelatos directly onto the stamp and then spritzed with water and stamped onto Cre8tiv 180gsm watercolour paper. Even though you can't see it the stamping is very shimmery.

I also thought why not add it to another challenge and add some silver. So with some lifestyle crafts dies I set to work. The image is cut with Nesting Ovals and mounted on silver star dream (shimmery) paper cut with the Nesting Oval Doilies die. The corners are from the corners and borders set and is the smaller one.

I found some random papers in my stash for the rest of the sketch pieces. Had trouble finding anything in colours I liked lol. I also stamped this in pink to try my hand at another card :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at:
Moving Along With The Times - Going Sketchy
CAS-ual Friday - Add Silver
Simon Says Stamp - Stamps You Love But Don't Use
Crafty Cardmakers - Blooming Images

Something Messy/Grungy

I wanted to make a card for the Simon Says Stamp something messy challenge. I always get messy crafting no mater what I make so I could just about enter anything lmao however in keeping with the spirit of things I decided to work in browns with gelatos and a lil distress thrown in to grungify and mess everything up a bit . . .

For the background I started by stamping the blueprint type stamp from Tim Holtz' Stampers Anonymous Steampunk stamp set using Picket Fence Distress Stain on a manilla tag. I then used gelatos in Gold, Butterscotch and Chocolate randomly on the tag and blending with a paintbrush and my finger. I did this for a couple of layers to build up the colour I wanted. I then used Black Archival ink to stamp the blueprint image again.

As you can see my stamping wasn't the straightest lmao. Messy stamping? I then trimmed the tag and used some Vintage Photo and my blending tool around the edges. Next I cut some Movers and Shapers Cogs from Grungepaper and Kaisercraft Timeless Classics papers from the 12" stack. I used a different colour gelato on each paper cog and blended with a lil water and my finger and glued them to the grungepaper cogs with Glossy Accents (next time I will glue then cut silly me lol).

Then from more manilla I made a small rectangle big enough to fit my saying and used my three gelatos to colour it and then edged it in Vintage Photo. I stamped my sentiment from the Urban Classics Tim Holtz set in Archival Black. I distressed the edges of both the background and sentiment using Tim's Tonic Edge Distresser. I chose some embellishments from Tims Cogs and Muse Token ranges to finish of the card. The sentiment and largest cog are adhered with foam tape, the rest of the cogs with glossy accents and the muse token has two jump rings from a pack of Facets to attach it to the saying.

The first pic of the card I took was without flash the next one is with flash. The cards colours are somewhere in between the tw, but the flash version allows you to see all the details properly.

Not 100% sure of this card so I will most likely try another "messy" card in the next couple of days.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at;
Simon Says Stamp - Messy
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Make My Monday -  Add A Charm
The Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Fridays

A Little Experimentation Goes a Long Way

As I said in my previous post I was going to play some more and share the results. I have used stains, watercolour pencils and gelatos and I have a fair few things to share. I am sharing them before I turn them into cards. I think I am getting the hang of the gelatos too :) I have made some very light samples but I can always add more colour if I wish (good thing I have been taking notes on the back of the samples lol).

 Let's start with gelatos. My first attempt was to wet the watercolour paper first, then lay down the colour spritz again and blend with my finger . . . it didn't work very well (might be more to do with the colours I used lol) so I tried again with a brush. That's the sample on the bottom left. Colours used for these samples are Black Licorice, Chocolate and Butterscotch.

For the top sample I applied dry and spritzed three puddles of water on my mat. I started at black and worked to lightest blending with a paintbrush. I added a little too much water in some places so I used a wet brush directly to the gelato I needed to fix the problem . I had so much colour left on my mat that I got sick of wasting it and started using the lefovers on leftover scraps of watercolour paper. That's the image on the bottom right.

The next set were all made when I applied gelatos to a wet surface and blended with a paintbrush for the first gen (top pic). These colours seemed to go on very thick and allowed me to make the original plus two more samples. Colours are Blueberry, Boysenberry and Grape. The second gen, to the right, was made swiping the colours straight off the craft mat and third gen I sprizted the leftovers then applied them to the cs for the third gen pale look on the bottom.

The following two were made at the same time. I applied gelato to my ranger craft mat and spritzed with water to make a light wash. These have only one coat but If I had wanted darker colours I could have just made one and dried in between layers to darken the colours. I used the metallics in Melon, Grape and Mint.

Next up we have a couple done with distress stains. I used three colours for each, spritzed with water and blended them with my finger. When I blend using my finger I tend to work from lightest to darkest then flip and work from lightest to darkest to work the colours into each other and smooth them out. The top one uses Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough and Bundled Sage and has been flicked with water to get the cool droplet effect. The bottom one uses Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick and Worn Lipstick.

I only have two Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and for ome reason one of mine looked nowhere near the colour on the back :( It was supposed to be a really pretty pink but instead there was barely any colour there at all lol. The colour was supposed to be pink bubblegum. I added 20 drops of picked raspberry reinker and a spritz of Dylusions in Postbox Red. I ended up with a colour a bit darker than the colour I was supposed to have but very pretty none the less :)

I used a paintbrush dipped in the bottle and started painting each colour on from their respective ends and blended with my finger in the middle. The yellow is Lemon Zest.

Onto Derwent Watercolour pencils. Each sample uses the same set of colours applied directly to dry paper. The colours are 2, 7, 8, 10 and 12. I spritzed the top one with water then used my finger to blend the colours. I could have added more red but liked the washed out effect and decided to lave it as. The bottom one was blended with the Tim Holtz Waterbrush.

The top picture uses the colours 40, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47. I used a waterbrush and pulled colour directly from the pencils. I really like this technique. The middle pic uses 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25. I coloured right on the paper for this one and blended with a waterbrush. I spilled a  drop of the mist I mixed onto this one so I decided to make the best of it and used  the spray tube from the bottle to add some drips and lines, sprized again and rand some paper towel over the top to get that faded look.

The bottom pic uses 37, 38, 39, 40 and 44 coloured directly yo the paper. Not sure why I added this pic in the bunch because I cannot remember how I did it lmao.

This next pic uses inktense pencils. I used 1200, 1300 and 1400 straight from the pencil with the waterbrush for the top image and for the bottom one I used the pencils coloured right onto a tag and blended with the waterbrush. As you can see it is very streaky compared o others so water colour paper is definitely best.

I realised as I was typing this that i forgot to do a sample using the waterbrush from the gelato then onto the paper but anyways I am sure you get the idea. Hope this helps you in some way.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

To The One I Love with Midnight Fairytale

Hi guys and gals :) I have a card to share that I made for the Make My Monday challenge. This is only the second time I have actively made something for a challenge lol. Usually I just work whatever I am making fit into challenges or go with anything goes . . .

I started with a circle cut with lifestyle craft dies and stamped a fairy from the Papermania Midnight Fairytale stamp set. I then used the metallic green, blue and purple gelatos to create a water colour wash for the background. I covered the whole background with purple then blended in the blue and green.

I then traced the lines of the fairy with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist pens and then used similar coloured gelatos to make a watercolour palette to fill her in. i then used a homemade mix of gloss Multi-Medium and iridescent Medium over her wings. I used Seedless Preserves and Evergreen Bough to edge the circle. The doily was inked with those colours as well as Tumbled Glass and then spritzed and blotted to lighten the colour. I just love the subtle dreamy colours so pretty in real life!

The I am Roses flowers were coloured with the same three ink pads again. I smooshed them on my craft mat and used a waterbrush to colour them. I then took the metallic gelatos and ran the flat Tim Holtz waterbrush over the colour corresponding to the flower and brushed along the edges of the petals to darken them and give them a hint of shimmer. All flowers and twizzles are stuck down with glossy accents.

The label is a Tim Holtz mover and shaper coloured with three metallic gelato colours. The sentiment is from the Craft Lounge Love notes set. I had trouble deciding on a sentiment for this one. I have a lot of birthday and thank you cards. I wanted to make an anniversary card or something like that anyways. I have no to my wife sentiments and nothing quite fitted. I thought this was pretty versatile as it could then be used as a birthday, anniversary, valentine or even wedding day card.

The doily was layered on a square scrap I couldn't bare to throw away because the paper was so pretty, it actually had a circle I used on another card cut out of the middle! I was going to use it as a frame but it looked so good behind the doily I used it lol. Both papers are from the Prima Fairy Belle 6" pad. The background piece has been distressed around the edges with seedless preserves on top, tumbled glass on the sides and evergreen bough on the bottom.

On a side note I am halfway through my studies yay and am now on a bit of a break so hopefully I can get some important things done as well as do some guilt free crafting! I have signed up to a new card class starting in a couple of weeks too called Stretch Your Stamps, I can't wait! Check it out, it starts on July 9th but you can sign up anytime. If you sign up before or during class you get a discount code for some awesome online stores :) Bonus!!! I will be away for the first few days though so I will have to play catch up lmao. . .
Happy Scrappin'
Purple
P.S I will have some more blogs up in the next couple of days about my crafty adventures with Tim Holtz :)

I am entering this card is the following challenges;

Make My Monday - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

My New Penny Johnson Stamp

Last week I bought my first lil girls stamp. My first and only so far lol. I don't have any lil boy stamps yet either... But give me time :) Anyway I wanted to see how they would turn out coloured in different mediums. I used gelatos, big brush markers and artist markers as well as distress markers.

I am a relative newbie when it comes to colouring and shading but I am learning as I go. First up I am going to show a card I made using Gelatos, Prima Fairy Belle papers and hemptique cord. I used my new Tim Holtz waterbrushes to colour my Penny Johnson Happy Day stamp with the Gelatos.

 

 I then layered two different fairy belle papers after using the gelatos on the edges and the tonic distressing tool. I added brads to the corners of my stamped image and ran the hemptique cord around the edges. I used a thin strip of the same paper I mounted the image on accross the top of my card and then made a tag using a sizzlit die to go on top. I took more hemptique cord and ran it from the tag and under the strip in a criss cross pattern.

Ok next up I just have the rest of the images I coloured. First up is the Faber-Castell markers. I used both the big brush and the artist markers to colour with. On the left is the image I coloured straight from the markers, on the right I coloured using the waterbrushes.

Next up are the ones I did with distress markers. Again on the left is the image coloured straight from the distress markers, on the right the watercoloured image. 

As I said I am still learning, but I am pretty happy with how the card turned out and hopefully I can do something nice with the rest of my images :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

I am entering this into the Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes Challenge 

 Just Keep On Creating - Anything goes 

also Joyful Stampers Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes 

and Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Gelatos Part Two

So as I said in my previous post I had more cards to show and tell with gelatos, lol. So here are some more. Having loads of fun with them.

The first is my fave so far. Took a but of work but it was worth it I think :) I used Maya Road Around the World stamp set for the gorgeous map and globe images and Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps for the pen nibs. I stamped the main map onto a scrap of Kraft like paper from some packaging with versamark and then embossed it with ranger superfine clear. This was more of a tester before I tried it on a ranger kraft tag, but I liked it so much I wanted to use it :)

I used a waterbrush directly to the end of a gelato to add colour to my map. The paper was very thin so I mounted it onto some manila for stability. I stamped the pen nibs on a piece of manila and then added the globes with gathered twigs distress ink. I added some distress ink around the edges then grabbed a manila label of each of the sizzix movers and shapers dies and inked their edges too. Both the map and happy birthday are stuck down with foam squares. I added some chain and baubles to the dangly post card label and then mounted the whole thing on a dark brown cs base.

Because the brown cs is so dark I die cut another piece of manilla with the movers and shapers ornate die and inked the edges before plaing it inside the card.

The next card has a red and green gelato background that I stamped with another TH Stampers Anon stamp. I stamped the centre image first, then stamped one to each side without reinking the stamp. I added some beads and chain and a little silver key. I used festive berries distress ink for alll the stamping including the saying that I then embossed.

I used manila to create a card base and stamped the focal stamp around the edges as it looked a little to bare before I did lol. I created the backround by laying colour 1/4 of the way up each side and then using my water brush the pull the colour to the middle. I then used the same colour gelato around the edges and used my finger to blend it in.

Hope you are enjoying the cards I have been making with gelatos :) They are fun to play with. still working on the watercolour techniques... I keep adding too much water!!!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering the first card at Simon Says Stamp - One For The Boys
as well as Make It Monday - Anything Goes
and Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Amusing Challenges - Father's Day/Masculine

Can We Say Gelatos?

Have a few cards, most sans sentiments again lol, to share with you all :) The title says it all. I have been playing with my Faber-Castell Gelatos. Trying different combos, mostly just messing about :) So here goes.

This is the first card I created with the Gelatos. I mixed different blues and a lil green, including the shimmer blue and green, to make water and then blended it all upward to make a paler sky. I added in some white to make some subtle clouds.

Oops I forgot to take a pic of the finished card lol. It's just mounted onto a white card base :) The whole thing was made using gelatos, even the stamping. The stamps are Technique Tuesday All Aboard and Prima Almanac.

The next card is a gelato background with stamped gelato butterflys in pinks and purples. I also used stazon, acetate and the labels movers and shapers die.

To make the butterflys I laid down some gelatos in stripes using the same colours as the background and then an acetate layer stamped with stazon and glued with good ole glossy. I used the Bo Bunny Gabrielle stamp set.

Next up is the rain man... Lol. I started with a layer of silver and gold gelato around the edges of a tag, then I used a waterbrush to move the colours around and blend them towards the middle.I then added a layer of butterscotch and chocolate the same way.

I then stamped Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous clocks with gathered twigs distress ink and nibs with tea dye. The rain man and words are stamped with archival. Yay I finally have archival!!! :) The umbrella has been stamped again and fussy cut. Both the umbrella and label are adhered with foam tape.

Phew and we are only half way there. I decided to split my post other wise it would get way too long lol. Loving gelatos, they are so fun to play with. They hardly look like they have been used yet I think they will go a long way :)
Stay tuned for part two
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering the Bon Voyage Card at Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes

Butterflies and Poker Chips!

G'day! lol

Just wanted to pop in with a quick post thats not paper craft related. I know shocker. I have two English visitors atm so my craft time has become premium for the time being and crafting has gone by the wayside until I uncover my table lol.

Time has flown so fast one of my visitors is leaving next week. Feels like blink and we missed the almost month she was here :(. We did some fun things her first week here like took a trip on the Manly Ferry, went to ocean world, had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe and had a mani/pedi day with my two girls as well :)

Anyway during this time I have also had two birthdays, while I don't have cards to show I do have cakes. The first one is a butterfly cake I made for my daughters 16th. I had to improvise as she had put a cake pan on the bench and it had fallen off so I didn't realise that was the cake shape she wanted and my friend didn't have the same or similar pan.

I used a heart shape pan and made two cakes and reserved a little bit of each mix to make three cupcakes for the body. The antennae are made from pipe cleaners as you can see. Each cake has been covered with melted Cadbury's chocolate before being decorated with an icing kind of like fondant I bought in a packet. I know I am a big cheater cheater heeeeheeeeee.... I used another smaller heart pan to make the icing hearts and a melon baller to make the small circles. The hearts are surrounded by cachous (note to self have, put them closer to the edge next time!) and some flowers have been added to the top of the cake for extra decoration and to make eyes on the first cupcake.

The next cake is my mans for his birthday. We were having a poker party so I thought I would make him a poker chip. I used two round cakes, Cadbury chocolate again and more icing and some coockie cutter shaped to make this cake.

Considering they were both rush jobs I don't think they turned out too bad lol...anyways another busy day aheasd, we are off to watch The Avengers at the movies today lol so I best get movin'

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

PS waiting for an order from Simon Says Stamp and another from Inspiration Emporium... I will have to get my craft on then!!! (Gelatos are coming from Simon among loads of other goodies and the new spring colours and reinkers from IE :)).