I couldn't resist giving Project Life (by Becky Higgins for American Crafts) a go, inspired by all of the lovely creations I'd seen on Pinterest,, and after some research for work.
I made an 'Adventure book' for Jason after watching the Pixar film 'Up!'. However, over the past few years it has been somewhat neglected so I decided to update it and give it some love and attention and transform it into something we can add to and look back on in years to come.
After picking up the photos from our recent holiday to Cornwall, I decided it was as good a place as any to start . . .
I LOVE(!!!!) glitter card at the moment, not quite sure why . . . but it went well with my chosen colour scheme.
I am obsessed with rub on's at the moment (I've been using some by American crafts called Mini Marks) they look great on tracing paper and then overlaid on top of the image.
I've also been experimenting with the tracing paper to create 'pockets' that then hold sequins or confetti. I have made these by stitching along three sides of the card and then adding my message using the rubs on's, add the sequins and then sew the pocket up.
More tracing paper experimentation's . . . this time I used the paper to overlay onto an image and stitched it in place using my sewing machine. I just really liked how the image looked behind it.
I then moved onto transferring all of the pages from the old 'Adventure Book' into the new one . . .
I used wrapping paper for the background of this page from one of Jason's Birthdays.
I've got some many wooden alphabet stamps I decided to put them to good use to annotate some of the pages.
Love these stick on letters!!! (from Hobbycraft)
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I'm pleased to say that Goldie and Copper have settled in well over the past five months that we've had them. We've discovered that they're quite characterful buns! For some reason they're obsessed with trying to get into the house, although they've recently been banned after Copper decided to chew through Jason's surround sound speaker cable which didn't go down too well!
As the nights are drawing in they've both got there extra fluffy coats coming through, and love snuggling up next to one and other in their hutch. We were cleaning them out the other night, and the light was perfect for taking a few snaps, so decided to grab the camera . . .
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Some of my favourite snaps from our holibobs in Cornwall. . .
Kynance Cove
Kynance Cove
Lizard Point
Lizard Point
Porthleven
Porthleven
Penrose Estate Gardens
Falmouth
St Michael's Mount
St Michael's Mount
St Ives
St Ives
Loe Bar Beach
Coastal Path in Porthleven
Coastal Path in Porthleven
Coastal Path in Porthleven
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Baking
I was asked to make two birthday cakes (one chocolate and one vanilla) and two batches of cupcakes for two family birthday celebrations for a friend this week. I haven't baked any cakes for a few weeks, it was nice to get the baking bits out again, although it was a bit of a mad dash towards the end!
As the cakes where for a 16th and 50th birthday I made some toppers from scrapbooking papers . . .
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| 3 tier chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate ganache and decorated with white chocolate stars. |
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| Vanilla pastel cupcakes. |
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| Chocolate Cupcakes |
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It was Jason's birthday on Thursday. We had a lovely morning of relaxing and chilling out watching the Lego movie, not my first choice of film to watch on my day off, but it was better than expected. We then had a great two hour sugar craft session at
Sweet Serenity in Westbourne teaching us the basics, this was followed by How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the cinema then off to Koh! for a scrummy dinner, and back home for birthday cake.
I have been planning the birthday cake for quite some time, ever since I got the giant silcone cupcake mould in fact.
I made some mini Cookie Monster cupcakes for Jason's birthday a few years back, but I wanted to see if they could work just as well using this mould.
I kept it simple making a vanilla sponge, using the additional insert in the base of the cupcake so that there was a cavity inside for some sweet treats (in this case crispy m&m's), I then covered the whole thing in blue frosting followed by dyed blue coconut. I then made the eyes by meting some white chocolate and then pouring the mixture into baking cases and leaving to set, and then placing a large milk chocolate drop in the centre for the pupils.
I also made my own milk chocolate chunk cookies, these came out a little chunkier than expected, in that they didn't quite fit, but after a bit of manoeuvring and careful carving of both the cookie and the cake I managed to get it to stay in place.
Here's the finished result . . .
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| A semi-devoured Cookie Monster |
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To make these cards you'll need . . . 
For lots more Christmas card designs, make sure to check out my post on the Hobbycraft blog, here.
