Very crafty :)

I've been doing all sorts of crafty things over the past few days. My last mock exam is tomorrow, I've got my Biology practical experiments which should be ok. We need to know very little for the experiment, we just use previous knowledge, so for my past few free days I've been being creative. I've been cake decorating, digi scrapping and making cards, so this shall be quite a big post with something for everyone I hope. Hope you enjoy :)

Digi Scrapping

Dawn Inskip has made a lovely digi template which is available to download on UKscrappers. Here's the page I've made using the template.

I've changed some of the elements on the template and added papers and other items to make it a christmas layout. I really like the page, it's the first time I've really used a template and it was good fun, and a lot quicker with the basic layout displayed for me. I hope you like it too.

Card

It's my Nan's birthday at the weekend and as, for once, I've had time, I've made her a card. Since Mum's had her blog she's been searching many other blogs and I've spotted lots of cards that have been inspiring me. So this card is a mixture of a lot of different cards and inspiration.

I really like this card, I love these colours and I had to use my Stampin Up bird punch again.

Cake decorating

I haven't done any cake decorating since my birthday cake last summer, so as I knew I'd have a bit of time this week, I decided to decorate a birthday cake for Nan. I haven't had time to bake or cover a cake, so we bought a plain ready iced cake from the supermarket that is designed to have a photo transferred onto the top. Nan loves snowdrops and as they're perfect for this time of year I've done some for the cake.

I'm really pleased with how they've turned out, I've never tried snowdrops before and have made these without a specific cutter, adapting a different cutter for one part of the flower and hand cutting the leaves and the rest of the flowers.

I've dusted the flowers to make the inner layers look slightly more realistic.

The cake wasn't iced very well and unfortunately we didn't get any choice in the shop, this was the only one. To cover up the very wobbly and weirdly shaped sides I've created a rope, which I think just finishes it off nicely.

I'm really pleased with it and it's been great to get all of my equipment out again and have a play. Hopefully Nan will love it, it's a surprise, she hasn't a clue I've done a birthday cake. :)

A new Photography Challenge

I've been trying to find a photography blog recently with a weekly challenge, but I haven't found quite the thing I've been looking for.
I've decided to set a challenge up for myself, like I used to do for card making before I moved into scrapbooking. Me and Mum have written a whole long list of one-word prompts, that we've then cut out and are ready to be picked at random.
I'm planning to draw a prompt word ever Friday evening, so I have the weekend to get a good start with the word.
I've designed this challenge predominantly to challenge myself and get myself using the camera more, but if anyone else would like to join in and do the weekly challenge too, you'd be very welcome. It'd be quite nice to see how everyone else interprets the word. If you'd like to join in I shall be posting my first prompt word tomorrow evening, so please come over and see what it is.

Here's the words ready to be selected :)

From me, that's all today, have a good evening and I'll be back tomorrow with my photo prompt


Bye, Hannah :)