I Love Bunting

I love bunting. I want bunting everywhere, all the time. Today I'm posting some bunting I made last December for my fiance's birthday, which somehow I didn't get an photos of at the time.

I made one set in our favourite colours - red, black and white, that said 'Adam is 30'...

And another set in green that said 'Happy Birthday'. This one was really long (lots of letters!):



I kept it quite simple and let the colours speak:

I guess we can use the green one again, but unless I change the number every year, the red one is consigned to the Decorations Box, never to emerge again!

I'm Seeing Stars

Thanks to Ally and her brilliant tutorial, I have made some teeny tiny cute little origami stars!


I've got a few hundred more to make before I fill the glass jar I have in mind for them... but I'll get there. Thanks again Ally!

Working out by Scraplifting

Although I prefer challenging my own creativity in order to come up with different layouts, designs and ideas, the other day I saw this incredible card on the very talented Wendy's blog and, well... simply, I wanted one for myself. To put on my shelf and just look at.

I don't have the acetate yet so I've used plain ol' card. And different motifs, but with the same ideas. Thanks Wendy!

...and then Realising Cupcakes

...yep, so I made some more. For the picnic. Yummy!

Dreaming of Cupcakes

Actually, I do often dream of layouts, cards, and materials... but not cupcakes - yet. I made a 'Cupcake Dreams' layout for this competition... and then had to go out and buy some ingredients to make another batch of cupcakes :-) Good thing there's a picnic tomorrow so I can *share* them with people! Anyway, here's the layout:


The 3 dreams are 1) that there was no fat in cupcakes so I could eat them guilt-free, 2) that mine eventually look like the ones in the book, and 3) that (pending point 2) I open up a cafe selling tea, lemonade and cupcakes. Apart from cupcakes, I'm loving these script-printed flowers (I'll be making my own soon):

...I'm loving graph paper and fountain pens (made me feel all scholarly again):

...and I'm loving concentrically stacked buttons:


Fingers crossed for the competition! (And now off to make cupcakes...)