60th Birthday Rolled Rose Cake

My First ever fancy cake.
This cake I made as a Suprise for my Mum. It was brought out during a meal at a restaurant, and my Mum had asbolutely no idea! Despite smuggling it into the restaurant in front of her and talking to the staff about it for a while!

This cake was quite a challenge for me because I had originally hoped to buy a ready made, ready iced cake and just decorate it, but at £15 for a 6" cake, I just could comprehand spending that amount of money. So I bought the ingredients (and extra!) and made my own.

The flowers on the top were very very easy to make. I bought some specialist flower making icing, rolled it out very thin and treated it just like paper. I even wondered if I could cut the icing using my Making Memories slice? If I had more time, I would probably have tried it!
I cut circles using cookie cutters then used a knife to cut spirals. Rolled the up, and left them to dry for 24hours. I cut a leaf template, made veins with a kebab skewer and bent them.

I had lots of lovely comments about my cake, some even suprised I had made the cake myself, let alone the flowers!
As well that this cake turned out, I do not think cake making/decorating will become a new hobby/career anytime soon.

60th Birthday Card

This Napkin Fold card I made for my Mum's 60th Birthday.

I die cut the circle using Nellie Snellen circle dies and distressed it with Walnut Stain distress ink.
The flourish and word on the front were cut using my Making Memeories Slice. The floursish is cut from the Remember This design card, and the MUM was cut using the shadow feature at 1" from the Vintage Findings design card.

The greeting inside the card was cut using my Making Memories slice and the Words and Expressions Holidays designs card and the border is a Martha Stewart Bubbles around the page set.

The pink flower cardstock, (unfortunately I do not know the brand), was bought from Carols Crafts, and sprayed with Crafters Companion irridescent spray.
The green and pink paper came from a scrapbooking stack the I picked up in sale from TKMaxx. Again, I do not know the brand, the stack had lost its cover.

60th Birthday card, using my Slice Elite

My Dad turns 60 at the beginning of June, I dont see him very often as we live about 300miles apart, so I like to make him a card.

This is the first card I have made since my "mojo" disapeared, and I managed to get my New Slice machine in on the action too.
I used the Basic elements Design card for the letters, They are 2" shadowed.
The black embossed paper is actually wallpaper! I had a gentle stroll around the wallpaper department of B&Q last weekend and was amazed at the stunning wallpaper! This particular one is a Kitchen and Bathrrom paper.
The peel offs were de-bossed, which I like because it adds another texture.
The black dots are white card candy that I coloured with permenant marker.