Sall the Crafty Baker

This fortnight at  Ikes world challenges  we are asking you to all play along with our challenge that sees you ditching those pattern papers.  I love a challenge and my first thought was fine I'll make my own papers then I realised I still couldn't use anything with a repeat image as that becomes a pattern...hmmm keep thinking if there's a brain cell left that is! Eventually as I was looking for something else I found a cupcake shaped card.  With that I thought yeah why not simple enough and no patterns.  I've used the 'friendly shark' and 'seahorse' images from Ike's art. The shark is on the paper case of the cake and I used a line of liquid pearl dots {iffy if this is a pattern or not} to show a distinct line between papercase and the cake. The cake has a "fondant" seahorse for a decoration.  The whole thing is coloured using promarkers and distress inks. Look forward to seeing you playing along with us.

I have loved every second of scrapbooking once more and cannot wait to continue to scrap.  This album is a gift for a lip reading friend after we visited Hestercombe house and gardens in August 2014.

This is an extra special birthday card for a 4 year old.  A waterfall on a double twisted easel...hopefully the little boy will like playing with the waterfall. The dino images are from  Ken Benner designs at Stitchy Bear

It's a fabulous time of year to be looking at things with wings, birds, dragonflys, butterflys all those gorgeous things that make Spring so enjoyable.  I didn't go down that route though and for the Wings challenge at  Ikes world challenges  I used the saucy fairy and made a simple birthday card for my Nan.  {Her birthday was months ago and she adored the card, and actually sounded excited with it which really pleased me.