Christmas cakes

My mum made me a Christmas cake. 

Christmas cards

Here is a selection of Christmas cards we made this year

First creation I made with Christopher that we sent to Scotland: 

Popped the presents up on 3D pads

6 others work in progress:

6 others finished:

Christopher had so much fun making these.  We also made snowman cards:

Then I made a few simple photo cards, these were the designs: 

The photos were the most important part of these cards, I kept them simple and made them so the photos can be removed.

This was a last minute card made very late on christmas eve to put a gift voucher in after we lost the card it was supposed to go in. Lol. 

Christmas Giant Cupcake

Here is my Christmas giant cupcake creation. Not for anyone other than us :o)

Started off with a giant cupcake trimmed:


I put buttercream in the middle of the 2 layers and then covered the rest in buttercream:


I then surrounded the bottom with chocolate fingers and secured it with some ribbon, it needed a box and a half worth of chocolate fingers.


I then piped the buttercream using my Wilton 1M nozzle, used yellow smarties, some dr oetker soft pearls and a giant chocolate star to decorate :o)


This should satisfy my craving for cake :o)

A brown paper bag - turned into a gift bag

I'm rather pleased with these, these are 2 gift bags that I have made for my mum for Christmas. 

They started life like these:

Turned into these:

I cut the shape out using my Slice, backed it with acetate that I got from as an off-cut from the laminate machine (I love freebie recycling), I used my 1 inch circle punch to cut the top holes, the stickers were a couple of random sets I bought last Christmas but didn't use. The ribbon came as another freebie. My friend bought some new PJ's and this ribbon was wrapping them. Lol. 

I'm really pleased with how these have turned out and its a little more interesting that just wrapping the flavoured sugar tubs that are in the bags x