Happy Birthday Aunty

One of my Aunties is turning another year older tomorrow and so I made a card to send up to her. I used my die-cutting machine to emboss the background card and used some paper flowers that I bought from Hobbycraft aaaaages ago and have been in a craft drawer for too long. (You can read about my gorgeous die cutting machine in this post.)

I printed the greeting onto white card and stuck it onto the embossed card. I used glue dots to attach the flowers. I really hope she likes it! It is quite simple but quite elegant I think. 

Happy Birthday future Mother in Law!

This month saw the birthday of my fiance's Mum and so I had two cards to make - one from us and one for my Parents to send up. Now, Cathy is a wizz in the kitchen and makes her own jams, chutneys and tablet. (Incase you don't know what that is, it is a bit like fudge. It is delicious! Find out more here.)

The first picture is the card my parents ordered. I put a mason jar topper on to represent Cathy's love of jam. The second picture is the card from my fiance and I. It is a long-standing joke!

I love when I can make really personal cards for people - it is really satisfying.

x

2 Engagements in 1 month!

There must be love in the air because recently not one of my friends but two popped the question!

The first were Chris and Jen. Chris got a job in Japan for a year and Jen flew out to be with him for a while. Chris proposed and Jen said yes!

The next couple to get engaged were Dawn and Pete. They have been together for 10 years and the morning after their anniversary (because the day of their anniversary was April Fool's Day!) Pete gave Dawn a beautiful vintage ring. 

Love is most definitely in the air!

What Katie baked ...

... or didn't bake as the case me be! Tonight I took myself off into the kitchen to make a rice krispie treat for my other half, thinking that the recipe sounded fairly easy and finding out that it was in fact easy peasy lemon squeezy!

I am not a massive fan of peanut butter on its own but I love peanuts and things like Reeses Peanut butter Cups and Snickers bars so knew I would enjoy this as much as my fiance has done. I followed everything to the letter apart from the corn syrup which we can't get here. I used golden syrup instead. I dread to think what the calorie count is like for this but it is so tasty! It didn't take too long to cool and it was a big hit.

(Bit of a blurry photo - I was in too much of a hurry to cut it up and try a piece!)