A Spring 30th birthday

My darling daughter turned 30 yesterday and her Hb had organised a wonderful weekend of surprises and celebrations. My SIL asked me to be cake provider so several weeks ago I started planning my creation. My daughter adores my Victoria Sandwich mix with raspberry jam and butter cream but she is also a Cadbury chocoholic. I decided that a perfect cake for her special birthday would combine both.

I had also been admiring anti gravity cakes and I noticed last year that Lakeland had started selling a kit so I purchased one and got designing.

I purchased a large bar of Dairy Milk (her favourite)

 I also found a brilliant CDM purple cake board and some purple ribbon from my stash,

 I also bought a fun chocolate mould and using fondant icing made these candle holders

So here is my cake all in place at the party.......

and here is my daughter cutting it...with a ceremonial sword no less!

We had such a wonderful weekend.

I would like to enter my cake into Di's fun challenge, lots of snippets of icing and chocolate went into it's construction.  In fact there were so many snippets that I made myself quite giddy with all the sampling which was necessary as I make it ;0)
Pixie's snippets playground #221
I would also like to enter my cake into Simon Says Monday challenge where the theme food and drink

My card challenge entry today is the birthday card I made for my girlie......I kept the purple theme but added more spring colours as her birthday was on the first day of spring.  I used Noor and Visible Image stamps, which I white embossed, to create my spring birthday scene.

 Adding lots of glitter effects too using my honey comb stencil and some number die cuts.

 The background was made with Distress inks.

Yesterday was her actual birthday...the first day of spring and we enjoyed more celebrations over a Sunday lunch by the sea.

I will share some more photos soon. I also want to make a Moment of our weekend so WIP for a little while,

I would like to link up my spring birthday card into the following challenges;

Anything but cute crazy for colour
Fussy and fancy 2/3 things with wings
Paper creator  2/3 spring colours
Mixed media world vintage
Emerald Creek Dares  ring in spring
As you like it Favourite type of embossing Mine is heat , and I have used it for my flowers and butterfly. It's my fave because I can use it as a resist to my inks.
Penny Black and More 2/3 feature a creature
Stamping sensations 1/3 flower power
Try it on Tuesdays 2/3 nature
We love to Create 2/2 #6 anything goes mixed media
Little Claire's  1/3 anything goes
Ribbon Girl 1/3 any image

Vintage Stamping at least 3 layers I have 4; the inks, the glitter embossing, the stamping and the die cuts.

Craft stamper take it make it anything stamped
Sparkles 1/3 make it girlie
Whimsy 1/3 spring colours or Easter
Wow embossing powders March challenge

I have my final day at work on Wednesday.....the next stage of my life is fast approaching!

Thanks for visiting and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. I will be back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x