Now she is 6

My sweetest granddaughter Daisy was 6 yesterday and we celebrated in style at the weekend.

She chose to have a swimming party which was followed by a birthday tea at the leisure centre.

 It really was a fab day and she and everyone enjoyed every minute.

I promised I would share my cake and card but before I do so I must share some brilliant new accessories I bought from Homepride. I have always used their flour and collected their tokens.

I added a brilliant large mixing bowl, mug and tea towel to my little collection of Homepride treasures.
The tea towel artist is the same as the guy who draws for The Great British Bake Off.

The mug is made by Emma Bridgewater.

 The large mixing bowl is made by Mason and it was perfect for mixing the cake in.

 There are Homepride men in relief around the edge! It's awesome. 

So I christened my products making Daisy's cake!

as always I make a raspberry jam Victoria sponge.
I made Daisy fondant icing candle holders 

and a kaleidoscope (yes that's the correct word!) of fondant icing butterflies. I added extra details using powder colours. The extras were used to decorate the cup cakes my daughter made.

For those of you who are cake makers for the first time I used a new fondant icing to cover the cake called Couture made by cakestuff.com and I could not recommend it more highly (and no they did not ask me to say this).  It gave the smoothest coating to the cake which was blemish free and very easy to apply. The only problem is the smallest quantity to buy at the moment is 2.5kg so I had a LOT spare.
I covered the cake and piped a yellow border. 

So finally here is the finished cake.

with some close ups

and here is the birthday girl blowing out her candles

I can also now reveal her card. She loves fairies and I combined that with butterflies and the colours of her cake.
The stamps are all by Visible Image and I die cut Daisy's name and a glittery number 6. The background is brushos and I coloured her dress with a gel pen.

You can just see the glitter of her wings here

 and the shine of the bubbles using Glossy Accents.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #365

Sweet stampin 2/3 Make your own background

Addicted to stamps 2/3 anything goes

Mix it up 3/5 anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more anything goes
Crafty Calendar 3/3 cute and girly

Craft Stamper take it make it 3/3 November anything goes

So now she is 6... and just the sweetest girl. I am one very blessed Nanna.

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Bye for now,

Jane x