Yes it's been a long time since I shared a non design team blog post but today is a special day! My sweet grandson Jack is 4 today and this is sadly the 2nd time that I have not been able to make him a cake and celebrate his birthday with him in person. My little fella is no longer a toddler but a real little boy and I loved seeing him recently even though we could only meet up outside. Here he is with Daisy (who incredibly will be 8 this year) last weekend.
We had such a great meet up outside.
He has grown so much...
Daisy was able to come to stay for a few days last week as we were providing child care for the Easter holidays. Her Mummy asked if I could make a topper for Jack's cake and I decided that Daisy and I could do this and more when she stayed.
We had fun designing a scene with Jack's model dinosaurs and I make a plaque to sit his favourite one on.
He sorted out some of his other "besties" we could use!
We had fun making some ponds and rocks out of fondant icing to display them around the cake.
And made boulder candle holders.
So it's a "partial" Nanna cake this year. Hopefully next year we will all be able to celebrate with a proper party!
I also made him a dinosaur birthday card, of course, using the fab dinosaur stamps from Stampers Grove. Some are out of stock now but there a few left if you are quick! The stenciled background is The forest by Visible Image as it the cool birthday sentiment in their lost for words sentiment set.
a close up
and one last shot
I would like to enter my card into these challenges;
Simon says stamp Monday Cheerful colours
Through the craftroom door anything goes
Crafty sentiments anything goes
Lil patch of crafting friends anything goes
and I'm waving to my friends over at
Pixie's snippets playground #401
Life is fine my end and I am loving the sunshine and my garden too...I can almost hear it growing at the moment!
I have lots of photos over on Instagram if you would like to have a look. Here is the link to my account; Jane Tyrrrell. I tend to post much more over there these days as blog posts take so long to write and I have a lot of designing commitments (which I really love!) I think it is the way life is going. I resisted for a long time but I now see it is so much quicker to share. If you pop on over do say hello.
Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy the sunshine and keep safe.
Back soon,
Bye for now,
Jane x
