Birthday Cards

As promised, here are the cards I made for the boys birthday. When a friend first got me interested in card-making I had grand visions of being able to spend my evenings making cards and wedding invites to make a bit of extra pocket money. These two cards took me over two hours to make so I think my commercial dreams are slightly unrealistic!

The grass on the elephant card is made using one of my favourite rubber stamps from Impress. 

Back to work today (for a rest) after a week at home with the kids, topped off by the boys birthday party on Sunday. I was dreading the prospect of looking after twenty 4 and 5 year olds but it was brilliant. I'd highly recommend the Satrosphere  if you are looking for a party venue in Aberdeen.

The difficult part was choosing a birthday cake. The Crafty Elf, aka Emma, came to the rescue though, with this brilliant Ben 10 cake that looks exactly like the picture I sent her. It also tastes so fantastic that we kept the cake for ourselves and made fairy cakes for the party bags instead - very greedy!

However, it's never easy to please two (almost) 5 year old boys, and apparently this is not Ben 10 : Alien Force as they requested, this is just Ben 10 - they still managed to eat some though.

I knew the cake would be good because last year Emma made a Fairy Castle cake for my daughter. Isn't it amazing!

The boys birthday is not till Wednesday so I am off to make a couple of cards. I'll post the results but I should warn you that just because I enjoy card-making, doesn't mean I'm good at it! The cards will be easy though, compared to the 20 thank you notes I am going to have to make!

This is my first ever entry on a blog! What to say? My name is Marcie Ballance, 36, mum to three children including four year old twin boys.

Working full-time, juggling the kids, cooking, cleaning and sleeping feel like my main activities but I also have a few other interests - architecture (I am a qualified architect), card-making and all things patterned - fabrics, stationery, wallpaper etc. So this blog will be a little bit of letting off steam about the daily grind, and a lot of sharing the things I love!