Thursday, January 31, 2013

Paris inspired cake table

Can you believe that it's Friday tomorrow? The time goes by so quickly we don't even realise it. 

Today i want to share the paris inspired cake table i did for my sisters farewell.  I decided to try and use things i already have.  I think the only thing i spent money on was paper plates (which is, lets face it, cheap).

 
I did this in such a rush, so it's a good thing to plan ahead.  I do this thing where i picture how i am going to set everything out before i get to tha place and it actually helps a lot ( < a little bit of advice for you). 

 
My apologies, this photo somehow does not want to rotate.  The vase i got a a charity shop for way cheap - R8! The flowers were part of my wedding bouquet (artificial flowers bought at Superfloral in Paarden Eiland). 
The old books were also bought at the charity shop, each book cost about R2-R8 each.  The frame was part of a wedding gift and i made the little print inside the frame as well.  I had the printed cardstock and just added the little bon voyage banner (i googled a banner and changed it in Microsoft Paint).
 

This idea i found on google, i am not sure what the sute was called though.  The lady wanted to change the look of the items on her shelf and so she printed a picture and covered the picture over each spine to make up the full picture.  I googled my own image and decided to try it out and it came out great!
I used the stack of books to elevate the cake stand.  You could use it for other things as well.

This little flower i made from scratch:) I had material laying around and decided i wanted to use it for something i just wasn't sure what.  It then came to me that i needed something pretty and pink for the table.  So i cut a strip of fabric and used a ring (i bought it to wear but it couldnt fit but finally found a purpose for it:) ) and pushed the fabric through it.

I then took the edges and pinned them together and there you go a simple and super easy fabric flower!


As you can see we had so much cake! If you look a little closer you will see there are little eiffel towers on the table.  I made them using an eiffel tower cookie cutter and plastic icing and an edible icing pen to make the markings of the eiffel tower.

I hope you get inspired by this post and do something creative even if it is just for dinner or an afternoon tea. Please do share:)

take care, the weekend is not far away!

 


Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Valentine's printable

While searching for something on the internet you tend to come across so many other things as well.  Sometimes it even inspires you to make your own. 

I found a card that would be perfect for my sister to give to her husband for valentines as he used to LOVE tea and rusks(the card says - we go together like tea and rusks).
 
I then drew my own version on Microsoft Paint and luckily this screen is touch screen so i used my finger to draw (bless you touch screen).


 

* thanx to my inspiration from paper-tales

As promised

Good morning all:)  As i promised yesterday, here are the printables i have made since last year mothers day.



















Monday, January 28, 2013

No more procrastinating!

Hi everyone, i know i have been bad at posting on my blog and i promise to do better in the future. I will try to post everything i do on my facebook page here as well for those of you who do have have a facebook account.

As a first for this year i will post a printable here first :) i hope you like it.
 
My next post will have ALL the printables i have made so far, enjoy the rest of your Monday!
take care..