I was feeling a bit 'Martha' inspired this Easter and took on a few decorating projects for the occasion. To begin with I gathered a collection of twigs and and other bits and pieces and built myself a nest :)
I decided to fill my nest with speckled eggs after seeing these little beauties {not by Martha...but still so pretty} To make my eggs I sponged on layers of acrylic paints in shades of blue onto blown eggs, allowing each layer to dry in between. I then watered down a little brown acrylic and used an old toothbrush to flick on the speckles. I skipped the painting stage for the brown eggs but did add the speckles as well as a few sprays of iridescent glimmer mist for a bit of shine and it's a good thing that I made a few spares because some little guy (Cayden ) broke a few when he tried to eat them ;)
On Saturday we had an Easter lunch at my mum's place and I created a few cute napkin bunnies to dress up her table using this tutorial.
I was very inspired by this gorgeous Martha cake, and used the same concept to decorate my layered chocolate and cream cake with a nest made of shaved chocolate.
I also got the idea of making a cake border from here but changed it up a bit and drew up my own template onto plain paper then traced the design onto a sheet of long of cardboard (the type you get at the newsagents) and used a craft knife to cut out my design.
I went with a simple grass design and added a few bunnies and chicks along with some scattered eggs amongst the grass and love how it turned out. The cake lost a bit of it's icing during the drive but here's the other side of the border ;)
I'd love to hear your thoughts... perhaps you made something creative too that you'd like to share?
Aga xx
On Saturday we had an Easter lunch at my mum's place and I created a few cute napkin bunnies to dress up her table using this tutorial.
Aga xx
I used some of these cute fabric covered buttons which I which I was lucky enough to win from
The next one was for a sketch challenge and I had a play with some For the Record papers by Echo Park {love this range} 
I paired up some LYB leaf pins with handmade flowers
Next up was a colour challenge using this lovely combo...
The leaves were hand cut from a sheet of Prima paper 
And lastly was my first attempt at blind scrapping, and I went for an Autumn theme.
Oh and this is what I won for playing along - an adorable set of Social Club Butterflies & Doilies :) 
Thanks for the visit and don't be shy to leave me a comment ;) 
here's some of the details...
This next one is about packing up 7.5 years of memories when we had to move house.
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and a photo of the truck all packed up as it drove away
I've got more layouts to upload... so until then thanks for stopping by! 
I really liked the soft colour scheme and the simple but spectacular tree and tried to re-
I cut out several baubles and trees from my wrapping paper and teamed them up with papers and the transparency birdies from the Flirty range and although this is not a Christmas range I think the colours worked well. I also added a strip of shimmery paper from the Holiday Magic range and used Double Dot chipboard alphas for my title and finished it off with a couple of All Stuck up Buttons. Here's some of the details:
Thanks for having a peek :) 
I turned the sketch on it's side and this is what I came up with...
I know the photos are not that good, but it was getting late and I had to get it uploaded before midnight ;) so will try and get some better shots in the morning.
Thanks for 
Our little peanut has been quite a handful but his reflux seems to be settling so hope to get stuck into some scrapping sometime soon. 
