Wedding Album

I made this wedding album as a bridal shower gift for my soon to be sister-in-law. I have been working on it on and off over the last year, since they announced their engagement. All of the layouts are from one of the 3 Close to my Heart books, Reflections, Imagine and Cherish – LOVE THESE BOOKS! The wedding colours are black and white, with red roses. At first this was a hard colour theme for me to work with but once I started doing the album, I loved how elegant the black and white looks. Once the pictures are in the album the red won’t seem so strong as you will only see a small amount as some of the photo mats.

I can’t wait to see the album again after she has it full of wedding pictures.

Wedding Album

August Workshop - Flip Out

Join us August 20, 2009 @ 9:30am in Barrie to complete this fun interactive layout. You will learn how to use products to increase the number of pictures on your layouts.

Participants will get to choose from a number of paper choices such as Animal Cookies, Emporium, Game On, Back Country, Notebook and many more. Please contact me at craftingwithjulie@myctmh.com by August 3rd to order your kit for this great workshop.

Firetruck cake

My son Owen's 3rd birthday is today. We had a joint birthday party yesterday for him and his little sister who turned 1 on Friday. Owen loves Firetrucks so we went with a firetruck theme. I made invitations to recruit all the little firefighters to the party. All the kids received firefighter hats rather then party hats when the arrived. I had some fun fireman games planned where the kids would use water guns to put out a fire (tissue paper) in a doll house. However the party ended up being in the middle of a torrential downpour and not really wanting water guns in the house we had to pass up on that game. We also had a firetruck pinata which was interesting on two levels, first giving a bunch of 3 year olds a stick ;) and second how to do this indoors. We have an upstairs level with a balcony so my husband ended up attaching the pinata - which was rather heavy to a broom stick and hanging if over the balcony for the kids to hit.

I of course had to make a firetruck cake for Owen. This was an interesting venture, but I am really happy with the outcome of it. We had some firetruck and hydrant cookies for all the kids as well.

Being it was Megan's first birthday I also wanted to a cake for her. So I made a carousel ride with chocolate teddy bears rather then horses.

Next year I will go with one big cake for both of them as I spent the 4 nights prior to this party making icing, scalping, baking and decorating. But the look on Owen's face when he seen the cake was worth it :)

One ladybug fan to another

When a friend asked me to make a cake for her Mother's birthday/retirement party, I was more then happy to do it. When I found out she liked ladybugs, I was even more excited about doing the cake.