Veronica: Muse at Play: Blog Hop

Monday, November 5, 2012

A Special Thank You Gift!

THANK YOU gifts are the focus for this month's blog hop! This being the first Monday of the month, 30 professional designers (members of CHA Craft & Hobby Association) have banded together to provide you with some fabulous Thank You gift ideas! Don't forget to look at others by clicking on the "hop forward" button on the Designer Craft Connection icon to the right of my blog.

Forgive my non posting as of late! We (girlfriend: Debbie Clark, brother: Ugly -Dan Barrett and of course my husband Van, travel over 4000 miles to the green isles: Ireland. Landing in Dublin, having some wonderful friends: James Lynch & Angela Chaney greet us at the airport with a huge bouquet of flowers for Deb & I......what a wonderful start to a beautiful vacation.

How do you say Thank You to my friends for taking precious time from their daily lives to show us all true Irish hospitality? I created a special book in which I tucked in snippets of our time together as well as some pictures of their past. Since Angela hasn't seen the book yet (I had forgotten to pack it when I left home-----thus I was able to really finish it!) I don't want to give too much away. Here are just a few pages out of this little book full of tuck ins & pull outs. A simple thank you wasn't enough, so here's a thank you gift straight from the heart. The ribbons haven't been added to the book rings yet.

A thankful heart: James Lynch, The Chaney's--Angela, David, Amy, Damien & Connor, Alan H., Catherine Duffey, Susan Rafter, and Cathy & Isabella Barron. Love you all!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How Old This Year?

Week 4 of the Sizzix Scoreboard Dies Blog Hop has arrived! What a sweet taste this new CAKE DIE designed by Eileen Hull left us with. Make sure you check out all the other wonderful cake inspirations below by other very talented designers then leave a comment here or at Eileen Hull's blog to be put in a drawing to WIN a free scoreboard die!

Ok, be truthful for a minute. How MANY of you back up your birthdays? Sometimes to a point you can't remember your OWN age? Well, this is what inspired this theme for the CAKE die! There are enough numbers on this little cake to make up any AGE you wish! Just pick a number! Any number!

The first cake I "made" was with the scoreboard.....then I thought, lets take it a step further! With some scrap metal plates that were used on a printing press, I cut several sheets & run them them the Big Shot machine using the CAKE die, thus cutting out my pieces. I then used the Cuttle Bug to emboss with the numbers plate. Alcohol inks, winter green, violet, and stone wash blue, were sponged on in a random pattern to create a mottled look. A sanding block was used to sand the ink off the numbers. The side pieces of the cake were taped together with Red Liner tape. Beacon's Quick Grip were used to adhered the top & bottom of the cake. Ranger's Glossy Accents was used to glue the pearls & flowers to the top of the cake. The question mark was printed off my Cricket using the Base Camp cartridge. Heavy clear plastic film suspends the question mark off the cake as if floating.

Here is a closeup of the side of the cake. You can see the mottled look of the inks and the effects of the numbers sanded.

Top of the cake with the little purple flowers & pearls adorning it.

I was very pleased at how this little cake turned out!
This Cake die can be used as a gift box or simply as a cake gift for just about any occasion!
Be sure to check out the other CAKE designs below & don't forget to leave a comment here or on Eileen Hull's blog! Your comment just may leave you a winner of a Sizzix Scoreboard die!

Stay tuned for the Sizzix BOW die to appear in the next few weeks!

Creatively,
Veronica (Ronnie) Goff