Birthday cards for Mum and Dad

I made cards for both Mum and Dad recently, for their birthdays...

 This first one is for Dad.

He loves his sweets... esp the retro ones.

I fell in love with these images when I found them on a piece of wrapping paper!

Infact, I got about 40 images on the wrapping paper...

all jars of sweets, inc: wine gums, humbugs, mint imperials, 

aniseed balls, sherbet lemons, parma violets...  all with glitter here n there!

I used my new bargain punch (£1 at a boot sale) 

to make the shelves..and used a  (candy-striped) DCWV paper for backing.

I decoupaged some of the tags / labels and added glossy accents to some 

of the sweets.

Dad loved it!  x

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges... 

Inky chicks - 9 - summer colours (ends 3rd August)

Craftin desert divas - 11 - birthdays (ends 4th August)

 





Mum loves her kitchen and all things american...

and I knew as soon as I saw this image - that she would love it.

I have had it quite a while...think I got it on PC Crafter website. 

I decoupaged lots of the bits on the shelf and added some glossy accents to some.

I found a poem that I thought she would like, too.

A bit of red ribbon down the side, and

backed on red gingham... it went down a treat!