Easter gifts

Hi everyone!

Hope you all had a nice easter. I never thought I'd say it but I'm actually a bit sick of chocolate now!

Anyways I've been saying for days that I'd post the easter things I've made. I've managed to get some of the pics but I forgot to take photographs of a couple of things (whoops!). I'm sure you'll all forgive me though!

Anyway these are some carrot cakes I made a few days before easter. Originally I was going to make them for easter but because of all the chocolate and the fact it's my brothers birthday on easter day so we would already be having cake, I made them early. Apologies for the state of the surfaces in the pictures. I'd only just finished them and hadn't started clearing up yet but I wanted to get a picture of them all before people start stealing them! Also the pictures aren't the best quality because I took them on my mobile.

This is only the second time I've ever cooked anything that was edible! I'm not the best cook by a long shot but my mum is patiently trying to change that by teaching me to bake :) All 24 cakes have a little fondant carrot on top. Handmade by my fair hands :)  Its only ready-to-roll fondant icing with a little food colouring mixed in but they took FOREVER to make! I had to mix the colouring, roll out little balls of orange icing, then little balls of green icing, then make them look like carrots and then decorate them so they actually look a bit like carrots and leaves. It sounds so simple when I write it but I was stood in my kitchen for the best part of an hour and a half making them and sticking them onto my cakes!

I also made some cute little bird house gift boxes for my family. The yellow/pink ones were for the girls and the blue/green ones were for the boys.  You cant see it very well in the picture but they've got a creme egg inside. The boxes are really small. One creme egg is about all you can fit in them! The bird houses are basically a variation of the 2,4,6,8 box, which is the easiest box to make. I made mine into little bird houses by adding a roof and some little birdies. I'll add a list at the bottom of the items I used to make the bird houses.

As I said earlier I forgot to take pictures some other things I made. I had made some sour cream containers that looked like carrots and an easter bunny, punch art card. I found both on Pinterest (you can follow me on Pinterest, there's a link at the top of the page). If anyone is interested you can find a tutorial for the carrot sour cream containers here. I made mine slightly smaller than they are in this tutorial and I filled them with mini eggs. The bunny card can be found here. I changed the design to suit the items I have and my personal tastes.

Here is a list of the items I used to make the birdhouses -

Stampin Up cardstock in So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery & Marina Mist

The Paper Mill cardstock in light blue

Stampin Up Mini library clips (part of a set)

Green patterned paper from K&Co

Pink patterned paper from My Minds Eye

Papermania rhinestones

Acetate (from local craft shop)

Bye for now!