Time to celebrate!

I have several reasons to celebrate!

My daughter turned 21!

And I have 2 new members to welcome to my little blog

Amy V.

and

I hope you continue to like what you find here. And today you can celebrate with me. I don't have a piece of artwork for you as I showed in the past, but I will share our most loved cake recipe with you - its at the end of this post.....something to look forward to...

--X--

After a couple of turbulent teenage years our daughter became a beautiful responsible young women, who is finding her way in life. Recently she took a break from college and is doing an internship, which she absolutely loves.

That is her birthday card. We got her a GPS - she guessed it after she looked at her card.

The labyrinth is downloaded from the Internet. All stamps are Papertrey as are the number dies. The arrow is Lifestyle crafts.

We celebrated her birthday with a lovely dinner and cake. Here is a recent picture of her -she was invited to a wedding, that's why she is so dressed up.

Here we are celebrating:

and here is the cake:

Malakoff Torte

Oil the ring of a 26cm Springform pan and put it on a cake plate.

3-4 packs Ladyfingers (150 gr each)

200g Butter

200 g sugar

200g ground almonds

5 egg yolks

About 1/16 very strong Espresso

2cc Cognac, Rum or whatever you have - Coffee Liquor is great too

1 cup heavy cream

Cream butter, sugar, egg yolks until very fluffy, then add ground almonds and espresso. All ingredients MUST have the same temperature!

Put one layer of Ladyfingers onto the cake plate within the spring form ring, layer butter cream on top, then ladyfingers, butter cream, continue…. I made 4 layers of ladyfingers as you can see. The last layer is ladyfingers. Put the spring form bottom on top of the last layer, weigh it down with something heavy and put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 days – 4 days is better. When ready to serve whip up the heavy cream and smear it around the cake – of course you have to remove the spring form ring beforhand….

ENJOY!

This cake gets better the longer it sits, so plan ahead!

So Suzy Stamps Snarky Blog Hop

Hi Everyone, Welcome to the So Suzy Stamps Snarky Blog Hop where funny and humorous Christmas cards take over! I am hopping along with Justine’s 12 Days of Christmas Series. If you haven’t checked it out yet, click here . Justine has been busy creating a dozen Christmas Card video tutorials to inspire you this holiday, and best of all there are prizes to be won every day. All you have to do to be eligible to win a $25 gift certificate is comment on each of the blogs! Good luck! We will pick two winners on November 9th! Here are my cards: For my first card I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder and embossed dark grey card stock. The cool deer I colored with Inktense pencils and fuzzy cut it. I stamped the Cool Yule sentiment onto aqua card stock and added white gel pen accents. Mounted everything onto a white card base. For my second card I used patterned paper as background. Added the die cuts (Santa and moose from Dixie Crafts, Winter Landscape die from Cut...

Topflight Stamps 4th Birthday

Hi Everyone, It's Topflight Stamps 4th birthday ! In order to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase birthday cards using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! You should have arrived here from the wonderfully talented Jennie Atkinson blog. If not, no worries, catch the details below. Of course a birthday card was in order. I made a gel press background with Fresco Chalk Paints (Aquamarine, Banana and Slimed). I used the cute set Party 2 from Craft Emotions and colored the critters with watercolors and markers. Fuzzy cut them and added them to my card. The sentiment is from Darkroom Door. Use code F UNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps Follow along here and if you get lost you can always start at the Topflight Stamp Blog. Topflight Stamps Topflight Stamps Lisa Hoel Jennie Atk...

House of Cards April Challenge

Hi Everyone, its challenge time at House of Cards ! This month theme is going to be add a butterfly and/or color challenge. I added two butterflies here - from STAMPlorations - Artful Flutters . Colored them with alcohol inks. The background I made with a stencil by iStencil - just put it down straight and sponged it with distress inks. The sentiment is by Papertrey. Come and visit our fabulous DT members for more inspiration~ Barbara , Cohenna , Daen'Ys , Dana , Donna N. , Donna T. , Emily , Gracie , Judy , Katy , Lilian , Linda , Lorry , Merethe , Michele , Monika , Mrs Duck , Pat , Rocky , Ruza , Sue , Tammy , Toni Also linking up with: Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes Snippets Playground - use a snippet - the butterfly cut-outs Dazzling Divas - see inspirati...

Stempel Spass

Search This Blog