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...

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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!

Easter Egg and Bunny

Hi Everyone, I made a bunch of Easter cards, after all its little more than one month and I need to send them out in time... You see, they are all similar - using both the die cut and the negative, that I cut from a die cut egg. The cute bunnies got their yearly appearance - they are from Impression Obsession. the egg is by Lifestyle Crafts. The sentiment is by Papertrey. And here are bigger photos from this set: Linking up with Creative with Stamps - Easter The Paper Players - die cutting Die Cut Divas - animals Happy Little Stampers - anything goes with dies

STAMPlorations Coffee Mini Hop

Hi Everyone, I am so happy to be part of STAMPlorations mini hop and Spring Lovers Coffee hop featuring Becca's awesome new set! I immediately fell in love with it! You probably have seen my other card I made with this set, if not, you can see it HERE . My supplies: Bunnies'N Beans , Latte stencil I sponged the ARTplorations stencil and colored the bunny with Copics and fuzzy cut him. Added Washi tape. The other new released set is: Always Tea Time Hop over to STAMPlorations to see some inspiration cards with both sets from your oh so talented DT group! And don't forget to leave a comment - one winner will get the bunnies, another winner will get tea time! The winners will be announced March 27! The sets are not discounted BUT we have a 15% off coupon code for everything in the store, including these stamps, and it's good until March 2 . Use code SPRINGCLBH Also linking up with: Simon Says Wednesday challenge

Mirror Image Stamping with So Suzy and the MISTI

Hi Everyone, I am so happy to be part of this wonderful event - the collaboration between So Suzy and the MISTI from My Sweet Petunia doing mirror image stamping. This event is going on for the ENTIRE MONTH! We are demonstrating the Mirror Image Stamp which coordinates with the Misti Stamping Tool! All month long, different bloggers will post a card using the Mirror Image Stamp . In my tutorial today, I will show you how use the Mirror Image Stamp on your cards. You can basically double your stamp supplies that way! The mirror image stamp is a 4.25" x 5.5" piece of red rubber with no foam backing. So much larger than the other mirror image stamps out there and therefore much more useful! Mirror Image stamp , Two Cats in a Tree If you want a video tutorial on how to do this I can highly recommend you watch THIS VIDEO on youtube. Explains it all in very little time! Or you can see the same thing on my photo tutorial. With mirror

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