Easter Card Designs

Happy Good Friday. Who's off for the Easter weekend? Are you looking forward to lots of Easter egg hunts and plenty of chocolate eating?

Easter is yet another time where we like to give gifts to others and I find it is another excuse to make some wonderful homemade cards, so here are a couple of quick and easy ideas for making those last minute Easter cards with your kids.

Getting Personal Review

February is fast approaching and with it comes Valentine's day. This is a day that I have come not to expect anything from Daddy Hazelden, not the most romantic person and he certainly isn't good with dates. However I always like to buy him a little something to let him know that even after another year of listening to him snore, I really do still love him loads. The trouble I have is what to buy the fussiest person who seems to have everything already?? This is where Getting Personal kindly stepped in to help.

Getting Personal is a company that was created in 2005, starting by selling personalised calendars. Over the years they have extended their range and they continue to stock unique and personal gifts that you just can't find on the high street.

I had a good look through their Valentine's range, the choice was immense, from personalised mix tapes, to posters, jewellery and even naming a star. I decided the best way to my man's heart was through his stomach ;)

My packages arrived quickly and well packaged. Inside the parcels were a personalised bottle of wine, a chocolate pizza and a Valentine's kit for making my own Valentine's cards.

Where did that year go??

When I think back to a just over a year ago, I had just given birth to a tiny little girl, my last ever baby.

Fast forward a whole year!!! And we have just celebrated little miss Layla's first ever birthday and boy was I emotional. That tiny little bundle of joy who entered the world has turned into a cheeky little monkey who makes me smile and laugh every day.

Her sister's were keen to get involved in making her first birthday special. We were lucky enough to be sent a card from InnaBox for the girls to write. The lovely card was just the right size for little hands and came complete with a set of stickers which allowed the girls to personalise it, keeping it unique for Layla, there was a good range of cards to choose from but Freya and Elise decided on a card that had a monkey on the front, very fitting in my opinion. The pictures below show the card and what they did with it, I loved that they even managed to decorate the envelope!!

Preparations continued with wrapping up presents and blowing up balloons, bit of team work between Daddy Hazelden and I, I blew up the balloons and he tied them, high five!! And I enlisted the help of my lovely Nannie to make Layla's cakes, although I did buy the cake toppers off Ebay.

Bless Layla, it was like any other day to her, she really didn't understand what was going on, if anything she found it a bit overwhwelming with all the visitors that were arriving but we kept it traditional.

Present opening.

Card reading (ripping).

And of course the eating of the birthday cake nom nom nom

If Layla could talk I'm sure she would say that she had a wonderful birthday and was spoilt like she should be. As much as I am sad to see my baby growing up, I am also excited to see the kind of child that she grows into.

Here's to the terrible twos :)

xxxx