My friends and I did some fund raising yesterday, for Red Nose Day – the Comic Relief charity – with a Great British Bake Off.
I was a judge so didn’t enter the competition, but made some cupcakes …
They were “roses with noses!” – lots of fun to do …
And raffled one of my cakes, which I hand-painted with a spring scene using edible food colours…
Everyone had worked so hard and all the cakes were delicious. It was a very difficult job for the judges having to taste all those cakes 
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marks were awarded for appearance, taste and, of course, humour.
I donated the prizes and couldn’t resist doing a little papercrafting to make some hand-stamped labels, using the papillon potpourri and teeny tiny wishes stamp sets, with co-ordinating punches …
First prize went to the very imaginative red nose cake pops …
Second prize to the “yummy scrummy” carrot cake with the red nose …
Third prize to the very tasty carrot cake with the smiley face made from crushed walnuts …
And the other entries …
chocolate rice crispy cakes with red noses … (took me straight back to my childhood!)
The aptly named “Pennsylvania Dutch funny cake” …
A scrummy carrot kiss cake …
And take a look at this plate of lovelies!
It was such an amazing day!
Here’s what I used to make the gift cards – all supplies from Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise stated:
cardstock: whisper white; stamp sets: papillon potpourri, teeny tiny wishes; inks: pretty in pink, night of navy; punches: decorative label, butterfly; accessories: glue dots, adhesive rhinestones, ribbon from my stash.
Thanks for dropping by today
Lily-by-Gilly 
Your roses with noses looked fab and tasted fab. Debs x
So glad you enjoyed them Debs 😀 We had fun making cupcakes together didn’t we? Hope your cuppies went down well with your friends too. Gill x
WOW what a feast for the eyes and mouth LOL. You must have had a wonderful day, love your cupcakes.
Thank you Faith. I must admit the “judging tent” smelled absolutely fab with all those delicious cakes inside! Glad you liked my “roses with noses” cupcakes! Gill x
Some very fun and clever ideas for the Red Nose project…..and absolutely love your Spring cake…wow – quite sure you and your friends raised some good money for your charity! TFS!
It was a lot of fun Carol, and a great way to raise money for charity. I’m glad you liked my painted cake too – it was my first attempt at painting freehand onto a cake – I can’t half paint weeds! 😀 Gill x
Gill you’ve excelled yourself again with your talents cakes look very yummy
Thank you Linda – that’s very good of you to say! Gill x