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Friday, February 1, 2013

Love Day/ Valentine Card Series - Forest love

Happy 14 days to Valentines day.

Here are the second set of cards for Valentine's day of Forest animals and cute sentiments.

Again I embraced the simple but classy look.

These are one dimension cards made by layering many stamped images.

I've never made one dimension cards cuz pop-up and moving parts is so my thing but I like a good challenge.

Masking is a helpful technique for the nuts for you squirrel but I tried a fade from light to dark colors.

Have you figured out I love cute animals yet :D.

You're a dear!

another variation

Love Day/ Valentine Card Series- Sweet Balloons

The cards in this series can be for any loving occasion like anniversaries not just Valentine's day.

I think they are really "just because" I love you cards :D.

I've been waiting to use this stamp set that I bought a while ago but never had a chance to use.

These cute critters seemed perfect for these simple but classy cards.

This stamp set is by Inkainkado and is a cute must have for any stamp collection.

I'm not sure if they even sell this stamp set anymore as I couldn't find it on their website.

I'll have to find the name for my next post if any of you are interested.

My fav card is the playfully threatening birdies but the last card with the mother duck and ducklings can certainly be a card for Mom / Mother's day.

These cards are all dimensional and so versatile, what not to love?

Be Mine Or Else

You're a Sweet Heart

Christmas Owl & Christmas Tree Cupcakes

I made red velvet cupcakes with matcha green tea cream cheese frosting.

A mouthful I know, but its the best!

Maybe Christmas cupcakes are a bit early still but I might not be in town for Christmas!

The frosting so so yummy, Don't ask me how I know...I didn't steal any of course *shifty eyes* :)

One side has the owl and the other is a Christmas tree as the green matcha is so suiting for a tree.

Christmas Tree Cupcake

Royal Icing Christmas Owls

I've recently watched season one to four of Cake Boss on Netflix, which made me really itch to do some decorating. However, life would be much easier if I have a crew that did all the baking for me and all I had to do was decorate. Plus I need people to eat them afterwards.

I know making a cake taste good is just as important as making it look good but with my current oven baking just isn't simple. I don't have duel heat. Its either Top or Bottom... So things are always cooked unevenly. Anyone else have this problems. (please leave tips in comment section)

I love all pretty things and cute things and same goes for cakes.

I recently started looking into piping and cookie decorating as well.

Really amazed at how Sweetopia can pipe so steady.

I need to start learning.

So I whipped up a batch of Royal Icing and started piping...

Decorating is fun...just the cleaning is not.

and you have to make different colors and use different tips and make different icing consistency.

I got lazy and left mine on the counter overnight after making the eyes first...

and of course the icing got a bit stiff...but I banged the pan on the table and it smoothed some of it out. but you can still see that the red did not want to settle.

Here's what I made today.