Cupcake anyone?

Can we say oh cupcakes? Believe it or not this is about 160 cupcakes all on display. This was for a wedding of a wonderful friend of mine last weekend. We had three flavors of cake to choose from. Chocolate, White, and Red Velvet. All were done with butter cream icing. I made chocolate leaves and anchors to go on top of each cupcake. The colors even corresponded with the flavor of the cake.   

To give the Bride and Groom something to cut and feed each other; I did a 10 inch single layer white cake with a 6 inch on top for them to keep. Butter cream icing with swirl flowers. 

I have one more wedding to do before the year is up. 

Oh Christmas Tree

This card was part of my first Stamp A Stack at the first of the month. This card is one that I would call CAS (Clean and Simple). It only took a few minutes to create one, so doing a bunch would be a breeze. This card uses one of the trees from the set Evergreen. This set was carried over from last year and can still be ordered. It is not listed in the catalog but still available. I love the antique look with the sponging of Crumb Cake. 

Evergreen 127973 (clear) $18.95 127970 (wood) $25.95

Crumb Cake (120953),  Chocolate Chip (102128) Card Stock $6.95

Very Vanilla Card Stock 101650- $ 8.50

Crumb Cake Classic Ink ( 126975) Gumball Green Classic Ink (126861)  $5.95

Are you on Santa's good list?

This is my first Christmas card for the season. A stamp from the Holiday catalog. This card was paired up with the Season of Style Designer Series Paper Stack. 

We created this card at my first Stamp A Stack. I am looking forward to using this card in other layouts as well. I have a few already in the works so you will need to stay tune to see how else you can use this stamp set. 

Santa's List-131808 (wood) $15.95   131811 (clear) $ 12.95

Season of Style Designer Series Paper Pack- 132181 $6.95

Cherry Cobbler (119685), Crumb Cake (120953) card stock $6.95

Whisper White card stock - 100730 $8.50

Stitched Satin Ribbon Gumball Green- 126848 $ 8.95

Cherry Cobbler Classic Ink- 126966  $5.95

Change of crafts

With all of  the card making I have been doing, it was time for a change of craftiness. A good friend's son turned 18 and she wanted to surprise him with a cake. So I got the honor to make it for him. 

The skull and crossbones was done as a frozen butter cream transfer. I have played around with this technique and I really like it. I loved how the image turned out. When you do frozen butter cream transfers- the images are more like a 3-D image as it stands out on the cake. Almost like a plaque. 

I was very happy to find out that Shane and all of his friends loved the cake.  

Shower Time

With weddings in the air --- comes showers right????? This card is what you would call a hybrid card. It is part digital and part getting the hands dirty with ink. 

The Bride and Groom on the bike is from My Digital Studio. I was not originally going for the two-tone look but I did not realize that my printer was just about out of ink when I printed them off. But I just loved the look of it so I went with it. I printed 4 of those images out on Neutral White card stock. Cut those down to fit an A2 card. This card was going to the bride of the invitations that I made. So I used the leftover flowers and ribbon to stay within the same color theme. 

Neutral White and Cherry Cobbler card stock.                                          

I DO!

Weddings are always so wonderful. I love making and creating wedding invites for friends. Just knowing that something I have made will be treasured by them for years after the big day makes me all happy inside.  I have done several weddings now. Big weddings and small weddings. They are all so much fun to make.  This one was really fun to design as I love fall colors. November weddings in Florida are great as you can still get married on the beach. I am looking forward to the wedding next week.  Ok now on to the invitations.......

This is a normal size A2 card with a pocket on the side to hold the RSVP card, directions, and registry information. The outside front and the pocket have been embossed to give it texture. The colors are perfect for a fall wedding: chocolate chip, cherry cobbler, pumpkin pie, and natural white. 
Sounds like yummy desserts to me. :-)
 

I'm back......

WOW... is all I can say. I have not fallen off the planet, just super busy. We went on a family vacation at the end of July / first of August. Just made it in as school started the week after we got back. That was cutting it close. With school starting back up, that meant craziness. Ally is in 8th grade and in her last year at Jr High and Andrew is in 5th. It is hard to believe that next year Ally will be in high school and Andrew will be in his last year of elementary. I got my "school" baby back during the week. (the little one that I watch during the week- mom is a teacher). She is on the go so that right there just really explains where all my time is.  I spent the month of August finishing up on Wedding invitations for a wonderful friend of mine who is actually getting married next weekend. I finished up hers and then started on another set of wedding invites. So wedding bells are ringing around here.  With the invitations done that only means one more thing... CAKE..... I am making the wedding cake for next week's wedding . 150 cupcakes and a small cake. I have been so blessed to have stayed busy. Word of mouth is getting around. :-) December will bring another wedding that I am doing the cake for. Got to LOVE IT !!!!
Well I think that catches you up. Pictures will be in the upcoming posts; so stay tuned.