New York Rangers Cake

My boyfriend's cousin was getting married and the day before their wedding was the groom's birthday. Well of course, he needed some celebrations and a cake needed to be included. He loves the New York Rangers so his fiance asked me if I could make a cake with the Rangers theme.
This one was super fun to make!
I started by baking a 9x13in cake and letting it cool over night. Afterwards I cut the neck from the top and set to work doing a crumb coating before adding the fondant! I cut all the pieces out of fondant minus the words on the jersey. I had tried but the letter cookie cutters were too large to fit, so I decided to pipe the words.
The groom was blown away by the results, he cut the cake around the logo and didn't want anyone else to have a piece of that part!
So happy to have happy customers :)

Fake Wedding Cake - What!

My friend from high school was getting married and they asked me to make their camouflage cake for the occasion and of course I said yes! I was thrilled and then I realized that I was unable to attend and they also live 3 hours away. So I discussed with the bride if I could make a fake cake for pictures and pretend cutting and that's just what I did. 

First thing on the list was to find a base for the cake. I was able to find a set of three boxes at Michaels and on clearance at that! They fit perfectly inside each other so I knew they would tier well for the cake. I used gorilla glue to stick them together and let them dry over night. 

The next step was to paint the boxes with Spackle to make them look like icing / fondant. The speckle was pink going on and white when it dried - which was awesome because you could tell where you already put Spackle! 

My pink spackled cake - waiting to be dried! 

All dried and ready for paint

After the Spackle was dry, I painted the cake a hunter green colour (about 3 coats - to get all the cracks and crevices) 

Now I had to make the leaves. I was going to make them from fondant and let them dry as they weren't eating the cake anyways but I decided to go with air drying clay. So I rolled and cut out many different size leaves. Then I was laying in bed and thought "oh my I need to make some of the leaves bend!" So I jumped out of bed and put some of the leaves on the sides of the boxes so they would dry like that. Otherwise they would have snapped if I tried to bend them later. 

I also cut the letters for the words out of clay as well - I pre-made stencils with my cricut and then used a sharp knife to trace out the letters. 

Making the leaves

Leaves being bent on the boxes for drying

After the leaves dried for a few days, I painted them different shades of green to make them look camouflage. I then painted the letters white and held everything on with gorilla glue. 

And there's the finished product! They were happy and so was I :) 

Pillows!

My very lovely friend who was due in June finally had her baby! I wanted to find the perfect gift to take along when I got to meet the little man. I have seen these gorgeous pillows with all the baby information on them and thought it was the perfect idea for a gift. So I went searching, I found a couple on etsy that were gorgeous but with shipping they were adding up to $75! That seems just a tad ridiculous when I could most definitely made this myself. I set out to find a pillow case - I had a hard time but finally found what I was looking for at Wicker Emporium. I went with green as they did neutral colours for the nursery and I figured this would match well. 

First step was to make a pattern in the cricut craft room and print it out. I tried printing it on vinyl and I figured that it would stick to the case no problem - I was incorrect! It did not stick well enough and the paint leaked into every letter. Thank goodness the store was so close to my house I just quickly walked down and grabbed another pillow case. 

Second time around, I decided to use Mac Tac and it worked awesome! It stuck so well and no paint leaked out as I painted. I did three coats of white as the pillow was a tad dark. 

After letting the pillow dry I pulled off the Mac Tac and voila! It looked amazing! I was so excited to give the handsome man his pillow and his momma LOVED IT! It was by far, one of the best gifts! 

Babies Babies Everywhere!

I'm definitely at that age where a lot of my friends are having babies! Who doesn't love a cute baby, they smell so darn good and they are just adorable! I can't wait to have a baby or two of my own but in due time :)
I have a very special friend who is having a baby in June and I wanted to create a special gift for her baby shower so she could keep it for a long time and know how excited I am that she is having a baby!
I am not a great painter but decided to give it another try! I used my cricut as well so I can't take all the credit. I LOVE books and this baby will, no doubt grow up loving books as well. One of my favourite children's books is "Love you forever" by Robert Munsch. Such a fabulous story and I thought this would be a perfect fit for her nursery :)

I started by painted a canvas totally grey and patiently waited for it to dry :) haha. They are not finding out the sex so neutral was the way to go with colours.
While I waited, I googled a silhouette of a mother rocking a baby and printed it out - it would be the perfect picture to look at for painting on the canvas. I then printed out the words to my favourite quote from the book on my cricut and added that to the canvas. The last touch was added yellow polka dots around the edge.

Turns out she loved it! Can't wait to go for a visit and see it hanging in the nursery :)

Sweet Messages

I love giving cards for ANY occasion - they are so fun to receive in the mail out of the blue or in your lunch box one day at work. I made a card order for a friend with lots of cute little cards to give :)

How can you not love Frozen with all the craze going on! 

 Perfect anniversary card for a couple I know - their wedding song on a DJ table

 (the husband writes music)

Birthdays Keep Coming Around!

I haven't had time to write new posts lately - but I finally tried to sleep in on this Saturday morning and of course I was wide awake at 7am! Perfect time for adding some new posts :) 

Here are a few birthday cards I've finished lately:

 My and most of my friends are turning 29 this year - whoa almost 30! 

My little sister is a huge Jack Daniels fan so I decided to make this card for her 25th (quarter century) birthday :) 

Chairs - Old to New

I have two cheap computer chairs that I've had forever and my cats finally decided they would claw the seats! So I saw a post on pinterest to redo them and I just had to try it!
I went to Fabricville and picked out a fabric. The lady actually sold me a fabric for outside furniture; this way I can wipe things away if there's a spill or two. I also picked up two cans of Kyrlon Spray Paint from Walmart.
I started by disassembling the chairs and laying them out onto cardboard on the basement floor for the paint job - the paint said it would dry in 10 minutes but I left mine for 24 hours before I brought them back upstairs. I was disappointed with the paint job - I have sold this paint many times at Michaels and have been told by many people that it works great. Well it didn't work that great - I found it to be a little watery and the blue did not spray well at all.
Once the paint was dry, I started to cover the seat and backrest with fabric. I used a hot glue gun as I did not have a strong staple gun but you could use either. I then reassembled the chairs and I was happy with the finished product.
If I was to do this project again I would most definitely paint the bottom as well but because I was not that happy with the actually paint I decided to only paint the top.

Before

Finished! 

The back - not as happy with the red as the blue, I think another coat was needed :)