5th birthday party

so we celebrated Brady's 5th birthday last saturday, it was a long week-end here in Canada and my sister was passing through from Saskatoon. she had turned 30 on the thursday before her arrival so it was only fair that i make her a cake too! Brady had chosen a Halloween birthday theme so it was a pretty easy b-day to plan; no food just candies and chips. i know not really healthy but it's halloween :)

so here's the main cake. there was supposed to be a haunted house on top but it broke so i put a nice candle and some swirls on the top layer. This was my second attempt at fondant and it turned out great, the first one was my sister's cake and the fondant cracked and bubbled but i know what i did wrong. The bottom layer was an orange cake with a fudge filling and the top layer was chocolate cake with a fudge filling. both were really yummy!

i had also made some cupcakes for my trick or treaters that are made with the halloween cupcake stamps from Taylored Expressions.

we also had the visit of two ghouls

so this one is my sister's 30th birthday cake. it's a butter pecan cake (betty crocker mix) with a dulce de leche filling with roasted pecans. oh yeah it was really yummy!!! as you can see the fondant kind of started to bubble and "melt". two reasons for that: 1- i didn't remove all the air bubbles and 2-i closed it up in a box and it created humidity or something like that.

i hope you enjoyed this post; i know we enjoyed the cake - goodies- and the party!

5 years ago...

tonight at 7h05 pm to be exact: Brady became a part of our family.




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Bella

a cake!

i just took this cake decorating class and it was awesome! the class was given at Creations Gourmandes in St-Catherine, Qc. The teachers were awesome! i skipped level 1 and went straight to level 2 'cause i think that i've had enough experience on my own to manage. thank goodness i was fine! the class was basically to learn how to properly ice a cake smooth, make roses and borders. My next class is fondant; i cannot wait to do this one!!! Here are some pictures of the cake we made. oh yeah; it was very yummy too! next cake coming up is Brady's 5th birthday cake in a week and a half! this one will be covered with fondant so i have my great friend Amelie coming over to give me a hand in case i screw up!

for the fun of it, today i took the left over icing bag they sent us home with and the tip to make the roses and had fun making a few. i'm happy to say that i'm getting the hang of it. of course they are not professional looking since they've made thousands to get where they are at but i'm pretty proud of myself!

here are the roses close up

the side of the cake with the ribbon garland

the swirl-reverse swirl border (i love this one)

and the other side of the cake with the basket weave (i love the look of this) and a wave border

i'll be back later with the latest mixer and a card or two.

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Taylored Expressions birthday bash

last Saturday was Taylored Expressions first anniversary and they had 13 challenges that were posted through out the day and some really awesome reveals. i just love that potion tag set with the bottles. i got some great ideas for Brady's birthday party which will be Halloween themed this year (his idea). Here are my participations for the 13 challenges! the grand prize winner by random draw) will get a major gift card and a painting from the cupcake artist Jessie Oleson, check out her Etsy store.

challenge #1

TEBBTV - photo inspiration

Challenge #2

TEBBKM - sketch

challenge #3

TEBBDB - paper piecing

this is made from two different stamps - the igloo and the snow hills with a fence. the igloo is pop-dotted.

Challenge #4

TEBBCI - color challenge

Challenge #5

TEBBDM - photo inspiration

challenge #6

TEBBLF - sketch

Challenge #7

TEBBDE-paper tolling

(when you 3-D only certain parts of the image)

the coins and diamons are pop-dotted 1 and 2 times; the back sails are pop-dotted once and the front sails are pop-dotted twice

Challenge #8

TEBBJC - color challenge

Challenge #9

TEBBSH - photo inspiration

Challenge #10

TEBBKG - sketch

Challenge #11

TEBBLS - distressing

Challenge #12

TEBBSW - altered item, buttons as main embellishment

Challenge #13

TEBBJP - stitching or faux stitching

Brady's first day

today is Brady's first day of pre-school, ok granted it's only two afternoon's a week for 2 hrs at a time but it's a big step. When i dropped him off 1 hr ago everything was just dandy, like it was a normal day of going to daycare. no biggie! he gave me a kiss went down the stairs with the other kids and didn't even turn around. it went so fast i didn't even have time to take a picture of him on his way in to class.

His brother on the other hand found this separation very hard. he really wanted to go with him and was totally devastated that he couldn't go with.

on a different subject, there is a great blog giveaway at the Scrappy Shack!

mixer 28

Here is this week's mixer inspiration: a Schweppes ad. i think it's fantastic and yummy! Even though Julianna created an awesome sketch this week my layout is solely based on the ad.

the green of my layout is actually more of a yellowish-green like the ad itself. i hope i manage to recreate the same feel of the ad. My journaling says: "This picture was taken by Brady on a sunny morning before leaving for work & daycare. Quite the budding photographer"

materials:

cs: Bobunny

pp: my little shoebox, K & Company

transparencies (clouds): my little shoebox

brads: Doodlebug

pen: AC, Signo

other: Martha Stewart punch, stickles, pop dots

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SAHM and TGF gardener call

As of tomorrow i will officially be a SAHM! today was the kids' last day at daycare, the timing was perfect since i had medical tests at the hospital this morning. no worries, everything went very well and nothing was found. i was so drugged up that i slept through the whole test.

a while ago I decided that it was time for me to get another DT, i would love to get on a manufacturer DT but that might take some time. i'm still applying for them, unsuccesfully for now, but many one day it'll pay off. Since i won't be working anymore my scrapping budget is gonna be greatly diminished so let's say it really wouldn't hurt to get free supplies onc
e in a while :) my friends know this but some of you might not; since i discovered Copic markers i've been totally hooked on stamping and card making. i just love to color and practise with the
Copic markers. sometimes i just stamp images on a piece of cs and color while i watch t.v.
at the beginning of the month of august my friend Mel sent me an email with the link to some girl's blog. she had just bought a stamp called "Edward" well... it's so damn cute i really had to get my hands on it, so i found the manufacturer's website and ordered myself an Edward and a few more goodies while i was there. Their stamps are really great. they're called The Greeting Farm and they even have their own line of papers. last week i'm checking out their blog through my google reader when i see that their having a DT call...O-M-G!!! i just had to apply! don't get too excited...the call ended today and i received an email that i hadn't made it. but
that's ok, the term was only for 3 months so i'll be applying to the next call; who knows i might get lucky! Anyways here are the two cards i made for the call using their stamps.

this one is using Wild Sprout - Dahlia

they had asked for a circus theme card, i think i did ok. the white of the card is actually the inside of the card. the orange glitter is the top part of the card that is already opened like the big top tent (at least that's what i was going for)

well no explanation needed for this one; this is the Wild Sprout - Edward stamp. I also used the greeting farm papers that i bought. i was very obsessive with this one. i did 4 tests for hair colors and 3 tests on skin color. what you can't see here is that the skin is painted with a light coat of shimmerz paint, and so is the tip of his hair.

well that's it for now folks! i cropped with the girls on friday night, it was JJ's last night with us for a while. i did make a page but it's for the next mixer so you'll have to wait.

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awesome blog candy!

OMG! how i would love to get my hands on this goody giveaway from Leanne, check out her blog; Fluttabyz crafty Heaven. i'm crossing my fingers! (i never win at these things...)

mixer 27

this week's mixer was a color prompt and what a great color palette Mel chose! Go check out what the other girls did!




I used the Cosmo Cricket - Snorkel collection. the colors fit perfectly! I also used my new Surfer dude stamp from "The Greeting Farm". Isn't he the cutest! I've had a lot of fun coloring a bunch of these little guys! It doesn't show much but i streaked his hair with some Shimmerz. The only thing that is really bugging me about this LO is the placement of my title, but unfortunately these foam thickers stick really good and i could not change their position.



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a little blog candy...

Check out my friend Claude's blog, she has a list of blogs giving out blog candy! that`s how i found out about this one.

Go check it out, but hurry it ends on aug 20th! Don't forget to mention that i sent you!

i'll be back later with this week's mixer...it's pretty awesome and i used a new stamp from the Greeting Farm...so cute!

TESC77- sketch challenge

here is my very first participation for the Taylored Expression sketch challenge. i just love these cute cupcake stamps! i wonder if she ever has a DT call....hmmmm......

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