Paper Fortune Cookie Favors Ruffled Cake Banner. Sweet Kate asked if I would participate in her ruffle event and of course I said yes. I loved the challenge! It was fun brainstorming project ideas and putting together this tutorial. I decided a ruffle cake banner would be a fun little project to share for two reasons. 1. To begin, sew a simple basting stitch down the center of your fabric strip. Then, tie the thread at one end of the fabric strip into a knot. Flip the fabric strip over (to the end that hasn't been knotted), hold one of the two threads in your hand and gently pull, gathering the fabric. Use the threads to tie your ruffled fabric banner to two wooden skewers. Bake a pretty cake, then stick in the wooden skewers. You have to know, as soon as I finished snapping photos the children and I dug into this confection and enjoyed every bite. You can also customize your ruffled cake banner by adding a simple letter banner just below.
DIY: Gift Card Snow Globe | the creative mama I know that people like receiving gift cards for the holidays, but I feel that they can be a little impersonal. There is absolutely nothing wrong with putting a gift card in an envelope for someone, but if I have the time, I like to make them a little extra special. This DIY Snow Globe takes about 10 minutes to put together, the longest part is waiting for the glue to dry. You only need a few things to make this project and I would bet that you already have them around your home. Here is what you need: a jar of some sort a gift card hot glue gun glitter embellishments water ribbon Glue a strip on the bottom of your jar. Add some glitter to the bottom of your jar. Fill the jar with water. See how pretty and shimmery the glitter is? Put the top on your snow globe and add a ribbon around the bottom. Idea source: One Charming Party For more creative Christmas ideas check out Holiday Sparkle – Make Your Own Ornaments, Counting Down to Christmas, and A Modern Tree & a Math Lesson.
Cake Batter Recipes Round-up! Whenever I hear “cake batter“, I look up faster than my new little puppy does when he hears the food bowl being filled.FAST! Cake batter is one of my absolute favorite flavors, and I’m OH SO HAPPY that there are so many recipes being created to enjoy this sweet cake batter taste in everything from candy bark to cupcakes – and even pancakes! So take a little tour with me of some of my favorite recipes for cake batter flavored treats…. CAKE BATTER PANCAKESvia How Sweet It Is makes about 12 pancakes 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 2/3 cup yellow cake mix 1 tablespoon sugar 3/4 teaspoon baking powder pinch of salt 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1-2 cups milk assorted sprinkles Combine flour, cake mix, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix. Preheat a skillet on medium heat. 1 cup powdered sugar 1/2 tablespoon milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract assorted sprinkles Mix milk, extract and powdered sugar until glaze forms. CAKE BATTER BARKvia How Sweet Eats Melt while chocolate. Ingredients:
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DIY Tea Bag Favors This project is perfect for tea lovers who want a creative and unique wedding favor. Here are two, easy ways to make homemade tea bags — one method requires some simple sewing while the second requires none at all. Package a set of the no-sew bags in a pretty box to give your guests or setup a Tea Bar with the empty tea bags you sew and a variety of loose teas for guests to make and take their own creations. What you’ll need: - Download tea bag tags - Lightweight cotton fabric or cheesecloth - Cotton thread or embroidery floss - Loose tea ( For the no-sew method: Start with a 6″ square of fabric. Fold the roll in half and secure with a 12″ piece of cotton thread. For the simple sewn method: Start with 3″ x 2.5″ rectangles of fabric. When sewing around sharp corners, I find an easy way to continue at the end of a line is to leave the needle through the fabric, lift the foot, rotate the fabric, then put the foot back down and finish sewing.
art with melted crayons - happy hooligans Melting Crayon Art: - help your kids create gorgeous art with melted crayon shavings! I’m really excited to share this post with you! Like so many of the things we make here, I had no idea how this would turn out until the very end of the process. I’d been thinking about making some melted crayon art for a few days, but I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d make, or even how we we’d do it. You’ve likely seen lots of melted crayon art on pinterest. Looking through a cupboard yesterday, I came across our family’s “Starry Night” jigsaw puzzle, and my plan came together. This project provided me with a opportunity to introduce a little culture into our day. Each hooligan was given a piece of cardboard (cereal box) covered with aluminum foil, and I filled a paint pallet with 4 shades of blue paint, and a shot each of yellow, black, purple and white. Some covered their canvases completely with paint, while some made only a few strokes. Watching the wax cool was really neat. Aren’t they gorgeous?
Eat Drink Chic Crafty Kitchen: Owl S'mores Here’s a fun recipe for adults and kids alike–owl smores! Let’s just start off by saying, when the items below are the ingredients, you know the final product is going to be good! To make these owls you’ll need graham crackers, Reese’s peanut butter cups, candy corn, M&Ms, and large marshmallows. To get started, use a sharp knife to cut off the top 3/8″ of each peanut butter cup (PB cups). If you’re having problems with the chocolate peeling off the bottom of the PB cups when you take off the wrapper, try putting them in the fridge or a cool place so the chocolate isn’t as soft. Line the PB cups up on half a graham cracker so the rounded part hangs just off the bottom. Tear a large marshmallow in half and place above the PB cup on the graham cracker, sticky side down. Microwave until the marshmallows start to puff up. Lastly, press in M&Ms for the eyes. Keep going until your flock is complete! Also, check out this cute Hello Kitty Cake Pops recipe from CraftFoxes.
Pat and Stick's Homemade Ice Cream Co. Makers of the 'World-Famous' Ice Cream Sandwich. We have a range of ice cream sandwiches and 500ml tubs. Be on the look-out for one-off flavours which occasionally pop into our branded freezers. Classic Ice Cream Sandwich Flavours Vanilla LaceReal bean vanilla ice cream, all dressed up in almond lace cookies. Ice cream sandwich 4-Packs All of our ice cream sandwiches are available in packs of 4. 500ml Tubs Traditional Vanilla BeanCreamy smooth ice cream infused with aromatic vanilla beans. Halloween Treats with Echo Park Hi Everyone Another Halloween project to share today using the Echo Park Apothecary Collection. This time I have used the Digital Collection available here from jessicasprague.com. Sour Cream Containers I LOVE these! I have a tutorial showing exactly how to put them together below and you won’t believe how simple they are! You can make 12 from a single piece of 12x12 paper making these a really economical project for any season. More projects to come in the next couple of days - more edible treats too! Post a comment with any questions Lowri :-) I am linking up this project to these websites here.
More Holiday DIY's for the Weekend I seem to have crafty projects and DIY’s on the brain this week! Last night, I hosted a group of school moms at the shop for a creative get together. I figured wine, cheese and crafts could only end well and, thankfully, I was right! We all had lots of fun and each of my fabulous friends went home with a bag full of handmade goodies for their homes and Christmas trees. Have you gotten together with friends to do anything creative lately? I highly recommend it! Photo by me for Spruce Collective We also made these clay tags, painted porcelain ornaments (kind of like these) and terrariums like these… Fun, right? Gilt Henry Happened Fellow Fellow Love & Cupcakes Well, I’m off to collect supplies for the said DIY parties coming up and then off to Brad’s work party tonight…’tis the season to be jolly, after all!
Watercolor Stencil Portrait + TUTORIAL - MORE ART, LESS CRAFT Okay kids, for leaving me all those wonderful and inspiring comments, I give you: Watercolor Stencil Portraiting - The Tutorial! Bear with me, it's almost midnight and I am exhausted, and I leave for vacation tomorrow. Okay. 1. 2. 2a. You should end up with something like this; 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. I didn't do a very good job. 9. 10. 11. 12. Alright, I hope that was helpful to everyone! Also, IF YOU USE THIS TUTE, POST WHAT YOU MAKE! tiny gingerbread houses, a few variations Earlier I made gingerbread houses meant to perch on the edge of a mug, but I wanted to work on a few more things. First, since these are meant to be eaten I wanted to cut down on the amount of royal icing. I still used it to assemble the houses, but to get sugar decorations to stick to the roofs I decided to use simple syrup. Second, I added a chimney. I think it turned out very cute, though I found that the taller chimneys looked incongruous, so I’ll stick to very short chimneys. Third I decided to see what whole happen if I moved the door shape, the part that fits over the mug, off to one side to allow more of the house to hang on the outside of the mug. Last I wanted to see if it would work out using sugar cookie dough.