Ideas For Gifts
This is a chocolate espresso cake that I made for the Tall Ones Birthday. It also had espresso flavored frosting and I colored the fondant coffee tan. I cut the fondant shapes on my Cricut Cake using the From My Kitchen cartridge. I also rolled small balls from the fondant and then smashed them down in the center with a tooth-pick to make little fake coffee beans.
Click Here for the Chocolate Espresso Cake Recipe
For my sisters birthday I created a campfire / marshmallow roast cake. Camping and eating marshmallows are two of her very favorite things. I had the dilemma in front of me that I had to create a cake to serve 50 people, the party was off site, not at a home and had to be transported by car for a 45 minute drive. So while it isn’t as pretty I made a sheet cake and just left the cake in the pan to decorate and this worked out really well. This cake was a lot of fun to make. I created the fire logs and roasting twigs out of brown fondant and cut them on my Cricut Cake. I piped on the orange flames (butter cream frosting) and then cut mini-marshmallows in half and attached them on top of the branches with a little bit of butter cream frosting. I won’t revel her age but this isn’t the first nor the last time that we’ll but a 2 candle and a 9 candle on her cake.
This is so simple but so much fun! Using buttons and a ring blank you have an instant wow piece of jewelry. Start with new, used or vintage buttons stack them with the largest on the bottom working your way up with the smallest glue each button to the next with E-6000 glue set the stack aside to dry over night. Once dry, glue the stack again with E-6000, to a ring blank. For the complete tutorial click here: Button Rings Happy Crafting xoxo Lovely Lula
The Cuttlebug embossing folders can be used for more then just paper. I busted out some Sculpey clay recently, rolled it into a thin pancake and then pressed it into the embossing folders. For the bird cage I used the 12″ Embossing Border, Caged Bird and for the bird I used the Birds and Swirls folder. To finish them I used sharpie thin pens to draw on top of the outlines to add a little Lula to them! Once the pieces were cooled out of the oven I strung them on a hot pink rubber chain. For the complete tutorial click here: Sculpey Bird and Cage Necklace Happy crafting xoxo Lovely Lula
I call this book almost handmade because the outer cover shell was store bought and I decorated it. Ahhhh . . I love the ease of that. Provo Craft sells the covers called Album Covers but I thought they were a little uhm you know sleepy – so I had to give it some pizazz. This book is ready to be used as a journal, a scrapbook, a photo album, a story book or maybe I’ll give it as a gift and let the gift receiver make that decision. For the creation of it I used acrylic paint, paper, fabric, ribbon, a button, thread, tape, glue and stamps. To put the book together I used the Your Story. For a step by step click here for: My Fierce Book
