Edible Decorations.

I tend to do a lot of craft/decorations from paper. Learning how to do decorations that are edible are pretty fun and exciting. I even went to take classes on how to do these. It's so fun that I went crazy afterwards in making them. To make these decorations, I've used royal icing and fondant/gumpaste. Hope you like them. I'm looking forward to learn more on how to use fondant to make other fun stuff.

These are yellow royal icing flowers piped from a piping bag.

These are pink royal icing flowers piped from a piping bag.

These are purple royal icing flowers piped from a piping bag.

These are calla lily made from fondant

I just love these roses. It took me a few tries to make these roses look nice. There are difficult to do, but once you managed how to do them, they are absolutely fun to make.

These are fondant leaves. I was trying to make autumn leaves for my cupcake decorations. It turned out ok. I've used a cookie cutter to cut the leaves. It was hard to mix the colour to match the colour of autumn. I've mixed orange and brown together for this, but the colour didn't seem to change.

I've made these mini pumpkins for my cupcake decorations as well. I had fun making them. They weren't that hard to do, and they turned out pretty amazing.

Mini Cupcakes

Recently I developed the interest to bake and decorate. It took me a few months. I started using cake mix to bake the cupcakes and gradually baking them from scratch using recipe found from online/books. The toping for the cupcake, I've used buttercream icing/cream cheese icing to spread the top. The decorations are done by piping buttercream flowers on the tope. I've also used fondant to make little pumpkins.

Here are pictures of some of the cupcakes I've made.

Hyacinth....the paper flower

It's July already. Wow, this year is going by quicker than I expected. As with my craftwork, I've been slowing down lately since I don't really have much ideas. However there's this one day when I was at my local bookstore, I saw this origami book that teaches you how to make flowers, and you know how much I love to fold flowers. So I took the idea and tried it myself. It took me a few days to accomplish the project because each little flower look me like 30 minutes to do. I think there's a total of 20ish little flower on that one stem. Although it's time consuming, it was worth it because the end product was really pretty, I really liked it. It was good timing because one of my colleague's birthday was just around the corner, it was the perfect gift. I'm in the process of making another one for myself since I really like it. Here's a picture of it.

Happy Victoria Day

Happy Victoria Day to those celebrating!

For our family, we normally don't celebrate or do any fireworks. With this year's Victoria Day, we got rain and thunderstorm. However, something nice came up during all that rain...a rainbow. Trust me, I don't see those much often, so don't mind me if I get too excited and started taking pictures. It was rather nice to see it. I was able to see both side of the rainbow, but with my cheapy camera, i was only able to take only one side of it. I just want to share with you.

Birthday Cards

I have received some stamps from the mail from "The {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard" before the start of the long holiday. I was pretty excited to start making something using my new stamps. The stamp set I've used are "Scream4icecream" & "Cake2build", as these are the only stamp set I have. With limited supplies and medium creativity, I came up with these creations. The 3-tier cake i made with embossing each tier to give it some texture. One thing I did with the word "Celebrate" was I stamped it twice with two different colours. Originally I thought it would give it a background highlight, but it turn out looking blurry, which is neat in a way. It can be a technique used to play a trick on the person.

I like the birthday ice cream with the candles, found it quite cute. I even tried to make a wrinkly texture for the ice cream cone. Have you ever received an ice cream as a birthday cake. It's something different.

Quilling Angel & Birthday Card

Here's a Birthday Present and Card I made for a friend at work.
The pretty angel is made from quilling. I got the idea from the book "Three-Dimensional Quilling" by Jane Jenkins. It is fascinating how strips of paper can turn out into something like this. The Pop-Up Birthday card is also made by me. It consists of stamping and quilling. Because I don't have any nice colouring markers or pens and my colouring skills are horrible, therefore i've used quilling to fill in the dragonfly and created a different effect on the card.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful mom's out there. Kind of posted this pretty late, but guess it's not such a big deal. So...Today, I spend most of the day with my mom today. Took her out for a nice brunch and then cook dinner, it's not a fancy dinner since i'm not such a good cook at all (and i'm telling the truth).

Here I want to share one of the crafts I made that seems quite suitable for a mother day's gift. It looks like a pot of "mum" ,but actually it's a pot of roses. A pot of flowers for mom.

It's all made of paper, the pot is made from quilling, the rose is made by twisting a strip of paper. I have to say...I lied, it's not all paper, there is actually a styrofoam ball in the centre that holds all the roses together. Otherwise, it's everything else is paper.

Card Making

I had made birthday cards before by drawing and sticking origami flowers on them, but lately I found a new way to making cards that are fun and easy to do. The best thing is that the end results are super amazing. I've got the cuttlebug machine for embross, the Circut machines (which I haven't used yet), and some punches out gadgets...so i'm excited to do some work with them. I am still a beginner with this and I am not so good with coming up with ideas, and still fiddling around with the circut machine.

Here are two cards I made for two friends birthday that I wanted to share.

This card is very simple, just emboss and used spark to hightlight the Birthday word. It took me quite some time to do it with the glue bottle I used. I don't really have those fansy glue most crafters use. The purple doll is also made from paper, using origami and quilling. It turned out pretty well and I liked it very much.

This is the second card, using the same birthday embross technique (Cuttlebug). I used paperscrapping, punch out, ribbons and origami rose for decorations. The rose is similar to the ribbon twisting one (not sure what it's called).






Also, I'm starting to do "Stamping" crafts now. I found a lovely website "Stamps of Life" and joined their club this week. It's a new type of craft I'm heading into, away from the paper folding. So, I can't wait to get started when I receive those stamps in the mail. Hope I can get the hang of it. I can do craft, but my designing skills are not that great, so I hope those cards I'm designing/making in the future won't look to bad.

Cupcakes & Daisy

Cupcakes I tried to make using 3D origami technique. It's great for a birthday present.

A pot of Daisy Flowers I made using 3D origami technique, quilling, and plain origami.

Just the Pink Daisy in a glass.

Winnie the Pooh 3D Origami

Here is the first cartoon set of 3D Origami I made. Each is about 10-15 cm in height and takes about 4-6 days to make.

Winnie the Pooh is one of my favourite cartoon from childhood, and I still like them at present. My favourite character in the cartoon are Eeyore and Piglet. What is yours?

Piglet, Tigger & Eeyore.

Pooh.

Rabbit.