Cricut Cake 1st Attempt:
AS many of you know, I bought the Cricut Cake not too long ago and my babies' birthdays' parties are next week!! I bought the Wilton premade gum (the one that says, "perfect for diecutting machines!" Not much to do except that it tells you to put a little shortening on your fingers and work through the dough to soften it up before rolling it out. I made a mistake of putting a little too much shortening. Also, when I was trying to tense the color with food coloring- I made the mistake of not using the toothpick like it tells you to do. What I did was I just dip my fingers in the food coloring and worked my way through the dough, which created a slight disaster cause it was too even and it was a little too messy! When I rolled the gum paste on my mat, I once again added too much shortening, so it was a little difficult for the gum paste to really stick down to the mat. On top of that, I was attempting to make my 1st icecream cake from complete scratch! lol. Cake was good, but the frosting that I made was gross! It was almost like crushed up Sweet Tarts.. doesn't really blend well with a semi-sweet icecream cake.. lol. Yucks.
Birthday T-shirts!
Last year, I made both of my kids' tshirts for their birthday party using my Cricut machine to cut out the images out of fabric for the first time. It turned out really cute, but the Cricut didn't really cut all the way through, so I had to hand cut it a little bit. I also did some hand-stitching on it just to make sure that the images never fray or fall off. This year- I became a little more "pro" at it and used a new mat and a pretty new blade to cut out the images on my fabric. Instead of having to cut it 10 times too many, I was able to fairly cut the images with only about 2-3 multi-cuts! The only problem- I did actually run into was forgetting to flip my images since my fabrics had to be flipped over on the mat. And also when 1/2 way cutting through the #2, the fabric kept moving and so I had to hand cut the out quite a bit. Other than that- a much better experience. I also didn't do hand-stitching this time, but used my sewing machine for all the sewing. And added cute little wiggly glues with fabric glue (not sure if they'll last when the shirts gets washed, but hopefully they'll stick!).
Just in case- you're wondering.. the numbers came from the Cricut cartridge: Birthday Bash and the dino came from Cricut cartridge: Create A Critter.
Mother's Day Card #2
If you've been keeping up with my blog then you have probably seen my housewarming cards. I've decided to use the same cuts for my mother's day card, but with a few minor twiched like the letter "M" instead of a "D." And the message on the inside was completely empty for handwriting. I also used a cloudy background for the inside and stamped a sentiment at the bottom with some more embellishments. Anyways, wow- 3 more projects posted in one day! I'm on a roll! lol! :) Gotta get back to daily house chores, my kids' party is in a week!!! Ahh!
