I celebrate my birthday this week, and I wanted to make myself a cake topper for the occasion that was fun! I enlisted the help of my ScanNCutDX, some paints, and of course some food safe cake pop sticks! Disclaimer: I work with Brother as a paid consultant, but all ideas and opinions are my own
I created a YouTube tutorial (here) to share the process of this and how to weld files together on the ScanNCut to create one cohesive design. I absolutely love the results!
As you can see my cake pop sticks work perfectly (and keep everything food safe!) and my wild painted cut file from Chipboard perches atop the cake nicely! This concept will work for cakes, cupcakes – whatever you like! I love that it can be custom, use pieces from my existing craft stash, and have fun making it!
I hope you have a cake filled fun week – I’ll be celebrating in hand crafted style!
I have a new scrapbook to start planning out (more on that soon!) as well as wanting to get some Star Wars themed scrapbooking shared today. Why? It’s Star Wars day AND National Scrapbook day! hooray!
My process of creating this (or any) layout is to really look at the photos and think about color, mood, textures – and what I have. I really couldn’t find anything I liked (aside from themed stickers) in my stash. Time to go shopping? NO! Time to get creative and look a little deeper. Look for colors, materials, and textures that fit the mood.
In this case green painted foil (more on that in my video linked above), blue paper, white cardstock, and some black ink helped me make the wild and grungy page to celebrate this dessert/birthday party. I was able to fit all of my photos and journaling in, as well as some fun details too!
I really like how this turned out and I’m loving that I got ephemera worked in as well. Capturing details like how we celebrated a birthday (while on a vacation!) is just one thing I adore about scrapbooking and I’m happy to have shared with you today! If you do any scrapbooking and post to social media, be sure to tag me. Or, as always I welcome you to email me as well. Love hearing from you and sharing this wonderful hobby of ours!
Well friends here we go – it is my month officially. This month I turn 40, and I’m excited for a lot of reasons. I spent my 39th year really working on habits and good changes. The good news is that I’m doing it. The bad news is that man do I have a LONG road ahead to get where I’m trying to be!
I won’t bore you with all of the details, but for example on the bad side I gained 25lbs since this time last year. But on the good side, I’m working on rebuilding new exercise habits (they’ve never been quite great since ‘the accident’ that wrecked my wrist) and taking baby steps to fix that up.
On the good side, I’ve finally accepted more content planning and spreadsheets into my life and am excited about what this means for all the ideas and projects I’ve wanted to do but needed a bit stronger hand in the organization department. Down side there? Well it’s taken longer to get used to. But that’s ok!
Above you see the office closet – much cleaner! I’ve spent significant time streamlining and clearing out a lot of stuff so that I could better create and not get so bogged down in finding stuff!
In the year ahead I’m hoping to really get a dent going in some scrapbook projects, try more creative ideas, and I also hope to revamp my websites too. You know – in addition to changing my work flow, losing weight, getting more fit, and balancing life with a kid in Jr High and one in High School…
Totally doable stuff, with support and a good flexible plan!
So as I celebrate my month… watch for prizes, updates, and plenty of content I’m happy to share with you here, on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook too. I’m kicking off my 40th year with positive momentum and can do attitude!
The ScanNCutDX as you know, is a product I’m really loving! (the usual disclaimer that I work with Brother, but all ideas and opinions are my own) One of the things I love is that when I’m in a hurry I can find amazing free and paid files ready to rock on Canvas Workspace (free online software/editing for ScanNCut products)
Today I’ve been playing with some from an Easter (available for purchase) set that are designed as cupcake wrappers. The thing about cut files – just like anything you can make what you want of them!
I downloaded these onto a USB and put it in my ScanNCutDX. Then I selected the files (both of them), and deleted the “wrapper” part of the pattern – it’s all separate so this was really easy! You can see below the “wrapper” part that I just needed to select, delete.
Once I had both bunny and chick in there, I moved all the pieces close together because I had determined I wanted to cut them out from white watercolor paper and color myself to have a bit of fun.
If ever you aren’t sure what color you want things- DIY works and is super fun! I used watercolor markers to color up my pieces…
Once all of the pieces are colored, assemble!
Remember that the ScanNCut (and your craft supplies!) aren’t rated food safe – so you do want to take caution! I used food picks to attach to the back of these – toothpicks would work too. Then I made sure to not touch the cakes with the paper – just the pick.
How cute are these critters atop these little carrot cakes? I just love how this looks and how much fun this adds to Easter festivities without a huge amount of time and just white cardstock and some color markers!
I’m wishing you a wonderful Easter week and spring! Happy Crafting!
I’ve been quite here on my blog, though not intentionally! You see it’s simply been crazy around here more so than usual, combined with me trying to rework, well, how I work!
What does that have to do with this tiny ice cream sundae? (Oh and it is tiny – that is a very small appetizer cup!) Well one of the things I’ve been working on is celebrating the everyday a bit more, and finding ways to keep my teen/tween girls talking and interacting more with each other and me too. We are super close – but it’s not quite the same as when they’re little, is it?
So last Friday I put a movie on, set up the table with (semi healthy) avocado & cucumber sandwiches, fruit, and a few treat items too and it worked. Food is definitely a motivator as far as sitting/gathering which doesn’t surprise me – we do love our treats here in the Flaum house!
I am reminded how hard (but also SHORT – they fly by!) the teen years are, and how knowing there’s a happy space and people who support you is so important. I’m also reminded that if I don’t meet my own expectations in some way – that’s ok! (Example: not blogging for almost a month! whoops!) My personal goal right now is pretty simple: be my best self. Day to day that’s going to look different, and my schedule is going to look wildly different tomorrow vs 5 years ago. The one constant is change, right?
The dogs are well – they are a lovely constant and one thing that hasn’t gone haywire – KNOCK ON WOOD! Above you see Scrappy and Ranger watching as I work with Bandit on stay/heel/etc out front while they were told to sit/stay at the door. Good dogs!
Creatively I haven’t had a lot of luck making time for things I can share – but I definitely have projects in progress or in my mind that you’ll be seeing soon! A big part of my “go quiet” on the blog while not intentional for so long, was a part of my bigger plan to revamp how I’m spending my time, and how I’m sharing with you. I dropped off too much with my fitness goals and it has cost me – but I’m working on it.
You’ll be seeing more video content that doesn’t have a blog post attached (most videos in past did!) over on YouTube. Likewise you’ll see more blog posts that are in depth/longer and slightly less frequently than in past because of their in depth nature. If you follow me on social media – well you won’t see much change. LOL! I always try to keep it real, and “real time” over there as well.
an image meant for a post… well a while back. clearly!
I hope you’re finding a good life balance or that you’re content with what you’re up to. If you aren’t, I’d love to talk to you about how you’re finding your creative time or what you’re changing up. I’m working to adapt a “my best today” strategy and being flexible in what exactly that looks like day to day. I’m excited for what I have been (slowly!) implementing and I’m excited to share more with you scrapbooks to costume accessories!
