This is the second project I did for the Creative Loops challenge. The theme is ‘new’ so this is a bit of a creative departure for me. I think this is the third cake I’ve tried to decorate in my life so I hunted around on Pinterest for some inspiration. I had spotted this cake when I was researching inspiration for the main challenge post
As usual I had a quick hunt round for ideas based on stars ecploding from a cake and popped them n a Pinterest board. Once I had decided on the style I wanted I found a couple of tutorials and gave the idea of stars exploding from a gift a go. A tutorial from www.rosebakes.com gave me enough info to give it a go- minus the superman!
I made a fruit cake and covered it with marzipan. I then added a layer of dark blue icing and a disc of teal icing on the top of that (only a couple of inches in diameter). I took a layer of white icing and randomly cut out 3 sizes of stars and set them aside to dry for a bit. I added the layer of white icing to the top- I really like the effect of seeing the blue through the cut out stars. I carefully cut a cross in the centre of the white icing and folded it back. I then cut a square of the teal icing into 4 and placed them into the folded area to give the impression of 2 layers of icing folded back. I measured, cut and added the teal ribbons (unfortunately one was slightly squiffy as I was a bit tired!). I cut 4 large stars from white icing and put them at the bottom of the ribbon base then I added some of the white stars I’d already cut out to the ribbons running across the cake (alternating 2 sizes). I put some teal sugar granules into the middle of the cake. I cut out some large stars and put them on bamboo skewers (I didn’t have time to go and get something more colour coordinated so I had to work with my stash). I then spent ages threading stars on wire and adding them to the explosion (in the middle I used longer wires with larger stars at the base through to the smallest at the top. Then I had lots of smaller wires with single stars- getting smaller as they moved out) I added a few left over stars to the sugar at the base. It took me ages but I was pleased with the result…..it tastes good as well 🙂
That is my new technique in a new creative area- an exploding birthday gift! I’d like to enter the following challenges
Decorate to celebrate- anything goes
Get Creative Challenges- something new
We Love To Create- anything creative/ mixed media goes
Craft for the Craic- January Blues
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. I pushed myself to try some different colours and I like how it turned out.
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and flexmarkers (Hair: canary, sunflower, yellow, vanilla. Skin: Almond, putty, dusty pink, tea rose. Dress: Duck egg, oasis, 
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). I painted some highlights onto the dress using 
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. I used 
to outline the frame design and around the outside of the card.
. This is the folded, front and rear views.
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and I used various pinks, purples and greens to watercolour. I used my trusty marble heart as my pallette rather than applying the ink directly.
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. I used my 
(I’m finding this so much easier to get a smooth blend compared to the rectangular one) with 
to add a hint of colour to the card scallop edges.
and I used 
on the birds to give some contrast to her hair. The flowers are all from 
to create the sentiment flower and the sentiment is from 
to make the ribbon and topped it with a 
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and are layered onto 
which was then 
to top right and bottom left of the image.
