Cake Pops

Tonight I broke into this book to make some cake pops. I have always loved the way they looked, and after a friend bought me this book, I decided spring break provided a great opportunity to try the process out.

The process:

• Bake a cake and let it cool completely
• Mix in 3/4 of a container of frosting (This acts as the glue.)
• Roll into balls
• Freeze for about thirty minutes
• Melt melting candy
• Dip balls into candy

Here's what I learned:

• Kids love the taste; adults don't. (Bleh!) Maybe they would be better with different mixes. I used chocolate and vanilla frosting. Mostly, I think it's just the texture. It's like when that kid at lunch time would roll up his bread roll into a hard, moist ball. Just thinking about it gives me the
• We tried making egg shapes for Easter. This was definitely more difficult than just balls. They didn't come out right, and we ended up re-rolling them into balls.
• It was fun, but a lot of work. It's more about enjoying the process and the family time, especially since I can't stomach eating them.
• It helps having a friend there to keep you company and to speed up the process.

 The best part of the evening was the sale on both limes and mint, which means a mojito awaits me. Yum!

Smash Book Droolings

One more thing before I sign off completely. I am totally (read with a valley girl accent) drooling over these SMASH books. As soon as they are available, I am buying two - one for me and one for my daughter. Enjoy this happy little video.

Some Recent Creations

I love card-making because you can create finished product in a relatively short period of time. I am not a fan of using sketches for scrapbook pages, but for some reason I enjoy using them for cards. This one was inspired by Tuesday Morning Sketches. Here's the sketch below.

 Here are a few pages I have done recently:

I love the simplicity and the colors in this page. I am fond of blue and brown together and did my son's baby album in this color scheme.

I adore the little monster guy created with the Cricut. This page is a scraplift of a tutorial from Paper Clipping. I love Noell' approach - instead of providing you with a sketch, she teaches basic design concepts that can be applied to any layout. This summer, I plan on dishing out the money for her membership. In the meantime, if you are a scrapbooker, I highly recommend checking out her site and subscribing to the Paper Clipping Roundtable via iTunes.

 

At the retreat I went to a couple weekends ago, my friends and I all scraplifted the same page from a magazine. I don't have the issue, so I cannot properly give credit.

Because I am a fan of simple pages, this is one of my favorites. I also like that I combined photos from two different outings.

 Happy crafting!