Turtle Birthday Cakes

We celebrated my nephew Roman's 1st Birthday this weekend! My sister decided on a turtle themed party for the occasion. She asked us to do the cakes for her. I found the Turtle Pull Apart Cake on Betty Crocker's website so I created it plus another 6" cake and a Smash Cake for Roman to play in.

The Turtle Cake made from cupcakes! We made chocolate cupcakes and homemade chocolate and butter cream icings. The recipe called for canned (store bought) icing but I always use homemade butter cream instead. I also just created the face of my turtle out of icing but the recipe calls for making a face out of candy peices. You can find the recipe here.

The 6" cake is strawberry cake with buttercream frosting. I hand piped the turtles around the sides of the cake and piped on the border and "R" on top of the cake. We weren't really sure on how many were coming and I was afraid the cupcakes wouldn't be enough so I made this cake as an extra, plus it also gave people another option of cake flavor since the cupcakes were all chocolate. You never want to run out of cake! :)

I did this simple 1 layer 6" cake as a Smash Cake for Roman. He loved it! He isn't used to getting to eat sweets so he was a little unsure of it at first put as soon as he got a taste of the icing he went mouth first into the cake! He didn't even use his hands just put his face in it! lol.

It was so cute!!

Be sure to stop back by later this week to see a post about the party favor I made for all the kids that were there to take home. So cute! You don't want to miss it!!!

Handmade Card "Word Paper"

Im in a Online Handmade Card Club that has a theme usually every other month that we create cards for. We usually have about 15 participates and we mail them (along with a postage paid return envelope) to our hostess who separates them and mails us back 1 card from each participates. So you get 15 unique handmade cards. These beautiful cards are so much better then the store bought cards. They are like a gift themselves when you send them to someone.

Our theme this month was "word theme paper". So we could create any card design (birthday, thank you, just because, wedding, baby, etc.) but we had to incorporate paper that had WORDS on it. I found this awesome GROOVY paper at Hobby Lobby along with the Peace Sign paper. I put the 2 together and came up with this design. I like cards like this because you can use them for a number of purposes: teens birthdays, thinking of you, just because, etc. Next Month our theme is "Cards with Windows" Im starting to plan my card design now!

Happy Friday!

Hope everyone has a Good Weekend!!!

Digital Birthday Invites

So I've so been slacking on blogging, that was one of my goals this year was to blog regularly each week (2-3 times) but Im such a SLACKER!! lol. I figured out my problem is I don't take enough pictures. I have so much FUN and neat stuff I'd like to blog about but I always forget to take pictures. So Im going to try to correct that!!! Here is somethings that I have been working on the past few weeks.....

It's Birthday season in my family! Most all of us have birthdays in the spring/summer months. So I've been designing invitations for my neices, nephews, cousins, etc. Below are a few that I did this month!

This one is for my neice. She is having a "Tangled" themed party. (I blurred out there address/phone info.)
And this one is for my nephew. My sister is doing a turtle themed party for him so I came up with these invites. Im also going to do a banner for her to hang and some handmade turtles. I will get some pictures and post of everything after the party this weekend.

I design the invites in my Photoshop program and then send them Wal-Mart or any local photo center to have them printed. They are just a standard 4"x6". I think we usually pay around $5 for 25 invites to be printed sometimes less if I have a coupon. I love designing these!! So Fun!

I hope everyone is having a good week!
Almost time for the weekend!!!

HE IS RISEN!!!

LUKE 24:1 But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
2 They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
3 So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.
5 The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?
6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee,
7 that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”
8 Then they remembered that he had said this.
9 So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened.
10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened.

I hope you and your family have a

Blessed Easter Sunday!

Remember to reflect on the true meaning of Easter as you celebrate the day!

Good Friday

LUKE
39 One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!”
40 But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die?
41 We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
43 And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
The Death of Jesus
44 By this time it was noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.
45 The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle.
46 Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last.

To Be Continued Easter Sunday...

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Sunday's 4-Wheeling Trip

This weekend went by way to fast! I had such a great time yesterday enjoying the 80+ degree weather. Me and the Hubby went to Royal Blue WMA to ride our 4-wheelers. We rode 60 miles. It was so beautiful up there. Everything is in bloom, all the trees and flowers were so pretty. Below are some pictures that my hubby took at the end of the day. We found us a nice cool creek to drive through to wash our feet in and to cool off.

It was kinda deep! My front end of the Kawsaki was floating up some!

That water was so cold but felt so good after a long day of riding!It sure is hard to go back to work after having such a relaxing, fun time!

Have a good week!!