Volcano and Dinosaur Cake

It was my Grandson's fourth birthday yesterday and I made him a cake for his party.

The dinosaurs are not edible but the rest is. I used strawberry laces and jelly snakes for the lava.

And with four candles

Christmas Cake

I made a cake and got out the old decorations to use which I've not done for years. I think you would call them vintage now, they are probably about 30 years old. Notice the rabbit is as big as the Santa!

40 Week Drawing Challenge 26-32

Doodle Patterns and Prepare[IF]

The challenge at Illustration Friday  this week is 'Prepare'.

There always seems to be a meal to prepare.

Above - brush pens

Below - mixed media- painted fabric, metal, photo [fish head] plastic, stitching, paper, pen

Heart Cake

Another cake, I was originally thinking of doing a dome because my daughter showed me a picture of one she liked, but as I was only going to make two cakes I didn't think it would be tall enough so I decided on a heart shaped cake. I drew a heart on some paper, placed it on top of the cake, took a big knife and cut through the cake following the paper. For the smaller cake I just trimmed the paper heart. It did look a bit uneven in places and bits of cake came off where they weren't supposed to. Two friends said after I'd done it that they had a heart shaped cake tin! The cakes were attached together with boiled apricot jam then marzipan'd before icing. I coloured the icing with food colourings and used cookie cutters for the flower shapes. I didn't put leaves on this time. I like the colours on this one especially the lilac. I didn't realise I had damaged it until I looked at the photos. The cake was for my lovely daughter & fiance who were having a barbecue in our garden  to celebrate their forthcoming wedding with their friends who live in the North East, most of them will not be going to the wedding in London. Weather stayed nice apart from about 10 seconds of rain.

Flower Cake

A cake I did for a pre-wedding garden party for my daughter and fiance. It was raining when we first arrived but luckily it stopped almost immediately and we even saw the sunshine at times. A fun time was had by all.

TAST, Quilt, Cake

Take a Stitch Tuesday - week 14 - Buttonhole Herringbone Stitch

I think I may have twisted it round a bit on part of it

I also used the stitch [the green thread] on this plastic net for the quilt mentioned in the last post

Another cake I decorated - I bought some more cutters for this one, but I made the colours by mixing white and brightly coloured [green and blue] icing and food colourings [yellow and red]

Altered Flower Book [p19,20] + Cake

painted pages, collage, watercolour paintings, stencil, magazine snippets, embroidery [below]

I've been icing a cake today. I've never tried that ready made coloured royal icing before, so I thought I would give it a go. I was thinking of doing a cake for my daughters wedding [not in the bright colours like this one], but ...still thinking.....

Snakes, Ladders and T-Pots

I've been drawing a lot of snakes recently, and this picture combines them and a lot of the other things I draw regularly such as t-pots, cups, games related items, cakes and flowers.

Happy Birthday Sketch

For Emma. Have a great day!

Cups & Cake

I bought a new sketching pen the other day but it wasn't till the next day when I was eating my breakfast that I realised I had not seen it since I got home. I searched my re-usable bags - not there. I remembered it was in a plastic bag, one which I had used to put some food in the freezer, and it was there, in the bag, in the freezer. I let it thaw out, and yes it does still work!