I was going to go and buy little holiday chocolates for my grandkids but then remembered that I LOVE TO MAKE CUPCAKES! And why not use the holiday as an excuse to do so?!~
I tried a whipped cream recipe for the icing this time and it's so much lighter and not so mega-sweet like buttercream can be. I think I'll use it again!
Yesterday morning I also worked in my art journal a little bit. This time I did the background completely and then pulled out an image from it. It's fun how the face shape and body shape come together in spite of it all....not necessarily how I would have drawn them, but somehow they still work I think. That's what I love about my art journal...I don't expect things to look great or 'realistic' by any means, but they give me the opportunity to play with colors, napkins, stamps and stencils! It's like a little bit of artsy heaven :)
Hope you all have a great week!!
13 comments:
You're cupcakes look delicious!! I want one! LOL! Love the art book page too and how you pulled the image from the backgroud! Great job! Happy Valentines Day!! xo Michele
Yummy those cupcakes look delicious!!
I love the colours in your journal page, they are fabulous and the girl is wonderful, I love pulled art stuff!!
Hugs
Micki x
ohhhh yumminess!!!
Happy Happy Valentine's to you! Those cupcakes look soooo good! And, as usual, you blow me away with your girls!
I love cupcakes :)
your art diary this more and more beautiful.. I adore the colors and the sweet glance that their girls have.
I also liked a lot of the it serializes coffee.. it is so colored and cheerful.
happy valentine s day!
xoxo
yasmin
Oh those cakes look sooooo yummy!!! Love this page, what paints do you use as I've love to know how you get your colours so beautiful and vibrant, what brand are they?
They look delicious! Do you have the recipe for the cream icing? I love cupcakes but I'm not a big fan of regular icing, it's too sweet and heavy. However I loooooooove whipped cream.
Iris, here is the recipe I used:
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/sturdy-whipped-cream-frosting/Detail.aspx
I didn't use almond extract as I didn't have any and I was also out of regular sugar so substituted powdered sugar (1 cup)
You can adjust it pretty easily and I highly recommend reading some of the recipe reviews to see others tips/remarks. :)
Hi Nicola,
I use SO many different brands and mediums but some of the most vibrant colors come from Golden acrylics. I also have a Deep Turquoise & Indigo from Susan Scheewe's collection that I use a lot!!
I'm not much help here, sorry. I can only say that I will go over and deepen colors and tones many times and that's kind of what works for me. I play.....lots! haha
Delicious!!--All of it!!
Such a beautiful page ! And your cupcakes look delicious. I will try that icing too, the buttercream is very heavy indeed ;-)
Thanks for posting the link Darla! I'm actually going on a cupcake decorating workshop next month, I'm so excited!
Okay Darla--go to my blog and read my latest post--you'll like it ;)
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