Melly & Me Blog {giveaway}

Here's one for all my readers that enjoy sewing...I have just stumbled across the Melly & Me blog and they are promoting a new pattern 'Tally & Tripp' {the cute little turtles above} Head on over and leave a comment to be in the running for a pattern pack, I did!

I have quite a few Melly & Me patterns, I love them because they're young, fresh and funky!

Jungle Cupcake Tower {Archer}

Here is the jungle themed cupcake tower I delivered over the weekend for a combined first birthday and baptism.  It included 36 butter cupcakes with vanilla cream icing and an 8 inch cutting cake for the baptism which was chocolate mud. 

I used chocolate coloured liners and personalised some of the toppers with a birthday message,  I think a mixture of at least three different designs looks better than the same toppers on all the cupcakes don't you?

I used a little bit of rainbow dust {edible glitter} on these but it's hard to see in my photos!

Thanks for looking! {Don't be shy...leave me a comment!!}

What I'm working on...{jungle cupcake toppers}

One of the things I'm working on this weekend is a cupcake tower with a cutting cake for a combined first birthday and baptism.  This is the cute paper they used for the invitations they made and I was given this one to use as inspiration for the cupcake tower design....

I was asked to do cupcakes for the birthday and the little cutting cake for the baptism,

so here are the toppers I made to go on the cupcakes keeping in with similar colours and jungle

theme....I will post some more on this one next week!

Toy Story Birthday Cake {Buzz and Woody}

This chocolate mud cake was made for a little Toy Story fan turning three!  I took inspiration for the design from the box the cake toppers were packaged in,  I opted for plastic toppers for two reasons 1. I wasn't confident I could get the characters faces looking right! and 2. The birthday boy gets to keep the toy figurines to play with after the cake is eaten!  The rest of the decorations are all made of fondant icing.

There are so many characters in the latest Toy Story movies but I thought most little boys (like mine) would be into Woody...

 

and of course Buzz Lightyear!

'To infinity and beyond!!'

Custom Birthday Cupcake Toppers

Birthday cupcakes with my custom made toppers!

What an easy way to spruce up your cupcakes!! My cupcake toppers come in many different styles and almost any design or theme, you can also choose whether you would like them to be single or double sided and mounted onto wooden, plastic or paper sticks. Prices vary according to what you choose but they usually come in at about  $1 each {topper only, cupcake not included} and postage is around $3 to Australian residents.

Junior Dragster Birthday Cake

This cake was made for my cousin's 14th birthday on the weekend, the dragster is an icing version of his very own racing car.  Inside is white chocolate mud cake, covered in fondant icing, the car is also fondant which I attempted to copy from the photo below that his Mum supplied me with! I freehand painted the flames on in silver, the pattern was a bit tricky to get exactly the same! Matt liked it so I was happy with that.

{Photo supplied}

I put some fondant circle cutouts around the cake in a wave pattern

 and a piece of black ribbon to finish it off.

Dorothy the Dinosaur Cupcake Tower

I was so busy this past weekend I didn't manage to get any cake photos that I was happy with, I liked this one because it shows up a little bit of the sparkle on the stepping stones.

Here is the completed tower, the flavour for these were butter cake and vanilla cream icing with fondant accents. You can just make out the woodgrain on the picket fence if you look closely!  I will have to work on my photography skills I think!!