PeggyLovesVintage Blog: Cake Decorating 101 and More on the Memory Book

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Cake Decorating 101 and More on the Memory Book

Hi Everyone!

Did you get the big snowstorm? We received a whopping 18 inches of snow! Although it's a pain getting this much snow in March, it sure is pretty......

It's a nice wet snow, so the kids should have a blast building snowmen, sledding and having the traditional snowball fight! lol

Are you a cake decorator? I have always wanted to create awesomely decorated cakes and have taken a stab or two at accomplishing that. I can't say I'd win any prizes but every once in a while the juices flow and I give it a try. Recently, one of my buyers wanted a special vintage image to create a tutorial for CakeJournal.com. She did an awesome job with the tutorial and it looks so easy that I'm definitely going to give it a try for my Easter cake. To view the tutorial click here . I'll let you know how it turns out... Oh by the way, the vintage chick image that she used is available via my ArtFire shop. To purchase the image click here .

Since my last post, I presented my memory book to my son's soon-to-be bride at their wedding shower. It seemed to be a big hit. But as usual, I forgot to take the final pictures of it totally completed - figures doesn't it - I always seem to forget that critical step... lol Guess I'll have to make a trip to their house so I can show you what it looked like. Till then, here's a few more pictures of the individual pages.

Megan has chosen black and purple as her colors, so I tried to incorporate those colors as much as possible. I found an awesome DP book from Colorbok that was full of rose designs and used a lot of MS punches as well as ek punches.

For this book, I planned on leaving a pretty large pocket when I put the pages together. So I decided to create a pocket insert which could be used for journaling or photos or whatever. These pocket pages are about 6.5 x 6.5" and decorated on both sides, so there's plenty of space for photos.