The Bertha the Bathing Beauty cake is sure to make a splash at any summer party.
Dive into cake decorating to create this fun pastry featuring the water-loving Miss Bertha. The instructions and templates included in the six-page download teach you how to transform two square cakes into the Bertha’s voluptuous shape and have detailed instructions and helpful tips on icing the cake.
Tempting, original and versatile, the 15 cake decoration projects here are a slice of the very best in sugarcraft from three of the profession's top designers. Each of the stunning designs can be adapted for a whole variety of celebrations: • birthdays • weddings • anniversaries It comes complete with step-by-step photography making it simple for even the novice sugarcrafter to create the perfect cake.
Focusing on a date gives your work structure. Check out a few examples from paper crafters featured in We Dare You for ideas to commemorate the important dates, like holidays, and the not-so-important dates, like a random Tuesday.
We Dare You features scrapbooking challenges that:
• Inspire you to create some of the most personal, funny and random layouts you've ever made. • Get you to really think about your life, your art, yourself. • Jumpstart your thinking about scrapbooking in a whole new way.
Take a simple piece of fabric and turn it into a beautiful piece of art with just a little wool roving and a felting needle.
Take inspiration from some of today’s top fabric designers. Who will you have on your wall? Amy Butler? Michael Miller? Go for big, bold patterns and accentuate or mute their boldness by choosing the color of roving. Then simply needle felt the roving onto the fabric pattern for a unique "felt-by-numbers" piece of art.
Sweet Needle Felts features all the techniques and information you need to begin needle felting and: • Covers the basics of needle felting in addition to the clear step-by-step instructions for over 25 whimsical projects. • Includes wearable items such as hats, scarves and jewelry along with home décor, dolls and toys like the quick-to-make Woolly Critter T. • Teaches you how to create Jenn Docherty’s signature bear complete with movable joints - a technique that can be applied to other various felted animals
Writing letters to yourself in the future is a great way of expression and can give your creativity a jumpstart. See an example from the book Dear Future Me in this week’s free creativity excerpt.
What do you want to say to your future self? Will you express it in words or art? To read this week’s touching excerpt in its entirety, click here.
This is one of hundreds of letters featured in the book Dear Future Me edited by Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios. The book:
• Delves into the lives of ordinary people at their most honest • Showcases letters written by everyday people to their future selves • Offers a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, but always insightful look into our culture and society—and ultimately at ourselves.
If you’re intimidated by pairing colors, or just need a nudge to try some new color combinations, check out this week’s free download. We share five versions of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix complementary, tertiary and tints of color from Masterful Color: Vibrant Colored Pencil Paintings Layer by Layer By Arlene Steinberg.
For more tips on how to layer color and basic color-pencil techniques, including composition, color theory, textures and more, pick up your copy of Masterful Color in the My Craftivity shop.
