Lions and tigers and bears Oh NO!

Hunter in red clothing


deer in the trees, boy fishing

the hunter with his red clothing and gun slung over his shoulder

boy by the rocks fishing fish in the lake

back of the cake deer hiding behind trees

Different views of the cake.

My wonderful Son in Law Jarred's birthday was Friday an as he turned 30 they had a party. My daughter decide to tell me very late Friday night that he didn't have a cake!!!!! Could I make one and gave me the recipie for a mudcake. Now I have never made a mud cake except when I was real small and they were actually made from mud! Well she gave me a wonderful recipie that she said was a never fail one. it came complete with directions for the icing as well. So after going to town to get the ingredients I came home and 'whipped up a chocolate mud cake' actually it went really well and the cake tuened out beautiful. It actually tasted nice as well. While it was cooking I thought of the design I needed to do for Jed. A real kiwi bloke he loves hunting and fishing and although we tease him about his bambi shooting he does love his hunting. On this theme I decided to do some 3d trees deer fish and a hunter and fisherman. Well now if this was in paper it wouldn't have been so bad but having said I would do a cricut weekend and having a Cake I thought I would do it all in fondant with the Cricut Cake. Well roll out the fondant and really that went well as well as getting it on the mat. I cut the 3d trees, the deer, the hunter, the fish and the little boy fishing then left them to dry which I did think they would do fairly quickly but I hadn't bargined on the day being so hot. Well to cut a long story short I glued the trees together with sugar glue poked the deer in the mud round the trees made a lake from the blue fondant I made and put the fish in it stood the hunter by one of the trees and voila it was done! (well not quite that easy but yep it was done)

Another house

with this house I embossed bricks on the house and sponged it to give it some varience in colour. If you look carefully you can see the embossing that I have tried to make look like brick. I used the scor-pal to do the embossing on the house. The Village keeps growing.

The Village Church

My village now has a church. No bell in the tower yet.

Winter woodland house

I have wanted to make all the houses on the winter woodland cart but have just started and this is my first effort. Cut at 10 inches this one is quite awesome to behold. I was going to cut the liner in Yellow but din't have enough for all the houses to do this so cut it in white and used stampin up inks and stamps to put items in the windows. first I used 2 shades of yellow paler one at the top of the window opening so it looked like there was light inside then I stamped in the window opening. I used the window dressing stamp set and the technique of reverse stamping to do the reverse people and the window shutters. I love how it has turned out so far and it makes a wonderful start to my village.