Cupcake and Ice Cream Charm Tutorial

In this video tutorial, I will show you guys how to make cupcakes in three different styles and ways. As a bonus, I also snuck in an ice cream tutorial as an alternative to the last of the three cupcake how-tos.

Personally, I love the nearly naked cupcake tutorial the best- you don't really see that many cupcakes without liners out there, now do you? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the video- and if you want, please take a minute to subscribe, comment, like, and be fun! Bye everyone!

Links:

Youtube-http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOXPLUdSL9HmSIbbyWTS5VA
Pintrest- www.pintrest.com/kimlychee/boards
Beauty Blog- itsratherpretty.blogspot.com

Finally- the Perfect Recipe!

You may or may not know that I am too...um, let's say, "frugal," to buy deco sauce. I make my own instead. When making sauces for drizzling on my charms, I mix glue and food coloring. It's pretty effective and very very price-friendly. However, more often then not, I need to make chocolate sauce. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is, except brown is a really difficult color to concoct. Add too much of one color and you might end up with a muddy  green or orange or purple. Here's a video on how to make the perfect color brown (chocolate- courtesy of Carie Shott and her awesomeness). There will be cases when you follow the recipe, and the mixture ends up green. All you have to do is shake it some more to make the brown. You may double/triple/half the recipe as you wish. Please enjoy!

Plus, exciting news- I recently opened up a Pintrest and Youtube account. You're welcome to check them out!

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOXPLUdSL9HmSIbbyWTS5VA
http://pinterest.com/kimlychee/boards/

Bye everyone!

Miss Kate Cuttables! How to Cut SVG Files Without Designer Softwares!

I swear these are the most adorable shapes in the entire world! Create an account at misskatecuttables.com to download all of the best shapes for your fun-themed projects. Plus, all of her files are fully colored, so you can print them out before cutting them.

I love the Silhouette store- tons of great shapes at only a dollar each. If you think that's great, wait until you find out that all of the files at Miss Kate Cuttables are only 50c. each! Plus, the great thing about all of the is that they're usually multi-layered! You have to love that dimension! Plus, if you totally live by Silhouettes' weekly free shape (new one tomorrow), you love that Miss Kate Cuttables releases a free shape DAILY! Cheers, right?

When you download her files, you get four. A jpg., a png., an svg., and a pdf that gives you instructions on how to assemble the shapes after they're cut. The bummer thing about the png and jpg files is that even though you can open them up on your regular Silhouette Software, the shapes are already assembled, so unless you want to cut only the finished outlines of shapes, delete these useless files! This leaves us with the svg files. Of course, we all know that you can not open svg files on the Silhouette Software...actually you can! Here's how:

1. Open the svg. file. Copy the entire image collection (only one webpage will open up) and paste into Paint or other photoediting software that can save files into png./jpg. forms.
2. Save.
3. Open up the file in your Silhouette Software. 
4. Select trace area. Adjust the threshold slider of the trace window until all of your desired lines in the images are highlighed. Select trace.
5. There are usually extra lines/missing lines. Fill in empty lines with the "Draw Freehand" tool. To delete extra lines, select the them, press "Edit Points" and delete all of your unwanted points!

Save your image to your project library! Happy cutting. 

See everyone next post.

P.S. I you have additional tips on any more crafting, be sure to share! Thanks!

itsratherpretty.blogspot.com

Visit my new beauty blog at itsratherpretty.blogspot.com! Happy Announcement: I have finally figured out how to use my camera and to upload my photos onto my blogs. Now, the photo quality will greatly improve! Bye!

Silhouette Tip

As we all probably know, SVG files cannot be imported into the basic Silhouette Software. However, you can cut it out! Here's how:

1. Open up all of the SVG files in your shape. 
2. Copy each into a Paint file separately. Save each file separately.
3. Open them up in the Silhouette Software.
4. Trace (outline only) them. You can trace the entire shape if you want, but in my experience, there were always missing lines/extra lines. Stick to the basic shape outline.
5. Put all of your traces into one file for easy reference.

There you go!

 Read more for a secret giveaway!

Links: www.misskatecuttables.com

SVG Cuts

I recently visited the SVG website, and found a ton of intricate, multi-layered cuts for free! Whew- just finished downloading them all, and categorizing them into organized folders on my desktop. There were some pretty great finds there, so I suggest you take an hour or two to download all of their goodies! Plus, Silhouette America's about to release their Shape of the Week tomorrow, so remember to check that out! I know I haven't been posting anything in a long time- no paper craft posts yet this year- because, I've been working on this huge 40- page scrapbook! When I'm finished, I will post each page, with highlights on the new techniques I learned while making that page. Plus, there will be lots of scrapbook "LOL"s (if you don't know what they are, Learning Our Lessons)! Lots of exciting things coming ahead for the spring and summer- including some fun tags and journaling tips. Can't wait for the summer, when the work load relaxes, so I can do more crafting! Don't you guys?

Yah Blog Themes!

As you may have noticed, GoBrushes underwent another wallpaper change! I went to http://www.bthemes.info/crazy-monsters/ and downloaded the theme template to my computer. They say that the file is in a .zip format or something and that you have to extract it, but I didnt do anything but directly upload it to my blogger template. Happy with the new wallpaper- I really think it's so adorable! Let me know what you think! I;m off to explore new blogger templates- there's so many new possibilities! Don't be surprised if the wallpaper changes by tomorrow!

Writing

I love writing, and I created www.littleorangemagazine.blogspot.com to pass on the passion to others. Check it out, I added a ton of new articles to help any young writer out. I'm a young writer too, and techniquely, Little Orange Magazine is my blog for my self-discovery journey. If you have a blog, grab my button!

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I'm super excited because, I was able to open up both Go Brushes and Little Orange Magazine on Google, and since then, m Little Orange Magazine has 9 times its number of views in only 1 day! Anyway, I'm going to take a small break on crafting to persue the writing for a little bit. Don't worry, I'll be back. I'm working on a new homemade journal to show. Oh, wait a second, I'm uploading a photo of the first card i ever made with the SIlhouette Portrait!

When Cutting...

One of the main reasons why I love my Silhouette Portrait is because of its ability to not only cut purchased/cartridge images, but also free random ones. For example, if  you wanted a flat tree to cut for a project, all you would have to do is go to Google Images, type up (preferably clip art trees, so that ts easier for the software to recognize the borderlines, save image as, open (in the software), trace image in whatever way you want, and then you're done! Here's a link to a website that offers trillions of free downloadable fonts you can use to cut from your slhouette: http://www.dafont.com/ !

Let It Snow!

I "shop-lifted" this extremely adorable card layout from My Paper Secret at www.mypapersecret.blogspot.com. I used silver and gold acrylic paint markers from Elmars to create the snowflakes, and black for the sentiment. The red edge was from red Crayola color pencil blended with mineral spirits (I'll do a post on that later). I drew and cut out the snowman, using mineral spirits to blend again- and glued half a pom pom on the stomach. Then, I glued it onto the sentiment's tag. You canh't really see it, but the image is also attached to a foggy piece of plastic. The whole piece was mounted onto the base card.

Yeah, I know its not Christmas, yet, but making Christmas cards is so addicting!

Suddenly Beautiful...

Hahaha, almost. I was incredibly inspired by the products and themes in Open Sundae's Canada- exclusive bath item store. The owner, Mashiah Vaughn, came up with some great products in there! You can view her blog here. Anyway, I'm going to be experimenting with a lot of different related crafts, and will post any successes! Thanks for reading, and have a fantawesome day. See everyone next post.

Yummy Stars

Note: Who knows about the title, but everytime I look at the sprinkled star on this card, I get hungry for frosted sugar cookies!

I was inspired to make this card from a similar card at scrapbook.com's card gallery. I used whiteout on the first star's design on a bright red paper. I used a white star over a red star in the second star, and drew sprinkles over it. The markers I used were the same colors form the dots I colored on an orange dotted paper. Then, I cut a red paper ribbon over the blue paper. Then, I put a birthday ribbon under the cookie star. The design was Xtreme- glued on a tan-piece of paper.Did I mention how much I love this card? It's so cute. Hope you like this card, and have a marvelsome day!

John and Kate's bLOG

yOU mUST sEE tHIS lINK to JOHN AND kATE'S NEW bathroom and master bedroom renovation! I have to say, the remodling of the room looks AH-Mazing! Here's the link: http://www.johnandkristie.com/archives/2010/03/bathroom_remodel_walk-in_closet.html
They also have other makeovers and recipes, too if you want to check them out!
Plus, the photos are marvelous!

P.S. Sorry for the caplocks malfunction!

Have a perfect day, and see everyone next post!

DIY

Visit this site for "some serious DIY inspiration," blog.craftzine.com. It has fantastic ideas for just about any topic of crafting!  Oh, and while you're there, check out the other fun DIY blogs loaded with great ideas!Have a fantabulous day!

Paper Boutique

For amazing crafty inspiration, please visit Linda Keiser's blog at www.paperboutique.blogspot.com !
Thanks for reading, and have a fun day!

Moshi Monsters

Please come and rate my room! Here's the link: www.MoshiMe.com/fruitheads
Thanks so much, and have a fabulous day!