Hi again! Hostess club was tonight and I think the winter layout went over very well! After the “real winter” we have had here in Baton Rouge, I felt it was very appropriate to have a layout depicting the cold. Most of us didn’t get snow, but boy did we get the sleet and ice!
I was the hostess and I made homemade King Cake. I guess I sort of cheated because I used the cinnamon roll recipe in my bread machine cookbook but instead of cutting the filled dough into rolls I shaped it like a King Cake-an oval ring. So the hard part (the dough) was done by my bread machine and I filled it with butter, cinnamon and sugar. When it was in the oven I started cleaning up and saw my chopped pecans. Oh no! So they went on top with the icing.
Is there anyone out there that doesn’t know about King Cakes? It gets it name from the biblical three kings. The season for king cake is from the end of the 12 days of Christmas until Mardi Gras. The cake has a small plastic baby inside (Baby Jesus) and the person that gets the baby is supposed to bring the next cake! The cake is iced with a powdered sugar icing and decorated with the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold.
And you have to have beads-the traditional throw of the parades. Here I have a necklace and sunglasses in pink flamingos. That is from the Spanish Town parade–a local parade that rolls the Saturday before Mardi Gras (that’s this Sat.)
Now to the layout –here is the two pages stamped with snowflakes in different teal colors. I even butted the pages together and stamped to look like it was one page.
Here is the rubbing done on the core’dinations sandable cardstock I showed you yesterday.
The large snowflake was stamped with the Festive Flurry stamp set and I used tone on tone. In other words, I used the same ink as the color of the cardstock. Then they were cut out with the Festive Flurry Framelits
One last look at the Core’dinations card stock. Here it shows the embossed image that has been sanded and the torn edge.
And here is the recipe:
Stamp Set: Festive Flurry (Wood 131778 $39.95; Clear 131781 $29.95)*
Card Stock: Whisper White (124302 $5.95) 12″ x 12″ (2); 2″ x 8″
Pool Party Core’dinations 2″ x 7″
Pool Party (122294 $6.95) 2″ x 8-1/2″ ; 4″ x 4″
Soft Sky (131203 $6.95) 4″ x 4″
Coastal Cabana (131297 $6.95) 4″ x 4″; 2″ x 8″
Silver Glitter Paper (124005 $4.95)
Ink: Soft Sky (131181 $5.95)
Pool Party (126982 $5.95)
Coastal Cabana (131175 $5.95)
Silver Encore Pad (132142 $9.95)
Accessories: Festive Flurry Framelits (132193 $24.95)*
Scallop Tag Punch (133324 $22.95)
Frosted Finishes Embellishments (132150 $6.95) ( I had to substitute cuz I was out!)
Various Ribbons
*Bundle and Save: Festive Flurry stamp set & framelits (Wood 133284 $54.95; Clear 133285 $46.95)
Hope you liked it!
Happy stampin’,
~Laura
