Keeping with the Cake Tradition...

I haven't had a chance to post anything that I have created recently!  It's been a crazy past couple weeks.  Besides being in the hospital, (again) I finally finished the other three Disney Autograph Books!  That is a huge relief!  I dropped them off at my brother's house tonight, and they are off for D-land tomorrow!! :)  I can't wait to see how many autographs they get! 

Keeping with the topic of my post... My nephew's birthday was the first week of Feb.  I made him a [Disney/Pixar] Cars cake.  I really, really loved it.  

I made just a plain red paper cake to start.  (Cut with the Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More Cricut Cartridge, cake pieces cut at 9".)  I then made the road signs from the Cars Cricut Cartridge at 2" for all signs.  These would be the decorations for the side of my 'cake.'  

I then welded four of the curved road pieces, (on my Gypsy) into a complete circle, going for the race-track look.  

I popped it up with foam dots on a scalloped circle base.  This is the top of my cake.  The 'frosting.'    Then I started building up from there.  I added the checkered flags and propped them way up!  I think I used eight foam dots piled one on top of the next.  

Next, I made a big Lightning McQueen for the top!  

This cake was filled with Dum Dum suckers, because that is my nephew's favorite candy.  I think I was able to fit about 200 suckers in it!! Haha.

Here are a few more pictures of it: 

Thanks so much for looking! :)

Crazy Weather!

This post is not craft related in anyway, but I just had to share a picture from my front yard, because this is SO RARE for Arizona!! 

This picture was taken earlier this week.  I know many states have been having crazy weather, but it is just so strange for us to see anything like this in the Phoenix area. Oh, and it SNOWED earlier this year too.  I didn't get any pictures of that though.  :(  

I just had to share this picture!!  I hope everyone is having a safe winter!

Disney Autograph Books!

Hey there!!

I haven't posted in a long time, I have been so busy making various projects...and have had no time to post them!  :( Boo.  

I started making these Autograph  books last May.  (yeah, I know!)  I didn't work steadily on them, but just did a page here and there when I had spare time between other projects.   My brothers typically take their kids to Disneyland in the winter, so I had plenty of time.   Then the holiday season came, and I had many, MANY other projects to make, and the autograph books were pushed aside.  So, around December 27th, I hear that one family is heading off to Disneyland in January!  AND.....I only had about three pages done!  EEK!  It was time to buckle down!  

Luckily I finished theirs in time, and I hope they get to meet all the characters, and get a ton of autographs!  The kids were excited to have them, I can't wait 'till they get back to hear how it went! 

I have a LOT of pictures.  I tried to make each child's book a little different from his/her brother or sister's book.  So the characters and names are different in their books.  Keep in mind, I had five of these to make, and I didn't have that many options in some of the Cricut cuts, so I did what I coul.d   I am going to show two different books in this post.     Again, I have a LOT of pic's!  

Also, I designed the book with room for the character's autograph on the right page, and left room for a photo of the character on the left page!! My brothers typically get a picture of their kids with the characters, and I thought it would be neat to display them next to their autographs!! :)

And now, here are the pictures! 

Here is the inside cover and front page: 

Mickey Mouse!

Minnie Mouse:

Donald Duck:

Daisy Duck:

Goofy:

Pluto:

Chip:

Dale:

Winnie The Pooh!!

Tigger:

Piglet:

Eeyore:

Cinderella: 

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty):

Aladdin & Jasmine:

Belle:

Ariel:

Alice:

Snow White:

The 7 Dwarfs:

Tinkerbell:

Faries:

Woody:

Buzz:

Inside of Cover and first page, along with Inside of Back Cover and last page:

Outside Covers: 

I put paper over the kids names on the covers.  Just because they are not MY kids, so I'm not showing their names in the pictures I post online..  :)

The book covers are laminated for protection.  The covers are made out of thick chipboard.  I punched two holes in the back cover, inserted eyelets and elastic strap for a closure.  I like that style of book closure. It's so easy to do, and keeps the books closed tightly so they don't get damaged in backpacks / purses / suit cases /etc at Disneyland!!  

The books measure 4.5" tall by 8" wide.  And all of the characters were cut at 4" 

Wait, I lied.  Not ALL of the characters are cut at 4", but most are.  The faries are cut at 3" I believe...  And Buzz Lightyear is also smaller, but i can't remember off the top of my head what he is cut at.  

I had so much fun making these books!!  I hope the kids have just as much fun getting them autographed! :)  

Thanks for looking!