Thursday, October 25, 2012

Little Peia's Invitation edited in Paint Software& Microsoft Publisher

This is the picture I use for her mermaid  invitation

Since I love wanted to have a personalized invitation I come up with this idea; however our Adobe Photoshop is not working so I think of another way to do this. 

I tried to do it in Paint Software and Microsoft Publisher. First, I searched on Google some images that I need to create a mermaid invitation.. Honestly, I found some good ones but I want to have an originality. 

under the sea background
mermaid ( its from an invitation I cropped it)
This are the images that I used to come up with her "Under the Sea Invitation".


 First, I used Paint Software to together Peia's face and the mermaid body. 


Then, I edited the background into a darker contract because the original color will matched on the mermaid's tail and then, paste it on the background. Then, edited it on Microsoft Publisher and choose the postcard size so it will be much easier to cut out once its printed.
So, I come up with this picture below:
Finished Invitation
I hope you like my idea. Thanks for reading.

Cupcake Toppers Ideas for Baby Girl Christening




This is the 2nd part of my cupcake toppers.

Since it's Peia's 1st birthday and Christening at the same time we wanted to have different design themes for different occasion. We thought of baby girl's things that's why it's pink. We're going to put this toppers on the cupcake souveneirs. So here's the other pictures.
look how cute her shorts and blouse
girl's stuffs
feeding bottle

girlie bib

little princess shoes
a cup, spoon and fork and comb 




So there you go the 2nd batch of my toppers so stick for more....


Under the Sea Cupcake Toppers

Under the Sea Cupcake Toppers




Since 2 weeks from now it's my little Peia's birthday I have to be ready for her cake and cupcakes toppers. I tried to searched on the internet to find some good stuffs as inspiration; however it's so hard to find an instructional video how to make this fondant under the sea creatures, so we (my mom, my brother justin and me) decided to copy as what we can some pictures from the internet.

So my dad made the fondant for us out of "marshmallows". He started to microwave the unsweetened marshmallows and put some water (about a tsp.) 
This should be the consistency of your melted marshmallow
What you need to make a Fondant
 All you need to do a Fondant are: Unsweetened marshmallows, Petraco confectioner sugar, Shortening. You have to grease first the place where your going to mix the melted marshmallows, so it wont stick on your worktable. Then put confectioner sugar on your melted marshmallows and mix it well. If you can still hear a popping sounds like a bubbles well you still need to mashed it until the bubbles is gone. Then you will have a fondant like the one below.
Finished Fondant
Once your done with that, you have to think a theme for your fondant toppers. I choose to have an Under the Sea Theme, so I choose bright colors. I used sweet food coloring on my fondant to have many options for the toppers. Then ready your fondant tools and your Gumtext for making your toppers.
Wilton Food coloring has a sweet tatse and just a few drops or a dot on a toothpick it will have strong color. 

 These are the tools we need to make a fondant design.
You need this if you want your toppers to stand alone. It will harden your fondant
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These are the colored fondant
Now, we started to make flounder which is Ariel's friend in Little Mermaid, sea shells, starfish(well, we used star cutter and just adjust the side to make it embossed), cute little crabs, octopus,seahorse,dolphins, some colored clown fishes, sting ray and babies.
playful dolphins
baby w/ rattle, sleeping baby and a hiding baby


octopus, sting ray and clown fishes


starfishes

rough draft of flounder
flounder
cutie crabs

And still wanting to make more creatures. Tomorrow will be a busy day to make more toppers. So wait for more ideas for your kids under the sea theme cupcake toppers.
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