Cathe's Crafts & Tasty Treats...

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Crafters Giveaway of a lifetime....

Cricut Giveaway

Click on the link for the most amazing Giveaway...A package worth $1,400....

Monday, July 7, 2014

4th of July cake

This was my very first checker board cake. I had a lot of fun making it but as I was making it I thought of a few different ways to make it easier on the next one.

Before purchasing the pan that I needed to create this I read the comments. One of the main things I made sure I did was to have a thicker cake mix, which one person said to use Duncan Hines.

Another person had commented that it called for 3 cake mixes but that 2 was plenty. That was true, but.....what I realized is that once the cake mix was ready I had to separate it into 3 sections to color. I figured for the next cake that I would do 3 cake mixes but add the color to each cake mix so that I won't have to separate them out, and I would make cupcakes with the left over batter.

Also, I had a not so easy time getting the batter into the special cake pan around the plastic insert that separates the colors, so I thought that next time I would use a piping bag to put the batter into the pans. I used a measuring cup and it worked but it was a little bit difficult.

This is my cake before it was cut.

This is the cake when it came out of the oven.

I did have a lot of fun making this cake. I purchased the specialized pans from Michael's. The pans are a product of Wilton so you can purchase them online too if you can't make it to Michael's.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Blentec Giveaway

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Moen Faucet giveaway courtesy of Jillee...

Wouldn't you just love to win a new faucet from Moen? Jillee from "One Good Thing by Jillee" is making it possible to enter this sweepstakes!

This is the Moen Arbor with Motion Sense...this faucet can read your mind.

I am getting a second entry in to the sweepstakes since I am blogging about it....so good luck everyone.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Halloween treat bag

This is the treat bag that I created for my daughters 2nd grade class.

For this bag I created the bag topper on the computer. I looked up Halloween paper images and used one that I liked. I then put a text box on top and selected fonts that I liked.

I created the topper at 4 ¼ " x 3".

The ghost was cut out at 1.75. I used Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge.

The face stamped on the ghost is from Peachy Keen.

I also used a sponge to lightly stamp the outside edge of the ghost.

I filled the bag (4x6 from Michaels) with ¼ cup of mini marshmallows.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Cake Pops for fundraiser...

I made these cake pops for a baked goods fundraiser for the Boy Scouts...

Cake Pops for Sierra's class

These are the cake pops that I made for Sierra's class for Valentine's Day...

Monday, December 5, 2011

Montana's Cake Pops

These are the cake pops that I made for my daughters 11th birthday...

Baby Shower cake pops

I made these for my neighbor Kim who is having a baby soon...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Cake Pops for Sierra who was the "Star Student"

Sierra was the"Star Student" this week at school and today we could bring in a small treat for the class.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Sympathy card...

I made this card for my neighbor who lost her grandmother on Monday. She was a wonderful woman...

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Halloween Cake Pops

I decided for Halloween that I would make cake pops for both of my girls classes. For some reason I had a really difficult time this time. My candies would not melt correctly. I added some shortening like Bakerella suggests in her book and then the melted candy would not adhere to my pops...I was very frustrated. I had added the Wilton candy coloring and that may have had something to do with it not melting correctly but I do not know.

To bring the cake pops to class I reused their McDonalds buckets and glued styrofoam to the bottom.

The ribbon I used on the handle was purchased at the 99 cent store.

Anyway...here is the end result:

These are for my oldest daughters class...

These are for my youngest daughters class...

Saturday, October 29, 2011

My Creative Time design team

Well, this is the very first Design Team that I have ever tried out for. I have enjoyed Emma's blog for a while now and to be apart of "My Creative Time" design team would be such an honor. I had a hard time trying to figure out what type of project that I wanted to do. After much consideration here is my entry to become part of Emma's design team...