Tag Archives: gift

HOLIDAY GIFT BASKET GIVEAWAY: Winnie’s Inky Fingers Cards and Tags

Posted on by
9

Take a look at these creative hand-made greeting cards and gift tags.

Winnie’s Inky Fingers

My camera doesn’t do justice to these beautiful originals from Winnie’s Inky Fingers.

When I first imagined my inaugural Holiday Gift Basket Giveaway, I immediately contacted Winnie. She eagerly created these one-of-a-kind sets to give to one lucky reader.

Look at this sample of her wonderful work:

Merry Christmas

Christmas Charm

Merry Little Christmas

Each card and tag is stamped, inked, colored, and embellished by Winnie. She’s been making them for family and friends and posting her work on her Blog, which is how I found her. She’s inspired me to try my own hand at card making. But hers are much, much nicer.

Let It Snow!

Snow Tag

Peace on Earth

Peace Tree

Joy

Joy Tag

Peas on Earth

Peas

I love the stories she has behind each card she makes with someone special in mind. Her cards are not only skillfully crafted, but done so with a backstory, with character and plot and memories and hopes.

One lucky reader will win all five sets: Merry Christmas, Let It Snow, Peace on Earth, Joy, and her humorous Peas on Earth. Each card and tag are individually sealed in a protective sleeve. Not only is she creative, she’s cautious!

This quality collection is perfect for mailing or hand carrying. You can use the matching tag on a gift or as an ornament. Winnie’s Inky Fingers Cards and Tags will be a delightful delivery to whomever you choose!

If you’d like to win this set of five matching greeting cards and gift tags, just follow the directions below.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And Frankly, My Dear… that’s all she wrote!

Certificate of Completion: Wilton Basic Cake Decorating Course

Posted on by
6

Well, we did it. We finished our Wilton Cake Decorating Course. As has been the standard for the last four weeks, Dot’s cake, well, took the cake. She always has the other students and the instructor oohing and ahhing over her gifted artistry.

In the four-week course, we learned

How to properly bake a cake and how to level a cake

How to fill cupcakes and how to fill a layer cake

How to make out own icing in stiff, medium, and thin consistencies and when to use each one. We learned how to color icing

How to ice a cake and how to later smooth it

And we learned how to decorate. Did you see me smile when you read that? Try again:

We learned how to decorate!

We learned tips and icing bags and angled spatulas and piping gel and color and consistencies and flowers and leaves and pom poms and writing and roses and more.

And these are our Final Projects.

Dot had a plan, but when we got to class she scrapped it and went freestyle. Have I mentioned how gifted she is? I couldn’t toss out a plan and come up with something this gorgeous on the spur of the moment!

I thought up a Summer Garden. I’m disappointed that I didn’t color enough icing for the cake; it’s a bit thin in places. But I forgave myself: I’m a beginner. And it turned out well for a beginner.
Dot’s cake was German Chocolate with a coconut-pecan filling

Mine was a lemon cake with a raspberry preserve filling

And we’re not sorry we cut into them.

Not.

One.

Bite.


And Frankly, My Dear… that’s all she wrote!