This $20.00 cupcake pincushion ring is both cute and functional! It’s made entirely from wool and even includes the pins. What better way to craft then wearing a cupcake? And the best part is that you have the pin already in your hand!
In the past I have posted about Amy Atlas Events and expressed how much I love everything that Amy Atlas creates. Over the summer we shared with you a DIY tutorial for cupcake liner garland. Now, this past week Atlas shared her own tutorial for cupcake wrapper garland. The very easy directions for this fun decoration are included on her website.
Amigurumi (編みぐるみ) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals. I see Amigurumi a lot at craft shows, but I have never seen examples as cute as these!
Visit PaisleyJade to see more photos and to read the details of how these little cuties came to be.
Lately I have been trying to be crafty and these googley eye cupcake toppers are a great next project. I found these DIY toppers on Modern Kiddo although they were originally created by Scrumdilly-Do. Grab your materials which include:
* toothpicks
* scrap paper, printed paper, newspaper
* paint of your choice
* paint brushes
* cup o water
* glue and/or glue stick
* various paper punches or scissors
* googly eyes
* markers (optional)
Then head over to Modern Kiddo for the tutorial!
Vol.25 created this downloadable freebie for Build Your Own Cupcakes. There are a total of 10 pages to print which include, a cover page, the recipe, 8 different cupcakes, 8 different liners, 8 different frostings, 11 different cupcake toppers, and a sheet of name tags for your little baker(s). Jessica, creator of this fun template, suggests printing your cupcakes on sticker paper which is a great idea!
Happy Fall Sunday cupcake fans! Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter our cupcake lanyard giveaway sponsored by Etsy crafter SewCosmic. Please click here to enter.
Looking for a unique way to display your cupcakes? How about a homemade cupcakes tower made out of maps. Realistically you can use any paper to make your tower personal. Lori, from Save On Crafts, who created the cupcake tower includes instructions in the blog post.
The Swell Life is becoming one of my favorite blogs! In one post, she makes a wreath out of cupcake liners! How clever is that? Click here for instructions to make your own.
And then she creates a candy corn cupcake stand! What fun! Click here for instructions for this masterpiece.
Thanks Alexa, for letting us share your pictures.
Sasha from The Gilded Bee was recently a guest blogger on Oh, Hello Friend while Danni is away on her honeymoon. Sasha’s post was a tutorial on how to make paper carnations out of cupcake wrappers.
I have included the instructions but for the step-by-step pictures that go along with the written directions or variations on the project you will have to check out the original blog post.
This is Crazy Pink Cupcake, just don't call him that!
I found this Etsy site the other day and it is fantastic! The owner Karly, has only just re set the store up mid last month, and if these absolutely adorable clay figures are anything to go by she is going to do a roaring trade, I am so in love. My favorite is this little dude here with the lifter fork thing, his name is Sprinklez.
You can check out all of Karly’s creations on her blog too. All of these creations are currently available, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they move pretty quickly! I am so eyeing you Mr Sprinklez! xxx
The cupcakes flank the ice cream dude!
So do you know what a cupfake is? A cupfake is a fake cupcake- all the sweet and zero calories! This week we are giving away one cupfake from new Etsy seller Frankschick. Her Etsy store is called The Cakery Fakery (how cute is that?!) You may remember her is a previous post by Applecupcake. She is obsessed with cupcakes but alas, admits to being an awful baker! So instead of heading to the supermarket for cupcake supplies, she headed to Home Depot. Her cupfakes are all 100% hand made, hand painted and hand decorated by her. These are just a few of my favorites:
I am so pleased to own one of her creations because it looks so realistic. Every time I look at it I get hungry! I was also extremely pleased with the Cakery Fakery’s high importance on customer service. One of the best cupcake artists Etsy has to offer.
This week The Cakery Fakery is giving away one set Halloween cupfakes to a sweet reader.
To enter, visit her shop and pick out your favorite then come back to ATC. Click on the comment area below and tell us your favorite and also tell us what kind of cupfake you think she should make next. One winner will be chosen on Monday October 11th.
Make sure to also become her fan on Facebook!
Continuing the run of Uncommon (cupcake!) Goods posts, here is just the sweetest little sugar and creamer set I’ve ever seen. Artist Beth Mueller hand-paints these herself in her studio in Vermont. I love how adorably but simply she conveys the ideas of cream and sugar! This ceramic duo isn’t cheap, but then again you’re getting what you pay for in cute creativity and handmade in the USA quality.
Oh my gosh, these are just too adorable! Amy at Naptime Crafters made this awesome cupcake matching game for her daughter! How clever is this? Visit her blog for complete instructions as well as a (free) downloadable pattern! I am so impressed! Thank you Amy!
Next time you want to do some online shopping, you might want to check out Quilted Cupcake. I’ve just spent well over an hour (when I was supposed to be working) browsing through her websites, and she has some really cool items, many of them cupcake related or inspired. Visit her blog here. You can download her podcasts here. And you can shop from her Etsy store here. Her stuff is so cool, but what really amazes me is her prices! Tres reasonable!
When your teeth are crying out for some down time from the sugar intake, and the button on your pants is straining to be catapulted across the room, perhaps take a day off from the cupcakey goodness and reach instead for a cupcake fake.
Fake cupcakes are starting to appear everywhere, and what is so good about them, is they can sit on your desk forever looking pretty without ever going bad! But just don’t drool on them, urgh, it is too hard to clean!
Cakery Fakery is one such Etsy retailer who does just that, making and selling her cupcake fakes. Here are some of my favorite ones from her range. These are in order Sherbet Blossom, Sherbet Swirl, Baby Girl (below) and Pistachio (above).
Last week I introduced you to Etsy seller, FunFavors. They specialize in personally made party items. Funfavors will make custom orders for any type of theme. From birthday parties to baby showers to weddings, they will make it all for you!
This week FunFavors is giving away one dozen cupcake cookies to one lucky ATC fan.
To enter this giveaway first click here to visit FunFavors shop. Then click on the comment area below and tell us what your favorite item is AND what item you think they should add to their shop. One winner will be chosen on August 3 and will be announced here on ATC. Good luck cupcake fans!
www.funfavors.etsy.com www.funfavorsbydulce.blogspot.com
http://www.sweetiesbakeshop.blogspot.com/
Hello cupcake fans!! Tonight I’d like to introduce you to our newest ATC advertiser, FunFavors. This Etsy crafter’s creative shop is dedicated to personalizing all types of events. They create invitations, party decor and super cute cookie favors! Check out a few of my favorites:
Next week, ATC will be hosting a sweet giveaway for FunFavors but I’m not going to tell you what they are giving away! Check out theirEtsy shop to see if you can guess what it will be!
Etsy just seems to love cupcakes this summer! Tonight they will be hosting a get together at their labs in Brooklyn, NY. Crafters will learn how to make cute needle felted pinback buttons, embroidered cards and enjoy cupcakes from 4-8pm. If you don’t live in the New York area, you can join them at 5pm ET in their virtual lab. I am planning on joining in online so please look for my avatar (shop icon) and say hello!
Click here for all the sweet details.
For those of you who buy or sell on Etsy, on Monday July 12th their weekly Craft Night will be a lesson on how to make cake-inspired felt confections. If you live in Brooklyn you can join them in person for free from 4-8pm or at 5pm in their online chat room. Unfortunately, I will be far away from Brooklyn so look for me in the chat room that evening. Click here to see all the details.
Another trip to Michael’s craft store this week and more sweet cupcake finds to share with you! Check out these beauties:
Cupcake and Ice Cream Pencils and a Cupcake Pocket Calendar
Cupcake teacher supplies- birthday badges and nametags. They also had cupcake birthday certificates and scratch and sniff stickers.
Cupcake wall calendar. They also had mini calendars.
photo courtesy of CakeJournal
These darling pillows are by cupcake and cakecraft enthusiastic Louise of CakeJournal. Besides the fact they look great, you know that they were made with love and care because needle-felting is not a quick process. I wonder if someone can persuade her to make some for sale…
Photo courtesy of CakeJournal
I know it’s not the right season for wool, but I found the Cherry Cupcake Hat so adorable that I had to post about it anyway, out of season or not.
ZINSpirational Knits on Etsy offers this cap in 100% merino wool in a variety of colors, in big people and baby sizes too. Now that’s just too cute for words – matching family cupcake hats! It’d certainly be a distinctive way to keep track of everyone during the next family visit to anywhere large and crowded :)
A while back I had seen the picture, shown above, of garland by Petunia that was made using cupcake liners. Sadly directions were not included and I, unfortunately, am the type that needs to follow instructions when it comes to crafts. Then today I came across a new (new for me) website, 100 Layer Cake. The site has the cute tag line, “crafting your wedding layer by layer” which means they have lots of great DIY tutorials. One of these tutorials is for cupcake liner garland which of course you can use for any occasion, not just weddings!
Recently I discovered Donica, an amazing woman and artist who is exploring art therapy and is enrolled in a Transpersonal Psychology program. Simply put, transpersonal psychology is a form of psychology that studies the spiritual aspects of the human experience. During this study she was introduced to Jung’s Archetypes, which effectively are differing but repeating patterns of thought and action that reappear time and again across people, countries and continents.
Effectively Jung indicated that we are all made up of basic archetypes, these represent a way of feeling and acting, for example ‘the mother’ – feeding, nurturing, soothing, or ‘the maiden’ – purity, desire, etc. Jung’s Archetypes, are fascinating to read about. Donica, has used her study to self-identify 12 archetypes which guide her. Creatively she then matched each of these archetypes to 12 cupcake flavors, and then developed a menu of her cupcake archetypes and crocheted each. Her cupcake archetypes are:
Warrior – Red Chili Mango
Artist – Starry Blueberry Night
Lover – Strawberry Cheesecake Delight
Prostitute – Mint White Chocolate
Magical Inner Child – Funfetti Birthday Cake
Saboteur – Wild Berry
Victim – Uh-oh upside Down Pineapple
Femme Fatale – Titillating Tiramisu
Secretary – Pumpkin Danish
Messenger – Golden Angel Food Cake
Hedonist – Pink Lemondae Pleasure
Storyteller – Spicy Vanilla Chai Latte
On Saturday, May 22nd, thousands flocked to the San Mateo Fairgrounds to help celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, and the do-it-yourself mindset. Each spring, people come from the San Fransisco Bay area and beyond to the annual Maker Faire to see what’s new in the world of zany inventions. More than 600 inventors and artists shared their wares this year. Among them was Greg Solberg, maker of the completely electric, motorized “cupcake car.”
These cupcake cars (sometimes called muffin cars) were invented in 2004. They can go as fast as 15 mph. Each car has room for just one person, whose head sticks out the top of the cupcake. There are currently 16 cupcake cars in existence, and they are stored in a “secret location,” in Berkeley, California.
