Colour Chase Challenge (White)

January - White

For the last few months on Instagram I had seen images posted with a colour theme for each month. I found the Color Chase Challenge group on Facebook, which has information on the different colours for each month. You can post your images in the Facebook group, and also share and tag on Instagram as well.

I thought this would be a great project for 2018, and am aiming to do 9 images for the month so I can put them in a grid. At the end of the year I plan on printing a book with the grid and images, and also print one big canvas with the grids.

January’s colour is white, which is an easy colour to start off with. My first thought when I saw the colour was our dog Luna, who is a Japanese Spitz and a big ball of white fluff!! As she is still a pup and very energetic I wasn’t quite sure how well she would do at sitting still for the camera. To my surprise she did really well, and it went better than expected.

I love flatlays and decided to play around with some fresh blueberries and meringues that were left over from Christmas. It was fun coming up with different ideas and compositions.

These white roses are from outside my bedroom window, it’s so nice to open the curtains and see them each morning. Both images were taken with my Vivitar 55mm F25.8 macro lens.

My finished grid of 9 images for white.

Pink, White, and Gold Birthday Party

Last year I planned to do a cute ballerina themed birthday party for my daughter.  I had pins on my Pinterest board with pink themed dessert tables, pink ballerina cakes and other pink food goodies.

Planning was going well…until my daughter attended her friend’s birthday which was Frozen themed.  So of course, my daughter wanted a Frozen themed party as well……sadly I had to say goodbye to my pink décor and embrace the blue!!

This year she didn’t mention anything about a particular theme, so I decided to go with Pink, White and Gold which seems to be popular at the moment.  The good part was no figurines to make, as they are not my strong point.

I decided to go with a 7” chocolate cake, layered with vanilla buttercream, encased with milk chocolate ganache and covered in fondant.  The top layer was a 5” white chocolate mud cake, also layered with vanilla buttercream, encased with white chocolate ganache and covered in fondant.

I used Americolor Dusty Pink to colour my fondant, and cake board.  The gold was brushed on using Metallic Light Gold edible paint by Rainbow Dust.  For the name plaque I used the Vladimir Script font in Microsoft Word, flipped it horizontally, and printed it out.  I then traced it with parchment paper using a pencil.  After rolling out my fondant and using a circle cutter, I flipped my name to the correct side and traced this on the fondant.  You can then see the outline of the font, and then use edible paint or an edible pen to write on the fondant.   In this instance I used a black edible pen.  

The gold balls were made a couple of days before I assembled the cake, and didn’t work out well.  They were made with white fondant, left to harden and then painted with the same Metallic Light Gold edible paint that I used on the cake.  As they were hard they would not stick to the cake, and kept falling off. So I made new balls out of white fondant, and while they were still soft stuck them to the cake.  When they dried I then painted them gold, and the next morning gave them another touch of paint.

For the cupcake toppers a couple of days before the party I rolled out white fondant mixed with a bit of tylose, and cut out heart shapes.  The night before I painted them with the Metallic Light Gold edible paint, and left them to dry.  They were then nice and hard the next day, and wouldn’t go soft while sitting in the buttercream on the cupcakes.

The cake pops were made using leftover cake and ganache.  I dipped them in pink coloured white chocolate, and when the chocolate was set I painted Metallic Light Gold edible paint on them.

On Pinterest I found a tutorial on how to make the tassel garland.  They were very easy to make, the hardest part was trying not to burn my fingers with the hot glue gun!!