Summer is almost over but I still have a few more birthdays and weddings to attend. What I love about these events are the cakes, especially layered ones! 
I came across a tutorial on this technique while feeding my addiction to YouTube. 
Using paper scraps (who doesn't have a mountain of these), you can cut rectangles to put together into a layered cake. 
Start with a sketch, on cardstock, of the cake that will fit your card and be the base of your card creation. 


Step two is to cut rectangle shapes from various paper scraps to fit the layered shapes in your sketch. 





Step three is to adhere the layers to the sketch. You can choose to outline each layer for a little more  emphasis. 

The final steps are to cut out the cake and emboss it with a layer of regular or ultra high clear, glitter or any other delicious Wow embossing powder to give this cake it's body and luster. 
The mini cakes are great for cards, scrapbook pages or gift tags.







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 Today I am going to share with you a quick little project I did to brighten up a household plant. Now for those that know me I use to be terrible with household plants. I can grow just about anything outside, but for some reason I typically have a black thumb when it comes to inside plants. But recently that has all changed...I am actually going on four years now of having the same household plants. Shocker I know!! The plant in this picture was recently re-potted into this larger container and so I wanted to dress it up a bit. I found these awesome butterfly spikes and decided to emboss them and put in the pot.

It was super easy to give them just a little color...all I did was cover them with embossing ink, cover them in embossing powder, tap off the extra embossing powder, and then heat them up! For my colors I used Sierra Sunrise, Angel Wings, and the new Vodka Sparkle (bottom picture) from the G…

I noticed my go-to brand of premade spaghetti sauce comes in a mason jar. Mason jars have been popular for meals-in-jar, crafts and other projects that have gone viral on Pinterest.
Since we had pasta this last week, I had a jar and a desire to craft! What I came up with was a colorful vase ready for fresh cut flowers from the garden. If it's not filled, the painted and embellished Mason jar still looks beautiful!



The flower embellishments were made from cardstock and dipped in Wow embossing powders to add some shine and texture.


 I also made one small rose by heating "Melt It" with yellow embossing powder and pouring it into a silicone mold. 

I love how this upcycled vase will always have flowers!

It's THAT time of year when every moment seems filled with the kids' activities (more so than the others times of the year).

In addition to working full time, managing to keep the house in some order and hustling kids to and from school and practices, I am attempting to capture some milestones for both the kids. My oldest has turned 16 and the younger will be 13 in a few weeks. In the days between these birthdays we also have a Sacramental milestone. I said it was busy. I'm sure MANY of you out there feel the same time crunch and wonder how you can ever get a moment to "scrap" or create.

I feel the need to take a few moments to contemplate the momentous occasions and make something to share with my sons. Here's what I did with WOW in just about an hour. I think you can embellish something nice as well in a quick minute.

With a couple wooden elements from the craft store painted in school colors, I assembled a wooden frame. I selected two wooden embellishments, …

In general, Valentine's Day passes as most other days in our household. There are two main reasons why it doesn't live up to the hype for us. The first good reason is that we believe every day should include at least a hug, a kiss and an "I love you". The second is that within 2 weeks, my husband and I celebrate our "first date anniversary". We were together for 5 years before getting married and I want that time to count! So every year, that is our special time to focus on each other. A couple of weeks ago, the realization came to me that I have been with my husband over half my life now!! WOW!!

Inspired by my WOW! Moment and thinking about the coming event, I put together a little album where I will write some personal sentiments reminiscing on when we began our happily ever after.


On the front cover of the album, I attempted the latest Chalkboard technique. Another one of our designers shared a tutorial on this a few weeks ago.

I heat embossed in opaque…