Wedding Fun!

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege and honor to witness the marriage of two friends from my church here in SD. It was a fairly simple wedding, but very cute and sweet. :)

I also had the honor of making their wedding cake topper!

Now, I've never really made anything bigger than an inch tall. So, this wedding cake topper was a bit of a challenge for me. Not only was I trying something new, thus feeling anxious and nervous about the challenge, I was feeling particularly lazy about making the thing. :P

I think, when it came down to it, I just had to set a time limit for myself, and pressure myself into sitting down and finishing the wedding cake topper.

One of the more difficult aspects of the cake topper was doing research for how I wanted to make the cake topper. At first, I considered using animal figures to replace the bride and groom, but I didn't want to have to go through a ton of details on the animals. Also, I thought doing the bride and groom themselves would be more personal. However, as this was my first time making human figures... I got rather frustrated. Haha. Not only that, I wanted to make it look similar to the actual bride and groom, which proved to be another challenge. I had to get information about the bride, the colors they were using, the dress she was wearing, the type of flowers she had, etc. etc. Usually I make things straight from my imagination, so there's no need to look at a picture and copy anything. But, this time, I had to pay attention to what I was forming.

All in all, wedding cake toppers are quite time consuming and tiring. But fun. Definitely fun.

I stuck pieces of wire through the middle of the figurines because the groom was starting to bend to the side a little bit as I was forming him.

I also added a cork bottom to the base of the topper so that... I dunno, it would seem more professional?  Haha. I wasn't sure if people just simply place clay on top of cake. I suppose that would have been okay as well, right?

The two little birdies I kinda threw in there because I had some extra clay and I thought it would add a nice touch. Haha.

People said that I should try to go into the wedding cake topper business. Maybe go and learn cake making and start decorating cakes. Haha. I'll have to think about that. It would definitely be more lucrative than making little keychains that sell for less than $10 a piece. Haha. But, then again... I think I have to actually get business in order for anything to  happen. Haha.

Something A Little Different

Hello!

It's been a while since I last updated, so my apologies about that. :P It got a little busier than I planned. Haha. I traveled a bit over the weekend to see my best friend, and so I didn't do any updating on my blog or website.

Last week on Saturday, I had my friend's Bridal Shower and another friend's birthday party. Both back to back, one in SD and one in LA. I can tell you now that I shall never (willingly) drive long distant during the afternoon. Hahaha. It was pretty terrible for me. Not because of traffic or anything... but because I was SOOO tired the entire time I was driving. And, I couldn't pull over to go to sleep because I was rushing to my friend's birthday party. Haha. Needless to say, I've learned my lesson.

In any case, I'm still glad I made it to both events because they were both super fun.

So, instead of showing some of my keychains today, I thought I would show what I made for my friends. Well, the cards I made, at least. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the actual gift (well, that... and I kinda just forgot. Haha).

Sorry for the rather blurry quality. I didn't take the pictures with my nicer camera.... so now you guys get to see the difference between my point and shoot/DSLR camera quality and the itouch camera quality. Haha. XD

This was the card I made for my friend's bridal shower. Not too fancy, but still kinda nice,  I think. I had originally cut out a total of three flower designs, and I was contemplating squeezing all of them onto the card, but it ended up looking too cluttered and messy. So I took out two of the designs, and opted to only have the round, pink flowers. Which, in my opinion, probably worked better. I didn't want to add too much to the card, so I just added a simple "Congratulations!" on the bottom.

Whenever I have to write words on cards, I get a tad bit nervous. Somehow, all the words end up looking like they are spelled incorrectly. Or, when they look like they're spelled correctly... they actually aren't. I remember when I first came to college at UCSD, I made a card for a friend's birthday (for everyone to sign), and I spelled "Happy Birtday" rather than "Happy Birthday."I guess it's not that big of a deal that I spelled something wrong. But... it was the beginning of the school year, and I wasn't that close with anyone yet. Haha. XD

Good times.

Anyways.

Moving on.

This next card I made for my friend, I was (and still am) rather proud of it. It took me a really long time because Buzz is a LOT more detailed than I thought he would be. Haha.

My friend really likes Toy Story, especially Buzz Lightyear, so I decided to make a Toy Story themed birthday card. Here is what resulted:

I don't think there was anything paricularly difficult about this card. Rather, there were just a lot of smaller details that took a lot of time. But, it was all the more satisfying when I finished the card, and handed it to my friend to watch her reaction as she opened it. :)

Anyways. That's all for today.

I'm hoping to get back on making stuff and uploading stuff. However, next week looks pretty packed as well... but I'm going to try my best to make some time for more arts and crafts! :)