Free Valentine's Crafts E-book

I just love Valentine's Day and I was thrilled when Sarah asked if I would like to be a part of this Valentine's E-Book! She included one of Mrs. Fox's Sweets most popular sweets of this Valentine's season!

 

This book features ideas like:

Make Your Own Valentine Cards

Valentine's Day Fun Food Crafts

Make Your Own Valentine's Day Home Decor

Valentine Printables

The book is 60 pages with a total of 20 different featured bloggers! The best part is that the book is FREE to her subscribers! Aren't you excited?!

 All you have to do is stop by Sidetracked Sarah and subscribe to her emails and the link to the e-book will be provided at the end of her daily emails!

Well....what are you waiting for?

300 Flowers and a New Toy!

Usually I share with you a finished project, but today I am sharing a work in progress! This week is my littlest girls birthday and for the cake she wants, I needed to make at least 300 tiny flowers. I usually would use the tiniest Wilton fondant flower cutter like I did with my Love Letters & Hearts Cookies. But, I have this new toy (purple flower punch pictured above) that came in my Wilton Course 4 kit. I start the new Wilton course next week, which just like with the 3 previous courses, I will blog about it each week during the course. Anyway, I had to try the new punch and I am glad that I did! It only took 2 minutes per 25 flowers to punch out! Not nearly as long as I had thought it would!

I like to work on top of waxed paper for little jobs like this, easy clean up! I dusted the surface of the waxed paper using my dusting pouch with equal parts cornstarch and confectioners sugar.  I rolled the fondant out to about 1/8 inch using the pink cheater rings on the Wilton Fondant roller and punched away!

Above is the bottom of the flower, you can see the print in it. However, that didn't much matter, that side won't be seen on the cake.

I used this green fondant tool to press an indention in the top to hold the sugar pearls that I planned to place in the center. I was making good time, I had made the 300 flowers I needed plus extras.

To finish the flowers, I used royal icing in a piping bag fitted with tip 1 to glue on sugar pearls. That part was a little more time consuming, still all of the flowers from start to finish were made in about an hour and a half. Sometime the hardest part of making a cake, is the prep work! Look for the finished cake this weekend!

Also be sure to stop by towards the end of next week when I show you what I learned to make in my first class in Wilton Course 4- Advanced Gumpaste Flowers!

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I link up at these fun parties!

Mrs. Fox's Sweet Party #9

Hi there! Welcome to Mrs. Fox's Sweet Party!

Wow this has been a crazy week and the craziness continues! Thank you all that shared your sweets last week and I look forward to seeing what you all share this week! For the first time ever I realized it was impossible to visit each sweet, which is actually great! Week #8 was the largest Mrs Foxs Sweet Party ever! According to the stats you were all hoping around visiting each other quite a bit and that is how it is supposed to work! This week is going to be super busy as well with preparations for my daughters Princess birthday party! I need to make 300-400 flowers and haven't even started! So without further hesitation....

Here are the Features!

 

The most viewed Sweet of the Week for Week #8 is:

Gnome Cupcakes by Sugar Swings! Serve Some
These are just adorable! My daughter loves them too!

 

Other Sweets that caught my eye:

Peacock Cake by The G-Free Wifey

This is really a neat way to decorate a giant cupcake! The peacock feathers (heart cookies) on the back are the perfect touch!

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes w/Maraschino Cherry Cream by A Little Inspiration
Simply beautiful!

You Rock Valentine- A Chocolate iPod Pop by Sweetology
What an awesome Valentine! This would be perfect for kids to pass out to classmates!
   

Congratulations to all of you! Here is your Button!

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Now moving on to this weeks party:

Link up your sweets, whatever dessert YOU have made this week!

Nothing new? Link that up too! Dig thought your archives and find a sweet treat that you want to share! I just ask that you keep it all kid friendly! I reserve the right to delete any post that I find inappropriate!

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Ready to join in? Here are a few quick things to do:

1. Please Follow Mrs. Fox's Sweets publicly via GFC, I am your hostess after all! I do try to follow all of you back but if somehow you slipped through, let me know!

2. Share my button or a link to this party on your blog somewhere to spread the word! You can find the Mrs. Fox's Sweet Party Button on the "Grab a Button" page and also in the right sidebar!

3. Link to your sweet posts only, not directly to your blog. Giveaways are fine too, as long as they are somehow related to sweets! (ex. cookies, supplies, cookbooks, cupcake necklace, you get the idea!)

4. Mix and mingle, Visit at least one of the other guests at my sweet party and give them a sweet comment! Visit all of your favorites!

Each week I will feature the most viewed sweet and my favorite sweet! These sweets will be featured at the next weeks party! By joining this party, you give Mrs. Fox's Sweet's permission to use your sweet photo in a featured post. Featured sweets may also be shared at Mrs. Fox's Sweets on Facebook, Stumbled, and/or Pinned!