10 items or less series (Congrats Card)

Hello Monday!

First off, our apologies for being MIA past couple days. Who knew us chicks would be crazy busy? But have no fear....we are here and ready to get our craft on.

To continue on our little series we were having this month of "10 items or less", we have a super cute congrats card.  Surprisingly, it was kept well under 10 items and we show you how to use a neat stamping tool. So be sure to check out the card process here...Congrats Card

Here is the card we made today.

Make sure to keep up with our blog because we have an awesome spotlight guest coming soon! We are super excited for that. As always, have an awesome Monday!!

The Three Chicks,

Hannah, Joyce, and Marisol

Places to See!

Hello! We hope everyone has been doing well! The 3 Chicks have been very busy but doing great! Two of our chicks (Hannah & Joyce) recently took a weekend together in Detroit, Michigan with two other girlfriends. Besides paper, we chicks love music! So we had a great time at a concert and just generally being foolish with our friends. 

On our way back we took a detour into Dexter, Michigan. If you've never been there, you should go! It was the cutest little town with, apparently, tons to do! We've already agreed that the next time we head to Detroit or anywhere that crosses paths with Dexter, MI, we'll be stopping in again!

Enough about the cute little town, the reason why we've decided to make this new segment is because of what we found in Dexter! It was an adorable scrapbooking store called Polly's Paper Studio! I mean just look at the cute door! You know it has to be good!

When we went inside we were floored at the quality paper and cute trinkets. It's run by besties Ginny Nemchack and Heather A. Hudson; two very sweet women who made us feel right at home! After we got to see the store Ginny offered to give us a free tutorial on a  perfect 4-loop ribbon trick that would rock our socks off. It sure did! And she was right when she said we'd be making them like crazy!

Click here to see Ginny's tutorial!

With privately owned scrapbook stores on the decline in exchange for big box stores, we really want to support these ladies and any scrapbook store we come across. Whenever we go on a trip or run across a privately owned or small scrapbook store, we'll post it here. Please share the love so that we can keep them in business! They deserve it!

Be sure to check out their sites:

• Offical Polly's Paper: Polly's Paper Studio Store
• Ginny Nemchack's Blog: Polly's Paper Studio
• Heather A. Hudson's Blog: My Artistic Adventure

And if you're in the area, please visit their store:

Polly's Paper Studio

3238 Broad Street

Dexter, Mi 48130 Suite #102

(734)268-1109 

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce

Behind the scenes

            Your in for a special treat! This will not be a tutorial (sorry!) You get to go behind the scenes of how tiered cakes are made. I cant even count the number of times people have looked at a cake and asked me how its made. So go ahead and enjoy the process with me 
:)

 I started with whipping up my favorite chocolate cake batter. As you can see i greased and floured my cake pan before I added the batter 

                            After baking they have to cool for a few hours

                   Unless you like your cake bumpy and uneven it has to be leveled

           I use wilton cake leveler. Its very reasonably priced and gets the job done

AH thats better! A perfectly flat surface...On the right is what got trimmed off (I never throw the scraps away. My family eats them up in seconds)

After putting them on cake boards I freeze them. Cake is much easier to work with when its frozen

                           Before I put a second cake on top I frost the middle

Here is 2 cakes stacked on top of each other with frosting in the middle (That makes 1 tier)  I know what your thinking, this is not pretty! lol but to get rid of crumbs you have to give the cakes a quick crumb coat and pop them back in the freezer. Later when you add more frosting the crumbs will already be frozen into the light crumb coat so you don't have to worry about the pesky crumbs ruining your decorations

This particular cake i'm using fondant which comes in a package like this white

                                          I've worked in some pink color

           I dusted my table with a little powdered sugar so now its time to rock and roll

    After I rolled it flat, starting at the ends, i rolled up the rolling pin into the fondant 

   

      after getting my cake out of the freezer I unrolled the fondant onto the cake

Time to smooth the fondant onto the cake. This step can be tricky the first few times you do it

after trimming the edges I had a few imperfections that I easily smoothed out

After a few hours of decorating (not including baking) heres the finished cake! It's for a Baby shower so I wanted to make it as girly as possible. I thought the tiara on top and the purple tulle underneath were the perfect finishing touches

Here's a close up so you can see some of the detail. I'm sure you noticed i didn't show you my decorating process.....I wont give out all my secrets ;) I don't know about you but i'm hungry for something sweet.

 The other 2 chicks and I appreciate all your support on our blog. It means a lot to us :) Thanks a bunch!

3 chicks,

Hannah,Joyce, and Marisol

New YouTube Tutorial: Tissue Paper Pom-Poms

Hello!

If you follow our Instagram, then you already know what we're about to post here ... we uploaded a new tutorial. This is one we love because it's so easy! All you'll need is some tissue paper in your favorite color(s), ribbon or string, and scissors. That's it! So grab your supplies and head over to our YouTube Channel to see why these decorations are so popular! Let's get started...

Click here to see our video!

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce