Felt Food 5: Strawberry + Blueberry Cake

This is so far my favorite piece of felt food I made. You see those stitches on the edge of that cake base? It took forever but I think it's totally worth it. (:

It is also the first time I attempt making a halved strawberries and blueberries. I think they came out pretty well! Whatd'ya think?

Felt Food 4: Chocolate Chestnut Cake

There seems to be a cycle in the year where I get this momentum to do a bunch of artsy stuff. I believe that time has come! It's been almost a year since I last touched felt food. And lately, once I start on a felt project.. I can't stop! I have four more felt food projects coming in the next 4 days! Keep checking back(:

*And I have also been playing around with watercolor! Check back in a week for snippets of my work!

I am "ok" about how this particular chocolate chestnut cake came out. The chestnut honestly doesn't really look like a chestnut. And I am not that happy with how the whipped cream came out. It's a little on the flat side. But overall, it was fun to put this little thing together. It was my first time working with thicker pieces of felt.

Felt Food 3: Vanilla Whipped Cream with Strawberry Tart

Yep! Another tart. I like the design of this one very mucho. I can't wait to see lots of them line up like an army! At the moment, I am just sewing tons of toppings ( strawberries, whipped cream and wafers) with the limited color felts I have. I am thinking that later on I would make the edible version of each felt tart I made and take photos with them side by side! Hehe(:

Felt Food 2: Peach Whipped Cream Tart

This one is technically felt and SHAMWOW food. :o
The "peach whipped cream" comes from a Shamwow towel. Hehe.

I need to go buy felt.
I need to go buy felt.
I need to go buy felt.
So I don't need to cut my Shamwow.

I was so disappointed with my trip to Wal- mart. I know they won't have the specific wool- felt I am looking for so I was just going to get some craft- felt anyways. Yes, they had craft- felt. But geee! Their color variety is like no variety. I ended up getting all the individually sold color they had which was only.. 4! They were the basic colors.

For this peach cream tart, I learned to make WHIPPED CREAM(: I found two ways to make whipped cream and this was the easier one with less stitching. It looks pretty cute I think. The pearl makes it shine a little, no? :p The crust was desired to be two layers of different shades brown. But sigh! No choice. I subbed it with the shamwow for the lighter shade and it looks acceptable? One critique I got was the white filling looks too fake.

Until I make a trip to Joanns or Michael's, you will be seeing a lot of the same color interchangeably used.

Felt Food 1: The Tart Cake (Mini)

Look at what I SEWED! I think I am obsessed with felt food! Why have I not learn how to do this earlier?! I have so many ideas running across my mind after successfully finishing this mini tart!! Different color tarts, different toppings likeee blueberry? whipped cream? and different size tarts! Isn't it ironic that I have not baked a REAL edible tart to date? Haha

Anyways, I bought this mini tart cake kit (including cut-out felt paper, threads, magnet, papers and cotton) at Daiso in Vancouver, Canada. (I also bought many other cute little bakewares at this place! I shall get into that in another post.) I really should've bought all the kits they have, like their cakes, pudding and donuts! Ugh.. there's no Daiso in California. But mm, it's ok. I searched frantically online as soon as I finished the tart for more tutorials. So far, I have bookmarked quite a list that can take me a long while to go through each of them!
**The key word to google is "felt food tutorials."

Don't ever underestimate my patience with food crafts! This mini tart took me 5 hours to finish! I believe I repeated each step twice before successfully moving on to the next (there was a total 13 steps). Pretty good for a first time sewer, right? It was indeed some tedious work, but the end result is totally worth it.

Btw, I snapped about 60 photos from different angles hoping to get one photo that can sum up the awesomeness of this little tart. Hehe. Keep checking my blog for updates on my experiment with felt food!(: