My CC12 contribution- Behind the scenes plus a CC Giveaway!

I don't have my Crafty Creatives box yet this month, but I am itching to talk about it. Consider this your warning that this entry is a pretty big spoiler for one of the items and a hint at the general theme of the box! So here's a few photos, some general chatter, and a GIVEAWAY!

This is what kept me so busy in May- these little cake slice charms! I am so lucky that the gals over at CC let me be a part of their 12th box. I suppose after months of spoiling myself on the box themes/contents, I was basically pre-spoiling myself yet again, but that was worth it. (For the record, as of right now I haven't fully spoiled myself on the contents though I've seen a couple of things on another blog post... trying to be SLIGHTLY good, anyway!)

Cake slices are one of the charms that got me started and I did a tutorial a few months ago on how I make them. Let's just say that after the marathon session of cake-slice making I've refined those methods QUITE a lot, ha!

One of my clay orders- I ended up using Fimo Effect pastels, the colours were perfect for the brief and it cut down on my production time so much. I'm lucky these were launched recently or I would have spent SO much time blending! My husband was quickly drafted for conditioning the clay, and we made quite a team, even if he never graduated to any other clay jobs.

One of the casualties- the toothbrush I used to texture the cakes. First the handle broke, and I learned to love it as just the top, but then it split in half too. Luckily I had plenty more of these complimentary airline brushes, though using a new one with the handle was harder after so much time with this little friend. I'm sad, right?

Making lots of cakes at once. This day was a bit crazy- I did two 'batches' in one go and for some reason it took me so much longer that way. I like the colours all lined up here and the 'school' of cake-fish as my husband referred to them.

But this part was satisfying once they were ready to be baked!

This is a good look at the varnishing part of it all which my husband took charge of, he was the second casualty courtesy of a sharp metal scrap used to create the cake-forest for varnish drying. A noble sacrifice.

Here are all the colour combos- I ended up needing to make an uneven number and it was SO HARD to choose which 'combos' I liked best for the extra cakes. I'm eager to see which ones I get in my box when the postie finally hands it over!

Goodbye little cakes. Even though I knew exactly how many I was making, I still counted them multiple times, put them in bags of equal number, and then dreamed about finding extras hiding in containers that I hadn't sent. It was an adventure and I'm so glad I did it- I didn't think I could for a while, but it got there and I'm pretty amazed that it happened. The Crafty Creatives gals are great to work with!

And as a further awesome move on their part, Crafty Creatives is sponsoring a giveaway, right here! There are three CCBox12s up for grabs, and all you have to do is 'like' our Facebook pages and then use the widget below to enter. You can enter up to four times daily!

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Thanks again to Claire and Isobel at Crafty Creatives for letting me be a part of something that has really sparked my imagination over the past 10 months or so. We are all lucky to have such a great little box land on our doorsteps every month!