Baseball Pennant for Work

Since I've made some signs for different things at work, I was asked to create our pennant for the cashiers. Our work is starting a customer service event with a baseball theme. Each department had to create a pennant to display. My manager asked me to create ours. She wanted me to do it at work, but I wanted to use my Cricut to make it look unique.

Here's what I was given to work with. My manager also included some other items that I decided to use.

I was going to cover the pennant with receipt tape but didn't like it. I went to Michael's to look for paper with baseballs on it.. and found it! I bought two pages but only used one. I also picked up some baseball dimensional stickers by Recollections.

This was the first layout idea. The letters moved around a little when I was walking around.  The green bills were part of what my manager gave me. I thought they added a nice contrasting color. Plus, this was for the cashiers so I had to incorporate something to show that. The words were cut using the Don Juan Cricut cartridge at 1 3/4 inches. The blue was cut using the shadow effect on the cartridge.

And the final product... 

Here's the display at work..

 This last picture is a bit blurry.. I might try to retake it on Friday when I work.

Lemon Burst Cupcakes

It's been a while since I made a blog post. I thought I'd post the cupcakes I make this afternoon. 

I decided I wanted to make Lemon Meringue cupcakes.. After looking up recipes, I didn't feel like going through all the hassle. I decided to make Lemon Burst cupcakes.

I already had the lemon cake mix on hand. I just had to pick up the lemon curd and frosting. I looked for yellow sprinkles but all I could find were the multicolored packs at my local grocery store.

This was taken after I filled them all. Two of the cupcakes had minor cracks in them and when I filled them it looked like an earthquake hit. 

 

I used my Easy Accent Decorator from Pampered Chef to fill the cupcakes. It was super easy to fill with the lemon curd and use to fill the cupcakes. 

Here they are after I iced them with the BC Whipped Vanilla icing. It's not my best job but I was in a rush.

The cupcake that isn't iced is for James. He doesn't like buttercream icing and requested his like this.

They are really yummy and would be great for a summer picnic.

 

This is the wonderful cupcake carrier I bought a few years ago. I was just starting to make cupcakes frequently when I found this at my local grocery store. I used it take treats to my boyfriend and his roommate when he lived in the dorm for four years.  You can use the bottom piece to bake the cupcakes but I prefer to use two muffin pans so I can bake them up at the same time.