Studio 27 - By Jennifer Adams: 2025

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Wednesdays in the Studio - Link Party 6

Welcome to Wednesdays in the Studio, a weekly link party focusing on designing everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who joined last week! This week's features include:

A vase makeover from Crazy Little Lovebirds

A spring wreath project from Steph Creates Things

A stenciled dresser from Creative Moments

A pink valentine tree from Debbie Dabble

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Want to join this week? Here are the rules for participation:

*Add up to 3 posts related to designing everyday life. Examples include crafting, sewing, cooking, baking, home decor, holidays, party planning, blogging, thrifting, gardening, DIY projects, organization and so on.

*Please link to a specific post and not your homepage.

*Link only your own posts, not someone else's.

*Etsy shops, giveaways and other link parties are ok as long as they are design related.

*Party runs from Wednesday until Monday each week, Central Standard Time.

*A link back to this party isn't required but is appreciated!

*Linking up gives you the opportunity to be featured in next week's party.

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Now let's party:

-Jennifer

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Farm Fresh Spring Tulips Printable

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Spring SVG Bundle

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Friday, February 14, 2025

DIY Faux Sponge Cakes

I wanted to make some bright and cheerful fruity sponge layer cakes ... and ended up using actual sponges in the process! Read on to see how you can copy this project for yourself:

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Starting with colorful sponges from Dollar Tree, I cut several in half until I had the number of layers that I wanted.

Next, using lightweight spackle in an icing bag, I piped on enough to allow two sponges to stick together.

Stick another sponge on top of the icing and gently press into place. You can stop here or keep layering, up to you!

To top my little cakes I added a dollop of the spackle on top...

...and then placed a faux fruit topping into the spackle before it dried.

The cherries here are holiday berries that I picked up at Dollar Tree during the holiday season, but you can find these now on Amazon.

The lime, orange and lemon wedges/ slices can be purchased here.

And the faux strawberries are available here.

And that's how I put together my faux sponge cakes!

Interested in more fake bake crafts?

I've gathered all of my tutorials and collections into this resource page.

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I hope you enjoyed this decor post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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This post was added to the following link parties:

Farmhouse Friday

Saturday Sparks

Sundays on Silverado

Craft Schooling Sunday

New Upcycle Ideas

Dare to Share

The Really Crafty Link Party

Craftastic Monday

Handmade Monday

Busy Monday

Happiness is Homemade

Senior Salon Pit Stop

Crazy Little Lovebirds Link Party

Inspire me Tuesday

Lou Lou Girls Fabulous Party

The Happy Now Blog Link Up

Tuesday Turn About

Wonderful Wednesday

Creative Muster

Whimsy Home Wednesday

Creatively Crafty

Share Your Style

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Do you like the convenience of crafting or organizing with instantly available digital downloads?

Check out this week's features from my Etsy shop:

Farm Fresh Spring Tulips Printable

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Spring SVG Bundle

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Blog Planner Organizational Worksheet Bundle

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Wednesdays in the Studio - Link Party 5

Welcome to Wednesdays in the Studio, a weekly link party focusing on designing everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who joined last week! This week's features include:

A handmade Bar Mitzvah album from Handmade in Israel

Tips for making time to preserve your photos from Photo & Story Treasures

A handmade birthday card from Joy's Jots, Shots & Whatnots

A meal plan from Trial and Error Home Ec

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Want to join this week? Here are the rules for participation:

*Please link to a specific post and not your homepage.

*Link only your own posts, not someone else's.

*Etsy shops, giveaways and other link parties are ok as long as they are design related.

*Party runs from Wednesday until Monday each week, Central Standard Time.

*A link back to this party isn't required but is appreciated!

*Linking up gives you the opportunity to be featured in next week's party.

*By Linking up you give Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams permission to use your posts and photos in social media and as features. If used, a link back to your material will be given.

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If you don't already, please consider following me on:

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Now let's party:

-Jennifer

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Do you like the convenience of crafting or organizing with instantly available digital downloads?

Check out this week's features from my Etsy shop:

Pink LOVE Valentine Printables

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Rose & Ivy Printable Gift Tags

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Blog Planner Organizational Worksheet Bundle

Friday, February 7, 2025

Re-Style A Valentine Candy Box

Today's tutorial will show you how I re-styled a valentine candy box and filled it with faux chocolates:

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Starting with an empty Ferrero Rocher candy box, I removed the label and painted the lid in red. I liked the gold plastic nesting inside so I kept it, but you could remove it if you wanted. Not only would removing it change the look, but it would allow more space for faux treats as well.

If you've seen my collection of fake bake molds, you know that I have a lot of actual chocolate shapes to choose from. I've already used all of those at least once and I wanted to try something different, so I took a second look at this pineapple mold. You can see how if you fill the mold all of the way up, you get a pineapple shape with the greenery on top. My idea was to fill the mold only partway to get the textured shape without the greenery. I painted those in brown acrylic and topped with gold puffy paint to make chocolates!

Here is how they look, one per compartment in the candy box.

My last step was to add a swirly design to the lid with more of the gold puffy paint.

And that's how I re-styled a valentine candy box!

Interested in more fake bake crafts?

I've gathered all of my tutorials and collections into this resource page.

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I hope you enjoyed this decor post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Do you like the convenience of crafting or organizing with instantly available digital downloads?

Check out this week's features from my Etsy shop:

Pink LOVE Printables

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Red Rose & Ivy Printable Gift Tags

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Blog Planning Organizational Worksheet Bundle

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Wednesdays in the Studio - Link Party 4

Welcome to Wednesdays in the Studio, a weekly link party focusing on designing everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who joined last week! This week's features include:

A tea towel wreath from The Apple Street Cottage

A stitched valentine card from Amy's Creative Pursuits

A round up of crocheting and knitting projects from Stitch Whisper Designs

A romantic table setting from Thrifted Wonderland

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Were you featured? Grab this photo and add it to your blog!

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Want to join this week? Here are the rules for participation:

*Please link to a specific post and not your homepage.

*Link only your own posts, not someone else's.

*Etsy shops, giveaways and other link parties are ok as long as they are design related.

*Party runs from Wednesday until Monday each week, Central Standard Time.

*A link back to this party isn't required but is appreciated!

*Linking up gives you the opportunity to be featured in next week's party.

*By Linking up you give Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams permission to use your posts and photos in social media and as features. If used, a link back to your material will be given.

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If you don't already, please consider following me on:

* Facebook * Pinterest * Instagram * Etsy *

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Now let's party:

Thanks for joining, check back next week to see if you were featured!

-Jennifer

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Do you like the convenience of crafting or organizing with instantly available digital downloads?

Check out this week's features from my Etsy shop:

LOVE Arrow Printable

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There Are More Than 2 Possibilities SVG

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Blog Planner Organizational Worksheet Bundle

Friday, January 31, 2025

Valentine Fake Bake Decor

Hello friends, today I'm sharing my collection of valentine fake bakes:

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Starting in the breakfast room, the big cabinet is where I feature my valentine village. This tutorial will show you how to make the little houses and this post will show you how I decorated them.

Here are the close ups of the village. The stacked ice cream scoops were made like this and the cupcakes like this. The round cakes are foam covered in light weight spackle that was tinted with acrylic paint and applied with an icing bag. The macaroons and waffle cookies were both made with clay in silicone molds and painted with acrylic paint. The waffle cookies I sandwiched together with light weight spackle. You can find the valentine cookie printable here.

On the table is a dish piled with conversation hearts. Some are plaster and some are clay, both made with silicone molds. I painted them with acrylic paints and used puffy paint for the lettering.

Here are similar molds in large, small fat and small thin.

Hanging from one of the windows is a cake pan that I made over using acrylic and puffy paints.

The cookie cutter collection dresser is packed with treats as well!

Here are close up photos going from left to right:

The cupcakes here were purchased from Hobby Lobby a long time ago. The candies are a mixture of hot glue, plaster and clay in silicone molds and then painted with acrylic/ embellished with puffy paint. This post will show you exactly how I made the hot glue candies and this post the pink heart candy box.

A couple of the cupcakes on the right side of the dresser are more from that Hobby Lobby set, but the rest I made myself. The pink cake is a small cake pan that I painted and added light weight spackle for icing. The small heart cakes are salt dough with glue poured over for icing. You can find the cupcake printable here.

Inside the vintage record player cabinet is my collection of fake bake molds, on top are more goodies!

The cookies are all salt dough decorated with acrylic paint, puffy paint and light weight spackle. This post will show you how to make salt dough cookies, this one the whipped hot chocolates and this one the pink resin cocoa. The faux fancy cakes are clay cut out with a heart shaped cutter, painted with acrylic paint and topped with puffy paint. The red cookie printable can be found here.

The right side of the cabinet has a tiered tray full of cupcakes and mini cakes. Some of the cupcakes are Dezicakes and others I made myself. The mini cakes I made like this.

And that's my collection of valentine fake bakes!

Interested in more fake bake crafts?

I've gathered all of my tutorials and collections into this resource page.

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I hope you enjoyed this decor post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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This post was added to the following link parties:

Farmhouse Friday

Saturday Sparks

Sundays on Silverado

Craft Schooling Sunday