Butterfly and Monster Party

I'm afraid this is a bit late. In the time after the kids birthday's we went south for Christmas then came home and moved to Perth. I haven't been able to bring all my craft stuff with me so this year might be a little light on posts. I did bring my knitting needles and crochet hooks so I'm sure I can come up with something.

Here are some pics from the Butterfly and Monster party we did for the kids:

Monster Marshmallows, dipped in dark choc and blue coloured white chic, then dipped in 100's & 1000's and candy eyes added randomly.

Brownie shaped into balls, dipped in white choc with dark choc drizzled over the top. I have a foot choc mould that I made the feet with and attached with some more melted chic.

Monster cake - white choc mud cake. The eyes are brownie balls with green icing iris and melted choc dot pupils. The mouth is white choc and the teeth are fondant. Love the multi-nozzle tip for icing 'hair'.

Butterfly cake - choc cake with raspberry buttercream icing. The butterflies were my first attempt at marshmallow fondant and turned out OK (but not fantastic).

'How long until we can eat it!'

Found a butterfly

Looking for more butterflies with her net

Net Butterflies

I was busy getting netting for a tutu for my niece and didn't think about the weight/scratch factor properly so I ended up with some white and purple that I couldn't use. Inspiration hit and I am re-purposing the netting into little butterflies for the kids upcoming birthday party. Now I have grand ideas of making butterfly nets to 'catch' them in.

Finished Butterfly

First cut them into strips. These are approx 2.3" x 5"

Then round the corners with no precision at all

Lay on top of each other and concertina the middle - hold tight!

Wrap some cotton around the middle and knot it tight (may need some spare hands at this stage).

Grab the top piece in one hand and the bottom piece in the other hand and pull them away from each other firmly. The back pieces form the top wings and the front piece the bottom wings. If you pull hard enough they will stay like that.

Wrap a piece of pipe cleaner around the middle and twist. Curl the ends for antennae