Rainbow, arty & split cakes?

So I've noticed alot of designs using these cakes. Several questions...

As a newbie would you suggest investing in several of these?

Also what are your fav combos?

What's the difference in them? I think it's the size and what size do you use/like best?

Inquiring minds want to know!

I like the big regular rainbow cake and the big neon rainbow cake.

I then have about 12 little ones, all in colors/combos that I think are pretty...

They make a big wow impact with a minimal amount of effort. The mini's are great for doing one-stroke techniques... like DonnaDewberry. Loads of fun! I let my painter-friend try one of mine out today, and she made the coolest tattoo style swallow. Now, she's hooked.

My absolute fav is the big neon. I couldn't live without these. I do like the minis for a dramatic effect, but it is a good bit of tackle to haul around to jobs.

I think if the minis are Arty Brushes could come in a container of 10, they would be great. Try a few to find out what you like. Don't rush to buy them all at first as the technique does have a learning curve.

Metina

Thanks guys!! Heading to the LaFete, I'm sure people will have some there to see if they'll pan out for me.

I would think there will be tons to try and choose from!

I love my neon rainbows (large and mini). The traditional rainbow is great too, but doesn't oomph quite as much...the neon is just my go-to one.

Love dk green/neon green/yellow for leaves, light blue/white and turquoise/sky blues for dolphins, and you know you can't go wrong with pink/purple for flowers, butterflies and princesses...

I love splits!

Well I am rediculously impatient, lol! I ordered the large and small neon rainbow, and 2 more small- 1 is the fire one and the other has pinks and purples. I know I can't go wrong with the neon, everyone seems to love those! I figure the fire would be good for boy designs and the pinks/purples good for girl designs. Kristal, I almost got the blues for the dolphins cuz I live down here on the coast and I wanted the greens too. But with not really having a kit, I know I should pace myself, lol!!! Now I can't wait to get them in to try some designs!
Thanks again peoples!

Haha, well, you can always cut OUT a section from your blue and put IN a strip of white and have your own quick and easy dolphin split? I've got a home made Snaz turquoise/white/bright pink split, and can do dolphins with that, plus the usual flowers etc - and it's a refreshing alternative to a pink/purple butterfly, if the girl is wearing blue

Great minds think alike!! I have a couple of those little Snazz party sets that I was thinking of doing that with. I bought them to start practicing with and now there are several that I have used the mess out of and others not so much. So I wanted to combine them so that I didn't have all these half containers. Now, I know there are directions out there somewhere.....

PS I really like the blue flower thing, duh!!

Krystal,

Do you have any pics using that cakes? That sound like a good cake I can make to add to the split cake section. Thanks!

I've got some kids coming over tomorrow - I'll try to remember to use that cake!

Melisa: There's an awesome dragon using a fire cake on u-tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KXVSzwdEo&feature=PlayList&p=CC34D07AA7B53DD5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

Thanks Judy! That was a cool tutorial!

created this dragon eyedesign with the fire splitcake



and this with the leaves splitcake...it takes some practicing...but hey...it's worth the effort!

Ok, HELP!!! I got my cakes in today and WOW that was fast! Didn't expect that with free shipping, thanks Matina! Anyway was so excited to try them out, but I stink!! Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but it's the loading process that is breaking me down. I've tried several different ways.

The first cake I tried was the fire. I tried the easy fire mask from Silly Farm on youtube. The first way it tried was spritzing the cake with water and then loading. Well that was WAAAY to much water. The black just ran all over the place and I basically had a black cake. So I cleaned all that off and the brush too, then I tried dipping my brush in water then the cake, then it was too dry! So then I tried spritzing the cake again but just not so much. Still didn't work. I'm really having a time with the black wanting to take control of the cake.

I'm gonna try to post some pics but they are on my phone and I'm not sure how to get them from there to here. I'm definately gonna be working on my flames cuz they look pathetic, but I got to get the loading thing down first.

Thanks for any help!!

Oh, sorry! Michelle, those are really cool! Practice, practice!!!!!

It is tough to get this process down for sure. Check out a few of Silly Heather's Youtube video's. She gives some insight into the loading process.

I would also suggest another would be to google "one stroke by Donna Dewberry" She is on youtube as well. Also the Arty Brush vid. is good at Silly Farm. Kinda low-tech, but for $25 it is good.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sillyheatherb?blend=2&ob=1#p/u/38/JyFnO9PbADY

https://www.youtube.com/user/sillyheatherb?blend=2&ob=1#p/u/36/IpoMDlav-HU

https://www.youtube.com/user/sillyheatherb?blend=2&ob=1#p/u/26/C0KXVSzwdEo

She has other's even one that Rebecca was in it, but you can search.

Have fun and hope this helps!

Thanks, I'll do more research and check those out!

Such a permanent state of confussion right now. SOOOO much to learn!

Metina wrote:Krystal,

Do you have any pics using that cakes? That sound like a good cake I can make to add to the split cake section. Thanks!

Kept forgetting Here we go - haven't quite gotten the hang of butterfly brushes yet...

I love that split cake Kristal, I would have never thought of putting those colors together- and it IS nice not to have to use ink and purple all of the time!!! lol

Isn't it though?! Haha. The only reason I put them together - I bought some gems, and they were in the same colour order. I figured I had to Fun because you can always use just blue/white or pink/white, too.

You could almost use it for a pastel flag. That will get me thinking.

Melissa- for the large cakes, I don't spritz my split cakes I dunk the sponge in water first and saturate it completely and squeeze out any excess (to prevent drips) this usually leaves the sponge wet enough for me to wet the cake AND load my sponge all at once. I basically just press, press, press,press. As I'm doing that it wets the cake AND loads the sponge. If you don't press enough it might be drippy so you need to make sure you work it into the paint a bit until the consistency is just right, (hope that makes sense)

for the tiny arty cakes I use a big 1" wide brush. but I haven't really mastered it yt. I also use small squares of sponge cut to fit that little square.

Kristal sent me a split cake just like this in the swap (W/ the matching gems!) and I love it!! sooo pretty! :heart

Kristal wrote:

Metina wrote:Krystal,

Do you have any pics using that cakes? That sound like a good cake I can make to add to the split cake section. Thanks!

Kept forgetting Here we go - haven't quite gotten the hang of butterfly brushes yet...

I find that if i dip my brush and go to load and it's too dry you can touch the tip of the brush into the water again and reload. You do have to be carefull about to much water. I have to say I got three arty cakes to try out and I've just reached the bottom on two of them and I still haven't mastered the loading yet. I find the arty cake holders too small and I have to hold it in one hand while I'm loading it. Very frustrating to have to keep picking it up for another load! So I don't know if I'm going to replace them yet. My husband keeps offering to buy me the whole splitcake/ rainbow pallet from silly farm, I haven't taken him up on this yet because there were other things I needed to get first, and I'm tempted to use this money for advertising instead of more paint.
Anyway I know you've seen this pic already but the whole thing was done with a purple/red/pink/gold/white arty cake (sorry forgotten what is was called) and the 'leaves' artycake.
Thought it might help.
cheers.