Stick a fork in me....

I am done! I finished all of my split cakes for the season... Of course I use a lot of rainbow cakes so I decided to make my own... and then of course I have my wonderful TAG splits as well... Anyhow.. Here is the picture of my work for the day!!

I love your cakes, Suzy Sparkles (smile), can you show them? maybe just an arm swipe?....po-leeeze?? and is it a brush or sponge?

Wow they turned out great! see myself i make my own as well, but i dont use rainbow that much i mean the kids do love them and all but mostly for butterflys and rainbows and such. i just need to get something seperate to put my splits in cuz where i have them now i cant really fit my sponges in. What are those you have the splits in?

OHHH! I'm drooling!!!!

Wow... So how many rainbow cakes did you end up getting from the 5 full cakes? Is it more cost effective to do it that way than buy them pre-made? I need new rainbow cakes and I think I'll end up needing maybe 3-4 full size and 2-3 small ones for the summer (I'm assuming). If it saves some money I would consider making my own like you did. It looks like you got some good quality cakes there!

It's definitely more cost effective to buy the cakes and then making a ton of them... I'm just lazy.

oooh yeah you save a lot of money doing it this way, plus it is kind of a fun and relaxing project

I had enough paint for all of the cakes pictured and I probably could have made another smaller neon one as well but I didn't have another small case.

The cases I used are talked about in this thread http://www.facepaintforum.com/t4676-sharing-my-new-split-containers-with-you-go-get-them?highlight=containers

"I'm just lazy"........LOLOL @ Jayde..............so love the honest introspective

OHHH so pretty! btw you know you can break those little round things on the top of the little containers right? I am asking because as anal as I am they bother me LOL

Suzy, I'm so jealous!

Those look great! I like making my own better as well, but, I often run out of time in between jobs and then end up ordering some. I like my own better cause I can measure it out the way I like in the length of the strips.

I so need to come to your house so we can "play"!

totally cabby!!

Those look great!

(Though, I must admit, when I read "stick a fork in me," my mind immediately went to special effects make up, and I was picturing something awesome and graphic with a fork sticking out of your skin or something).

Definitely gave me some inspiration (both the splits and the sfx idea).

WOW...

I love them!
Thanks for sharing!

great job suzy..you are ready for the summer season..

hahaha PJ, I also thought the same thing when I read the title

they came out perfect, way to go.

Those look great Suzy! I especially like the Orange Pink and Yellow ones, they reming me of Lemonade for some reason... lol. Hey... Now I'm thirsty! XD

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times, I so envy painters that make their own splits. I've tried so many times, but I cringe everytime I go to make a cut in a cake. I just can't bring myself to do it. I guess I'll just keep shelling out money for pre-made splits, lol.

Punky face your fear & go for it girl!!!!

Suzy they all look very well made good for you.

Why do I have the feeling we'll be seeing some of these in the swap shop sometime in the near future? You did a nice job!

noooooo i dont swap rainbows... lol I use those way too much! Sometimes I go overboard making different creations that I never use and those go in there lol...

Suzy, a question for you...

Do you find cutting up neons to be easier than cutting up metallic/pearls? I find metallics/pearls quite difficult (they crumble) and "regular" colors quite easy (they come out of container in beautiful little slabs). How do the neons compare, for you?

Thanks!
Barbie

Punky no one is saying to cut up the cakes in your working palette. You just purchase a few additional cakes for the sole purpose of making splits. Or like I did when i first started...........There was nooooooooooooooo way I was gonna cut up my DFX cakes..........but I did have my old wolfe palette which still had a decent amount of paint left. So I hacked those up instead.

I have a pic of it posted on here in another thread. So take something old and give it a whirl

Well the neons were simple to cut... I had NO problems. The Primary colors were a challenge though because no matter what I did the yellow crumbled SO bad as well as the green that I originally wanted to use... I just ended up taking it out because it looked like a crumbly mess and replaced it with light green. Metallics are crumbly some timer but they are also pliable so that you can mush it into the shape you need... Better then the dry hard crumble that some primary colors do.