Week 4 our last week for the GreatCakes soaping challenges. The challenge for week 4 is to do a soap with leopard spots! This was inspired as I understand it, by a baker who made a leopard spotted cake! Duplicating leopard spots in soap a unique challenge to be sure!
As our little Bengal domestic tabby's are just the perfect models for a spotted theme I was all set!
Summer coming upon us and I had already
brown/tan/black/beige soaps on hand. I wanted more frou frou and
colorful leopard spots for this Mother's Day!
I had high expectations for my leopard spot soap. Using a lavender color and a lilac fragrance oil for this Mother's Day Soap. Yes next time if I do this again I will go the baggie route like Amy of GreatCakes and Kenna of Amanthia Soap did. No bottles for me, I did the spoon method length wise. Bottles that's where I draw the line!
The plan was to do lavender spots with gold and or blue mica oil rings encased in black. Well the lilac fragrance changed up the process I had mapped out. Oh well live and learn. I had a great time and learned what not to do and how to do spots by hand. This soap moved faster than I, so I had to leave out the mica/oil rings around the lavender spots. This fragrance didn't split the top of the soap but it did heat up internally and left TD crackles! I love the lavender rimmed in black on the white field. These smell so marvelous, scented with Bramble Berry Lilac fragrance oil for spring. Mother's love this soap! Leaping Lilac Leopard Spots.
Mother's Day 2013 Leaping Lilac Leopard Spots!
Mother's Day 2012
It has been a wonderful time with this group and learning with you. Thank you each and everyone for sharing. And many thanks to Amy Wardenr of GreatCakes Soap for hosting these challenges. Please visit Amy here to admire her leopard spots and see all the interpretations of spots by such a talented community of soap makers!
Aloha,
PS. Maybe next year I will attempt the art of filming while I soap!
Mella
As our little Bengal domestic tabby's are just the perfect models for a spotted theme I was all set!
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| Mz. Kathmanduzie - Duzie for short was 7 pounds of pure joy and love and cuddles. We lost our little Duzie last summer and still miss her so, but I wanted to share her with you. She was graced with the most perfect rosette spots! We still are the staff for her baby brother Mauser as a kitten below! |
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| Mauser The Scorpion King due to the crook on the end of his tail, is now 11 years old, 15 pounds and a couch potato! Once so athletic jumping like a helicopter ascends, straight up in the air when surprised, climbing ladders and jumping planters! |
I had high expectations for my leopard spot soap. Using a lavender color and a lilac fragrance oil for this Mother's Day Soap. Yes next time if I do this again I will go the baggie route like Amy of GreatCakes and Kenna of Amanthia Soap did. No bottles for me, I did the spoon method length wise. Bottles that's where I draw the line!
The plan was to do lavender spots with gold and or blue mica oil rings encased in black. Well the lilac fragrance changed up the process I had mapped out. Oh well live and learn. I had a great time and learned what not to do and how to do spots by hand. This soap moved faster than I, so I had to leave out the mica/oil rings around the lavender spots. This fragrance didn't split the top of the soap but it did heat up internally and left TD crackles! I love the lavender rimmed in black on the white field. These smell so marvelous, scented with Bramble Berry Lilac fragrance oil for spring. Mother's love this soap! Leaping Lilac Leopard Spots.
Mother's Day 2013 Leaping Lilac Leopard Spots!
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| They need dressing up a touch and then they will be good to go! Wouldn't a touch of blue or gold mica oil between the lavender and black be cool? |
Mother's Day 2012
It has been a wonderful time with this group and learning with you. Thank you each and everyone for sharing. And many thanks to Amy Wardenr of GreatCakes Soap for hosting these challenges. Please visit Amy here to admire her leopard spots and see all the interpretations of spots by such a talented community of soap makers!
Aloha,
PS. Maybe next year I will attempt the art of filming while I soap!
Mella
