Here is the tallest of the cakes! The center tier is 8" tall and 6" in diameter. I call this beauty my "Art Deco Cake" because of the beautiful scallops set against a dark gray scalloped background. I show you how to make this cake without any special cutters. You just need a circle cutter!! :) The flower is a wafer paper flower and I show you two variations of it. You can use wafer paper or edible image paper for either technique. I just love the transparency of wafer paper flowers! Something you just can't get with gumpaste!! - and they are SOOO easy to make!!
This next cake is one of my favorites! I love the colorful offset chevrons! There are five colors all stacked to make these beautiful vertical panels. The white, gold and silver are all luster dusted. The pics don't do it justice, but this cake is bold and sparkly! It's a pattern any guy would like! - it's my husband's fav of the class!! :) I also show how to make that simple little wall flower with one tear drop cutter. Such a sweet little flower!! Simple elegance...and easy, easy techniques! :)
Hexagons/honeycomb prints are SO hot right now! - and there are so many beautiful ways to use that pattern. I love bold colors and contrast so I threw in a few dark gray tiles into mine. The entire back of this cake is painted gold. It has two layers of hexagons. Such a fun cake! I can't wait to see your color combos with this design.And, this is another edible paper flower...with edible paper, not wafer paper. This is the second variation 
This is my "Hidden Design" cake. There is a design hidden away under the fondant that gives your this 3D look to it. There are endless possibilities on what designs you can put under there and I show you some simple techniques to apply designs onto the ganache crumb coat then cover it in fondant and still get razor sharp top edges with complex designs.The mint pinwheel flower is my new favorite modern looking flower! The front of the cake is actually to the right of the cake. The flower was supposed to sit off to the left so the mint squares rise up to the flower. But, it's all good! - you get the idea!! :) There are some fun variations you can do with this flower once you learn how to make the petals!! It's got a fun shape to it!!
These last two cakes are my silver leaf cakes!! I show how to apply silver leaf onto a cake and then give you some super fun, top secret, really easy ways to put silver leaf designs onto your cakes!!! Check out the "Lace Cake" above with beautiful silver leaf lace!! Or the cake below with the silver leaf polka dots!! SO much fun can be had with silver leaf...simple fun! :)And, here are two more flowers I show how to make. All without wires...easy, simple techniques with templates I provide and circle cutters! :)
Here's a close up of the wafer paper flower I make! :) OH I love this sweet thing!! It seriously would only take you about 30 min. to put this together!! It's so easy and so quick that you'll want to have it in your tool kit of ideas for those last minute cakes! :)
So, remember to click HERE for 50% off and to watch a little promo video about the class. You can also see some more pics and see the lessons laid out for you too! :) Now there is one more thing I just wanted to share with you!! Something the Lord really spoke to me after this class. When I was at Crafty filming this class, I hardly slept! The altitude caught up with me so bad in Denver that I literally cat napped throughout the night for 5 nights straight! I was SO upset! I was a walking zombie during the day and had SUCH a hard time focusing and getting my lines out and executing things the way I did at home this summer. I felt like I was back in the days of being up all night with an infant...only there was no sweet, chubby, cuddly thing for me to hold!! - just cakes! :)During filming, things went on crooked, I had to redo things multiple times, I messed up some of the finishes, I touched a cake right after I sprayed it, I did things in ways I wouldn't normally do them. We had to re-shoot things SO many times...way more than my first class...which was my FIRST class!!! I left there feeling like I had wasted such an amazing opportunity because I thought I literally train-wrecked the class. I was exhausted, emotional and felt so low when I got back home. I even told them I wanted to fly back and re-shoot a few things!!!Then...three days later, my mom had her surgery...and the Lord showed me what was important! - and it's NOT cakes!! :) We can get consumed with projects and making things perfect and doing everything with such intensity, that we forget to look up and see what's important. Our sweet Lord created us to be in relationship with Him and He created us to be in relationship with others. My joy will be full, my life will be complete when I have loved...and loved deeply. When I pour into others, I am filled. My mom was the most amazing example of that. She loved deeply and she had deep joy!! We can't see the future, we can't see why bad things happen. I may never understand why I felt the class went so horribly wrong and why my mom had to die. But, what I do know is that the Lord will be glorified. And He'll be glorified more in our weakness. When things seem out of control, when things seem like they can't go any worse, He shows up...walking on the waves during the storm. And He speaks into our hearts, "Do not be afraid for I am with you!" He knows the plans He has for me...for you! - and they are always meant to bless us and give us life.My husband told me some great truths when all this went down. He said, "Jessica, it's perfect your class went so bad because now if anything good comes of it, you know it's the Lord's hand of mercy and grace and you can't take the credit for it!" Amen!! How much more glory will HE receive when His strength is made perfect in our weakness!!That sweet husband of mine also told me something else that made all the craziness of the summer worth it. When I told him I felt like I wasted an opportunity because he had to "babysit" all summer while I worked on cakes, he said, "It wasn't wasted...I got to be with my kids all summer. I got to know them, deepen my relationship with them more than I ever would have had you not done the class!" He knew it was about relationships. And, if the only good thing that comes out of this class is my husband's amazingly wonderful and deep relationship with my kids, then it was worth messing up again!! :) :) See...we never know how the Lord will redeem something...how HE will take the bad and create something beautiful with it!My mom left me with an amazing passion for the Word of God and an even greater desire to share His love. That passion and that desire wouldn't have happened had she not passed away. It was a springboard for me...and it was such a gift. I'm going to miss her deeply, but her passing gave me such a huge desire to be the mom she was, to pour into my kids in a greater way, to turn off technology and pour into my relationships, to tell others about the marvelously wonderful love of Christ and how to know Him more deeply.So...bad things happen...but great things can be seen...better things are left in their place when we can stop and look at them. My sweet Jesus showed me how much He loves me and how much He wants my life to not just be lived for the here and now...for the things that burn...for the things that ultimately leave us bummed out and disappointed. He wants my life to be filled with deep joy that can only be found by HIS love, and sharing that love with others.Know Him, and find joy! Read His love letter to us and find a Savior that desires to pour out His love and forgiveness onto you!!With all my love,Jessica
P.S...Now, you may be thinking, hmmm, I'm not going to take her class because she said it was a train wreck!! LOL!! - but what's amazing...and for sure miraculous is I was able to watch it back a few weeks ago and was surprised how well it turned out. Seriously it was ALL God, and I think some great editing to remove all the dumb things I said!! :) I was crying my eyes out, and the whole time God kept whispering, "My strength is made perfect in your weakness!" - and it was. Somehow HE turned it all around for good and I praise HIM. Yes, it's not perfect, and not my best work, but you will learn some amazingly fun techniques to make some beautiful cakes!!! :) - Crafty guarantees it!! LOL!! :)
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