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March Meet The Maker 2020

March 8, 2020      Leave a Comment

This month I am taking part in the March Meet The Maker challenge on instagram. Each day is a new prompt inspired by ‘Your 2020 Business Story’. Here are my first few posts:

STORY

I shared the story of my grey ombré wedding cake design in my blog post here. From how the design almost didn’t happen, the meaning behind the design, how it went viral and sparked a trend for grey wedding cakes and how it went on to be featured by @prestonrbailey @thecakeblog and @neighbours. 

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HANDS AT WORK 


Here are my hands at work, painting watercolour lavender flowers, making sugar flowers and assembling everything together on the cake. 

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I have a full FREE tutorial for this watercolour wedding cake available below and you can find my simple wax flower tutorial here.

TIME

One of the questions I am asked the most when meeting with clients is How long does it take to make a wedding cake? This is one of the most difficult questions to answer because each wedding cake is so different. 
I think it is easy for people to underestimate the amount of time that goes into making a wedding cake. So much goes into making a luxury wedding cake, from designing the cake, ordering and purchasing any special equipment/ ingredients, baking, making and preparing fillings, torting, fillings and ganache, covering in sugar paste, ensuring a smooth finish and sharp edges- and this is all before the decorating even starts!

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The sugar flowers in the cake pictured below were all made to tie in with the fresh flowers being used in the wedding and the colours that were being incorporated throughout the wedding. 


The freesia sprays take approximately 1 hour per spray. In the image below you can see the freesia sugar flowers before assembly. Each flower is individually made from flower paste which is custom coloured, attached to wire and then brushed with petal dusts, before taping together. The ranunculus are constructed with 50+ petals per flower, before being brushed with petal dusts. The sugar roses were made in 3 different sizes and shades, the sugar leaves are all individually wired so that they can be placed at different angles throughout the arrangement and the gypsophila have floral tape applied to each individual stem. 
Overall the sugar flowers on this wedding cake alone are over 10+ hours of work. Sugar flowers are definitely a labour of love but also one of my favourite thing to make!

CLOSE UP

A close up of a sugar rose ready for dusting with petal dust. 

Sugar Rose

LOVE TO MAKE

My absolute favourite thing to make is sugar roses!

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I hope you enjoyed reading my first few posts of the March Meet the Maker challenge. Make sure to follow along with the rest of the challenge over on instagram by searching the hashtag #marchmeetthemaker to see all the posts from the amazing community of makers taking part.

Iridescent Anthurium Sugar Flower Tutorial

Today I’m sharing our brand new iridescent anthurium sugar flower tutorial. A FREE step by step video tutorial on how to use petal and lustre dusts to create a iridescent effect on sugar anthurium flowers. Also know as unicorn anthuriums, these are such a fun flower to make and colour. I first saw these flowers…

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#MeetTheMaker

Earlier this month I took part in the #meetthemaker challenge over on instagram. A 6 day challenge designed to tell you a bit about the story of my business, with a new prompt each day.  Say Hello The first prompt in the #meetthemakerweek challenge was ‘Say Hello’. So I’m saying hello and telling you a little about…

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Sugar Flower Inspiration

Today we’re going to be talking about sugar flower inspiration. I’m going to be sharing some of the different ways I find inspiration for my sugar flowers and cake designs and we’ll also be chatting to sugar flower artists Maggie Austin, Arati Mirji and Jacqueline Butler about the inspiration behind their beautiful work. About 8…

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Sugar Flower Making Essentials

When I was just starting out in my cake business and I was a brand new cake maker, I thought that I needed every single piece of equipment to help me make beautiful sugar flowers. I could see all the amazing products available and thought I needed them all! Can you relate! ? If you’ve…

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Lovelace Rose Sugar Rose Workshop

Today I am sharing some details about my new FREE Lovelace Rose Sugar Rose Workshop A FREE step by step video workshop on how to use petal dusts to Raise the Level of Artistry in your Sugar Roses  In this Workshop, you’ll learn : -1-How to transform your sugar roses using petal dusts making the shift from creating standard sugar…

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How to mix the Perfect shade of Dusky Pink for Sugar Flowers

Today I’m sharing my new guide- ‘How to mix the Perfect shade of Dusky Pink for Sugar Flowers’. Dusky pink is the most requested colour by my brides, when I’m making their wedding cakes, so I have made a lots of different shades of dusky pink over the years. I use food colouring gels to…

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Some lovely testimonials from my Sugar Rose Artist Some lovely testimonials from my Sugar Rose Artistry students! Enrolment for the course closes at the of this week and we get started on 8th February. If you'd like to join us and raise the level of artistry in your sugar roses you can find all the details in my profile. #lovetolearn #cakegoals #sugarflowers #sugarflowerart #sugarflowertutorial #sugarroseartistry #petaldust #studenttestimonial #sugarflower #sugarflowerclasses #learnflowers #flowers #flowerstagram
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Here are some of the sugar roses that you can lear Here are some of the sugar roses that you can learn how to make in 'Sugar Rose Artistry!'

 First you'll learn all the foundations of sugar rose making including how to make two different sizes of roses, calyx and leaves. Then you'll learn the foundations skills and techniques of petal dusting and complete your first colouring project- an ivory sugar rose. Next you’ll have the chance to practice and consolidate all these skills by taking on a new sugar rose project each week, until you have created all of the beautiful variations shown here! By this point you will have you will have mastered sugar rose making, colouring and dusting techniques and created you own unique style! 

Which rose would you most like to learn to make?

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Enrolment is now OPEN for Sugar Rose Artistry- A m Enrolment is now OPEN for Sugar Rose Artistry- A masterclass in creating and colouring sugar roses & the art of pricing sugar flowers.  You can find all the details at the link in my profile. #sugarflowercourses #sugarroses #sugarflowers #sugarroseartistry #sugarflowerclass #cakeclasses #cakesofinstagram #cakedecorating #cakedesign #petaldust #vintagesugarroses #cakeclassesuk #sugarart
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the firs Thank you so much to everyone who came to the first of our Lovelace sugar rose workshops today and for all your lovely comments. Here are just a few of them! If you missed todays session, you can still join us for tomorrow's workshop or catch the limited time replay. #sugarruffles #sugarflowercourses #sugarflowerclass #sugarflowers #sugarrose #sugarroses #petaldust #cakedecorating #cakedesign #thankyou #lovelace #sugarroseartistry
A sneak peek at tomorrow’s Lovelace sugar rose w A sneak peek at tomorrow’s Lovelace sugar rose workshop #sugarflowers #sugarroses #sugarflowercourses #sugarflowerclass #petaldust #roses #cakedesign #cakeart #sugarroseartistry #cakevideo #flowersofinstagram
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I'm really looking forward to sharing my petal dusting techniques with you in my FREE sugar rose workshop next week. You can find all the details in my profile/ stories. I’d love for you to join us! #sugarflowers #sugarrose #petaldust #sugarflowercourses #sugarflowerclass #sugarroseartistry #pink #pinkcake #flowersarebeautiful #flowerarehappiness #flowerpaste #duskypink #rosesarepink
Swipe across to see some of the amazing feedback f Swipe across to see some of the amazing feedback from our last sugar flower workshops! You still have chance to join us for our free Lovelace rose workshops next week. I’d love to see you there! You can find all the details in my profile and stories #sugarflowercourses #sugarflowers #sugarrose #cakeclasses #cakedecorating #learntobake #sugarruffles #cakesofinstagram #flowerstagram #cakes
More petal dusting transformations! This time I ha More petal dusting transformations! This time I have used petal dusts to transform this pale terracotta rose into a cappuccino rose. I'm really looking forward to sharing some of my petal dusting techniques next week. Thank you so much to everyone who's been in touch to let me know you're coming. Not long to go now! #sugarroses #cappucinorose #petaldust #sugarflowercourses #sugarart #flowersmakemehappy #sugarroseartistry #sugarruffles #creativity #sugarcraft
I love how using petal dusts can completely transf I love how using petal dusts can completely transform sugar roses! I'm looking forward to sharing my tips and techniques next week. #sugarroses #sugarruffles #lovelace #sugarflowers #sugarflowercourses #sugarflowerclass #petaldust #cakeclassesuk #sugarroseartistry #cake #wedding #weddingcake #instacake #instaflowers

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