Thursday, October 25, 2012

Giveaway (Closed) and Review on Jeweled Wedding Cake By Marina Sousa

Hey Everyone,

Today I am so thrilled to post pic of my latest wedding cake Vintage Jewels that I made  over the weekend in fact  finished the whole cake on Tuesday using Fondarific fondant and Gumpaste . I named it Vintage Jewels because I used lot of jewels on it that I learnt from Marina Sousa's Jeweled Wedding Cakes class on Craftsy.



Many of you know what  Craftsy classes are and some of you who don't know must be wondering now, What are Craftsy Classes?


 Craftsy classes are affordable online classes on different subjects like sewing, quilting, cake-decorating and many more that you can view in the comfort of your own home, whenever you want. You buy the class and it is yours for life.The best part you can watch it whenever and as much as you want, It never ever expires!!  You can also interact with the instructors and other students through the platform by asking questions while watching the course. You can take video notes at a particular step of class so you can revisit your notes. You are provided with class material such as resource guides and instructions. You can also get a sneak peek before you buy the class, so you know what all you will be taught in that class...That's not all if still you are not happy the will refund you however I can bet that will never happen.

In my last post I had mentioned something vaguely about reviewing the class.


Well I was very fortunate enough that Craftsy offered me a class to review and  as soon as I saw Marina's class Jeweled Wedding Cakes,  I knew had to do it. I just love her cakes. She is so talented and her work is simply amazing. I never got the opportunity to take her class due to finances but thanks to Craftsy and their affordable classes I was able to learn fro Marina Sousa :). She shares amazing tips and tricks through the entire class and if you follow her along you will end up making a cake just like her. I wanted to do something more from what all I learnt from her so my cake is different from hers but most of the techniques I learnt are from her class. So sugar lovers go ahead and check out some amazing cake classes craftsy is offering from renowned cake-decorators like Colette Peters, Marina Sousa, James Roselle, Lauren Kitchens and others and I am sure you will love every minute of it and you wont regret the money you spent. You can check out all cake classes here. All the other crafter who enjoy different hobbies like I do can check out various different classes here.

If you have any questions on how I did a particular thing that was not from the class pls ask and I will be willing to help you however for all the jewels and techniques pls  enrol in Marina's Class and you will learn a lot more.

OK now lets do the fun part Craftsy has agreed to offer one free class to one of the crafty person. How can you be that lucky person pls read the rules below and scroll the form to make sure you filled in all details required. Giveaway starts today 10/25 and ends 11/02 CST. Winner will be notified the following day.
Craftsy Winner is no. 23 Brenda . I have emailed you pls reply back to get your link for free class..Thanks everyone for entering.
 Leave comments I would love to hear from you.

Happy Cake-Decorating and All the best,
SSK


P.S Do not copy any images. Craftsy and Jeweled Cake Image copyright Sympoz Inc. Vintage Jewel Cake copyright by SSKAkes. 

Monday, October 22, 2012

Craftsy Review

Hey Everyone,

I am so excited Craftsy had given me 2 courses to review i.e Marina Sousa and James Roselle. I am almost done making a cake for review which I will be posting soon on here with my class review...stay tuned.

Happy Cake-Decorating!!
SSK

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Lambeth cake practice

Hi All,

I am truly hooked to Lambeth Cake Decorating and have been practising some. This art needs really lot of practice and I think I only have achieved 10% of it. I work on one border again and again till I don't master it. Here is the collage of my work..:)



Keep Piping,
SSK

Monday, July 9, 2012

Toothpick Roses on Cupcake.

Hey Everyone,

Trust you all had a great weekend. Few months ago in fact almost a year ago I had seen really miniature roses done on a cake by Kathleen Lange. I had met her and I just love love her work and a very sweet person to talk too. Inspired by her miniature roses she does on toothpick, I gave it a shot. I must let you know it is not a easy task however I will keep practicing till I perfect it.

What are you guys up-to..keep in touch.
SSK

Friday, June 22, 2012

Waffle and Bacon, Egg and Toast Cake

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to share few more cake pictures that I did recently and had great learning experience while making these. The pictures are Waffle cake with Maple Syrup and Egg, Toast and Bacon..Let me know what you think.

Happy Baking,
SSK

Giveaway!

Check out this great giveaway for Silicone Molds for cute kawai stuff at http://juliesbits.blogspot.com/p/six-wonderful-silicone-molds-with.html?showComment=1340372521102

Love,
SSK

Monday, March 26, 2012

Sugar Flowers!!

Hey Everyone,

As promised I am sharing the pics of my gumpaste flower's. I created a collage instead of uploading too many pics....:)

Love,
SSK


Thursday, March 22, 2012

Hello!!!

Hey Everyone,

I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's day and enjoying the Spring. I love springs especially when the garden starts to bloom. I have been missing for more then few days from my blog as I had some classes to attend and had to go to Georgia (ISAC). I had a great time. Currently, I am in the process of reviewing some DVD's and hope to post the pics by weekend or early next week.

Will post pics soon..till them take care and enjoy.

SSK

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Are you going to ICES Convention.

WIll you be guys going to ICES Convention to Nevada this year!! I am so upset I won't be able to make it as have invested too much in classes. ICES Convention are so much fun, I really hope to go next year..Registration for the convention started today.

I am sure all my friends will have fun at the convention, except me :(

So are you going, will you be displaying a cake..what are you plans.
Love,
SSK

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Spring is almost here!!

Hey Everyone,

Can you believe it Spring is just around the corner and so are my cake-classes with some great people like chef Nicholas Lodge. Ms. Lauren Kitchens and maybe also with Ms. Kathleen Lange ..the lambeth master. I am so thrilled to get started . I also saw this cool technique by Susan Trianos called Tufted billow weave and I am totally in love with it. I am super busy with some cake-orders too and have a great news to share but will have to wait till end of March...doing a happy dance. I will also be soon doing few book reviews in between.

So what are my fellow cake-decorators upto...:)

Love,
SSK

Thursday, January 19, 2012

I am missing from here again!!

Hey Everyone,

I am so so sorry for not blogging but I am so very busy with my classes that I am not able to post as often as I want however, I promise I will make an effort to do from now on. I am super excited to visit Atlanta to take classes from Chef Nicholas Lodge and get PME Master Certification done. I will be doing all 3 courses required from PME for certification...wooohoooo. Also, I do another class with lovely Lauren Kitchens this time at ISAC...Now only thing on my list is to do classes with Ms. Kathleen Lange.

BTW I just got my Art of Royal Icing book from Eddie Spence that I ordered and I must say he is just incredible.

Take Care and Will post all the pics of my class soon.
SSK