Charm City Cakes 2012 Wedding Collection

Did you ever watch Ace of Cakes on the Food Network!?! Duff and his create make the most outrageous, beautifully detailed cakes! When we came across "Charm City Cakes" 2012 wedding collection we were literally stunned at how classy, gorgeous and artistic they all were! We love the subtle, soft color palettes, the textures and dimensions of the cakes and of course the attention to detail...just perfection! WOW, is all we can say...what do you think of these fabulous edible creations, which one is your favorite!?!

DIY tissue paper and fringe cupcake toppers

We are working on a really beautiful gold and creme themed baby shower that will take place this weekend. We are really excited to see how it all comes together. One of the diy projects we are working on is a creme colored tissue paper flower with a gold fringe center! We obviously love making paper flowers, and these are so easy to make and look so pretty on top of your cupcakes!

Materials:

tissue paper

gold fabric or ribbon

lollipop sticks

hot glue

scissors

hole punch

We are topping mini cupcakes, so we cut mini circles our of our tissue paper, about 2". If you are making them for regular sized cupcakes you can cut your circles larger. Just layer your tissue paper and cut out circles...don't worry about them being perfect, the more imperfect you cut cut the more shapely the flower. You are going to use about 6 circles per cupcake topper. Punch a hole in the center of the layered tissue paper.
Cut a 1" strip of your gold ribbon or fabric {we found a spool of this thick gold ribbon in the dollar bin at Jo Anne Fabrics}. Roll the ribbon and hot glue the bottom of it together. Then just cut strips taking care you don't cut all the way to the bottom, you just want to create a fringed look.
Next add a dab of hot glue to the top of your lollipop stick and slide your 6 layers of tissue paper on. {Exactly like our diy ombre flower cupcake toppers} Then add another dab of glue in the center of your flower and add your fringe piece. Immediately close the top layer of tissue around the fringe so that it attaches. Then just continue to bunch your tissue paper layer by layer.
It's that simple! Hope you will try these, they would look beautiful in any color...especially with spring approaching!!

Lael Cakes: Gilded Cakes

Oh my, we have fallen in love with Lael Cakes, a custom cakery owned by Emily Lael! Based in Brooklyn, NY, this is no ordinary cakery, this a vegan and gluten free cakery that creates the most stunning and unique cakes! As you may know, we are loving the metallic trend that is quite popular right now. So we were just smitten with the gorgeous cakes that Emily created for a spread in Utterly Engaged! We just love the gold and black and the unique techniques she uses to create cake that are almost to pretty to eat! We hope you will take the time to read this great interview Emily did and her full feature in Utterly Engaged!

photos by Jen Huang Photography

Super "Sweet" Photoshoot

When we started entering the blogging world "My Sweet and Saucy" was one of the first blogs were totally drawn to and inspired by! We even had the opportunity to interview Melody, the creative sweet genius behind the shop! She is just as sweet and inspiring as what she creates! Well, when Melody posted photos from a recent photo shoot that she did for Style Me Pretty, we instantly fell head over heels! If you follow us, you know we are always drawn to all things vintage inspired and handmade! We just love all of the details from this shoot including the gorgeous cake stands, dainty ruffled hobnob candy dishes, the stunning ombre ruffle cakes, the xo macarons and that amazing paper flower garland! All of the photos by Gabriel Ryan Photography are just lovely and how can you go wrong with a fabulous piece of furniture, to display all of that gorgeousness on, from Found Vintage Rentals!?!

Gorgeous Southern California Wedding

We are so excited to have the opportunity to share this wedding with you! Not only is full of gorgeous diy detail, beautiful color and style and a stunning bride...it just happens to be our friend, photographer Becky Hill's wedding! Becky is our very good friend and{ diy corespondent} Katie's sister! As you have seen on our blog many times, Katie is incredibly talented and creative so you know that the details of her sister's wedding are going to be simply perfect!! We just adore Becky, she is so naturally beautiful, she literally lights up each and every photo with pure joy! We are pretty much smitten with all of the paper goods Katie created, like the " I love him" and "I love her" signs complete with bow tie and pink mini pom, the beautiful xoxo garland and the fabulous cupcake toppers! How beautiful is the arch of paper flowers {all made by hand by Katie} that Becky and Dave got married under! It added so much color, beauty and touch of whimsy! We are head over heels in love the details of the reception! Becky choose to have all different cakes as centerpieces on the tables {made by Sweet and Saucy}! They are all so lovely in pastel colors and don't even get us started on those amazing cake stands! Katie made ruffle fabric garlands that strung swept across the top of the sweet table, they give such a light and airy look! We just love everything about this wedding...we know you will too! Thank you SO much Becky and Dave for letting us share your very special and amazingly beautiful wedding day!!

photography: next exit {to see more photos of this wedding go here}

DIY ombre sugar hearts

So last week we fell in love with a gorgeous cake created by the amazing cake artist, Erica O'Brien! It was featured on The Wedding Chicks blog and lucky for us there was a DIY on how to create the ombre sugar hearts! We thought this was such a cute idea for Valentine's day, we just had to share! Those sugared hearts look pretty fabulous on that cake...don't you agree!?! {To see the DIY go here}

Photography: Brooke Allison Photography