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Blue Butterfly Cupcakes for Nikita’s 18th Birthday.

Oct22

Blue Butterfly Cupcakes

Blue Butterfly CupcakesI was thrilled with this order of Blue Butterfly Cupcakes that Alison ordered for Nikita’s 18th Birthday celebration a few weeks ago.  Not only do I love making these butterflies but I was inspired by the attention to detail that went into the planning for this wonderful birthday party.  I had to include in my photos above the great idea of the blue cocktails served to the guests as they entered the party and the clever way they were lit up with fairy lights at the entrance.  The center piece on each table was a different design in shades of blue and silver giving a calm yet quirky feel to the function room.  I could just imagine the surprise and awe of the guests as they walked in to this beautifully decorated function room.  The cupcakes I made with butterflies in shades of blue and silver were perfectly in place amidst the delightful decor for the celebration.  Thank you Alison for your cupcake order and for including my cupcakes on such a wonderful occasion.

Blue Butterfly Cupcakes

Blue Butterfly Cupcakes

Giraffe Cupcakes!

Oct22
Giraffe Cupcakes

Giraffe Cupcakes

These are cute giraffe cupcakes I made for a girl’s birthday party a few months ago.  Her mom said she loves giraffes so I made these giraffes using a Sculpey clay mould and egg yellow sugar paste.  I painted their spots and eyes with black food colouring and then added them to the top of the cupcakes along with green embossed leaves as detail on the cupcakes.  I remembered while watching the funny giraffe in Zookeeper last night that I hadn’t blogged them yet and they are just too cute not to blog.

Hats Off to these Cupcakes!

Oct15

Cupcakes with Summer Hats

Cupcakes with Summer Hats

From the theme “A Walk on the Wild Side” for her daughter’s 21st birthday, it was quite a change to do “Summer Hats” cupcakes for Jenny’s Garden Themed 50th Birthday party.  Jenny left the choice of colours and designs up to me which gave me free reign to choose a summery colourful palette of warm yellow, funky orange, tickled pink and zesty lime green.  I fashioned these hats from sugar paste and using different flower cutters and embossing sheets I made this array of beautiful bright hats with their quirky ribbons and flower accessories.  The cupcakes I baked were a variety of chocolate, red velvet and passionfruit with white chocolate in brightly coloured cupcake holders.  These cute summer hat cupcakes were the ultimate fashion accessory to a brilliant 50th Birthday celebration!

Cupcakes with Summer Hats

Cupcakes with Summer Hats

Peach & Blue Flower Birthday Cupcakes!

Oct15

Peach and Blue Flower Cupcakes

Peach and Blue Flower Cupcakes

Hayley’s birthday is the last of the year for our Wacky Wednesday Scrapbooking group so it was great to have yet another excuse to celebrate last Wednesday just before the silly season begins!  Hayley is great at combining unusual colours, patterns and items in her scrapbooking so I thought I would take 2 colours that I hadn’t used before and combine them into funky flowers for her birthday cupcakes.  The peach is a lighter shade of  a beautiful watermelon colouring I have and I used  it to make these different sugar paste flowers.  The sky blue flower centres and blue sugar beads are a perfect contrast to the warm peach flowers.  I used different embossing techniques on the flowers as Hayley is also a texture guru when it comes to her wonderful artistic creations.  Once again we celebrated another birthday with gorgeous gifts, party packs, cake and cupcakes.  I couldn’t resist photographing Hayley’s cupcakes with the wildly colourful gift bag I chose for her birthday gift.

 

Lions Rugby Cupcakes for Juan’s 30th!

Oct13

Lions Rugby Cupcakes

Lions Rugby Cupcakes

Kick Off Cupcakes for Juan’s 30th!

Juan chose a great day to turn 30, with his team the Golden Lions playing the Blue Bulls tonight at 7 in the ABSA Currie Cup.  Thanks Cassie for your order of these Lions Rugby Cupcakes for the love of your life as he celebrates his birthday with family and friends and I hope these birthday cupcakes only add to all the rugby festivities you have planned for this special day!

Lions Rugby Cupcakes

 

Camping Themed Cupcakes for Luca

Oct13

Camping Themed Cupcakes

These Camping Themed Cupcakes were such fun to make for Luca’s birthday.  Luca’s birthday theme sounded like so much fun when Alison described the party and it reminded me of the days when my own son was so much younger and received his first tent as one of his presents.  We had to set the tent up for him in his room and he immediately took all his presents and food into the tent and proceeded to camp out in it for the entire night!

As Luca and his friends were going to be taught fire-making skills during his party, I made cupcakes for him with a small fire and flames on them.  For the sticks I used chocolate-covered pretzels which I snapped into shorter pieces and leaned them against each other on the cupcake.  The flames I made from red, orange and yellow sugar paste in different sizes and then placed them behind the sticks.  Luca, I hope you and your friends had as much fun making your own fires as I did making your ‘Fire Cupcakes’!

Camping Themed Cupcakes