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Fairy on a Cushion Cake Workshop with Grace Stevens

Apr18

Fairy On a Cushion Cak

The Fairy on a Cushion Cake was the workshop Grace Stevens of Cupcakes By Design gave on her second day here in Johannesburg.  After doing the Filler Flowers and Teddy Workshop I couldn’t wait to do the 3rd workshop.  Once again we were hosted by Vicci in Northcliff and it  was brilliant to spend time again with these 2 extremely talented ladies and meet new people who were just as keen to learn from Grace as I was.  The pictures below show our work in progress, from top left all the dusting colours and gel colours we had to decide on for our fairies and their flowers, bottom left my fairy with her feet up waiting patiently for a pretty hairdo and wings and finally Grace’s swift hands deftly demo how she covers her cushion cake ready for her fairy to rest on.

Fairy on a Cushion Cake in Progress

Fairies at Play!

Once again Grace taught us one of her beautiful cake designs and allowed us to express ourselves and bring out the character in our individual fairies.  Here they are below with their cute but naughty faces happily resting without a care in the world on their cushions.

Fairy on a Cushion Cake

Showing off our work!

I was so delighted with my cake that no one was left alone until they had seen it or at least seen a picture of it!  I do have a great group of family, friends and clients who were so supportive and shared in my excitement and thanks everyone for your facebook likes and comments they mean the world to me! When your 19 year old son shares this on his facebook page you know you are going up in the sugar craft rankings…. thanks Teigh!

Fairy on a Cushion Cake

Fairy & Cushion Detail

Thank you Grace for such amazing workshops and I will treasure your book and practise and practise more till your next workshop in Johannesburg. Cape Town is certainly blessed to have your talent!  A huge thank you to Vicci for introducing me to Grace and for all the laughs and the inspiration you share in your work.

Fairy on a Cushion Cake

Away with the Fairies!

Teddy & Flower Fillers Workshops with Grace Stevens

Apr18

Teddy & Flower Fillers Workshop

It was so exciting to finally meet Grace Stevens of Cupcakes by Design and take part in 3 of her Johannesburg workshops while she was in our busy city.  I had bought her book, Celebration Cakes, at the National Sugar Craft Show in Pretoria and after many hours looking at each exquisitely crafted cake I was apprehensive about being able to manage the workshops.  Well I needn’t have been at all as Grace is a brilliant, funny and patient teacher who has a unique gift in being able to humbly share her amazing knowledge in a fun environment.  We started with the dainty Filler Flowers Workshop and the collage above shows Grace tenderly dusting colour onto her completed flowers on the left and our groups of completed flowers opposite.

Teddy Workshop

In the afternoon we moved onto doing the Teddy Workshop and as you can see by our completed Teddies, we had loads of fun with these cute sugar craft creations.  It was my first time making something this size out of sugar paste and I was so happy with my completed teddy and her cute patches, buttons and stitching details.  Once again Grace’s way of teaching in carefully planned out steps made it a really fun class to follow.  Grace is an inspiration to all those who have a passion for sugar craft as her designs are not only fun to follow but she teaches in a way that allowed us to bring out the unique character in each piece we crafted. The picture above right shows three teddies, Grace’s teddy being a little coy, Vicci’s yellow teddy, a little shy and sad and then mine looking at me in amazement as if to say “I didn’t know you could do this!” Thanks Grace for sharing your time and knowledge with us.