Gardenia Cake Flowers

I got another request for gardenia cake flowers a while back. My Etsy client, Mary sent me the same cake picture that I received before. She told me how much her cake person told her it would cost to replicate in sugar or gumpaste and I was floored!!! Needless to say, I think this might become one of my additional items to my Etsy offerings moving forward since it seems to be so popular and the bride can use it for something else later. Put it in a shadow box with a wedding invitation perhaps as a keepsake or in a vase.

This is a very hectic week (but for me, I'm realizing every week is a hectic week) of trying to complete several print jobs and finally getting around to flower and invitation samples for several clients. My posts might be kind of light this week, but I'll try to post something new as often as possible. My goal is to put up some Christmas/holiday type arrangements on Etsy if I can find some time to create them. Oh yeah, which reminds me, I need to recreate a cake form so I can take better pictures of my work when clients ask for cake flowers. :)

Gardenia Cake Flowers Going to the UK...

My clay flowers are going international again! This time to the United Kingdom. Another bride found me via my Etsy site interested in my hair flowers and had many questions. First her order started out with 2 gardenia flowers much like the one I did for my Magnolia Bride, Kristy. Dulcima decided to move forward and then she asked me if I could do her cake flowers. She sent me this picture (to the left) of her vision and the last pictures are what I came up with. I didn't have time to make my clay cake model (on my list of things to do), so I had to use my square vases as a back drop. :) Her cake flowers measure 5 inches in diameter.

I am excited about a possible client who's getting married in the south of France... We'll see if she can sway her fiance's mind this week when I send her a sample! If it works out, this order would be my LARGEST international order... bouquets, centerpiece favors, boutonnieres and corsages. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed on this one!