Photos courtesy of Kricia Morris Photography and Fisheye Studio
We just wrapped an awesome project – a window and table display over at The Wedding Café, and are so excited to share it with you. We teamed up with Les Saisons and Emi Ink to put together 4 different vignettes (including a matching cake and hand-painted canvas by Kristin for each), all-inspired by PAINT! We used an assortment of drop cloths, easels, ladders, stools, old doors and shutters, paint cans, watercolors, acrylics, brushes and jars to create a painter’s studio. The display will be up till May 23 so be sure to stop by the Café and check it out. If you do visit our display, be sure to take a photo and tag us on Instagram at #acakelife.
Watercolor Wonder
Our first vignette is watercolor-inspired. The cake was an extra-tall single tier cake with a pink and orange hand-painted watercolor design, with a matching, off-set pink sugar flower topper. Kristin hand-painted the watercolor matching floral canvas for the display.
Love Birds
The second vignette was a modern inspired design, focusing on brush stroke and texture. The cake was a 2-tier tier white fondant cake with a relaxed, gold, light-brush stroke along the top of each tier, that created lots of texture with paintbrush bristles. We created a topper of two lovebirds in a nest, surrounded by yellow and white flowers and foliage, with more flowers and foliage at the base of the bottom tier. The matching canvas was of a contemporary-looking gold tree, with a pair of red lovebirds. This display was reminiscent of The Wedding Café’s sister store, Eden in Love as their logo includes a pair of lovebirds.
Whimsical Swirls
Our third vignette was inspired by a fun print – not necessarily wedding related, but something cute and playful. The cake was a 2-tier light pink/ivory fondant cake with an extra-tall base tier with a hand-painted loopy gold pattern and a half-height top tier, adorned with two simple matching sugar flowers – perfect for a first birthday party or baby shower. The painting was that of a red heart pattern.
Elegant Embossing
The last vignette was inspired by a wedding dress with lots of texture, swirls and pleats. The cake was a single tier white fondant cake, with an embossed, scalloped, textured gold edging, along the top of the cake – the design was actually pressed into the cake! Around the base of the cake we included lots of 3-dimensional ruffles, creating a swirly, whimsical texture. My assistant Stacie created the acrylic bird painting to match with this vignette.
