Easter at Melissa's

It's almost Easter weekend. Hope you have a wonderful weekend planned. Don't forget to buy some goodies before you go on holiday. All from your nearest Melissa's store.

Happy Easter everyone! Drive safe!

Pretty Blog DIY

I had the privilege to work with Anelle from Seven Swans on my first Pretty Blog DIY. We had so much fun doing this DIY. Too much fun actually. Can't wait for future collaborations with Anelle. There will be many more yummy DIY's from Nelle Cakes on The Pretty Blog, so watch this space.

You can look forward to goodies for weddings, baby showers, kitchen teas, birthdays and special events like Easter. Can't wait to share all my ideas with you!

Have a look at our Easter cupcake in a jar DIY

Printable Parties

So you're planning a party for a birthday, baby shower or kitchen tea and you can't find pretty stationary to suit your theme. Look no further than the amazing In Good Company. They have a whole section on party printables. Print, cut, stick, use. Simple as that! You can even have custom made printables designed to suit your needs.

Valentines

Don't forget to buy your Valentines biscuits at Melissa's.

Pantone color of the year...

Honeysuckle is Pantone's color of 2011. "A brave new color for a brave new world. Courageous. Confident. Vital. It's a color for everday, but nothing 'everyday' about it. Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting."

Below is a mood board inspired by honeysuckle.



photo credits: Real weddings, flikr, Brides, Thread, Sprinkles,
Sofia blanc de blanc, Florali, Martha Stewart, Jennifer Davis,
East six, Artfool







Anri & Nadia

This was my beautiful friends' wedding at Delsma farm. Amazing pics by Cari photography.

Creative wedding

Willem and Talita's wedding was colourful, creative and fun. Most of the decorations was done by Talita herself. Job well done! The reception looked amazing! I love how she used buttons everywhere. Even the cake adorned some buttons.

Photographs by Jaco le Roux

Your Wedding Day magazine feature

This stunning black and white wedding by Izandi from I do was featured in the latest Your Wedding Day magazine. I had the privilage to make the damask print wedding cake.

Below are some of the photographs by Ryan Graham and a video clip by Missing Piece. What a beautiful bride!!

Video clip Nana-Marie & Follie

Giulio & Zelda

This festive wedding was held at Beloftebos near Stanford. Such a beautiful venue (not ideal to drive on a 14km dirt road to deliver a cake though) Zelda wanted an all white cake with icing replicas of the ruffle flower she had in her hair. The end result was a very romantic look.

Photographs by Nikki Meyer

Merry Christmas to all!



photo credit: eatdrinkchic



New Blog

Welcome to my new blog! I have decided to create a new blog, because it's more user friendly for me and for you. Now you can go back into the archives. Yay!

I have added all the old blog posts, but obviously couldn't move all the comments. So feel free to visit the golden oldies and comment on them.

xxx

Cookie cutters

A while ago I received all my lovely new cookie cutters from the USA. Can't wait to start playing around with new designs!

Will post some pics of the new cookies asap.



Red & Blue

This is one of my favorite color combinations. Red is always that accent color I want to add to everything.

It's also a favorite for one of my brides: Anelle from Seven Swans wedding stationary. She had a regular feature on the cap classique blog about the whole planning process of her own wedding. Everything about this wedding just sounded wonderful. I was lucky enough to make some cookies for this very talented lady.

Below are the cookies that made part of Anelle's yummy cookie bar. The amaaaazing duo from welovepictures, were the photographers at their wedding. I'm absolutely dying to see the pics!



Anelle's cookies



Trailer Trash Wedding

If you haven't seen The Aleit Group's latest limited edition wedding newsletter where have you been?
The creative genius behind this shoot was off course Johnny Hamman from The Aleit Group. Johnny can make trailer trash look chic. Nelle Cakes had the privilege to be part of this amazing shoot.

Follow this link for a lovely surprise... Limited Edition Wedding Newsletter

Lace

One of the most popular designs so far has been the brush embroidery lace. What I mean by brush embroidery is that I pipe the outlines of a lace motif and then take a wet brush and brush the icing from the outside inwards. This creates a lace effect.

What I normally do is copy the lace on the brides dress for the cake design. This makes it more personal and unique to the specific wedding.

Here are a few examples of the lace and cakes...

Cute figurines

On my previous blog post there were some pics of the adorable little bunny figurines the bride made herself. I found these cute ones on Etsy the other day. It can be custom made and shipped to South Africa.

I'm not normally a huge fan of figurines, but these are not your average porcelain figurines. These are pretty wooden figurines, each one hand made to look like you and your other half.

Here are a few super cute bride and grooms.

Off to the seaside

This wedding was held at Strandkombuis in Yzerfontein. Unfortunately I did not get to meet the bride and groom as they live in Holland. I did however get to meet their amazing friends and family who helped to get the venue ready. I even got invited by the bride's mom to stay for the wedding. So sweet.

Zelda is very creative, this I could see right from the start when she mailed me some bits and bobs for inspiration. She made these cute figurines and mini bunting to go on top of the cake. Love it!

Xmas at Melissa's

I know haven't blogged in a while. My excuse: over 2000 cookies for Melissa's. Trust me, this kept me occupied for 2 weeks while trying to finish wedding cake orders as well. Lucky for me, I love what I do!

Don't forget to visit a Melissa's store near you for yummy Christmas goodies.

Nelle cakes will be launching a permanent cookie range at Melissa's in the New Year! Watch this space...

For the little ones

In between all the weddings I get to make some pretty little things for the little ones.

Featured in My Wedding Day Magazine

The latest issue of My Wedding Day magazine is on the shelves and Nelle Cakes is featured in it. It was a privilege to be part of this amazing shoot and to work with such a talented group of people.

Make sure to get your copy now!

A sneak peek of what happened behind the scenes. Much more to see inside the magazine!