Monday, April 30, 2012

4 Tiers Cake

Hello,

I mentioned last week that I made a 4 tiers cake for a rehearsal dinner.  I forgot to take the pictures before I gave them to Lynn.  However, Lynn took the pictures and sent them to me but I accidentally deleted the pictures.  I told Lynn about it and she kindly sent me again.  It was from her iphone so the pictures are different from my usual ones.

The bottom layer had 17 boxes, next were 13 boxes,  the third layer had 12 boxes and the top layer had 11 boxes.  I made 61 boxes total but not all of them were assembled on the cake.



Again, I made each cake piece looking like this.

 I started this cake boxes back in February because there were so many pieces I had to make.   It took me over 1 hour just  to cut the flowers for the roses. Then I had to make 61 origami bows in 3 different sides. After that  I had to stickle the bows  and added pearl to the bow, cut and emboss the outside of the cake boxes and I had to make 51 tags to go in the box.  You got the idea of how much work it was but I love every minute of it and I would do it all over again without hesitation.  I saw Lynn again after the rehearsal dinner and she told me that everyone love the cake!  That was a music to my ears. :)

I am entering this to:

Make It Monday - anything goes
The Paper Player - anything goes
 4 Craftychicks - No stamping

As the weather getting nicer and warmer now, I had so many things to do around the house that I had to reduce my blogging time to twice a week.  I will be posting on Monday and Thursday from now on.

Thank you so much for checking in on me again.

Helen

23 comments:

Rene said...

WOW! This is amazing! Thank you so much for joining us at Make it Monday! Don't forget to leave a comment for another entry and mention you saw them on MIM for a chance to win our second prize! Good luck,
Rene :D

eva said...

beautifully

Monica said...

STUNNING, dear Helen... how much patience you have...

Monica xxx

Artes de Nágela said...

Great!
I loved it!

loz said...

Hello Helen. I saw this Beautiful cake on MIM..Loz

Peanut said...

Of the all the links at MIM, yours certainly caught my eye! Gorgeous, Helen. Tastefully done. Am very tempted to do this for a close friend's upcoming nuptials. Thank you so much for sharing.

chillin with Quillin said...

wow gorgeous, you can see you put a lot of work into it, and a lot of patience!!
Paula

Dr Sonia S V said...

I have always loved your cake boxes Helen and these are as elegant as ever .

Cheers
Sonia
cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com

Hussena said...

Oh i am simply speechless !!! this is so gorgeous and all that effort you have put into making this is so amazing...this is so so beautiful!!

Kasey ~ in Oz said...

Gorgeous, do they use the little boxes to hand out wedding cake?

So much work has gone into creating this. Gorgeous.

Thanks for playing in our No Stamping challenge this week.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz
Guest Designer @ 4CCC

Panda8ngel said...

Wow...that is beautiful! You did a great job. :)

Mynn xx said...

This is absolutely GORGEOUS! Oh my word, so much work, but SO totally worth it!!! Fantastic!!! :)

Ann said...

WOW, and double WOW. That is amazing.

Rae said...

Helen, your cake is absolutely gorgeous!!! I am so glad you were able to post. You will be happy to know that your beautiful croceted flowers will be the "stars" on my Mother's Day cards this year. I couldn't have found a lovier focal point! I can't wait to post them! :)

Lekha justin said...

waaaaaaaaaoww.....Its beyond words Helen...!!

Esther Asbury said...

I've always admired cakes like this, but haven't had an occasion to make one yet! Yours turned out absolutely beautiful!! It looks like it was a LOT of work, but well worth it in the end!

Faye said...

Such a Beautiful cake. I saw this on Make-it-Monday. Faye

Vicki Fraser said...

What an awesome feat! you have a very lucky friend :) saw this at MIM.

Crafterkhush said...

OMG that is a lot of hard work but totally stunning.. It just shows.. Am sure Lynn loved it.. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!!

Chris said...

Shut Up!!!! I am picking my mouth up off the floor. That looks better than a real cake and there's nothing on earth I like better than a slice of cake.
Great work of love.

Michelle said...

Hi Helen

Wow,this is amazing! You don't do things by halves do you!

Thank you for sharing with us at Make it Monday this week.

Michelle :o)

Ann Schach said...

Absolutely stunning, Helen! This is a masterpiece! Thanks for playing with The Paper Players!

Anne Marie Hile said...

Wow, Helen! This is absolutely gorgeous! Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Paper Players! :)