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This is truly a beautiful cake. Love everything about it (quilting pattern, butterflies,color scheme)

Oh i love this!! I love the butterflies!! Please PM me and tell me how you did these! GREAT JOB!! I love love love the color!

Very nice! I can't wait to try Jen's recipe! Both of her videos are invaluable!! Is there a tutorial somewhere on these awesome butterfies? Were they much work?

CSM: absolutely fabulous! nothing to critique from me- I love this technique

you,ve done a gorgeous job on your cake and butterflies.. i have jennifers dvd's they are great.. i saw the butterflies at the convention.. they are beautiful

Thank you for all the kind comments!! I must say I'm really, really happy about the way this cake turned out. As to how I did the butterflies, it's kind of hard to explain but let me try: I took a class with Michaelle Stidham (awesome cake artist by the way) and she developed some veining sheets. We made a simple gelatin solution and painted it over the veining sheets, trimmed them and used piping gel and disco dust to decorate. Royal icing piped bodies. Hope that helps!

CSM: I love the butterflies and the color of them. I'm not to fond of how they are placed on the cake. The quilting is perfect. Finish off the cake board with a matching color ribbon and you you're done!

CSM: I love the butterflies and the color of them. I'm not to fond of how they are placed on the cake. The quilting is perfect. Finish off the cake board with a matching color ribbon and viola!!!

everytime I see a pretty cake, the next day, I see a prettier one! I absolutely adore the butterflies....the color! the shape! the shine! omg, i love it so much. If you would be so kind, can you please tell me how to make the butterflies? Fabulous job!

Absolutely gorgeous - love the colour! Could you please share the recipe for the gelatin solution?

Wow Bob!! This is some fantastic work!! I adore your butterflies!

beautiful, and simply classy!

I put a front view of the cake on my www -- it's not quite as cluttered with butterflies as the back is. It was a little too blurry to post on CC, which is why I posted this pix instead. Instructions for how I did the butterflies are in the comments under this picture.

CSM: Great job! The quilting is perfect and I really love your gelatin butterflies (the colours is lovely too) but I have to agree with cakemommy about the board (I think a white board (maybe fondant covered) with a ribbon to match the butterflies would have just topped it off beautifully. My first thought when I saw this was that perhaps there are too many butterflies but it could be as mentioned and it could be the placement. Overall you did a fantastic job! Excellent butterflies and excellent ...

job on the quilting!

Awesome butterflies.I love the gilltter in them.

Hi BWB! WOWZA!!! Gorgeous cake!!!! You asked if I had any comments for improvement...... it's perfect!!!!!!!! Jen

Beautiful cake. The butterflies are wonderful as is your cake work. Personally, I think the silver cake board goes well with the blue.

CSM: very pretty cake! I love butterflies, and I especially love the color you used for them. For me I think there are just too many of them, or maybe there doesn't seem to be a delicate flow of positioning? overall this is a very beautiful cake!

The butterflies are so cool! They're wireless, right? - Theresa

This is so delecate and fragile looking! Soooo pretty!!!!

I love the butterflies!

Amazing!!!!. can you share the wh. choc. fondant recipe. cecerika@cox.net

Definate eye-catcher!!!!!!

Thanks everyone!! Yes, the butterflies are wireless. The only wires on them are the antenaes which are inserted into a Royal Icing body. As for Jen's white chocolate fondant recipe, you can find that on her DVD (as well as the quilter and the quilting wheel) at www.jenniferdontz.com.

this is a wonderful cake. The butterflies are stunning!!!

Cindy they are spectacular!!!! I'm so envious of the classes you can take. Butterflies are my trademark. I have to try some.

CSM: The butterflies and quilting are awesome! I love the color of your Bflies....they look like glass. Other than agreeing with the others about the cake board, I have no critiques. Awesome!

i love this bitterflies they are so beautiful!!

Hi everyone, y'all are far too generous in your comments! I've had sooo many requests on how to do the butterflies that I'll just say I've spoken with those I learned from and the best way to get information on them is to contact Diane Simmons at www.cakeconnection.com for more information. Thanks for understanding!

Can you tell Teal is one of my favorite colors?

Your cake is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I love the butterflies

BEAUTIFUL cake! I'll bet we were in the same class.

I would also like the recipe for the gelatin butterflies. Apparently they're a stiffer consistancy than the wigglers. Please tell us all about it. Your cake is so lovely and that method can make many a lovely cakes. And, the quilting technique looks great with the flutterbies.

Csm:: Wow, I love these butterflies. I am always doing butterflies and would love to try this technique!! Excellent execution! I do agree on the finishing of the cake board, but overall this is a gorgeous cake!!!

For everyone who has inquired (and who will inquire) about how I did the butterflies, here is a link where you can get more info on them: (...)

Sorry the link isn't coming through. PM me for a more specific link on the gelatin butterflies. Thanks!

CSM: Great job on the butterflies! I wanted to take that class at MACS! No critique from me!

CSM: Wow! Those are so beautiful! I love the quilting!

what a beautiful job! I would love to know how you made the butterflies

I love the cake, I would love it if you would email me (kellie_anne79@hotmail.com) the recipe for the butterflies and ins. on how to make them.

How did you do the butterflies?

CSM: Very pretty! I love the colors. Great job!

I love the cake, I would love it if you would email me (mreyes@helvetia-pr.com) the recipe for the butterflies and instructions. Thanks a lot

Simply stunning!

this cake is beautiful! I love your butterflies

I just keep staring at this cake, going "oooh, ooh, how pretty"

Speechless.

How do you do these Butterflies! They are so Beautiful! Please PM with instructions....PLEASE?

I love this cake you are an artist too, you should go ahead with your painting plnas

this is just stunning!!!! wow what talent you have!

I love all the butterflies, and think they are very naturally placed, not too many! I took the class and bought the butterfly mold, and Jen's DVD's, -I love them all!!

how did you get that sparkling color?

I used disco dust on the edges for the shimmer. Lustre dust does not work, it smudges and makes life miserable, but the disco dust works wonders and looks awesome!

OH My GOSH!!! This is great! Love the colors.

Could you share how you made your butterflies, I love them.

I LOVE this!! Your butterflies are perfection!!

WOW! Those butterflies are amazing! Is there some sparkle on the edges, or is is simply the way the gelatin sets?

I guess to make these kind of butterflies wouldn't be possible to do here where I live... They look amazing... Wonderful job! (I don't envy you at all )

Absolutely wonderful cake. Butterflies are fantastic.

INCREDIBLE! What simple beauty!