I love working with solids; the cake is brown, the flowers are pink, the topper is gold. That doesn’t mean the topper has to be a solid color.  Would you have guessed that four colors were used on this one?  The topper can be multi-tonal but the idea is to have it appear to be one color from far away by picking shades that are close to one another.  It’s still interesting — the closer you get the more dimension you start to see.

Font: Eileen, Colors: Lt Colorado Topaz, Gold Shadow, Lt Peach, Silk

Check out this shabby “cake corner”.  Doesn’t every cake deserve to be displayed in such a way? Spoken like a true cake connoisseur.

Font: Eileen, Colors: Crystal

There cannot be enough said about keeping colors simple.  Silk, Crystal, and Crystal AB is one of my all-time favorite combinations.  Less can easily be more when it comes to combining Swarovski crystals.

Close-Up Fonts: Amanda, Colors: Silk, Crystal, Crystal AB

Tres riche…

Every time I make a crystal cake topper with side coverage, the finished product blows me away…

Fonts: S (Eileen), KD (Danielle), SS (Vicki) Colors: Gold Shadow, Silk, Cream Pearl, Peridot (SS)

Love the splash of pink against the zebra print…

Font: Giselle, Colors: Ruby, Rose, Rose AB, Lt Rose

Magazine Clip

Thank you to LeLe Chan of LeSoirees for the picture!