PARTYCrashersEASTER 2013

M a g a z i n e

ALL THE INSPIRATION YOU NEED TO MAKE EASTER SUPER SPECIAL!

20Super Easy Easter craft ideas

chocolate & high heels?

we give you the low down!

Chocolate & CaramelMartini

Meet the artistic cake designer

behind our cover image!

Easter Pops &

Printables

COVER IMAGE: PAMELA McCAFFREY ©

PINTEREST

E A S T E RINSPIRATION ON

This issues’ magnificent

Easter Egg cake creation

cover image comes to us

courtesy of Pamela Mc-

Caffrey - from Hampshire,

England. Her blog will treat

the reader to an enticing

array of the most exqui-

site cake art we have ever

seen. Pamela’s intricate

attention to detail, coupled

with her obvious talent for

Our Easter issue is packed full of sweet treats for you!

creating stylish, breathtaking de-

signs and combined with some

seriously captivating photogra-

phy - makes for some stunning

cake imagery. Pamela also has

a flickr site - and again, this ac-

complished cake artist treats the

reader to yet more stunning and

brilliant design. We hope to fea-

ture more of Pamela’s creations

in subsequent issues so watch

out for her wonderful work! We

got to interview Pamela for this

issue!

Cover Photo Credit http://madewithlovebyme.wordpress.com

Pamela McCaffrey ©Image Copyright. All rights reserved 2013

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about our cover

Hiya!

It seems as if Christmas was

just a few weeks ago – and

here we are - Easter 2013.

Have you thought about how

you might spend this Easter

weekend? With friends, fam-

ily, hang out with the kids,

‘chillax’ a little? Well we hope

you grab a cuppa and spend

a quick break checking out

the Easter treats and good-

ies we have especially for

you in this issue.

If you’re thinking of having an

Easter get-together, a bun-

ting easily creates a warm

and inviting party atmo-

sphere to any room. The kids

and I are going to use the

free Easter bunting featured

in this issue as part of our

Easter breakfast decorations

– so don’t forget to check it

out and get crafting!

Has chocolate been near

the upper part of your minds

during Easter?? Or are you

keen on chocolate anyway?

Well, we feature 2 amazing

chocolatiers who have com-

bined the fine art of choco-

late-making with fashion – of

the high-heeled shoe kind!

If the kids need a bit of varia-

tion from chocolate Easter

eggs you can’t really go

wrong with lollipops – deco-

rated with the beautiful Eas-

ter printables – inspired by a

blogger who is totally about

‘all things pretty’.

And finally, last and definitely

not least – the magnificent

creator of that gorgeous Eas-

ter egg cake which features

on our cover. Read about

what inspires Pamela, visit

her flickr page and read all

about how she started her

amazing craft, plus some tips

on how to get started on your

own venture - if you should

be so inclined!

Chocolate, party inspiration,

sweet martinis, Easter craft,

Easter baking – we’ve got it

all covered for you right here!

Have a wonderful and safe

Easter and we hope to see

you soon.

Take care, much love

Love always, Lady K

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from the editor’s desk

Cassadiva

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The tagline over at Cassandra’s blog is suitably summed up as “Keeping house with spunk, style & spirit”

The “Cassadiva” inspires with beau-tiful ideas whether it be for special occasions, craft ideas, inspiration for the kitchen, garden, table, pretty much anywhere in your home or even the outdoors.

Visitors to the Cassadiva blog will find a beautiful blog filled with awe-inspiring ideas that are not only easy on the budget, but a culmination of ‘all things pretty’, yet stylish inspiration that is realistic to achieve and relatively simple to implement.

The ideas are simple yet effective.

The ‘beauty of the blog’ lies in its enlightening, open, humourous and earnest tone. Cassandra quickly brings back home the beauty and fun of home-keeping and impor-tance of family, love and good times together – something that can sometimes be lost amongst our busy lives as we juggle families, friends, jobs and fast-paced lives.

Any reader will FALL IN LOVE with this blog. One can’t help but get excited about the gorgeous

study, nursery, simple craft ideas – even kitchen drawers!

The amount of ‘prettiness’ added to just about everything will have most of us falling over with envy and a definite convinction from us (the faithful reader) that we will do just the same – as soon as we get around to it!

Cassadiva makes everything about home life fun again. Special occa-sions, birthdays, Christmas, baby showers, Father’s Day, decorating, jewellery, makeup, recipes, shop-ping, Mother’s Day, travel, scrap-booking – it’s all here. And what’s more – all the great inspirational Easter ideas, have been collected into one brilliant post –and we were so taken by her wonderful work, that we have featured one of the craft ideas – just over the page. So, be inspired. Be excited.

We don’t want to spoil the surprise. We want you to go and visit her blog. Like her Facebook page. Try out some of the wonderful ideas. Enjoy!

Images: Courtesy Cassadiva blog.

Image Copyright. All rights reserved 2013

EASY EASTER SWEETSFROM THE BLOG OF CASSADIVA

These gorgeous Easter Egg lollipops are made from free printables (HERE) and Allens lollipops

The lollipops were decorated using Allens lolllipops and cupcake toppers using a 2 inch scalloped punch

Simply fold over the excess wrapper and stuck it down with sticky tape.

This ‘tidies’ up the lollipop and ready to be covered by the cupcake topper

Then simply stick the cupcake topper to the front of the lollipop

stand these in a basket, stuck into floral foam or use as part of a display for an Easter table!

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easter ceiling decoration | pinkfrosting.com.au

bunny rabbit die cuts, Etsy.com

vintage glamour star sneakers

lilac chiffon infant dress

easter bunny headband, Etsy.com

Rose Cake Pops Photo Credit http://madewithlovebyme.wordpress.com

Pamela McCaffrey ©Image Copyright. All rights reserved 2013

EASTER EGGT h a t

CAKEPamela McCaffrey is our undisputed,

talented cake designer whose work is fea-

tured on our cover - yes the gorgeous Eas-

ter Egg cake is her own creation. Party

Style talks to Pamela about what inspires

her and some tips for those wanting to get

started!

PARTYCRASHERS: How did you begin?

PAMELA: Like a lot of people I started by making birthday and Christmas cakes for my family and friends. My son sugessted that I could put them on flickr and a blog and that started a new interest for me and I really got hooked.

PARTYCRASHERS: What inspires your creations?

PAMELA: I get inspiration from everything around me, my garden, fashion and even paintings and of course seeing all the wonderful cakes out there, although I try not to copy others.

PARTYCRASHERS: Your Easter Egg cake has been favourite by 135 people on Flickr. You must be pretty pleased with the attention!

PAMELA: I am delighted that my cakes are liked by others and always

surprised and flattered by the lovely comments that I receive. PARTYCRASHERS: What tips would you have for someone who would like to pursue their interest in the art of cake design?

PAMELA: I am completely self taught and if someone has an interest in cake decorating I would say just have a lot of patience and try to look at as many good decorating books and videos as possible. Essentially, just try, if at first you don’t suceed then try again!

PARTYCRASHERS: In your blog you mention your creations are for family and friends.Are there any favourite themes, flavours or types of cake people want?

PAMELA: Most people love choco-late cake and lots of flowers.

PARTYCRASHERS: What part of

cake design do you enjoy the most?

PAMELA: I just love the whole con-cept of thinking of an idea and seeing it work in practice.

PARTYCRASHERS: Is there any-thing else you would like to share?

PAMELA: I would just like to say how much I appreciate all the lovely people who have supported me and given me encouragement since I joined flickr. So much has happened since then and so many new doors have opened for me and I am loving my new path.

Thank you again for your interest.

Best wishes

Pamela x

In case you were wondering, the cake was dark chocolate fudge cake with coconut buttercream coated with dark chocolate ganache and finished with pink sugarpaste and fondant flowers. The Rose Cake Pops (above) from Pamela’s flickr page were cleverly made from the offcuts from shaping the Easter Egg Cake (that’s it in the background) Pamela combined the cake with left over ganache and the petals are leftover sugarpaste! Genius!

Folded Bunny

Napkin

Martha Stewart| Now we have seen it all. Imagine treating your guests to serviettes created in the shape of a bunny rabbit! Novel!

Easter Pikelets

ZiggityZoom | Get your easter molds and place the batter into them in a heated pan. Cook ‘em up an Easter shaped pikelet or pancake! Add food colour to the batter for that Easter vibe!

Polka Dot

Balloons

Polka Dot Balloons| Pastel coloured polka dot balloons add that Easter touch. If they are hard to find or a expensive - use sticky paper dots!

Decorated Egg

Weights

Martha Stewart | If you’re planning an Easter breakfast outside, these will be stunning way to ensure your table-cloth doesn’t blow away!

Baby Chicken

Cake

Kraft Recipes | If 95 minutes prepara-tion time can be defined as ‘quick’ - be our guest! What we love is there are images of readers attempts!

Flower Easter

Cups

Better Home & Gardens | Place mini cupcake wrappers into normal sized cupcake wrappers and fill with smart-ies, pebbles or M&Ms.

Yellow Daisy

Candleholders

Better Home & Gardens | A really easy, effective and fun tablesetting idea us-ing votives, candles, marguerite daisy and a rubber band!

Jellybean Topiary

Tree

Crafty Sisters | To create an Easter-inspired table setting or centrepiece, create a topiary tree filled with pastel coloured jellybeans. Stunning.

Easter Egg

Bling

LovelyIndeed.com | Attach rhinestone onto eggs for a bit of egg-stra sparkle with hot glue. For details visit lovelyindeed.

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EASTER IDEAS

From our research it looks like you would need chocolate (!!), a plastic chocolate heel mould

(we found some great ones at cho-comold and thefoamstudio, plus they deliver worldwide!).

Next up would be an inspiring YouTube video – we quite liked the Sweet Designs video.

The chocolatier covers the plastic mold, adds the cute little polka dots and swiftly creates a gor-geous high-street design.

Closer to home, we found some cute little plastic heel molds at Kiwicakes!

But what about those of us that can’t hunt down that platform-shoe creating chocolatier? What

does one actually need to create this in the privacy of ones home?

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Easter. The spotlight’s on all things chocolate (like we need an ex-cuse!).

Picture this. The culmination of your desired Jami Shoos (Jimmy Choos?) paired up in delectable sweetness and represented as your favourite “gâterie chocola-tée”. That is precisely what choco-latier Peter Brooke have created.

They can ‘custom-make’ any pair of shoes you desire – select any colour or style. But that’s not all, a certain percentage of sales from their limited edition pink high-heeled range (2) was donated in support of Breast Cancer Aware-ness. We think social-entrepre-neurship of this type is commend-able! We love their products and Facebook page.

On their website, CocoAndré describes themselves as special-ists in “European Style Truffles and

custom chocolate molds for every occasion and corporate event.”

Andrea, the woman behind the flourishing family-owned busi-ness, provides sweet chocolate memoirs amid a defini-tive reminder to us of the true art form that is, handmade chocolate. More details on her designer-in-spired chocolate heels (1) can be found on her blog.

Sweet Designs Chocolatier (3) have a superb range of products and they also have an online store.

These chocolatiers share an amaz-ing history with and passion for chocolate. We hope you enjoy these images and do click on the image links to go straight to their websites.

c h o c o l a t e a n d h i g h h e e l sA chocolatier? Purveyor of all things chocolate? An inspiring profession!

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All Things Bunting

Buntings are a quick, easy and effective way to decorate any space in the home or even out-doors. They can automatically create that party feel in the room and is synonymous with cel-ebrating!

Paper or fabric, they can brighten up just about any party space. The pattern, colour and theme can easily be adjusted to suit your party colour or theme.

Hang them anywhere. Between light fixtures, above a mantelpiece, across a larger doorway frame. If they are going to be outdoors then place them between the branches of a tree or along a wooden fence. They can be used to create a fo-cal point and ‘balance’ in the main party area.

FREE

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Head on over the page to see where you can request a free Easter Bunting for your Easter celebrations!

Ruby & Rose Interiors ©Image Copyright. All rights reserved For Personal Use. Not for resale or

redistribution.

This gorgeous Easter bunting comes to us

courtesy of Ruby & Rose Interiors.

Details of how to make the bunting and access the bunting file can be found here.

Ruby & Rose Interiors also have a Facebook and Pinterest page.

WHAT BETTER WAY TO CRACK INTO THE EASTER SPIRIT WITH A CHOCOLATE MARTINI??

CARAMEL CADBuRY EGG MARTINI

BAILEYS IRISH CREAM

CREAM

HERSHEYS CHOCOLATE &

CARAMEL SYRuP

CREME DE CACAOFull Recipe here (via SheKnows.com)

Available at Countdown and The Warehouse

Adult Drink for Easter!

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CUPCAKE CORnER

EASTER-INSPIRED CuPCAKES

This issue we have put together a stunning array of gorgeous

Easter-inspired cupcakes - our regular feature.

visit the talented bakers. We hope you enjoy their creations.

Image via: Tribes

EARS & FEETHow about some ears, feet and flowers for Easter inspiration from Sweets2Share.com!

CHOC AND CHICKSThese Easter cupcakes has a chocolate surprise in store. Visit the blog

EASTER PRINTABLERecreate this delectable cupcake with the free printables found on Skip To My Lou!

EGGY SHAPESDecorate and sprinkle these cute egg-shaped cupcakes with sprinkles and icing. Image via Ingrid Cakes.

RABBITS ON GRASSThere are stunning images on this blog via the Tidy Mom!

PINK SuRPRISEPolka dots always make such an impres-sion. Love. Love. Love.

EASTER BuNNIESThese bunny cupcakes are simply too sweet. The recipe and instructions can be found over at Paris Loves Pastry.

BASKETS & RABBITSTake a class and learn how to create baskets, eggs and rabbits. Sitting atop a tasty cupcake, here

BASKET OF GOODNESSThese clever little baskets are effective, colourful and we bet they taste good, via good to Know

Easter Cupcake Gallery

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