I can finally announce that I have been working with Craftsy these past 4 months!!!
Can you believe it!!??
I can’t! I am among a GREAT family of incredibly talented and amazing people like Mike McCarey, Elisa Strauss, Joshua-John Russell, Marina Souza, Colete Peters, Lauren Kitchens, James Rosselle, Nicolas Lodge and more!! These people are LEGENDS!!! – UBBER famous…and now…they’re my Craftsy family!
Someone pinch me! :) I don’t deserve it!!!
SOOO, I am excited to tell you all that my class launches next week on Wednesday, February 27th!! – my daughter’s birthday!! How crazy is that!?
Now, the reason I’m telling you all this early is to ask a favor!
Craftsy gives instructors a little extra love when students buy the class directly from the instructor, so if you’re going to buy my Craftsy class, please come back here to my blog (Wednesday morning at the earliest) and I’ll have a link for you to use to head on over to Craftsy and sign up for the class. This helps them track how many people I steer to their site and to my class. Once you get there it’ll be business as usual…you’ll sign in, put the class in your shopping cart and buy it. You’ll be supporting me, my work, my heart to help you all out there in blog-land, this site, and, well, mama needs a new pair of boots!! ; ) Also, if you would be able to share the link for this class on your facebook pages or on your blogs (especially after you’ve taken the class and found it helpful), then please use my link (again found here on my site next week) and not the generic Craftsy link. It would just bless my heart to know you all can help me get the word out so that other cake makers know about it too!
Now…what are you going to see in this class!?!! – A TON!!! I’m going to be making marshmallow fondant and modeling chocolate the Jessicakes way! ;) I’m going to show you how to crumb coat a round cake with buttercream and a square cake with ganache using two different methods. I’m going to cover both cakes in MMF and show you how to get RAZOR sharp corners in no time! I’m going to show you how to create four different cakes using my wax paper transfer method. There are three ways to use the method and I explore all of them and show you step by step how to create simply beautiful cakes!! At the end I’ll show you how to make my signature flower, a sweet graphic bow and how to put it all together!! There are lots of recipes, 5 or 6 pages of templates and a list of all my favorite tools and gadgets!
It’s called “Clean and Simple Cake Design” and hopefully it’ll be a valuable resource for all of you!! – no matter your skill level, no matter how long you’ve been decorating cakes, I promise you’ll learn something new or your money back! I feel like this class is a perfect combination of everything this blog has been about for the last few years. I’m so excited to help, to teach and to share with everyone what has worked for me and how you can create beautiful cakes for your friends and family!!
Over the next few days I am going to share with all of you pictures of the cakes I create during the class, pictures of my time on set, stories of my adventures to Colorado and tales of trying to ship 16 tiers of cake from Oregon to Colorado!!! :)
I’m so excited to tell you my story! – so, stay tuned!!
Have a fabulous weekend!!
Oooooh I am so excited and so happy to hear this amazing news!!! xx
Great news Jessica!!!That’s awesome. But what happened to your other videos?
They’re gone! Sorry! When I signed on with Craftsy I had to take them down due to my contract and also to the fact that everything I did in my videos was done again for my Craftsy class. So, if there was something you want to see that you’ve been missing in my videos, it’ll be shown in the Craftsy class and will look a lot better! – I’ll have make up on…and it’ll be high-def! LOL!
ok… Can’t wait to purchase the class and see your amazing videos again. Thanks
Looking forward to purchasing your class.
Thats fantastic! I’ve taken a few Craftsy cake classes, I cant wait to take yours!
Sounds great!
Hooray!!! Congratulations to you! And you are so very wrong. You totally deserve it. Enjoy!
I just started reading your blog. wow good for you how exciting. Look at how God as blessed you.
By His grace for sure!! He is so good!
Do you know how much the class will cost?
No idea right now…but it’ll be less than $40!
I am beyond THRILLED to hear this! Craftsy found a GEM in you, Jessica! Can’t wait for the world to see and know what we, your blog friends, have known for a while now… You are supremely talented, your cake decorating skills are AMAZING, but most of all, you are a generous, ‘real’ and truly KIND person. It shows in all you do. Can’t wait to order your class!
Wow! Is my mom paying you for that comment?! LOL!!! You are soo sweet! Thank you for your kind words…they totally blessed my heart! I hope you like the video! I was SO nervous!!
I am SO excited! I love the Craftsy classes I’ve taken and I’m sure yours will be the best. I will definitely be taking it and leading any and all of my friends your way. You have such a heart for helping others and I’m glad to find a way to help you. :o) God’s love and blessings to You!!
Thank you sooo much!! God is good! I appreciate sweet blog friends like you! Thank you for your help in spreading the word! God bless you richly!
Congratulations!!
OUTSTANDING! So this the February “Tutorials” you were talking about when I couldn’t find one? I so will be taking the class. Congratulations!
YES! I’m sorry!! It’s been so hard to take things off my blog…but the video will be amazing and so worth it!!
So happy for you Jessica, no one deserves it more!
I’m so happy for you Jessica! I love your work, it’s so clean and beautiful. I have learn a lot from you and your wonderful videos, I’m really exited and can’t wait to sign up for your class, and of course I’ll use your link. Wish you the best, you deserve it!
I cant wait to buy your class i love craftsy and im sure yours will be even better cant wait.
Congrats Jessica!!
So excited to hear this news! I’ve learned so much from Craftsy and also through your blog. “Congratulations!” to you and an early “Happy Birthday!” to your daughter.
Can’t wait!
Omg, I can’t waitttt!!! counting the hours lol
Congratulations! Can’t wait to see it! Does it cover how to cover in buttercream/ ganache then fondant then the stripes?
Yes!
I was wondering how Craftsy could get any better and it just did! Can’t wait to watch your lessons and I know it will improve the quality of my work. Just shows that the cream will rise to the top! Congrats!
Jessica, CONGRATS!!!
I love Craftsy classes, and I love your blog more!!
Craftsy is lucky to have you as instructor, and all of us are lucky to be able to take your video lessons!! I can’t wait.:) I really need to learn how to cover square cake with fondant.
I was telling my friends that you are the most amazing cake decorator I’ve seen. Not only you are extremely talented, but you are truly generous and kind to share so much on your blog.
You are SO sweet! Thanks so much for your support!! I will be covering a square cake during the class, so let me know if you have any additional questions about it! Blessings!
I called it! Yay! I’m so excited for you and can’t wait for the class. I’m a Craftsy addict and was hoping that my intuition was right! You are amazing and totally deserve this!
LOL!! – you did! Nice work!
I love,love,love Craftsy! I so happy for you, congratulations. 3 John 1:2-Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Thank you for the blessing! My daughter’s name is Harper so I love your last name! God bless!
Hi Jessica, that is such exciting news!!! I’ll definitely be there on the 27th to purchase. Thank you so much for being so generous with your knowledge and sharing your talent. Congratulations on your well deserved success. Savannah x
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited for you, Jess!! Can I start name dropping now? Yes. Yes, I think I can… “My famous cousin Jess…” I like it!!! :0) Can’t wait to see the video, and especially the behind-the-scenes pics!! CONGRATS!!!!!
U are FABULOUS jessica…!!Thank god…I am buying one class for sure!!
oh my! such great news. I will sure to buy your class. Thank so much for taking the time to share your talent with us.
You deserve new boots and much more
God bless!
Exciting news! Can’t wait to buy the class!
I seriously feel like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting, waiting, waiting for Santa to come.
I cannot WAIT to purchase the class, and I REALLY cannot wait to bake my first post-Clean & Simple Cake Design cake!