Hello, fellow CCers! I'm just curious where you all get your creative genius from? I have seen some beautiful, creative, funky, cool cakes, cupcakes, chocolate and cookies (you name it, we seem to have it) and was wondering where you found the designs and color combos at, if you came up with them on your own, if something inspired you (other then the client), or if it was something entirely different? Thanks!

Everything inspires me. I carry my camera around for that very reason. I've already photographed patio furniture, which I then used as a side design on a birthday cake I did for one of my gal pals.

When I go to New York I look like a tourist, snapping photos here and there. A few weeks ago, riding the bus home, I snapped a photo of a rubber stamp pattern (the person next to me is a stamper, looking at a magazine), because I thought it would make a great sheet cake.

You never know when inspiration is going to hit you, so grab your digital and get out there!

Theresa

Greeting cards - there are lots of magazines on the mkt for creating your own.....lots of inspiration.
Other cakes posted
Books........use the library. Even some of the old books can be made more 'modern' w/a change of color or combining different elements from this card, that wrapping paper, a piece of fabric, a pic in a book.
The internet!...... There are all kinds of pix....cakes, fabric, color pages, other crafts, etc, etc that can suggest an idea, color combo or other help.

I love using CC if theres a particular idea in mind i search that colour scheeme, i also use alot of google and flickr or sometimes , like others, i see pictures in magazines, it might just be a cute toy , and i think' Wow that would look great in fondant and on a cake!' lol

I usually just look around to find my inspiration. WHatever I see as cool or funky, usually gets transformed into my cakes or paintings.

I saw a sign at our church that had a Christmas ornament hanging from a ribbon and had an idea for cake based on that! Anything is possible with an imagination that is free to create.

I just made a cake based on the invitation I designed. Toys are a big inspiration too as are looking at lots of different cakes and taking what I like from each of them. I'm still learning so they still look better in my head than they do in real life - working with fondant is a lot harder than it looks!!!

I am inspired by anything and everything. I am always on the look out for something I can make either into a cake or make a decoration for a cake
for example yesterday I bought a little plastic flower suction hook because I thought it would make a nice decoration.
My Harry Potter chess set was inspired by the board game my son had been given.
I have a toy car and my neighbour has an old ceramic boot flower pot and I will make both as cakes eventually.


BTW I started out with fondant 20 odd years ago and I find it much easier that butter cream