Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — New Trends 2018

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TRENDS ALERT

1 Take two pipe cleaners and form

the lettering. Form the letters as

you would do as if you were writing

the word. Fix the places where

the pipe cleaners meet by twisting

them together. Feel free the fold

pipe cleaners back on themselves

to achieve the right look. Cut off

loose wire ends.

2 Cut two 7.5cm pieces of 18 gauge

green wire. Bind with brown fl oral

tape on the fi rst leg of the ‘N’ and the

last leg of the 'W’, then completely

cover all the exposed pipe cleaner.

Leave a piece of tape loose from the

curled ends of the letters and twist

this together to taper the end.

Work with small pieces, smooth the

tape with a bone tool to remove

ridges but still keep it branch-like.

3 Either hold the letters or place

the wires into a polystyrene

block. Take tiny amounts of green

sugarpaste. Dot edible glue on

the upper edges of the letters and

using a kemper tool, press and

drag the paste to give a mossy

effect. Let it dry a little then dust

with a little moss green petal dust

and green lustre. Dust the branches

slightly, just to highlight areas. 

4 Make a few daisies using the method

before but leave out the stem, just

attach a yellow centre to the petals.

Place a dot of edible glue where you

would like to place a fl ower on the moss

areas and carefully place it down.

Use the pointed end of a cel stick to

push it in place. Repeat the previous

steps to make the ‘&’ symbol and

‘Forever’. Add 18 gauge wire to the

long leg of the ‘&’ and the ‘F’, ‘e’ and ‘r’.

1 Make a paint with the copper

petal dust and a mixture of vodka

and/or rejuvenator fl uid. Make

it thick enough that it's not too

runny or see through, but so thick

that it's lumpy.

2 Paint the top of the base tier

and make brush strokes about half

way up and down on the two tiers

as shown. Do this with only a little

paint on the brush and with a very

light strokes so that the paint shows

brush marks.

WIRE WORD TOPPERS

ANGELA ROBERTS - JUNE 2017

METALLIC BRUSH STROKES

NATALIE PORTER - JULY 2017

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