I am posting a photo of my fondant figures and the picture from the woman's nursery decoration. I am not completely done with one of the bugs, but I thought I would go ahead and post. I chose to go with an emerald luster instead of the blue since she is having a girl... please let me know how these look, these are my 1st and I am so scared! I think I am only going to use the one bug that has the little hat looking thing on him, and maybe doing a fondant blanket to lay him on. I haven't figured out how/if I am going to do the wings... any suggestions.
I love the one on the bottom...It's adorable!
does it look close enough to the image posted? I don't want to ruin this for her... this shower is for over 100 guests!
Those are soooo cute! She's gonna love them.
I don't know anything about this, but could you use rice paper for the wings? I know I've seen some fairly delicate butterflies on this site, and I think they used some sort of special paper. Something like that might work.
You could either do rice paper for the wings, like other people suggested, or maybe you could do some filigree-work with royal icing and let it harden (on a sheet of wax paper or a baking mat or something) then pull it off and use it as wings.
You could also try to make thin "candy glass". I used to make it with my mother when I was little for edible stained glass windows ^_^ We'd use hard, clear candies (jolly ranchers for instance), and melt it down into an old pot. Then you just spread it thin on a baking sheet covered with tin foil and let it cool until just warm but not cold (not a ton of time to work here). Then usually we'd use cookie cutters and knives to cut out the pieces we want, set them out separately, and let them dry fully until hard. You can pipe on the candy too, I reccomend royal icing for it personally. An outline and maybe a design could be pretty. Combining different numbers of candy makes different colors of "glass" too. It's transparent and pretty, and also quite edible!
Dunno if that helps or not.
what about free pouring white chocolate melts?
CUTE! I like both of your bugs a lot!
Just today I was reading SOMEWHERE about how to make fondant wings and believe me they are adorable! Here is how they did it.........using an appropriate sized heart shaped cutter--cut one heart out of 1/8" thick fondant. Cut the heart in half. With an exacto knife or equivilent, make small slits along the outer edge of each heart half. The closer the slits are together the more frilly and feathered the wings look. Attach "wings" with RI glue.
They are adorable!!! Hope I explained it well enough but if I didn't let me know which part needs better explaination and I'll try to do it better.
Lea
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