How Do I Make A Gumpaste Parchment Scroll...
Decorating By mami2sweeties Updated 6 May 2006 , 1:59pm by jo_ann
I am making a cake for a 31 year anniversary.
I saw over on the galleries some parchment scrolls. I thought maybe I could make one out of gumpaste. Then pipe writing on it with royal and paint the royal with gold luster dust.
Can I paint the letter with dry dust or does it always have to be wet?
What do you think about makin the scroll out of gumpaste? I would be relatively small maybe 6x6 size with just some rolling of the sides. I am guessing I would stick a dowel or something to hold it up and curled until it dries.
Any tips would be appreciated.
I googled images for graduation scrolls and when I found one I liked I printed it out and then cut out a stencil. I then used the stencil to cut out the gumpaste with a craft blade. Dried it using the undersides of a flower former on one end (so it would curl under) and a dowel (to curl up). I put parchment paper over the dowel, flower former & surface it was laying on since I find gumpaste loves to stick to surfaces while it's drying. I then handpainted with airbrush colors the names of the graduates. Luckily it was a small graduating class so I didn't spend forever on this part of the cake. HTH. 
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