Create A Camoflage Background

Decorating By loree001 Updated 27 May 2006 , 9:35pm by loree001

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loree001 Posted 26 May 2006 , 3:08am
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I love the cake by jf, it's the deer head mount...but I would LOVE to know how she created the background. Any ideas on how to acheive such a realistic 'camoflage' affect? I need to do a cake like this for tomorrow night...any help would be greatly appreciated!


her picture is in the album animals...it's really great!
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mmdd Posted 26 May 2006 , 3:17am
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That looks like paper or something...covered with contact paper???? But, I may be wrong. Did you pm cjf?

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fabfour Posted 26 May 2006 , 1:10pm
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When I had to do a camo cake for a groom's cake I used black, tan and moss green. I just made almost like puzzle pieces and smooth them with cornstarch. It's hard to explain, you can look in my photos, it's the one that is a 10 in round, deer hunter cake. ( I don't know how to post links)


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loree001 Posted 26 May 2006 , 3:01pm
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Thank you, I'm going to try your technique!

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mmdd Posted 26 May 2006 , 3:47pm
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thats what i did in my hunting cake, cakemommy...its in my photos

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azmomto3 Posted 26 May 2006 , 4:58pm
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I'm interested in this too! Those that did the puzzle piecing, how exactly did you do that? They fit so perfectly. How did you get them to fit like that?

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mmdd Posted 26 May 2006 , 5:15pm
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I used round tips. Piped an outline of what I wanted then filled it in. After it crusted a bit, I smoothed it out.

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fabfour Posted 26 May 2006 , 8:28pm
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Yeap, that's just how I did it!!

Missy

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loree001 Posted 27 May 2006 , 9:35pm
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Okay, tell you what I ended up doing...

I wanted a more muted camouflage background...so I used juniper green icing and iced the whole cake (12x1icon_cool.gif. Then I darkened some icing darker juniper, brown and tan. took some of each and just using a small spatula, smeared it all on top of the light juniper green randomly. Then I smoothed my icing with a paper towel, took some different shaped plastic/silk leaves from different arrangements in my house (stole one leaf of each variety), using those as a pattern 'press' and pressed the shapes randomly into the icing. Then I built the deer on top of that cake...I'm going to upload it now, so it will be in my photos...it got a rave review and I was proud of it, but I think I got his neck a little too big.

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