I am fairly new to decorating and need help!
I want to do this background on a cake for my son. I do not airbrush, which would probably be the way to go. Do you think the Wilton sprays would work? They only have one color of green....I thought maybe light, random sprayings of black under the green may help.
What do you think?
Thanks for your help!!
Deb
Supposedly the new batch of Wilton sprays no longer contain peppermint oil in the ingredients which caused the horrible mouthwash smell and taste. If you use them read the ingredients first..If it has no peppermint oil they are good to use now!!
Is it only the background you want?
I would edit the image; remove (erase) any unwanted part of the image; add background by repeating the background pixels; save it and then print it as an edible image.
works for me
ciao
Thanks to everyone!
I would love to do an edible image..but don't have access to one (maybe for Chrismas...eh??)
Thanks fo the heads up on the taste....I will definately read the label
before purchasing.
I really just want the background off this picture to put with another character from World of Warcraft which is an online game that my grown boys and DH are addicted to.
Any other ideas?!?!?
If your wanting an inexpensive air brush I believe some have purchased one from wal mart in the model car and paint section of the toy dept there is also an air compresion can you can get. Ask on this site to see if anyone has done this cost is about $20.
You can do a frozen buttercream transfer of the image you want-they are pretty simple-also you can outline the image with colored (lightly) piping gel and fill in the image after you transfer the paper to the cake-there are tutorials on them in the site-both are great alternatives-I do all 3-I have the printer (thanks Santa) but find I don't use it as much as I thought!
If I were trying to create that background, I would frost the cake putting different shades in different areas, then whe you run the spatula through it to smooth, the colors would blend.
If you you use crusting buttercream ( I have just a couple of times) You can let it crust and I would take some gel paste color and alcohol like Everclear (it evapoprates and they will not get drunk!) and sponge it on. You can go darker with the color or lighter by the quantity of gel past. Use a fine sponge with not hucge holes on it. You can get them at any good craft store. They have ones for clay pottery. They are like a buck. Small round ones that are deep yellow.
I used the spray to establish the cloud effect on this cake. I took a standard paper towel and just tore off some here and there. Then I placed it on the cake and sprayed a layer, moved the paper towel down, sprayed again, etc. If you took a paper towel and just randomly tore out a section of it here and there, you will get the shaded effect without having to use two different colors. Hope that helps ya!
By the way, I just checked a new can I purchased and there is no peppermint oil listed.
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