Help Needed!! With Coloring Mmf!
Decorating By pastrygirl33 Updated 4 Oct 2007 , 5:17pm by woodthi32
I would like a beautiful deep purple but the only colors I have are Brown, red, blue and yellow could I get a really perfect deep purple with those. If so how? Please help it's a last minute cake and I don't have the time to go out to buy more colors..!!! darn it!again this is for coloring mmf Thanks
I think if you started with the red and added blue to the MM when they are melted you could get a purple, adding more blue for a deeper color and more red if you wanted a more pinky color.
HTH,
I always add the color to my MMF after the marshmallows are melted and before the ps is added. This save sooo much time and I seem to have a really hard time with my mmf crumbling if I add the color after I have made it. I agree with ValMommytoDanny she has the right idea to get the color you need...
Thanks that's sounds smart but I've already made the mmf I need to color it afterwards cause I don't need the whole thing purple, so I thought I'd do it later do you think I'll have problems with it?
I have done this, but it takes lots of grease and effort and kneading.
To keep the MMF from drying out, you need to grease up your hands again and the MMF you are using. I use a toothpick, and do just that, add the blue first, and knead like crazy. I prefer to put toothpick color in the MMF then fold it over so i don't touch the color. Use GLOVESS! or your gonna have colored hands. But the shortening helps with staving off major stains if you don't. Use blue more than the red. I got a deep purple color doing that on my teapot cake, the bottom layer almost looks blue in my photos though. LOL
Okay, so perhaps this is a little bit off topic, but I have had some trouble with coloring MMF lately, too, in that it does not want to "hold" the color. Last weekend I made a beautiful lavender, but within a few hours, it had turned to a silvery-grayish shade ... what did I do wrong? And how can I get my MMF to keep its color once I've colored it??
Odessa
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To the poster that remarked on fading lavender....yes, red fades out of it, leaving blue................have NO idea why!
Thank you, but I've also had trouble with greens and yellows, too. Do you have any secrets for how to make the colors stay put???
Thanks for any help,
Odessa
I don't have any secrets
I think it is because I have such poor time management skills that I am always doing it at the last minute! Nothing has time to fade!
Do you decorate in bright light or sunlight????? That will DEFINITELY fade all colors..........
I don't have any secrets
I think it is because I have such poor time management skills that I am always doing it at the last minute! Nothing has time to fade!Do you decorate in bright light or sunlight????? That will DEFINITELY fade all colors..........
No, just the lights in my dining room, which aren't all that wonderful to begin with lol! And when I store the leftover MMF that has been colored, it's in a box, wrapped really well in a couple layers of plastic wrap, so no sunlight there, either.
I don't mind coloring and decorating at the last moment (it's usually the way my days go anyway, too!), but when I have leftovers and I think "oh, I already have that color, I'm sure I've got enough of it", it is so very disappointing to have to add more color to make it work again. Nothing like a time waster!
I suppose if I had an airbrush I could just apply the color that way, but I'm not in the market for any more new toys ... hubby says I have enough to work with now as it is ... what a killjoy!
Thanks for the help anyway!
Odessa
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