Any Ideas For This Shoe Box Would Help Greatly!!!
Decorating By Alice1230 Updated 12 May 2009 , 7:24pm by loriana
Husband want shoe box of a very expensive shoe....doesn't care which...for his wife. NO fondant and NO shoe....just the box. I wanted to do the shoe with tissue hanging out the box 
Any ideas for what else I could add to it to jazz it up. Its also supposed t say happy birthday on it. I looked up what a manolo box looked like and its plain white...are there any others that are colored? Please help!!!!!!
There are several in the galleries. Here's a link so you can look at them http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&meta=search&type=full&search=shoe+box&album=-&search_user=
So he wants a buttercream cake that will magically look like a shoe box? 
Crazy right!?!?!? He said absolutely no fondant was to touch the cake. My thoughts are how do I get this thing to look like a shoe box. I think it will turn out boring.
I thought about rolled buttercream...I just don't know how he will react to it.
Hmm...he sounds crazy a bit, not the cake. He's probably had bad-tasting fondant (aka - Wilton). Maybe you could get him to change his mind my giving him a taste of your fondant?
If not, maybe you could use Wilton's Cake Decorating book (the book with the taupe background and cake, covered in Wilton roses) on the front to take a look at different tips out there.
There are some larger size straight basket-weave type tips. If you use one of those, without lines, to make the box lid, that might look nice. You could take a sheet of thin plastic, an exacto-knife and trace a pretty scrolling pattern, or even the wording to a high-end designer and airbrush it onto the sides of the "lid". You could write happy birthday, etc.. on the cake board base instead.
Try googling "designer shoes" and get some names of designers. Wish I could help you there... I wear $30 sketchers most of the time!!
Once you have the name of some designers, do a google image search for that name. Im sure you will eventually find a shoe box.
Print out a good picture and use it to work from. Hope this helps a tiny bit and good luck with it!!
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