Hey everyone,

 

Can anyone please guide me as to how the stenciling on the fondant on this cake was done (Made by Wedding Cakes by Lisa Broughton?  Royal icing? Could it be done with lustre dust? Thanks!

Looks like RI to me.  Could also be buttercream.  Yep, you can use lustre dust with stencils - just place your stencil on the cake, gently rub/wipe a very small amount of shortening or crisco over the stencil onto the fondant and then use a big brush like a big make-up brush (new one, of course!) to dab the lustre dust on.

Sorry HajraK - I thought you meant using lustre dust instead of RI or buttercream.  If you want to paint over RI with lustre dust, it generally dries pretty quickly.  I'd leave it an hour or so (probably don't even need that long but that's just me - I like to make sure it's properly properly dry) and then touch it gently to make sure it's dry and then get painting.   :)

ALooks like the shapes have been cut using a cricut mini

There was a thread not that long ago almost the same thing, the designer used  textured mat but I don't remember if they used buttercream, ri or chocolate.  Gonna try to find it and post the link.

This is standard stenciling. I can see where the stencil was pulled up in the front piece, (top tier) and got a little smearing. Right above it, on the top of the top tier, you can see where the buttercream got behind the stencil, and made a little mess. Happens all the time.

 

Pink tier, far left, you an see where the spatula scraped the cake, and too much buttercream came off, and the pink fondant is showing.

 

If you just look, there are many, many imperfections from finger dents, the stencil not being held flat against the cake, buttercream going in behind it in one place, piling high in other places, being scraped too close in other places. I make these same imperfections in everyone of my stenciled cakes, I would see them a mile away.

Your good. I didn't see any of that.

AThis just goes to show we are our own worst critics, my mum and friends always say 'wow how did you do that, it is amazing!', and I generally reply with 'Well I think the writing is wonky/eyes are too googly/colours are not right" . I did not see most of the imperfections on this until they were pointed out!

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I have tried all sorts of ways to get the stencil to stay put, but growing an extra arm is the only way that I know would be foolproof! The absolute worst was when my husband "helped" me. He released the stencil too soon, and dragged freshly applied red buttercream across white buttercream, after the deadline had already passed! It was the 6 tier Martha Stewart with the princess stencil.... I hate that stencil!!

that was always my experience before I met my husband! I would do a cake and think,"Well, the icing really looks smooth, and my roses are beautiful, but my writing still needs work, and my flower arranging is off." And I'd ask him, and he'd say,"the top of the cake is higher here, there is a fingerprint here, the border is more spaced on this side, and closer together on that one, the writing looks pretty bad, and the roses are awkward, and it really needs to be smoothed better....but it's a nice cake." Lol! I needed it though! I thought I was ready to start my own business, and was still trying to beat Walmart prices!!

Wow! I did not see any "imperfections" but what would a novice like me know? :) Thanks for all of your suggestions/comments.

So is there a tutorial for stenciling? I started to try it once on my nephews wedding cake.  Was a pain so I resorted back to my own technique.