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Art of Sugar: Christmas Flowers & Decorations
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Learn how to make a variety of Christmas themed sugar flowers and decoration from start to finish. You will create a beautiful Christmas rose spray, surrounded with foliage, nuts berries and cones and traditional yule greenery such as holly and ivy, and for that splash of colour learn how to make a beautiful poinsettia flower, a wonderful decorative centre piece for any seasonal display.

You will be shown how to prepare sugar paste, roll and cut flowers, soften and vein them, colour and set them, wire and tape them into a beautiful display and lots of tips and tricks to create ‘real’ looking flowers. You will also use specialist tools cutters and moulds, and learn how to dry and store your work so that it can last for years and be used over and over again.
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Skills/Techniques Covered
  • Working with flower paste
  • Creating flowers, buds, berries and leaves, softening, veining and colouring
  • Creating wired flowers
  • Using colours, gel, powders and lustres
  • Finishing and setting flowers
  • Arranging and taping flowers and leaves to create sprays or arrangements.
  • Learning how to use specialist tools, cutters and moulds

Level
This course is designed for a range of abilities from beginners to Improvers

​Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10 - £15, payable to the tutor during the course.

Your tutor may not have the facilities to take card payments in the workshops. Please remember to bring cash or your cheque book

Please Bring With You​
If anyone has any tools, cutters or molds or mats they would like to bring along and use or test out then please feel free, but all essential equipment will be provided.
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We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.


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