I need help with wood texture plsssssssss

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Permalink Reply by Linda Wolff on January 25, 2012 at 3:20pm

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

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Permalink Reply by Ana L Duncan on January 25, 2012 at 3:29pm

OMG!!!! That looks so awesome!!!!  It really looks like hardwood floors.  It looks so real!!!!  Thank you so much!!!! That is an awesome technique!!

Thanks

Ana

Linda Wolff said:

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

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Permalink Reply by Ana L Duncan on January 25, 2012 at 3:33pm

Linda

How about leather texture?  Any ideas for that?  Please?

Thanks

Ana

Ana L Duncan said:

OMG!!!! That looks so awesome!!!!  It really looks like hardwood floors.  It looks so real!!!!  Thank you so much!!!! That is an awesome technique!!

Thanks

Ana

Linda Wolff said:

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

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Permalink Reply by Linda Wolff on January 25, 2012 at 4:04pm

Well, since my husband makes leather purses and belts and stuff like that, I have used a piece of his scraps to use as a texture mat to roll fondant or gum paste on. You could also go to a fabric store and look in the upholstery section where they have fake leather for chairs or sofas and purchase a 1/2 yard to a yard and use that as your texture mat. Roll out the fondant or gum paste right onto the textured part of the fabric and you should have exactly what you are looking for. upholstery fabric is pretty heavy duty so it should work great. =O)

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Permalink Reply by Ana L Duncan on January 25, 2012 at 4:30pm

Awesome!!!!! thank you so much Linda.  You have been an awesome help!!

Thank you dearly!!!

Ana

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on January 26, 2012 at 1:16pm

I made a cake with edible images on it and then created fondant 'wood' frames.  I found a plastic wood-grain texture mat at Michaels that was in the caking aisle & mfg by the Duff line.  Not sure if that will help you.

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