How To Make A Clothespin Cake Topper

With a bit of paint, glitter, and lace, clothespins become an adorable bride and groom. Plain wooden clothespins just waiting to be transformed. Use a pencil to draw the outline of your design onto your clothespins. Use a light touch at first so you can erase stray lines. With a bit of paint, glitter, and lace, clothespins become an adorable bride and groom. I have been looking at many a bridal magazine in preparation for my friend Jen's upcoming wedding, and the one thing I'm starting to learn is, boy, is everything expensive. Even the cake toppers! If you want something unique and individual, you'd best be prepared pay. Once you have your pins, it's time to figure out your design. Use the bride and groom as inspiration for your cake topper. Once you've settled on a design you like, it's time to paint. I used paints I already had on hand, but you can get craft paints for 99 cents a bottle. Have fun with your colors! If you don't have the right shade, mix colors until you've reached it. You can also layer colors to give your painting extra depth. This is especially nice on the hair. I used lace for the bride's skirt, but if your bride's dress is all satin, feel free to use ribbon. Alter the technique in any way to make the dress more like your bride-to-be.

Just want to make sure everything is covered. And each time I lift up my spatula, it’s a good idea to scrape it off. That way, you’ll get cleaner lines. LAURIE: I notice you also have hot water there that you keep dipping your spatula in. LIV: Mmhmm. Yep. You can dip your spatula in, just make sure you dry it off. The hot water will melt the frosting. LAURIE: So while you’re spreading, I notice you put a lot on but then you’re scraping it off. LIV: Exactly. It gives you a little bit more leeway so that you don’t actually hit the cake and the crumb coat while you’re frosting it. And if you want this cake to be bigger, if you want it to serve more people, you can always layer two cakes on top of each other. LAURIE: Great idea. Would you have to cut the layers together so that the pieces are, fit exactly on top,

LIV: Yeah, what I would do, is I would actually take one cake, put a little frosting on it, spread it evenly, and then place the other cake on top, and then cut out the shape you want. LAURIE: So it's stuck together. LAURIE: You do the sides first, and then you smooth out the top. LIV: And then I do the sides. And that creates this little lip of frosting here. And then I can just slice it off, get a nice, smooth finish. So it looks like we’re about ready to do some more decorating on it. And this is the part you’re going to help me with. LIV: Okay. So, we move this out of the way. Now you’ll see here that we have some pastry cones. LAURIE: Mmhmm, me too. LIV: And we’ve actually pre-tinted some frosting. I have a green, a yellow, and a pink.

LAURIE: Just basic food coloring. LIV: Basic food coloring, yep. You can get these at the grocery store. Now, what I’m going to do, is we’re going to create the pattern on the butterfly. I’m going to squeeze some frosting, and then I’m going to take my spatula, heat it up in this hot water, and then I’m going to take it, and I’m going to just spread it towards the center. Now, I’ll help you do it. I’ll put some pink on here, and then why don’t you get your spatula and put it in the hot water. LIV: And you can help me spread this. LIV: Yes. Just push down and spread - great. So we’re going to do a yellow also. LIV: So you can clean off your spatula. LIV: A little team work here, we’ll get this done fast. Great. If you wanted it to trail down, and to make like a more of like a pointed shape, you could bring it down. And also, as the icing gets thinned out, it gets a little of transparent.