Monday, 10 December 2018

Christmas Cupcakes in 10 easy steps



What you need: 
Card/envelope/mountboard (or bauble mount board) 
Tracing paper & transfer paper*
Flat Brush, Medium Liner Brush and Dotting tool* 
You Can Folk It Cupcakes painting kit 
DecoArt Americana acrylics in Razzle Berry, Holly Green, Lamp Black and Titanium (Snow) White 
Drying Time extender*

*All included in our Flat Brush Starter Kit


An outline of a cupcake with a snowman sat on the top.

Step 1: transfer our Snowman cupcake pattern to your surface. This will fit perfectly on one of our square mount boards or baubles. 


Painted white silhouette of the a snowman topped cupcake.

Step 2: To help the colours on your final piece pop, base coat the entire area of your design with white using your flat brush.  


White silhouette of a snowman topped cupcake with pencil lines marking out the details


Step 3: Transfer the lines you need back onto the painted area.  


Snowman topped cupcake - with painted areas of red (the cupcake wrapper) and green (for the Snowmans hat and scarf)

 Step 4: Using your flat brush again, base coat the cupcake wrapper in red and the top of the snowman's hat using Green.  Before base coating the rim of the hat and the scarf, add a little white to make it just slightly lighter.


Hand painted snowman topped cupcake with highlighted and shaded areas to make it look 3D

Step 5: Using the Razzle Berry, float colour onto the cupcake to add texture, just as you would in our cupcakes kit.  Don't forget to add rosy cheeks too! 

Step 6: Using white, float colour around the base of his hat to highlight it. 

Handpainted snowman topped cupcake design. The snowman is dressed in a green tartan hat and scarf to compliment the red festive cupcake wrapper.

Step 7: Using your liner brush, add a pattern to his scarf and hat.  Begin with Razzle Berry and Black before adding white lines, edging and tassels. (Don't forget to add a little bobble on his hat too!)   

Step 8: Using the large end of the dotty tool, add his eyes and mouth.  Using the small end, add two dots of white to each eye.  Add his carrot nose using the liner brush (or you can apply it using the dotting tool) 

Handpainted snowman topped cupcake design Christmas card. Thesnowman wears a green tartan hat and scarf and the red cupcake wrapper is decorated with white berries and leaves

Step 9: Float white lines on the cupcake (as shown in our kit) and add berries to the area using the dotting tool. 

Step 10: Apply Crystal Glamour Dust to the design as you paint to create that all important sparkle at winter time.  

Hand painted snowman topped cupcake Christmas card design painted on to a card and mount board bauble shape that can be used as a gift tag

Don't fancy making a card? Why not try adding it to one of our baubles?







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