Custom Lettering & Monograms
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- In-depth Instruction; over 187 mins
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Introduction
13:40
Meet world-renowned instructor Nicholas Lodge and learn to transfer letters onto a cake using a pin or via embossing. Then, learn how to mix gel colors for hues that pop and add dimension to your designs.
Royal Icing Techniques
44:46
Learn to love your piping bag as you master creating monograms and messages by hand. Nicholas takes you through several lovely typefaces, whose templates are included in your class materials, and shows you how to plan and execute your message flawlessly. Use royal icing to pipe letters on parchment that can be transferred to the cake after they are dry.
Metallics
32:49
Give your letters luster and sparkle as you make shiny gold, silver and even bronze paint for fondant or gum paste letters. Make your own dazzling metallic icing, perfect for piping on a cake, or add disco dust for a glittery finish.
Stencils
36:15
Create charming monogrammed plaques and medallions as you apply dusts or royal icing to a stencil and learn to scale this method for use on a large project. Discover how softened fondant can give you a perfect color match and where to go to have custom stencils created.
Cutters
33:09
Add tylose powder to your fondant to create letters that keep their shape as Nicholas demonstrates a variety of cutters for perfect lettering, every time. Then, Nicholas shares his clever method for creating interlinked monograms.
Dimensional Lettering
25:37
Clients and friends will stand up and take notice when you add freestanding monograms to the top of your cakes. Cut, texture and add support to your letters. Create a delightful polka-dot inlay pattern and use a clay gun to create a rope of modified fondant to form script letters that dry hard. Finish the class with a tour of the numerous ways to incorporate monograms and messaging into your cakes.
Join cake decorating legend Nicholas Lodge for a comprehensive class on personalizing cakes with custom lettering and monograms. Achieve professional results using accessible transfer techniques such as the pin-prick method. Get comfortable creating impressive lettering with freehand and color-flow royal icing techniques. Create scintillating messages by painting and piping with metallics. Stencil with innovative techniques for perfect messages every time. Use cutters to create marvelous monograms and even make three-dimensional lettering that stands up on your cake. Learn essential custom lettering and monogramming techniques for messages that complement your designs and highlight the occasion.
Nicholas Lodge
Nicholas Lodge is one of the top instructors in the current generation of sugarcraft artists. The author of numerous books, Nicholas teaches and demonstrates his unique skills around the world. Over the years his teaching tours have taken him to 26 countries. He is internationally known not only for his unique skills in sugar art, but also for the quality of his demonstrations and classes, at which he inspires enthusiasm in everyone who attends. He is also a popular judge for sugar art events around the globe. A native Brit, Nicholas founded the International Sugar Art Collection school near Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches his signature sugar flower classes. His product line, the International Sugar Art Collection, features more than 400 specialized tools and piece of equipment. ISAC boasts a sister school in Tokyo, Japan, where Nicholas spends 16 weeks of the year teaching. He also spends time in Chicago, where he is a regular instructor at the prestigious French Pastry School's L'Art de Gateau program.
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