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Using Cupcake Holders For Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a popular trend among women, young and old. Their creative sides are brought out and treasured moments are made beautifully hand-crafted. There are so many fun ways that you can embellish your scrapbooks, and one idea that you might consider is putting in 3D flowers. This guide can show scrapbookers how to make flowers out of cupcake holders.

Purchase some patty pans (cupcake holders). Make a visit to the craft store or the baking section of your local market and look out for the small sized cupcake holders – it is ok to use bigger ones too. Shop around until you find paper cupcake pans that you really like the look of. Also buy some white ones the same size as the first ones you get. You’ll have to decorate the white ones yourself if you only buy white. You can purchase pre-patterned cupcake holders, which may be simpler.

Figure out the size you want for the petals.

The cupcake holders you can buy in the store have small ridges on their sides. Remember as a kid, scraping out the last of the cake with your teeth? Those ridges on the cupcake holder will make a big difference to your next scrapbooking page. You will want to count how many ridges wide each petal is going to be. You can vary your petal sizes to suit your preference.

Make cuts to shape your cupcake holder into a flower. This is the only active thing you have to do for these flowers – so simple! While remembering to space your cuts according to your preferred size of petals, cut out some petal shapes. If you want your petal to be 2 ridges wide, then that is where to cut each peak in your cup cake holder.
These cuts should be made from the top, around, and down to the bottom of the cupcake holder.

Consider overlapping the scrapbook flowers.

To get a multi-dimensional look, try extra layers of flowers – just glue more than one design on top of another to make a really impressive display in your scrapbook.

Attach. So now that you have your flowers done, you need to place them in the scrapbook. You can just stick the flower to the page or card with some glue. Then you can use a button or stamp to decorate the center or even curl some of the petals of your cupcake flower to make something really pretty and unique!

Cupcakes: Essential for all occasions

Just the sheer thought of cakes, makes ones mouth start watering and the taste of flavored frosting tempts the tongue. Gourmet cupcakes should taste delicious and look irresistible. At first glance, cupcakes should excite the taste buds and then the textures and tastes should complete the cupcake experience. These recipes are easy and do not take much time to prepare. It’s no wonder that cupcakes are liked by every age group since they are small in size and are easy to consume at once.

Cupcakes have recently made their debut into artistic and formal wedding cakes. One great advantage to cupcake wedding cakes is that they are very easy to serve and use no matter how many people are attending the special event.

The appearance, display and design of wedding cupcakes should be as important as its taste is. In fact, one can customize the icing or frosting color as well as overall design according to the wedding theme and then stack and display the cupcakes on multi-tiered cupcake stands.

The most important part of the cupcake decorations starts with the frosting or icing. There are generally two types of icing that is used one is butter cream and another is fresh cream or royal icing. It usually starts out in plain white color, but can be colored according to taste and design. Icing should be properly mixed so that there are no lumps which will give a smooth consistency on the cupcake.

With icing one can make such creative decorations as flowers and other three dimensional designs.

There are many methods to get great cupcake decorating ideas from books to websites to cupcake bakeries. Some decorating ideas for designing cupcakes include using cream, fruits and sugar or chocolate sprinkles. Another fun way to decorate cupcakes is with artistic figures made by marzipan. Marzipan is like edible clay, and is actually made of sugar and almond powder. It can be textured with any color and can be molded into any shape such as flowers, butterflies, animals and many more. Cupcakes are always there and available as a cake or special dessert option for any celebration and is easy to customize according to the occasion.