Sugarcraft - Easter Designs - Mansfield Library - Adult Learning

Key details

• Date: 6 - 27 March 2023
• Sessions: Mondays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 4
• Venue: Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 15
• Cost: FREE - £24

About this course 

This course is an intermediate to sugar craft flower making. You will progress with familiar skills and learn new techniques using sugar florist paste to produce an Easter Arum/Calla Lilly flower the perfect edition to any Easter themed celebration cake. 

There are many varieties of colours including white, pink, yellow, green, red, burgundy, and even almost black. These beautiful flowers can also be produced for wedding cakes. 

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?  

• Produce the spadix for the Arum/Calla Lilly  
• Produce the spathe adding texture and realism for the Arum/ Calla illy 
• Produce the leaves for the Arum/Calla Lilly adding texture and realism  
• Learn how to colour and dust the flower to add dimension  

Learners will have produced an Arum/Calla Lilly to enhance any Easter themed celebration cake or even a beautiful wedding cake.  

Resources required:

• Floral paste by squires- white or colour of choice such as bitter lemon, pink, yellow, green, red, burgundy, or almost black.  
• Arum/Calla Lilly Cutter and veiner 
• Arum/ Calla Lilly Leaf Cutter and veiner  
• 18–20-gauge wire 
• Rolling pin 
• Edible glue  
• Edible tints- Aubergine, moss green, primrose yellow and dark green 
• Yellow sugartex or sugar with yellow tint added     
• Tweezers 
• Ball tool  
• Fine scissors  
• Wire cutters  
• Dresden tool or Cocktail stick   
• Floral tape green  
• Foam mat 
• Paintbrushes  
• Glaze- Optional  

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course  please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

Book your place

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