Sugar Craft - Christmas Roses - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 4 November - 2 December 2024
• Sessions: Mondays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 5
• Venue: Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £35

This course is a beginner’s course designed to introduce you to Christmas sugar craft flowers. You will produce a small display of sugar flowers to enhance any Christmas cake with step-by-step instructions. Flower and foliage will include a Christmas rose, holly and ivy.

By the end of the course, you will have produced a Christmas rose flower with foliage: holly and Ivy to enhance any Christmas celebration cake.

You will be able to:

• Produce the petals for the Christmas rose adding texture and realism

• Produce the stamens for the centre of the Christmas rose

• Produce the ivy for foliage

• Produce the holly for foliage

• Learn how to dust the flower to add dimension

• Learn how to tape together to create a display for a cake

Resources required:

• Florist sugar paste by squires- white
• Corn flour dapper
• Rolling pin
• Single petal rose cutter or a five-petal cutter (then cut)
• Holly cutter
• Ivy cutter
• 24-gauge wire
• Foam mat- Foam cell pad
• Multi-purpose veiner
• Floral tape
• Ball tool
• Dresden tool
• Calyx cutter
• Green colouring
• Green dusting powder
• Yellow dusting powder
• Edible tints- green, brown, and yellow
• Edible glue
• Cocktail stick
• Shallow Dish- apple plastic tray
• White stamens (dust them yellow) or yellow stamens or use white cotton thread for Wired Christmas rose.
• Note pad and pen.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation 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, AND
• 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

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