Round cutter - slightly larger than the llama’s head (I used a 58 mm one)
Teardrop cutters:
22 mm x 17 mm (or similar size)
18 mm x 13 mm (or similar size)
Carnation cutter - 25 mm (or similar size; or other flower cutter)
Wooden skewer x 2
Florist wire - #24 (or similar gauge); 3 about 3 cm long pieces
Pliers
Painting palette (or small containers f.ex. bottle caps)
Foam pad
Styrofoam cake dummy
Flower paste (gum paste):
white - 82 g
ivory - 2 g
black - 1 g
yellow - 4 g
pink - 4 g
blue/teal - 4 g
50/50 FP/SP mix*:
white - 12 g
Black gel (paste) colour
Dust colours
rose
yellow
blue
pink
Edible glue
* SP = sugar paste = fondant; FP = flower paste = gum paste. To make the mix, knead same amounts of the SP and FP together. You don’t need to weigh the paste. Just mix similar size pieces. If you mix two types of pastes together you get properties somewhere in between those two.
9.5 cm (with the ears)
40.
This is the view from the top.
Leave both the head and the body to dry overnight (or until they are very firm or completely dry). Both the head and the body need to be very firm/completely dry when you attach the head, otherwise the body will sink under the heavy head and the head might start leaning to the side.
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