Sugar paste Christmas decorations

This time no  particular words will follow this post. All you need is sugar paste, your favorite cutters to apply, paste colors and your rolling pin.

Before you start some tips for you:

• All sugar pastes that you find in commerce possibly don't provide results the same way. The sugar paste has the texture resembling to plasticine: but it's edible. For the below designs and for my Christmas decorations I started using the white "Artisan Bakery". At the beginning paste was little hard but while molding texture become softer and easy to use.
• Paste colors enable you transform a hite sugar paste to any combined color you want. Paste colors can be found in specific shops for sugar art material. You may find plenty colors. The ones used in this particular post are Red Christmas, Blue Navy (dark blue) and Leaf Green. Use the edge of a toothpick to take a some color and as you see in the pictures below you just press it in the sugar paste. Then start molding until you get homogenized color.  
• To make your decorations last and keep their hard shape (moisture is the ennemy of the paste) you may find in commerce in specific shops (or eshops) dealing with sugar art material a special powder called Tylo (CMC). For my "bio" friends I would recommend tragacanth gum but is defintely much more expensive. Depending on what you want to make everytime you should not exaggerate in using because possibly you might provoke an extreme hardness to your paste texture and consequently will not be able to work with your hands or possibly would cause rips to your paste. So pay attention. I would recommend for every 50 gr of paste start with a tea spoon of tylo, mold with your hands. If texture starts to harden then you are on the safe road to create.
• Use Tylo or Tragacanth Gum after you have applied the color you want in your paste. Texture of paste is not the same while applying color in the white one.
• You may find as well, possibly in super markets abroad, pearls. In various colours small, big. With silver pearls I made the lamps of my little trees. 
• You may find as well special cutters for Christmas in many sizes... These cutters can be as well used to make cookies.
• The most precious tip of all: Put your kids in the kitchen, create all together. It's such a joy! My kids helped me in the whole process and next time we will do with their friends as well... 

Unfortunately my dear camera went on vacation and asked me to get a new one... Hopefuly soon Santa Claus is coming to town... with gifts (crossing fingers!!!!)..

All you need is inspiration, imagination, festive spirit and little time. For me working with sugar paste little tools and cutters is definitely psychotherapy!

All the above pictures are hammy and are related to my bazaar activity in December. Soon you will see as well their final placement in appearance in sweets. It's only the beginning....

Put some music, get your kids and friends and make sugar paste little miracles all together. Because after all Christmas always brings festive and joyful mood! Have fun...