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Courtney wanted to do a Bob Ross painting party for her 13th and, thus, wanted a similarly inspired cake. \u00a0Below is my initial brainstorm. \u00a0 I knew I wanted paint to ooze out of the tubes and I finally figured out how to make it happen …STRING!<\/p>\n
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Here are the paint tubes being made.<\/p>\n
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And here are the paint brushes and the palette knife. I rolled string into the brush part so that when I added the colored royal icing, it would look like paint was dripping off.<\/p>\n
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And here’s the end result of the brushes.<\/p>\n
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The full cake.<\/p>\n
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Full cake from another angle.<\/p>\n
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Here are the in-progress paintings….some of the girls didn’t get much further than this stage. And I have vowed never to do a painting party again \ud83d\ude2c. \u00a0BUT, everyone had a great time and I had to keep reminding myself that *fun* was the whole point.<\/p>\n\n