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How many of you are into decoden? I recently discovered it, and I've been hoarding youtube tutorials. I think I'm going to make my first decoden project when I get paid this coming Friday. whee

Feel free to show off your project and chat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlVzNPTVBSY

I LOVE decoden!

I've been doing it for almost a year now~

DECODEN ALL THE THINGS!


I really need to take pictures of the things I've recently attacked with decoden.

I found those cute whipple kits on Amazon for only $10. So, I think I might buy one when I get paid. 4laugh

The whipple kits are great practice and intro into decoden as the whipped cream is water soluble, so you can redo pieces for more practice.
However, if you guys are planning on using the whipple kit cream for decoden gifts/shop products, please don't! eek

I bought a few kits months ago to test out and when I checked on the whipple foods just the other day, all the cream parts had shrunk/cracked and some of the 2-sided pieces such as the macaroons fell apart due to the shrunken whipple cream. crying

However, after I used all the whipple cream, I cleaned out a whipple cream bag, let it air dry, squeezed all the air out, and then filled it with silicone caulk so that I'd have an easy way of using silicone caulk to do my decoden.

When I'm not using it, I keep the whipple icing bag cap on, and wrap the tip in saran wrap and rubber bands to keep a tight seal so it doesn't harden.

Occasionally I'll use a small metal star-shaped icing tip from the baking aisles of food/craft stores.
I just tape it on the tip of the whipple bag and use it like normal.
And when I'm done, I just wipe out as much caulk as I can from the metal icing tip and let the rest dry to later peel/scrape out.


EDIT:
DECODEN PICTURE!



This was something I tried showing you guys during one of the tinychat streams~

The bracelets finally cured and are ready for me to wear this weekend at an anime convention x3

I like to do decoden, though I'm not very good at it. Here's one of my first iphone 4 cases I did. And you can't really see the piping since I used a clear material but here's a closeup.

Thank you, I tried my hardest to make this case but it still doesn't look good enough to me.
Only the tart base and the cookie are molds I bought, they're called "Mousse-chan Fuwa Fuwa " a lot of stores tend to sell them.

But the rest of the pieces on the phone are actually made and decorated by me.