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Friday, October 27, 2023

Halloween Fake Bakes

 Fake Food

Happy Halloween!  Come in and see my holiday themed faux treat collection:


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Fake Food
Fake Food

The breakfast room cabinet is loaded with goodies, here are the close-ups:



Fake Food
Fake Food

On the left are a fake cake and a basket full of cupcakes.  The cake is a stack of foam rounds covered in spackle and the cupcakes were made like this.  The blackbird pie is salt dough, I have a full tutorial here.



Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food

In the center is my poisoned apple.  You can read my tutorial here, and the printable is an image I printed myself after a Google search.



Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food

On the right are a couple more faux cakes, cupcakes and candied apples.  The plain black cake is another foam one, but the orange and black is a Jello mold re-style.  You can see a similar makeover here.  I also have this caramel apple tutorial.  Just swap out the brown paint for black and embellish with puffy paint to create your own candied apple treats.  If you want to make the apples with faces, just use a pencil to lightly draw on your design and then hand paint around with a small brush and acrylic paint.



Fake Food

My cookie cutter collection dresser is covered too:


Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food

On the left is a tiered tray stacked with cookies and candies, a faux treat bucket and a jar of gummy candies.  I recolored my thrifted tray like this before filling it with salt dough cookieshot glue chocolates, and plaster candies.  This popsicle post will walk you through the use of plaster.

The treat bucket is filled with foam and covered in Easter basket grass.  I then took a variety of faux treats that I glued on to wooden dowels and then inserted the dowels into the foam.

The gummy candies are actually glass vase filler stones that I put into an old candle jar and decorated with a label made with my Cricut.



Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food

On the right of the cookie cutter storage dresser is a candy corned themed grouping.  The jar of candy corns are faux ones that I found at a garage sale, I think they used to be floral picks.  The cake is another stack of foam rounds covered in spackle (piped through an icing bag) and the cupcakes are more made with spray foam insulation (like the linked tutorial above).  These candies are plaster painted in acrylic and detailed with puffy paint and the popsicles are made exactly like the ones in the popsicle tutorial.  The candy corn trees are foam cones painted in acrylic and sprinkled in acrylic.



Fake Food

Hanging from one of the windows is a Halloween house cake pan that I painted to look like and iced cake.  You can see that post here.



Fake Food

Over on the candy mold storage cabinet (see my collection here) is the last of my Halloween fake bakes:



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Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food
On the left are a few more cupcakes and a set of fake drinks.



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Fake Food
Fake Food
Fake Food

On the right is another treat bucket, cupcakes, a drink and a couple of cauldrons.  The cauldrons are Dollar Tree pots that you can find in the spring near St. Patrick's day.  These I filled with foam, piped on some spackle and then added in beads.

And there you have it, my Halloween fake bakes!


I hope you enjoyed this fake bake post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer

© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2023


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Friday, October 20, 2023

DIY Faux Fruit Trees

Fake Food

Wanting to make some faux fruit trees for my garden shed, I added artificial apples to a fake Ficus.  I then made a couple more trees using carboard tubing and greenery, check it out:


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Fake Food And Plants
Fake Plants

This project started when I found these fake plants at the thrift store.  There were two of the round pots and two or three of the long, rectangular baskets.  I want to say they were around eight dollars each, but I can't remember!

I wanted trees in the round pots, but didn't like the greens that they came with.  I went ahead and bought the rounds anyway because the cost of buying empty baskets and filling them with my own spray foam would have been more than just buying these and re-working them.  I loved the greens in the rectangular baskets, so I knew I could use those instead.

*And the foam in the rectangular baskets looked just like loaves of bread!  I cleaned and painted them to add to my fake bakes - tutorial post to come!



Fake Plants
Fake Plants

After removing the moss I pulled the foam rounds from the pots and then pulled/ cut out the stalks of greenery.  It can take work because the stems are set into the foam securely so by taking them out of the baskets first you prevent damage to the wicker.



Fake Plants
Fake Plants

Using a strong cardboard tube (it was in a rug I had delivered) I marked where I wanted to insert it and hollowed out a circle.  

Note:  The tube is going to be the tree trunk and needs to support the weight of the greenery and fruit without tipping over.  Make sure the tube is inserted as deeply as possible, glued well in place and that your pot will be heavy enough.  These foam inserts already had some sort of wight in the bottom so I didn't need to worry about it, but you could always use rocks if you needed to.



Fake Plants
Fake Plants
Fake Plants

I painted my tubes brown, glued them in place and then put the foam rounds back into the baskets.  They came with the plastic bag already there so I put it back.  It helped to stuff the foam in tightly and keep it from shifting within the basket.



Fake Plants

After that I replaced the moss.  Mine is just tucked in, but you could glue it into place if you wanted.

Also, I wanted to point out that my tubes are different heights.  This was intentional because I wanted variation, but it's totally up to you.



Fake Plants
Fake Plants

Here are the piles of greenery that I pulled from the rectangular baskets.  They hadn't been cut apart from their bushes and still had thick stems.



Fake Plants

The thick stems meant I could group three together and just pop them right into the open end of the tubes.  Another option would be to glue some foam into the tops and then insert the stems into the foam.  As it was I did add bits of foam here and there to tighten things up, and of course glued everything in place.

*As I mentioned in the intro, there is one more tree that you will see later on - a faux Ficus.  I liked how the branches and greens looked as they were, so I left it as it was and just added the fruit.



Fake Fruit
Fake Fruit

I already had a supply of fake apples, oranges, lemons and limes in my craft storage that were collected from various thrifting trips.
Using floral wire, I wrapped it around the fruit stems until it was tight and glued it in place.  I then used the two pieces sticking out to wire the fruits on to the trees.

Like this:



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Lemon/Lime

I decided to combine my lemons and limes because I wanted to keep my display down to three trees total.  My garden shed is a bit small and I needed all of the trees to fit - I'll give a tour of the shed in the future!



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Orange



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Apple



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And there you have it, faux fruit trees ready to decorate your patio, sunroom or garden shed.


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