Sugar Craft - Water Lily - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield

Key details

Date -
Sessions Mondays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions 5
Venue Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 12
Cost FREE - £35

About this course

This course is an advanced guide to decorating cakes with a water lily sugar craft flower. You will learn skills and techniques using a water lily cutter. 


To participate on this course, you must have some previous experience or knowledge of how to create flowers using sugar paste.  Building upon previous courses, you will learn how to construct a water lily, starting with the centre and branching out to the finishing touches, including how to dust the flower to bring it to life.


Learners should bring:

  • Dahlia cutters 6 set- tale away smallest and largest using the other 4 cutters.  
  • Squires Petal Paste (Gum paste) 
  • Lotus veiner or multipurpose veiner  
  • Geranium leaf veiner for the water lily leaf 
  • Board 
  • Rolling Pin  
  • Corn flour for dusting  
  • Edible glue 
  • Paintbrushes for glue and dusting 
  • PME Foam cell pad 
  • Modelling tools: dresden tool, ball tool.  
  • Wires 26 and 18 gauge  
  • Daisy plunge cutter  
  • Wire cutters  
  • Scissors 
  • Petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Foliage green, moss green, Lemon Yellow, Pink, Peach, Purple.  
  • Cocktail sticks 
  • Florist tape 
  • Tin foil or spoons for formers 
  • PME Glaze to make the water lily leaf look like it is in water. (Optional)  
  • Note pad and pen. 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course  please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/


To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire

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