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Run Sugar Valentine Card
by Jo Ellen Simon of Nebraska
Layout & Editing by Diane Shavkin NY

	First, sketch your pattern and place plastic film over it. I use page protectors for the big pieces. You can use wax paper for smaller pieces, but be careful because wax paper wrinkles.
	Then, outline with royal icing. Thin icing with a few drops of water. A good test is to draw a knife through a bowl of thinned icing. The line should disappear after a count of 10. Pipe thinned icing till it flows to piped lines.
	When the white color flow has dried, I use red to fill in the ribbon, bow and hearts. You will notice that the bow and pink hearts were piped separately. This will add a 3-D effect when the card is assembled.
	The teddy bears were painted with powdered food coloring and cooking oil using a fine tip brush. When everything is dry, fasten hearts, bow and bears with a small amount of icing. Dots were piped around the inside of the heart cut out in a pyramid shape. With a #0 tip, pipe message on card. Using a #4 tip, pipe 2 thick lines - one on top of the other along the edge and attache the front to the back. Support the card with a can of food until it is dry. For extra support, I piped a color flow disk around the standing card. Take my word for it.... it's highly recommended to add this support. I didn't the first time and the card fell over and shattered like glass, and I had to start all over again.

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