DIY Cake Carrier Idea
The retro cake carrier idea is a step-by-step tutorial that takes you through every detail of building your own.
Cost: $50
Equipment
- Cricut machine
Ingredients
- cake carrier Or a similar one here
- gloss spray paint I used Montana Gold mint, shrimp pastel and cream.
- BIN Shellac Primer
- Extra fine sandpaper
- Food safe clear shellac sealant spray
- Matte pink adhesive vinyl
- Retro Cake sticker download
Instructions
- Unscrew the handles from the carrier, and disassemble everything so that you can use the extra fine sandpaper to sand down all of the pieces. However, leave the silver latching mechanism alone.Once everything is sanded, you should no longer be able to see any of the previous graphics.
- Dust everything off so that you have a clean surface to spray your BIN shellac primer on. The cool thing about shellac primer is that it self levels and fills out a lot of the roughness of surfaces. So you should have a nice clean slate once this is dry.
- Spray each piece of your cake carrier the colors of your choice, using three very thin coats of spray paint. And let it dry 24 hours.
- Now you’ll use the final coat of clear food-safe shellac to spray all of the pieces again so that there are no toxic paint surfaces exposed to any of your sweets!The shellac also cures really quickly so you shouldn’t have a lot of down time here.
- For the sticker portion, you can use a Cricut machine to cut the graphic out of adhesive pink vinyl.But you can always download the artwork to cut out and use as a stencil or print on a solid sticker as well
- Spray one last coat of shellac over top of the sticker once you had it in place so that it wouldn’t easily peel off.