1St Attempt At Gum Paste Flowers
Decorating By practiceandpatience Updated 6 Jul 2006 , 1:01am by mgdqueen
Hi Everyone,
This is my first attempt at gum paste flowers. I tried a couple of different techniques for painting the flowers. First try was vodka and dust, which left the flowers sort of speckled. Then I tried to use dust dry, this seemed to work much better, and gave a softer look. I would appreciate any feedback on what I should change or advice on improvement.
Thank you all so much
Practice and Patience
Wow that looks great, cant believe its your first.
Ok, you lied! They can't be your first!!!! JK
Great job. Very beautiful!
Thank you everyone on your kind words!! You all are sure a confidence booster. I just thought I would show you the finished cake using my 1st attempt at gum paste flowers. Again thanks to all who responded.
Practice and Patience
very beautiful! great job for your first time!
you're going to be wonderful!
great job.
I personally never mix my petal dust with vodka. I use the dust dry - when I need deep hints of color I will use straight food color on a fine brush. You'll get more comforatble with getting your paste thinner and thinner eventually - I'd also recommend NOT striving for each item to look exactly the same as the others (leaves for example). Nature isn't perfect - you'll see leaves are ever so slightly different, for example. FEEL the leaves and petals - bend them around a bit.
I also find that edging leaves with a hint of pink or red (depending on the color scheme you are using) really increases their realism.
AWESOME job.
Thank you everyone on your kind words!! You all are sure a confidence booster. I just thought I would show you the finished cake using my 1st attempt at gum paste flowers. Again thanks to all who responded.
Practice and Patience
If this is your FIRST attempt 
you truly are talented!! Your flowers look flawless. I use non-toxic chalks to color my gumpaste flowers. I learned this technique from Scott Clak Woolley. I've seen Ron Ben Isreal airbrush color and then make accents in petal dusts.
However, I think your flowers are pretty as they are.
Your flowers are absolutely awesome. The only advice i can give you is to dust with a dry brush, adding more colour to achieve deeper tones, and then steam. You can let your flowers dry compeltely after they're steamed and add more colour if necessary, and then re-steam. Steaming sets the colour and gives it a bit of a waxy look.
Nati
Alicegop,
I painted the flowers after they were dry. I tried a couple of different methods, and I did not like the effect of the dust with vodka. They dried very speckled. I then tried the dust dry, and liked this very much. To get a deeper color, I just applied a couple of coats. The leaves I tinted the gum paste before I made them with paste food colors. Good luck with your gum paste flowers, I too taught myself, and it is addictive!!
(as all parts of cake decorating seem to be)
Practice and Patience
Your flowers look perfect and your cake is gorgeous!!!!
raisen,
Yes I made them on wires, as I was arranging and wiring them together, I would carefully hover it over the cake to see how it was measuring up, and when it was done, I did the same to see where I wanted to bend swag so it swooped down and around edge of cake.
Practice and Patience
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