My First Gumpase Flowers! (Yay Me!)
Decorating By CountryCakery4 Updated 8 Oct 2009 , 1:24am by CountryCakery4
I think they are stunning!!!!!!!! You did a fabulous job!!!!!!
I love the orange ones!!!!!!!
Keep up the good work, and I may ask for some help when
I decide to try flowers!!!!!!
Yay You!!!! Beautiful flowers. Im still having a hard time making gumpaste flowers (boo me) hahaha. Congratulations Job well done!
Have you watched Edna's tutorials on Youtube? They are fantastic and walk you through each step. The orange and brown ones were just from memory of her videos, but I rewatched them for the yellow ones and it made a big difference!
Thank you crazydoglady!! I can't wait to get some Tylose and try this.
If you are serious about gp, don't waste your money on those little tubs of tylose. Go to ebay and search for carboxymethyl cellulose or CMC - this is what tylose if chemically. Its used as a thickener in the food industry....you can usually buy a pound less than $20.
Thanks for this tip... should be pretty useful, though I've never ordered anything from ebay before. I think I've got a little newbie nerves!
Your first flowers look nice!
Just be sure never to stick wire directly into cake.
how should I attach the flowers?
I think they are stunning!!!!!!!! You did a fabulous job!!!!!!
I love the orange ones!!!!!!!
Keep up the good work, and I may ask for some help when
I decide to try flowers!!!!!!
I'm sure no expert, but feel free to message me if you'd like. It might be more like the blind leading the blind, though! 
countrycaker, when you ask how to attach them, do you mean attach them to the cake?
i had the same experience with my first gumpaste roses a few weeks ago. i thought they were looking good and then i watched edna again. i need practice!
Yeah, cakepro is saying not to put wire diectly into the cake (which come to think of it, i may have heard somewhere before) but that leaves me wondering exactly how to attach the flowers to the cake. Especially if you want to create different levels with your flowers. Some taller, some shorter, etc... Any thoughts?
you can put the flowers into straws. either the regular drinking type or the small coffee stirrers.
i was just out weeding my garden which is going dormant and i noticed my orange rose was about to pop a blossom and i thought of your beautiful gumpaste flowers!
Awwww, thanks! I'd like to add roses to my garden. Though we've already had our killing frost here in the Great White North. (Just north of Edmonton, AB, Canada) I'm pretty sure I can get a variety that will bloom in a short growing season, though. It's not like no one grows roses around here! 
And thanks for the tip on the straws!
Yeah, cakepro is saying not to put wire diectly into the cake (which come to think of it, i may have heard somewhere before) but that leaves me wondering exactly how to attach the flowers to the cake. Especially if you want to create different levels with your flowers. Some taller, some shorter, etc... Any thoughts?
Here you go:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-632290-wire.html
Thanks for that link, cakepro. The info in there was very helpful. Never again!
Besides straws, you can use flower spikes if you're going to put a cluster of flowers in, like with the stems taped together. Wilton makes flower spikes that are about $2.50 for a dozen...they also make more expensive ones meant for fresh flowers, but you don't need those. The last time I made gumpaste flowers, I cut a couple of small circles of foamcore and glued them together, then covered with fondant and stuck the wires into the foamcore. It worked really well and it was a good way to use up the small pieces of foamcore left from cutting out boards.
countrycakery,
i'm going off topic but wanted to let you know that i have lots of roses and they are hardy to zone 3. they were hybridized in your own beautiful northland!
texas rose (who btw, makes gorgeous roses) is right on about the foam. i put fondant on a dome shaped piece of styrofoam, covered with fondant and it added shape to my gumpaste butterfly garden.
i tried for the first time gumpaste roses and not very pretty. I need lots of practice. Does anyone know how to get rid of the white powdery coating on the roses once they are dry? (from the corn starch) Thanks
Deb
Boil a pan of water and hold the roses in the steam for a few seconds until they look wet and shiny. Be sure they're fully dried before you do it.
Your flowers are beautiful, Great job, I was trying mine yesterday, the stargazer lilly that I bought from Tonedna, it was not going so well, will try again this weekend, also had neck pain that may be why.
My very first rose was pretty crummy. Hence, it wasn't on the cake. Those first ones are never quite what we hope for are they? Kind of like the first pancakes off the pan! 
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