Gumpaste Waratah Flower

A quick picture tutorial on how I made my Waratah . Hope it will be of help to some people. Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

The materials used……………….

• Gumpaste + Red colour paste
• Rolling pin, and Board
• Ball  and  Dresden Tool
• Water and paint brush
• Crisco or Copha to roll out paste
• Flower wire (I used #26 inner tips and #30 for the outside petals )
• Burgundy petal dust for the inner central tips and apple green petal dust for the outer petal tips
• Lily cutter or  you can print out the shape and cut it out on cardboard and use it as a template.
• Corn starch to roll out the little circle using the ball tool
• Thick and Thin sponge
• Toothpick
• Pliers to cut the wire
• Polystyrene Balls ( next time I do this flower I would cover the ball with red gumpaste before doing the rest)