For The First Time, I'm Actually Tired Of . . .
Decorating By jmt1714 Updated 19 Mar 2007 , 8:31pm by carterl
making flowers. AND I'm NOT DONE! I feel like my hands are going to break . . . lol. And of course I don't think the cake itself is turning out right (funny how the more important the cake is to you personally the harder time you seem to have with it, don't you think?)
Those are simply gorgeous..... you are incredibly talented 
wow!!
well thanks for that. not too many more - am planning to to do a couple of lilies and some gerberas. the hardest part for me is wrapping them, mostly b/c by the end of the night I'm tired and I end up dropping the darn things. have finally learned to walk away sometimes, and to wrap them over a pile of soft fluff (pillow filling) instead of my granite countertops . . . lol
Absolutely gorgeous flowers!! They look amazing! Jen
Wowzers! Those are beautiful!! I wouldn't even know where to begin with making a flower like that...
What the.....Those aren't REAL???? WOW... I'm not worthy either!!! 
If you didn't continue to make your flowers you would be doing a great disservice to CC and the country!!! Ok, maybe not the whole country...but they are really good!!!
Jenn
they are far to beautiful to be real they must be plastic 
I bow to you.
They're gorgeous, I kept putting my face close to the screen...they look like silk! Totally incredible, keep going they are beautiful!
oklee doklee those are fantastic!!!
I have a few technical questions for ya hun,
Just how does one go about wrapping them buggers anyway. I've tried n tried and I just can't seem to get em to look right.
funny - I'm still not 100% happy with how some of the wrapping turns out. for me, the key tips I received are:
1. cut the floral tape in half lengthwise - makes it easier to wrap without it getting all bulky.
2. Just start from the smallest most delicate stuff like leaves and buds and work your way up.
3. now that spring is here, stop and really look at plants and see how the leaves and buds and flowers are joined. nothing is really 100% straight and flaws occur in nature (when leaves tear a bit on my roseleaves, for example, I just go with it. It actually looks MORE real once they are colored and wrapped if they aren't all perfect and cookie cutter images of each other. I once heard a judge tell a competitor that while her flowers were very very good, they actually DEDUCTED points because they all looked exactly the same, down to each having the same bends and nips and curves in the same place.
Details, we want details!! How did you learn? How long have you been doing this? What artists are your inspirations in gumpaste? Details, mon, details!!
your flowers are incredible! don't give up yet. you're almost there! you can do it! and make some for me while you're at it, i can't make a decent flower to save my life! thank goodness for wholesalesugarflowers.com
(oops, did I just admit that i cheat a bit?)
I took one lesson about a year ago from scott clark wooley - leaned how t odo a pansy, sweetpea, and daisy. other than that I've been experimenting on my own. i did buy one of his DVDs though. VERY expensive, but he's a good teacher. One thing that it took me a while to figure out is don't stress if you don't end up doing stuff the exact same way. People have slightly different methods and there isn't any one "correct" way to do anything. The fact that I'm completely anal and if I'm going to do somehting I have a need to do it as perfectly as I can is both a help and a hindrance . . . lol.
but on the other hand, my basic cake skills like piping leave a lot to be desired - I'm ok, but need to get better with those. I focus WAY too much on the gumpaste work. but I am taking a fondant class later this month at the lodge school in GA.
i didn't wantto start a new thread for this, so am posting the cake here. admittedly completely over the top, but was trying to showcase the flowers, rather than the cake - it isn't like that the whole way around - this shot is taken head on so all you really see is flowers - the cake is staked so the tiers are even up the back and the flowers grow out of and flow down the front . . .
thanks for everyone for all the kind words
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