I've seen that there are tutorials for making specific gumpaste items, but is there a basic gumpaste tutorial anywhere? This is a medium I would really like to try!

techniques vary greatly depending on what you are making. IMHO, start with the first thing you are interested in making and go from there.

Okay - that's good to know - thanks! I've only seen that there are a few tutorials on this site, where else should I look to find tutorials on what I want to do?

Not sure how much these will help you, but I found a few sites...HTH some, Jen.

http://www.culpitt.com/how-to.php?page=34

http://community.webshots.com/album/283308759UqOctN

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-87248.html

http://www.cakecentral.com/article-print-21.html

http://www.mccalls-cakes.com/sweetlines/Sun_cake.html

http://www.mccalls-cakes.com/sweetlines/Sun_cake.html

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/misc/lessons/gproses.htm

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/misc/lessons/magnolia.htm



Here is a link on how to make your own cutters...
http://whatscookingamerica.net/PegW/CookieCutters.htm

I really like the Culpitt website as tutorials for making sugar flowers. But as a basic "How To" on gumpaste it starts with a good recipe, good basic tools and then experimenting. Start with some simple things first, like a cut out plaque or cutout stars to get the feel of the paste, and to see how quickly it will dry. Once you feel comfortable with it you can progress on to simple flowers, then bows and ribbons and later more advanced flowers and things like crowns or tiara's. And there are tutorials here on each of those subjects. I use Nicholas Lodge's Tylose recipe and have found it to be very easy to make and to work with. You can roll it quite thin without it tearing and it dries quickly.
http://www.nicholaslodge.com/gumpaste.htm

Basic gumpaste tool kit
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-54056.html

Once you play with the gumpaste you will love it. You will search for things to make with it. The flowers are great because they will keep forever almost and when you want to play you can just keep them for later. Once you get a stash of flowers you can whip out a cake in no time and people think it took forever to make it.

There are some great site links posted here. Thanks for those. I'm going to go back and read all of them.

Thank you so much for all the great links!! I knew I could count on CCers to hook me up!

Has anyone tried the Satin Ice ready-made gumpaste? I just heard about it (another CCer) and she said it's awesome. I haven't tried it yet, but was wondering what gumpaste recipes y'all like best?

I've never worked with gumpaste but I have some questions. So the purpose of making things out of gumpaste is that they will harden and work good for certain things right? And you're not suppose to eat it right? So I'm just wondering what's the point of making things out of gumpaste if you are not suppose to eat it. I know people try to make all decorations on their cakes edible, but wouldn't it defeat the purpose if you're not suppose to eat gumpaste?

Well, sometimes I also wonder why am I bothering doing all this hard work making gumpaste figures if it's not edible and just a decoration. I might as well go buy a plastic decoration and get it over with. But I think it's a way to express art like any other type of art. People will appreciate the talent and hard work you put into it, not to mention IMHO it will look way better than a plastic decoration. And in my case, it's one of my stress relievers after a long day. I like to do it after I put my baby to sleep. And that's why I think I could never do cakes with gumpaste figures for sale because it would take the fun out of it. I like to put a lot of detail and it wouldn't be worth the time and work. But I love to do it for friends and family!!!

All-in-one Gumpaste Rose (by Nicholas Lodge):
from sugarcraft.com

http://tinyurl.com/39jcy4

Fantasty Gumpaste Flowers:

http://tinyurl.com/3x2n2z

Gumpaste Carnations and Roses:

http://tinyurl.com/u5zla

Gumpaste & Rolled Fondant:
(tools, lessons, videos)

http://tinyurl.com/y7myrq

Projects:

http://tinyurl.com/3bnx8n

More Projects:
(from fmmsugarcraft.com)

http://tinyurl.com/33krp6

Have fun

Ok- how do i get on Blocked.com. i can't get on it. can someone please help.

Thanks

Blocked.com isn't a website address....

The website address is "blocked" from view on this site.

Try using Google search with the info you do have.

HTH