OK, here I am with another dilemma. I want to put a fall cake in a flower shop. There is another wedding cake there that is ginormous. It is pink but it has silk flowers on it. I want to out do her and make my trimmings. How do I make fall leaves and any ideas for flowers? I bought a bunch of silk fall flowers and leaves but like I said, "I want to out do the other dcorator". Is that bad?
The most realistic way I've found to make fall leaves is to use real leaves as a template. I washed a leaf (fresh from the tree), then rolled out gumpaste/fondant and cut around the edge of the leaf with a sharp knife. I used the same leaf to press into the gumpaste to vein it, and then let them dry on rumpled foil, so they wouldn't be too flat. Afterwards I brushed them with petal dusts. I was particularly pleased with the maple leaves, which were made of yellow gumpaste and then brushed with red or flame colored dust.
You can see how they came out on the fall cake in my photos. The advantage to using real leaves is that you can make them in as many sizes as you can find on the tree.
Because the dummy cake will be in a display window you might want to make them out of clay, oven dry them in natural shapes aroung some tin foil, and paint them with acrylic; saves you the agony of fades leaves gone by.
I've never done this, but it seems like a good idea 
leahs has the right idea. To make them 'crumpled' airbrush wafer paper. They will naturally crinkle from the moisture in the airbrush colors. Then carefully cut them w/sharp scissors.
The airbrushing will make the wafer paper (NOT frosting sheet paper) very brittle so you do have to be carefull cutting them, but they look soooooo real and great
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