Gumpaste Flowers
So I have shared with you all about how I decided to not purchase a cricut machine and to invest the $$$ into more cutters, dusts and tools to learn the art of gumpaste flowers. I am an avid gardner and have been intrigued in gumpaste flowers for sometime but just have not taken that step into really learning more. So I ordered the Nicholas Lodge's Gumpaste Filler Flowers DVD and Edna De la Cruz's new DVD. and a couple other books. I watched them over and over and read and read then took the step into creating. I have made gumpaste flowers before but never taken that step into learning how to dust them to make them look real. The flowers are time consuming but I do see how I can assembly line them and do each step at a time to make the process go faster making them. However... when you get that paint brush in your hand and begin to dust them each one takes on it's own look... it is so relaxing and rewarding to make them. I can't wait till my next project with flowers... but for this week it is on to graduation cakes... and fun. Here are the flowers I made... oh... and I did not have the fancy flower drying racks so I was trying to figure out what to use... I decided to try out my mini cupcake stands and they work perfectly! Here are the flowers drying and what they look like after dusting...
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Permalink Reply by Rosann Testa on
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Your flowers are beautiful. Love the drying rack idea!! I am always finding new ways to avoid buying add'l tools when there might already be something around the house to use! LOL... I think I will look into the two DVD's you mentioned. You can't watch technique videos enough...Thanks for sharing you experience, ideas and thoughts! Have a great day!
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Permalink Reply by Diana Viera on
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Jeri ~ your flowers are absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your photos with us. Another thing that you can use for your flowers are tall baking racks. Attached is a photo of what I have that I believe may be useful as they are stackable.
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Permalink Reply by Sherry Qualls on
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Gorgeous Jeri, I like making them too!!! I couldn't really invest in petal dusts so I bought artist chalk and scrape it into a fine dust then steam.
Diana, I use the racks also.
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Permalink Reply by Gretchen Belsome on
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I just started with the gum paste... I have been watching every video on here and on Edna's website. I enjoyed making the Calla Lillies I made last weekend. I want to make more.... I may order Edna's video, I love here tutorials on her site. Those flowers looked so real, they were beutiful. I am going to take a weekend play with them. I do have a cricut and plan to use it for the cutting. I have the cartidges that have most of the cutters I would need, even thought sometimes I think the cutters would be simplier. Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to dive into my gumpaste.
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Permalink Reply by lisa yanoschak on
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hi! i think your decision not to buy the cricut cake was a smart decision. there is an art to gumpaste flowers that can never be mass produced by a machine. i'll leave cricut to the less experienced decorators. you're absolutely right when you say each flower takes on a life of it's own when brushed. it's very therapeutic also. glad to know others will preserve this beautiful art in cake decorating.
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Permalink Reply by jeri c on
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Diana, I have some bakers racks like that but they are not tall enough to hang the flowers from and mine are not real sturdy so I could see a gumpaste disaster with mine!
Gretchen, I looked into the cricut and almost bought it but I know how much work it is to use my paper one and thought I'd just buy more cutters instead. I agree I think the cutters are simpler for flowers but maybe not for letters since there are not many options for letters.
I need to get off here tonight though... lots to do for this weekend.
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Permalink Reply by Teresita (Terry) Hernandez on
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The flowers are beautiful. You did a great job!
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Permalink Reply by Jane Gaddes on
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Fantastic work!!!!
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