close up of gum paste rose and pearls

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Comment by Maria Kyriopoulos on November 24, 2011 at 9:48am

Beautiful. The colour came out amazing. I also want to know what did you use for the stem and leaves ?

Comment by Glenna Bryant on June 14, 2011 at 9:40pm

Hi! Janet very pretty.

Comment by Janet M. Hall on June 13, 2011 at 11:19am

Maria,

 

For coloring the rose, I made the gum paste for the center petals a brick red using quite a bit of color and for the outside ones a lighter red color.  The reason for this is that is is really difficult to dust the inside petals and to make them look real they need to have deep color all the way down into the shadows.  Once it was dry I dusted it with a burgundy petal dust and then came back and highlighted here and there on petal edges with a red shimmer dust.  The burgundy dust combined with the underlying gum paste colors neutralized the purple tinge to burgundy and came out with the ruby red result.

 

Amelia, you'll get there! :)

Comment by Maria Kyriopoulos on June 13, 2011 at 9:37am

How did you get that beautiful color for the the rose?

Comment by Amelia Harris on June 13, 2011 at 9:27am

Janet,

 

Your Purse Cake is fabulous. I can't wait to get to that level of decorating.