first valentine's day bouquet

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Comment by Tiffany Whitson York on February 10, 2012 at 10:41am

Thanks, it was more of an imaginative lilly, but i see the orchid in it now! haha. I rolled a small 'worm-like' shape of the fondant in my hand-maybe an inch and a half-and then cut lines in the ends and rolled them out to be more stamen-like. Then put that on the wire.Then, since I have no real flower cutters, i used a large leaf cutter and cut out the petals, rolled out the edges, and glued three on that center piece overlaying the ends a bit.then placed the other two over them to form the star pattern.Then i dusted the center in a buttercup yellow dust,the inside of the petals I used a white shimmer dust and the edges in a poppy red dust.I then got my brush a little wet and used that same poppy red to paint the lines in the petals.The entire bouquet i got done in less then 2 hours including making the fondant so i really did not give it enough time to dry the petals in a more opened/bloomed shape.that would have been better, but this was just for practice.hope this helps!

Comment by Marcie Immell on February 10, 2012 at 7:55am

Very nice! May I ask how you made the orchid?