Skill level: Intermediate
Guest instructor Alexandria Murray of Fine Spun Cakes joins us today to deliver a step-by-step class on constructing, dusting and arranging sugar flowers. Alexandria offers loads of tips and tricks on how to create a wildflower arrangement out of gumpaste and wafer paper.
Alexandria breaks down how to create hypericum berries, lilacs, daisies with pollen in the center, as well as wafer paper leaves to create a stunning arrangement.
1:38:49 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to create a wild flower arrangement using gumpaste and wafer paper
- How to craft sugar flowers using a clear, concise process
- Alexandria breaks down dusting flowers into repeatable steps
- Learn tips on how to arrange flowers as a focal piece on a cake
Tutorial Chapters
- The berry tools
- Coloring the gumpaste
- Making the berries
- Making the berry calyx
- The daisy tools
- Making the daisy centers
- Dipping the daisies
- Making daisy petals
- The lilac tools
- Making the lilacs
- Coloring wafer paper leaves
- Cutting and shaping leaves
- Attaching leaves and wires
- Dusting the flowers
- Taping the flowers
- Assembling the flowers