For the last little while I have been wanting to learn to make sugarpaste flowers. I have a cousin that is amazing at it! (Hi Lyn) So I have been watching you tube clips and reading up and slowly putting together the techniques in my head. I have had a couple of attempts at roses that were truly pathetic. Yesterday I woke up and felt inspired to try again, so here is attempt number 3.
The best thing I could have done for my flower making efforts is to buy a pasta machine, it rolls the sugarpaste so thin and evenly and makes it easier to keep things uniform. I have a long, long way to go though. I started out in this rose rolling to number 3 on the pasta machine and then changed to 5 which is why the middle petals are thicker than the outside ones.
Once I uploaded this picture I realised how ragged my edges look, it is all progress though and as I keep telling my son, practice makes perfect!
The ragged edges make it look authentic, very pretty makes me want roses on my cake! Not my theme though, dang it (this is Kim.A :o))
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