Sugar Paste Flowers, con't

All my sugar paste flowers!

We finished the flowers that we started last class. They came out amazingly well! Seriously, they look natural(ish) and beautiful. While they are time consuming and somewhat tedious to make, the final product more than makes up for the effort.

Before the petal dust.

After the petal dust--see how the
color is slightly varied and the edges
aren't bright white in the light.

What makes them especially realistic is the petal dust (a sort of eatable, colored powder that you brush on dry). This gives depth to the flowers and a more realistic color to the leaves.

I'm not thrilled with the rose leaves because we didn't have the right press, so they look a little strange. But I love the roses and I'm shocked at how life-like they look.

The finished roses

Calla lilies (a.k.a arum lilies)