This is my first attempt at decorating a sphere cake with fondant and sugar paste flowers.

I wanted the sphere to be blemish free, no dent, fleck or smudge and trust me when I say I had some pretty huge disasters before I achieved that.

Next I wanted my Polyantha-ish bloom and bud to be a life like as I could make it, while keeping it light but with the foliage I wanted the shape and veins to be realistic but I wanted to give it a shiny/metal gleam of rich greens and bronze to tie the rich brown the the bloom together.