My first GP flowers :) - Page 2

Thanks!

dawnybird: I used the PME cutters for both The daisies were delicate because I think I rolled the GP too thin. Then, I used the flower/leaf tool to thin/texture each petal by hand. I stopped balling them first, because they were already pretty thin

I layered only two of the same size, then placed them on an inverted crystal tumbler, which had nice snowflake-like groves in it that forced the petals to separate from each other nicely as it dried. Here is a picture of the bottom of the glass:



Thanks for the nice comments!

As for the carnations--I used the PME cutters, but it took dozens of trials and errors to get them to look like they did.

I finally got a good method down, and believe it or not, it was using accessories not meant for flower making I think I posted that elsewhere on the forum--my make shift flower making supplies, when I didn't have the proper stuff. I eventually got the flower foam pads, but after using those for awhile, preferred my makeshift ways

I first made little "tear drop" shaped GP pieces for each flower, and let them dry (they looked almost like those candy-coated sunflower seeds). I cut out one circle using the smallest carnation cutter, balled it from the center outward, on my makeshift facial pad-covered-in-plastic-wrap Placed it on the backside of my hard rubber veiner mat, and used the "bulbulous cone" tool to frill each petal segment. Specifically, I rolled each segment first just to stretch it out, then went back over each a bit more to get the edges to fray.

Then, I lightly moistened the first circle petal and squeezed it around the hardened teardrop shape and placed in my upside down icing tip container--perfectly sized holes for these to set up in, while still allowing the petal tips to remain fluffy!!!

I repeated this with another cutout from the smallest circle and placed that around each of the drying buds. Then I put another two rounds from the medium cutter on each--for a total of 4 cutouts per flower.

I knew these would be set on top of cupcakes, to the base of each flower is not true to the carnation. So, if you plan on showing the undersides, I would follow the stem tutorials on that.

If I knew how to make tutorials, I would share this whole process visually!