Need Color Help!! Please!! Blue Hydrangeas
Decorating By Mommy23 Updated 18 Jun 2009 , 6:24pm by Mommy23
I see lots of pretty hydrangea cake photos but I can't seem to get the color blue right!! I am putting silk Hydrangeas on the cake but want the border blue. What color/s should I be using to get the right shade of blue. I realize Hydrangeas vary in shade but I am not getting any where close. I have wilton Delphinium and cornflower, Americolor, sky, Royal, electric, navy, turquoise etc. I have 5 bowls of colors mixed up and nothing even close!! I need this cake for Friday, any help would be appreciated Thanks.
okay I have tried all your suggestions and still not getting it. Any other ideas? I am feeling color challenged right now! My hydrangeas are definitely more blue with very little if any purple hue to them. UGH! DOn't understand why I am having so much trouble with this.
Thanks,
Erica
What color blue are they?? Are they more a navy or robins egg??? Maybe if you could post a picture of them it would help us to help you better.
Sorry, left my camera at church but it is very similar to the ones on this cake done by Steady2Hands. Maybe a little lighter.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1217270
idjitmom -- does chalk work the same as the dust powders? Where did you find chalk?
Yes, pretty much. The colors are a bit more muted, at least in my limited experience. I got a big thing (like 72 I think) of chalk at Michaels for $2.50 (after a 50% off coupon), & then just grated what I needed off the side w/ a serated steak knife.
Here's the hydreangeas:
I am not able to get a blue color either that I like. I wanted a baby blue and have most of the colors that Mommy23 has. I wantd a baby blue - not a pale baby blue a medium baby blue. Got every color but - most were more towards the aqua, turq, robin's egg hue. Adding violet or any kind of purple or pink then gives you perwinkle or something with a lilac cast to it. Very frustrating.
Glad I am not the only one, Blues and Greens give me the most problems. Though I have worked through most of my green issues. LOL. I just can't get the Blue right. I have tried every combinations and every time I add even the tiniest bit of violet my blue turns lilac. Then there is the issue that in my kitchen the color may be blue but if I walk into my living room the color turns very purple. Its the lighting I know but there is a huge difference in the colors so I wonder what the lighting will be like where the cake is going. LOL.
Not sure what I am going to do yet. Still mixing and trying different things, hopefully I can get something to come together by tomorrow.
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