Sugarcraft Flowers: The Art of Creating Beautiful Floral Embellishments

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A sumptuous sugar flower display enhanced with sugar foliage creates a luxe, botancial wedding cake design below by Rosalind Miller Cakes. Gumpaste cosmos flowers make a pretty focal flower in themselves but can also lend a fabulous garden style feel to a mixed arrangement of sugar flowers, especially when blended with the more classic sugar flowers such as roses, peonies and hydrangea. Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate the incredibly realistic and eye-catching Lilac Wonder Tulip. These flowers are simple, elegant and brighten any room up if simply placed into a vase. The tulip is so adaptable in any arrangement, use the flower heads as a tightly arranged table centre piece or create a modern and sculptural contemporary display buy twisting and bending the stems to show off their elegance. a selection of picture gumpaste leaf tutorials from Lovely Tutorials, including how to arrange leaves on a stem We allow a 14-day period for any unwanted goods to be returned to us in their original condition. This is in line with all domestic web or telesales policies.

Swedish designer, Lina Veber Cake makes beautiful use of sugar foliage in her chic cake designs including her fresh, white magnolia cake below. If you are looking to make an arrangement similar to this one, you will want to give yourself two days to allow for drying time overnight. Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate these incredibly realistic & timeless Japanese maple leaf stems.This tutorial is aimed at intermediate/advanced student but with the video link in front of you even a beginner could follow the steps and with Robert’s thorough and clear instruction you should be fine no matter what your skill level. Alternative colouring options would be green, white, pink or yellow – look online for inspiration or colour to coincide with the wedding or celebration colour palette of the whole arrangement. Sugar lilac, lisianthus and freesia sugar flowers are paired with lush, verdant sugar foliage in a lavish English garden cake deisgn below by Hilary Rose Cupcakes.

Simply Nature Botanically correct Silicone Japanese Maple Leaf veiners are available to buy through www.sugardelites.com Alternatively, our neutral coloured sprays of flowers are easily customised, using the myriad of colour dusts on sale, providing a cost effective finishing touch for that special centrepiece. For our creative customers, we have all the professional quality tools and icings necessary to craft a bespoke flower spray.

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Very popular at the moment are the diamantes gems and pearls which come in a variety of colours. These can be added into any flower spray to give it a modern twist. Find these under wedding decorations. Glorious, trailing vines make a fabulous design motif in this outstanding garden style wedding cake below by Lori Hutchinson of The Caketress. (See our ad panel below for the Craftsy class by Lori Hutchinson in which Lori teaches how to paint trailing vines on fondant). Gumpaste foliage is a specialty of Shaile’s Edible Art including the beautifully coloured selection below left. On the right, white sugar flowers are lifted with an array of beautiful foliage (image by Millie Holloman Photography. With Naomi's foundation techniques, you'll learn how to shape flower paste and use the right colors for a realistic finish. Plus, you'll master the five most popular flowers for cake decorating: peonies, roses, tulips, lilies, and dahlias. From beginners to keen sugarcrafters, there are 25 step-by-step projects for everyone that will help expand your skills. No feature on sugar foliage would be complete without the designs of Amy Swann Cakes, one of the leading proponents of sugar foliage in cake decorating. Below, a luxe single tier celebration cake with a magical selection of English cottage garden flowers.

Discover the art of sugarcraft and create stunning edible flowers with the help of Naomi, a respected teacher with over 30 years of experience. Her sugarcraft book and tutorial are full of inspirational and educational content that will guide you through the essential edibles and equipment needed to get started with sugar flowers.

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We allow a 30-day period (from the date of receipt) for any faulty goods to be returned to us. See below for any product-specific exclusions/disclaimers. Amy’s designs capture the beauty of the natural world pefectly, recognizing the true beauty of delicate foliage and the natural quality it adds to sugar flowers.