PEONY FLOWER TUTORIAL

PEONY FLOWER TUTORIAL

Apr 30, 2021 | Flowers

Author: Barbara Burzynska

FB: Cake Land By Basia

Skill level: BEGINNERS

TIP:

You may find the flower paste a bit sticky. Use corn flour to prevent this.

You will need:

  • Saracino flower paste Pasta Bouquet

  • Saracino colour powder yellow and green

  • Flower wires gauge 26

  • Small peony cutters by The Crafty Cutter Lady 

  • Medium and large peony veiner by Sugar Art Studio 

  • Work board

  • Deep plastic teaspoons

  • Powder coloiurs light, dark green and gold

  • Powder brush

  • White lily flower stamens

  • Florist tape

  • Dresden tool

  • Flower foam mat

  • Work board with grooves  

  • CelCakes

  • Paper towel

  • Scissors

  • Drying foam 
  • Leaf cutter
  • Ball tool 
  • Leaf veiner 

Step 1

For the middle you need about 6g of green paste, divide it into 3 parts and form it into a cone.

Step 2

Add a little glue to the end of your wire and insert into the cones. Leave to dry completely (about 10 hours).

Step 3

Prepare three sizes of peony cutters: small, medium and large.

Step 4

Colour your white Pasta Bouquet with yellow. Roll on your board over the groove and using the smallest cutter cut out 3 petals.

Step 5

Twist the wire into the petals about 3/4 length of the petal.

Step 6

Dust your veiner with corn flour. Place your petal on the veiner and gently press to achieve the structure.

Step 7

Your petals should look like this. 

Step 8

Using your Dresden tool drag it along the petal at various intervals from the top to 1/3 of the petal length. Repeat the action for the next two.

Step 9

The edge of the petal should be curled and raised.

Step 10

Put the petals on teaspoons and let them dry completely.

Step 11

Using medium size cutter cut out 12 petals and follow the steps above with veining and adding a flower wire. Make sure you keep the petals covered with film while making each one.

Step 12

And again follow the steps to make large petals. We will need 7 of these. 

Step 13

Place the petals as follow: 3 smallest petals – 5 medium petals – 7 large petals – 7 medium petals. Let them all dry. Drying time depends on humidity.

Step 14

Prepare a piece of paper towel, brushes and powders and pre-prepared cones. Mix both green powder colours. 

Step 15

Starting from the bottom darken all the cones as desired. 

Step 16

Apply a little maroon powder on the brush.

Step 17

Lightly powder the top of each cone with the maroon powder.

Step 18

Using your yellow powder and a brush dust the tips of the stamens. Turn over and make sure you cover all sides. 

Step 19

Cut the stamens in half.

Step 20

Fix the dried cones together and cover them using green floral tape. 

Step 21

Using floral tape start adding stamens.

Step 22

Work all the way around to achieve this look.

Step 23

Prepare the smallest size petal and bend the wire slightly. Attach to the stem using florist tape as shown.

Step 24

Add another two smallest petals.

Step 25

Prepare five medium size petals, bend the wire a little at the petal and repeat as in step 23.

Step 26

Prepare seven largest size petals, bend the wires a little and repeat step 23.

Step 27

Prepare last seven medium size petals, bend the wires a little and repeat step 23. 

Step 28

Your peony should look like this. 

Step 29

Colour your white Pasta Bouquet with green powder. Roll on your board and use a cutter to cut out a leaf.

Step 30

Twist the wire up to 3/4 of the leaf and place on the veiner. Press the top of the veiner to achieve the texture.

Step 31

Using ball tool smooth the edges. 

Step 32

Place on the foam and let it dry for few hours.

Step 33

Using green colour powder dust the leaf. Also use some claret powder to dust the edge of your leaf.

Step 34

Using green floral tape fix the leaf to the flower. 

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CUTE BABY HIPPO

CUTE BABY HIPPO

Mar 10, 2020 | Cakes, Modelling

Author: Tina Scott Parashar

FB: TINA SCOTT PARASHAR’S CAKE DESIGN

Skill level: BEGINNERS

TIP:

Tina recommends drying the parts before attaching them to each other. The body especially should dry a couple of hours before you place the head so that it can support the head. Also, if you pre-make the hole where the stick will go in, it helps with drying out the centre of the body faster.

You will need:

  • Saracino modelling paste white coloured with grey
  • Light pink dust for dusting
  • Pre-coloured red wafer paper
  • Red colour gel
  • Wooden cocktail stick
  • Ball tools
  • Dresden tool
  • Sugar shaper
  • Pointed tool
  • Fine paint brush
  • Brush for dusting

Step 1

Take a ball of the coloured Saracino modelling paste, roll it into a sausage shape and then make one end thinner than the other.

Step 2

Use your hands to shape the piece to give the tummy its rounded shape.

Step 3

Using your tool, mark a little V at the bottom to shape it’s cute bottom. 😉

Step 4

Using your sugar shaper, mark the line on the back.

Step 5

Cut the top to get a flat shape for the head to sit on. Insert the skewer and remove it, so that when you leave it to dry, it dries faster in the centre as well.

Step 6

Using your sugar shaper, mark the hip and leg joint.

Step 7

Take two sausage shapes (one thicker for the legs and one thinner for the arms). Cut both into half.

Step 8

Using your fingers shape the ankle, thighs and feet.

Step 9

Use your tool to shape the feet further.

Step 10

Attach the legs to the body. Blend to hide the joint.

Step 11

This is how it will look. You can now adjust the feet the way you would like.

Step 12

Now for the arms, bend the sausage shape to get an almost ‘U’ shape. Use your tool to mark the hand and shape it.

Step 13

Attach the arms to the body. Blend the paste to hide the joint.

Step 14

Take a thin sausage shape of the paste and flatten it at one end to make the tail.

Step 15

Attach the tail to the body and blend the joints. Now let the body dry for at least an hour before placing the head on so that it will support the weight of the big head.

Step 16

Take a big ball of paste. Make sure its bigger than the body.

Step 17

Using your little finger shape the face.

Step 18

Use your tool to mark the lines for the face.

Step 19

Place the head at the required angle on the body. Make your baby Hippo smile using your tool.

Step 20

Using your tool, make the nostrils. Make a hole and then pull the paste out a little to form the flare of the nostrils

Step 21

Smooth the paste around the nostrils with your fingers.

Step 22

Using your ball tool, mark the eyes.

Step 23

Mark the eyebrows. We will paint it later, but it helps to first mark it so that you are happy with the placement of the brows.

Step 24

Mark little dots above the mouth.

Step 25

Take a small piece of paste and cut it into two.

Step 26

Use your tool to shape the ears.

Step 27

Attach the ears to the head, folding it a little at the base to shape it.

Step 28

Insert two black balls of paste into the eye sockets to form the eyes.

Step 29

Using your ball tool, mark two small holes for the twinkle in the eyes!

Step 30

Dust the baby rhino with pink for the cheeks, ears and the other details on the face and body.

Step 31

Take a tiny piece of paste and form it into a V shape for the hair.

Step 32

Attach the V to the head and shape it the way you would like it to sit on the baby rhino.

Step 33

Using a thin brush, paint the eyebrows and other details.

Step 34

Add the twinkle to the eyes by taking two tiny white balls and filling the holes made using the tiny ball tool.

Step 35

Using red gel colour and a fine brush paint the little heart on the baby hippo’s bottom.

Step 36

Take a thin flower wire and two red pieces of wafer paper and cut it into two equal heart shapes. Attach a piece either side of the wire and paint the paper to give a light and shadow 3d effect. Add tiny triangle shapes at the bottom of the hearts to look like a balloon tied at the bottom. Alternatively, you could also make the balloon with modelling paste.

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DAHLIA FLOWER TUTORIAL

DAHLIA FLOWER TUTORIAL

Feb 22, 2019 | Flowers

Author: Katarzyna  Koczorowska

FB: Katarzynka Sztuka Cukrowa

Skill level: BEGINNERS

TIP:

You may find the flower paste a bit sticky. Use corn flour to prevent this.

You will need:

  • Pasta Bouquet Saracino
  • Powder colours red, orange, yellow and green
  • Gauge wires 20, 26, 28
  • Grooved board
  • Small ball tool
  • Nonstick roller
  • Dahlia cuters and veiners 5cm and 4cm
  • Universal leaf cutter and veiner
  • Flower center veiner
  • Small daisy cutter
  • Green floral tape
  • Foam drying pad

Step 1

Add a bit of yellow powder colour to the paste and mix well.

Step 2

Roll out the paste over the groove on the board. Cut out the petals and squeeze them on the 5cm veiner. Put in the 28 gauge wire. We need ten of them, then they need to dry on the spoons. Put leftover paste in a plastic bag to prevent drying out.

Step 3

You can put the wire in the petals much easier if you do it on the board or alternatively you can do it on your hand. .

 

Step 4

Insert the wire half way into the petal.

Step 5

Remember to dry petals with their upper half facing up.

Step 6

Alternatively you can make white petals and dust them with powder afterwards.

Step 7

Use your fingers to squeeze the top of the petal.

Step 8

Cut ten 4cm petals and squeeze them on the veiner. Put in the 28 gauge wire. Dry them on the foam mat.

Step 9

Twist five of the smaller petals at the bottom

Step 10

Do a small loop at the end of the 20 gauge wire and insert into a small ball of paste that has been shaped in flower center former.

TIP: Dip the wire into the glue OR heat it before inserting.

Step 11

Add a bit of green powder colour to a fresh piece of paste.

Step 12

Cut out the leaves and squeeze them on the veiner. Insert the 26 gauge wire. Dry them on the foam board.

Step 13

Mix the colours to add more shades to dust the leaves.

Step 14

Dust the bigger petals with powder. Start from colouring them yellow, make the edges orange and then colour the tip red.

Step 15

Paint smaller petals the same as bigger ones, except add a bit more of red on the edges.

Step 16

Dust flower center green. You can put all petals in one place to make assembling easier.

Step 17

Wrap the flower center wire with green floral tape. You need to strech the tape for it to start adhering.

Step 18

Start adding small twisted petals below the flower center.

Step 19

Put them as close to the green center as possible.

Step 20

Add the remainder of the small petals below the twisted ones.

Step 21

Add all the big petals, they too need to be placed as high as possible.

TIP: Keep your florist tape as tight as possible.

Step 22

Arrange all petals evenly.

Step 23

Cut out small daisy using the green coloured paste. This is to form the calyx. Shape it with the small ball tool. Glue it with water to the bottom of the flower.

Step 24

Wrap the leaf wires with green tape, about 2 cm down the wire.

Step 25

Attach first leaf to the flower stem.

Step 26

Add the rest of the leaves.

Step 27

Finished dahlia made with Pasta Bouquet Saracino.

Step 28

Saracino Paste can be rolled out very thin, to the point that you can read through it. That feature is very helpful, especially when creating delicate roses.

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CREATING VARIOUS COLOURS with SUGARWHIZZ

CREATING VARIOUS COLOURS with SUGARWHIZZ

Feb 1, 2019 | Modelling, Painting

Author: Lynsey Wilton-Eddleston

FB: SUGARWHIZZ

Skill level: BEGINNERS

FROM LYNSEY:

Never underestimate the power of colour! It’s such an important factor in making your creations beautiful, bold and unique to you. With Saracino gel colours its incredibly easy to create a never-ending range of colours, tints and shades, guaranteed to make your masterpiece stand out from the crowd. There’s a strange phenomenon in cake land that leads you to believe you need to own hundreds of pots of colour in all, shapes, sizes and colours. When the truth is you don’t. You only really need a few basic colours and a little knowledge to set you on your way. 

For this tutorial we’re going to concentrate on Saracino gel colours, however the same principles apply to the dust colours too. I’m going to show you a few basic steps and introduce you to a few colours to start you on your way. 

 

You will need:

  • Saracino Gel Colours:
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Pink
  • Red
  • Violet
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Brown
  • Black
  • Skin Tone

Take the amount of paste you need, knead and soften the paste until it is smooth. Using a clean cocktail stick, apply a small amount of gel colour to the centre of the paste. Fold the paste over so the colour is contained and begin to knead the paste gently. Keep kneading until the colour is unified and streak free. Add more gel colour a little at a time and repeat the kneading process until you reach your desired colour. The more gel colour you add the darker the shade will be.  If the paste becomes too warm during colouring it will appear soft and sticky. Don’t worry this isn’t permanent and can be solved easily by placing the paste in a clean food bag and leaving to cool down for a while. Once cool the paste will firm up again and will be easy to handle. For dark shades it is often best to colour your paste 12 – 24 hours before and leave to settle, the colour will develop more and the paste will be easier to work. For lighter shades you can colour and use immediately.

First up this may seem obvious but the simplest way to gain a variety of tints and shades is by adding different quantities of gel colour to white paste.

It’s impossible to give you the exact quantities needed to achieve each shade as it depends on how much paste you want to colour. Therefore, the easiest way is to experiment, start with a small amount of gel colour to create the lightest shade, increase the amount of gel colour a little at a time to create darker shades until you reach the colour you desire. The more practise you have colouring paste the quicker you learn to judge how much gel colour you need. 

I’ve given you examples of five different shades for each colour obviously there are many more shades depending on the quantity of gel colour you add.

Hard to believe but this cake was made and coloured using only Saracino Gels and dusts.

 

Saracino Gel Colour – RED

Saracino Gel Colour – Yellow

Saracino Gel Colour – Orange

Saracino Gel Colour – Blue

Saracino Gel Colour – Green

Saracino Gel Colour – Pink

Saracino Gel Colour – Violet

Saracino Gel Colour – Flesh

Saracino Gel Colour – Brown

Saracino Gel Colour – Black

For the tutorial I only needed small amounts to demonstrate so used around 2g for A however A can be any quantity, it doesn’t matter how much you have of A the scale is still the same.

B is roughly ½ the quantity of A. 

C is roughly ¼ the quantity of A.

D is roughly 1/8 the quantity of A.

For example, if A was 100g, B would be 50g, C would be 25g and D would be 12.5g .We’ve used these amounts as examples in the mixing guide that follows.

This should help you in scaling up and down for colouring whatever quantity of paste you need.

TOP TIP – When creating a new shade or colour, start small. Mix the colour you need with just a few grams of paste, keep a note of your combination and quantities. Then when you have the colour you desire, scale up the amounts. This way you wont waste huge amounts of paste if you create the wrong colour. 

Let the mixing begin…

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Grey 100g + Blue 25g 
  2. Blue 100g + Black 12.5g 
  3. Blue 100g + Black 12.5g + Violet 12.5g
  4. Blue 100g + Black 50g + Violet 50g

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Blue 100g + Green 50g 
  2. Green 100g + Black 50g 
  3. Green 100g + Yellow 12.5g + Violet 12.5g
  4. Flesh 100g + Green 50g + Black 12.5g

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Yellow 100g + Blue 12.5g 
  2. Yellow 100g + Blue 50g
  3. Yellow 100g + Green 12.5g + Violet 12.5g
  4. Grey 100g + Green 25g 

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Pink 100g + Blue 25g 
  2. Violet 100g + Blue 50g 
  3. Pink 100g + Violet 25g
  4. Violet 100g + Red 50g

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Red 100g + Pink 100g 
  2. Red 100g + Violet 12.5g 
  3. Red 100g + Brown 50g 
  4. Red 100g + Black 12.5g 

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Orange 100g + Brown 12.5g 
  2. Orange 100g + Blue 50g 
  3. Brown 100g + Red 25g 
  4. Brown 100g + Black 50g 

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Grey 100g + Orange 50g
  2. Grey 100g + Brown 25g 
  3. Flesh 100g + Red 12.5g + Black 12.5g
  4. Grey 100g + Brown 50g + Green 12.5g + Red 12.5g + Black 12.5g

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Yellow 100g + Orange 12.5g 
  2. Flesh 100g + Yellow 50g + Red 12.5g 
  3. Orange 100g + Red 25g 
  4. Orange 100g + Red 100g

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Grey 100g + Violet 25g 
  2. Grey 100g + Red 25g 
  3. Grey 100g + Pink 25g 
  4. Grey 100g + Yellow 50g 

Left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Yellow. 100g + Flesh 12.5g 
  2. Flesh 100g + Yellow 12.5g 
  3. Flesh 100g + Pink 12.5g 
  4. Flesh 100g + Blue 12.5g + Brown 12.5g

Now you’ve got a whole palette of colours to play with it’s a good time to point out that just like the original gels these new colours can by multiplied into many different, tints, shades and tones.

Tint – A tint is created by adding more white paste to your colour making it lighter.

Shade – A shade is created by adding more black paste to your colour making it darker

Tone – A tone is created by adding grey, or both black and white to your colour.

Last but not least is this little beauty… Saracino White gel colour. Which can be used for lightening colours. However, I usually just use white paste and I save this for magical things, like mixing it with a small amount of clear alcohol (or cool boiled water) and painting details such as the whites of eyes, highlighting and shading my creations, or simply painting patterns onto sugar work! The only limit on this one is your imagination.

Of course, this also applies to the full range of Saracino gel and dust colours. You can mix them individually with a small amount of clear alcohol or water or combine the gel and dust colours together to create endless new colours. All of which can then be used to paint and shade your creations, here are some of my favourite examples…

The most important thing to remember is to be brave, experiment and have fun! 

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