a selection of picture gumpaste leaf tutorials from Lovely Tutorials, including how to arrange leaves on a stem 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). Depending on your cake design, choose from individually wired flowers that can be added to a spray, or whole sprays of flowers that include leaves and we also have a great range of piped roses and wafer daisies that can be simply popped straight onto a cupcake! Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate these incredibly realistic and vibrant Red Cymbidium Orchids. Customers inspired by a YouTube clip can pop in to buy the materials they need to bring their creations to life. Nothing can compete with having a friendly, face to face chat with like-minded people who are happy to share their experiences.

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. 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. The book's simple instructions and detailed photographs of all stages make it easy to achieve flawless results. Each chapter reveals how to create beautiful variations of each flower using just a handful of tools. Whether you're creating a wedding centrepiece or looking to expand your skills, Naomi's expert tips and techniques will help you make unique sugar flowers that are as beautiful as the real thing. Sugar foliage is often overlooked when creating beautiful floral cake designs but this is set to change with foliage taking centre stage in the lavish new botanical sugar flower cake designs of top cake designers. Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate these incredibly realistic & timeless Japanese maple leaf stems.Please do not throw any incorrect items as we may ask you to return it to us – we will, of course, cover the cost of your postage in these circumstances.

This is a fantastic showy flower which would look stunning on its own in a vase or as part of a seasonal arrangement. It’s a wired rose in that it is built on a single supporting wire but the petals do not have to be wired individually. The rose comes to about 9cm/3.5 inches when finished.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. This tutorial is aimed for the intermediate student level, 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. A very simple sugar flower – no wires, just five small petals – gumpaste pansies are wonderful to have on hand for decorating your home baking. Learn how to make these little wonders in our gumpaste pansy tutorial here. Lavender is a much sought after bloom for decorating naked wedding cakes but what do you do when it’s out of season? You turn to our easy gumpaste lavender tutorial of course! T Bakes, Portugal have incorporated foliage beautifully in their peach and white ruffled design below for a natural, garden style wedding cake, perfect for a summer wedding.

If you are looking to make an arrangement similar to this one, you will want to give yourself two to three days to allow for drying time and colouring.For our customers in Northern Ireland with a ‘BT’ postcode, please note that any deliveries will most likely take three days to arrive, on 2 Day Northern Ireland Delivery. The wonderful camera work within this tutorial show in finite detail all the processes need to craft these elegant botanically correct leaves. Fabulous colouring and shading gives an incredibly real touch to the beautiful sugar floristy and foliage below by Shaile’s Edible Art. Traditional English roses are given a beautiful cottage garden feel with the addition of soft green foliage in a very pretty wedding cake design by Nice Icing, UK. 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.