Making Gum Paste Roses

This is so great. How do you make the petal shapers. Is that foil? Or what did you use for that?

said gma1956 2005.09.08 at 20:51:56 PDT

I too would love to know about the flower formers!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!

said caryshellchloe 2005.10.29 at 12:19:09 PDT

I'd love to know how to make the flower formers too! Stacy

said nnaycats 2006.12.15 at 13:58:27 PST

This is so great, since I am a beginner. How did you make the forms? Thanks for sharing.

said gfroggy1117 2007.04.07 at 12:29:25 PDT

What a gorgeous rose!!! They look just cut. Thank you for providing such a good tutorial for making roses. I've been trying to figure out what you're using as a former here. Thanks so much for sharing this.

said sweethiacinth 2 months 19 days ago

The former was one I learned to make from Rosemary Watson. You need VERY HEAVY foil, like an oven liner or disposable roasting pan. Take your largest rose petal, trace it onto the foil, adding 1/4 inch all around. Cut it out with scissors. To get the bent edges, I bend mine back over the corner of a hard backed book. You will need 5 to 6 per rose [I have enough to work on 6 roses at once] depending on how many petals you add to the last row. Hot glue the foil pieces onto a hard board. Next, cut the handle from a plastic spoon and hot glue it upside down onto the foil piece, about 1/4 inch from the point tip of the foil where you bent it. Dust the former lightly with cornstarch. You then cut petals, hold them by their edges and slip them in to the former, bending the edges back under the curled edges of the foil. Allow them to dry 10 - 15 minutes, so that they hold their shape, the add to your rose and dry upside down. You can make roses very fast and efficiently this way, and they come out consistently each time.

said jsarnett 2 months 19 days ago

Hello i love how you have made this so easy for a beginer. Thank you very much also i would like to ask you where have you bought your cutter, I can't seam to find this cutters? thank you very much also do you have more step by step photos

said marghot01 2 months 17 days ago

The cutters in the pix are most likely from www.sugarcraft.org, but it doesn't matter....I use several types and sizes...some metal, some plastic...they all work equally well...just use whatever you have. That's the only step by step I have, other than making and using the faux fondant smoother, which can be found at http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/message/saved/FauxFondantSmoother.htm Thanks again for the compliments!

said jsarnett 2 months 17 days ago