My latest project. The design is inspired from a book I just bought (I will update what book when I get hold of it). This is one of the designs that I fell in love with. I am just happy my customer liked the design too.
I was intimidated to do this design, the usual feeling that I get everytime I start a new project. It's also been ages since I made gumpaste gerberas. I think the last time I made gerberas was when I was learning it in class. I was really excited that she wanted a gerbera. It is one of my favourite flowers. But the challenge was to figure how to make it without wires. The hard part was doing the centre shorter petals, to make it stand. It was hard to dry it as I was not able to hang the flower upside down with the help of wires. I was pretty successful eventually. But I know I can make a better, more realistic looking gerberas.
Decorating the sides of the cake was scary at first. The most important tool was a ruler. Without a ruler, you will never get the correct overlapping size. After a while, I got the hang of it. Truth be told, it was quite fun. Then I had to the the words. I am still trying to improve a lot on my wordings. Hence, this is my first hand custom made fondant words. I made strings of fondant with the claygun and free form the letters. The white dots are made from Royal Icing. Dots and Royal Icing are my forte. The most important tip for dots is to use PME tips. I use PME No. 1 tip.
The new project received quite a number of compliments from my family members and I really love it a lot. It's e type of design I like. I like contemporary designs, vibrant colours. And the flexibility of this design is quite commendable. I can imagining some colour schemes that will give it a vintage look.
