pink blossoms

pink gumpaste blossoms Easy how to for pink gumpaste blossoms. You will need some gumpaste tools, empty egg carton, pink gumpaste, shortening, paint brush, and pink lustre dust. Grease your hands, and flat clean surface with gumpaste. Then take out your Pink gumpaste, and begin kneading it in your hands. www.etsy.com/kanekl www.imadeitmyself.com/KANEsUgAr Handmade gumpaste flowers, edible cake toppers, chocolate truffles, caramels, and marzipan. http://www.madeitmyself.com/KANEsUgAr Handmade gumpaste flowers, edible cake toppers, chocolate truffles, caramels, and marzipan. To make Pink blossoms, your going to need. Pink colored gumpaste, royal icing, shortening, paint brush, empty egg carton, and lustre dust. grease your hands, and a clean flat surface with shortening. Take a small portion of gumpaste, and knead it in your hands, until pliable. Use your small rolling pin, roll out your gumpaste really thin. Once you've rolled out your gumpaste, use your blossom center, and begin punching out flowers. Dont punch out more than a few at a time, so your gumpaste wont dry out. Take a small rounded end tool, roll it over edges of blossoms. Make sure before you roll out your flowers, that your flower cutouts, are on the foam and sponge mat. With pointy end of tool it with a stem thermometer, poke center of flower, so theres a little dent. Be careful not to puncture center of flower. Allow flowers to dry out, in an empty egg carton. Take out tiny amount of Pink gumpaste. Be sure grease hands. Roll out tiny pieces of gumpaste, in between your two index fingers. Dry aside in egg carton to dry. Take out royal icing, and a paint brush. Brush centers of blossom cutouts, with a little royal icing. Place small pieces of gumpaste, into centers of blossom cutouts. Again Allow to dry. Once centers of blossoms are dried in place. Take pink lustre dust, and a paint brush, and brush petals of your blossoms. Tada your done, yay! WearGuard� Clearance Sale - up to 80% off! Cherry blossom trees: Cherry trees and cherry blossoms-both known as sakura-are a big deal in Japan. The pink flowers of the favorite cherry species, Yoshino sakura, last only for a three or four days. Their short but sweet existence has been glorified and romanticized inapanese poems, kabuki plays and paintings over the centuries. A falling cherry blossom has traditionally been the symbol of a brave young samurai or kamikaze warrior whose life was snuffed in the prime of his youth. In old samurai movies, often a samurai died, the camera focuses on his dead body and then panned to a cherry tree.