What is Petal Dust?

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In this clip, we're going to talk about the different types of dust you can use to highlight your gum paste flowers. There are three basic kinds of dust. What we have here is petal dust and it comes in a wide variety of colors and the petal dust has a matte finish to it. There's also luster dust on the market and the luster dust have an iridescent look to them. And then the last type they have is a sparkle dust which has a coarser grain to it and when applied to your flowers, gives the glittery look to it. So, today, we're going to highlight the calla lily that we made earlier today. And I have here the moss green and some lime green and I've blended it together to get the shade that I want for the bottom base here of my calla lily. So, just around the very bottom, I'm going to brush and shade and highlight this bottom piece here. Then, I'm going to take the lime color, and right behind our center in here, I'm going to add some shading. I just use any old craft brushes, whether they be natural bristle, I like to get them in different shapes that help me get into certain areas. And, another thing that you can do is, once you highlighted, is over a tea kettle or a pot of boiling water, you can just hold your flower over the steam for a few seconds to get rid of the powdery look and to set the color. Just for a few seconds though, you don't want to wilt the flower, so you have to do that cautiously. And then, over here, another what you can do is I have a plum color here in the petal dust and it's a little bit dark for what I want, so I added in some cornstarch to lighten up the shade. And on our rose here, we're going to just highlight the back of the petals. It's such a subtle touch but it really makes a difference in your finished flower. And then, in the center and around all the edges. Sometimes, I like to take the tip of my finger and just go around the edges. And, again, you can do the step with the steam to seal this all. And there is your highlighted. And that's how you use your petal dust on your finished flowers.

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