Making Leaves with Gum Paste

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In this clip we're going to talk about making leaves and one of the things you're going to need for making leaves is a place to dry them. Now, you can use this egg crate foam, which is nice because of all the indentations, as the leaves dry, it puts a nice curl, natural curl to the leaf. If you don't have something like this around the house, you can also do it with a piece of foil, just crumpled up foil and you can still get the same effect. So that's for your leaves to dry on. Over here, I want to talk about cutters, there are several on the market. In the craft stores, or cake decorating stores, you'll find the cookie cutter type like these. And you'll also find, in cake decorating stores, something like this that will actually cut and add the veining to it at the same time, so that saves you a step. And I really like this kind here. But, if you don't find this type that actually does it in one step, you can also get these silicon veiners, on line sources and cake decorating stores. After you cut your leaf, you would put it in the veiner and press. And we're going to do that right now with a piece of thumb paste here they I've rolled out. So, first I'll show you the all in one that you just simply press in and this has a little plunger on it and as you plunge down it adds the veining. And as you can see, so to give it that more realistic you can bend it, you can set in your egg crate to dry and that's real simply and easy in one step. The other way would be to use the cookie cutter type of cutter. Pop that out, take our silicon veiner, and when you place these in here, you can to line up your bottom with the center line, center vein, at the top and the bottom. Make sure that everything lines up. Just a little squeeze and you get a real realistic looking leaf. Now if you want to put these on a wire, I use the small twenty two gage wire, and just pressing it, feeding it through, take your time as you do this, you can actually feel the wire going in, and I have it go about two-thirds of the way and then I'll pinch it and give it a little curl and set it on my foam or my egg crate to dry. Now once those are dry, you can dust them with these petal dusts. And here we have, I'll show you before I dust them, I finish them off, the stems, just like we did in the rose bud, wrapping and finishing off the stem. So once that finished off, you can take, I have here moss green, and brush it on the surface and the veining and all. And you can do the back side. Another nice touch I like to do is take just a little bit of color, and you usually use the color if you are putting this in a spray with a rose, like say the rose spray and just add a little bit of the color on the edges. And a little bit on the back. And there you have your finished leaf.

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