Water Lily Tutorial

I'm really pleased with how my water lily turned out, and I want to show you the process of how I made it.

Roll some gum paste between two quarter inch dowels and use the smallest blossom cutter to  get the right amount for your base. 

Make a teardrop shape from the portion of gum paste you just cut out. Put the base on a piece of very thick spaghetti.  (I forgot to color my gum paste for the first photo, so that step happened late.)

Use the calyx/star cutter to cut at least four star shapes from yellow gum paste rolled paper thin. 

Add the star shapes to the base using gum glue. 

You want the center to be spiky, so don't press the tips of the stars all the way onto the base.  Spiky spiky spiky!

Using white gum paste, cut out two small and two large daisy  shapes. 

Curl the petals by gently pressing down and towards the center using the pencil tool. 

Brush a stripe of pink color dust in the center of each petal.

Starting with the small petals, use gum glue to attach the petals to the base. 

You can do more than four sets of petals, I just get bored easily. 

Use a large circle cutter to make your lily pad. Cut a section out and use the pointed end of the pencil tool to score the veins into the lily pad. Attach to the flower with gum glue. 

Completed water lily!