monstar cakes: Flowers flowers flowers...

and more flowers! Plumeria and Hibiscus flowers to be exact... These flowers are one of the elements to my Art Splash cake! I've never really done gumpaste flowers before, except for roses, so I looked online for instructions and so far it seems like they are turning out okay!

Here are the links to the instructions I followed :

Plumeria: http://www.wilton.com/technique/Plumeria-Flowers
Hibiscus: http://www.duskyroseveiners.co.uk/page_1511102.html

I also invested in an airbrush machine!! Duff from Ace of Cakes is now selling an airbrush machine at Michaels and you can use the 40% off one item coupon on it! (If its not on sale) I've never used an airbrush machine so I'm not a great judge on what to look for, but I thought it worked really well! The only thing that I thought could of been better is the different settings, there's only high medium and low. To me I didn't really see a big difference on the amount of airflow on each setting therefore it might be harder to do detailed work in my opinion, but for the price who cares! Another con would be there are no instructions! so surprising... I had to look online on his website which kind of gave me more info and tips on how to use and also how to clean... Its actually very easy to clean and very easy to use, so overall I'm really happy with it and it seems like a good basic starter airbrush machine. We'll see how long it lasts!

Plumeria Flowers

Before Airbrush