FMM Easiest Peony & Leaf Cutter - 3 Set

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bone tool (for softening edge of petals and frilling petals, also included as standard in most modelling tool sets)

To make one fully open peony, start with the centre: Take three wires and put a hook in the end of each. Take three small balls of white paste approx 3mm diameter, shape each into a cone and flatten slightly. Curve the tip and place the hooked end of a wire dipped into glue, into the base of each. Leave to dry.

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Brush a line of glue along the length of the paste just above the centre. Fold in half lengthwise and brush another line of glue along the bottom edge. Roll up around the ball, starting the roll as tightly as possible. Take the second small piece and repeat the process. Repeat with the two larger pieces. This will give you a reasonably large peony, but you may add more pieces until you have the size required. Leave to dry. Use a JEM veining tool to create texture on the surface. If you do not have a JEM veining tool, you can also use an ordinary veining tool. Moving down the sides of the petal, roll the bone tool up and down along the edge of the petal to soften/thin the edges. (The bone tool will be half on, half off the petal as you thin the edges.) Next, rub a little vegetable fat onto your work board and roll out your gumpaste thinly (but not so thin that you can see through it).

Roll out the green gumpaste thinly. Use the first part of the calyx cutter or template to cut out 3 calyx for each bud. Curling the scallops of each petal inwards is the key to getting a nice cupped shaped petal when you go to assemble the peony.) Bend a hook in the peony wire and hang on a flower drying stand or from a mug tree to dry completely.

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Starting slightly higher than the last row of petals, arrange the third row of petals around the styro ball, overlapping each petals over the previous one. So if you’ve been meaning to get started learning how to make sugar flowers, then you’ve run out of excuses because we’ve come up with a fail-safe gumpaste peony tutorial for you to try.

This first row of petals won’t cover the styro ball completely, but the later rows of petals will so don’t worry about that at this stage. Take a piece of white florist’s tape (giving it a little stretch to activate the in-built adhesive), then starting approximately 1.5 inches from the top of the three wires, tape the three pieces together.Roll paste out very thinly and cut out two shapes with the smaller cutter, and two shapes with the larger cutter. Working on the smaller pieces first, thin the petal edges all round with either the ball tool, or the end of the rolling pin. Then, using either of these tools, ball each petal to curve inwards – do this along one side, then turn paste over and ball the second side. This will ensure that all the petals curve inwards the same way. Using a styrofoam centre and just four rows of petals, learn how to make this easy peony with our step-by-step instructions below.

If you find that there is quite a bit of excess petal around the base (this is what I had), don’t worry, just cut the excess petal away and neaten as best as possible. It may look a bit messy at this stage, but this will be covered with the calyx. Thinking of making your own sugar peonies from scratch? Follow our simple step-by-step instructions below to find out how… The petals should pretty much cover the underside of the styrofoam ball at this stage If not, we can tidy it up with the fourth row of petals.Closed Small Bud - You will only need to cut 3 petals for this bud size using the small petal cutter or small petal template. To create your paste you can use equal quantities of sugar paste and Cake Star modelling paste together, or simply use sugar flower paste. Knead well and add colour if required ( you may want to make the colour for the centre petals a darker shade, graduating to a paler shade for the outer petals). Make a ball of paste which, when measured against a petal in the small cutter, fits well inside it. Elongate the ball slightly. The secret to our method is in creating perfectly cupped scalloped petal tips and attaching the petals whilst still pliable so the flower can be easily molded into the perfect cup-shaped peony in your hand. Place the calyx into the centre of the palm of you hand and use a ball tool to cup and shape the calyx.