okay so I quickly mention a couple of
things I use that are unusual,  this one I
use for the middle of a cosmos and maybe
some other flowers and it's just
the grass for gaming for people who make
kind of strategy games and things like
that. I  found it on Ebay.  This is the
Dusky Pink,  and these are the colors I'm
going to mix and match for actually
working with Cold Porcelain , so here you go..
and what else
that's unusual...
oh yeah if you're dusting your middle
which is perfectly fine this is what I'd
use. It's  EdAble Dusts,  this company
produces an amazing amazing
variety of dusts,  and the white
tops are edible and the black tops are
decorative only , so there goes...
in case you guys are wondering what
exactly am i trying to do here, and why
can't I just make a nice little hook to
stick my flower top on... well a little hook
here would most probably fall out
especially if you work with gum paste
This little construction is called
umbrella umbrella Center I believe and
it's just a safer, the safest and
nicest way to hold this kind of a flower
and it's important that this wire that
runs down from the little 'umbrella' runs
as perpendicular as possible
because that makes for nice and straight sitting flowers
I want you to pay
attention to just how easily this teeny
teeny weeny piece of paste drunk all the
paint I 'offered' it,  to get to the right color
if you watch my videos regularly you
probably seen me squeeze half the tube
out straight off onto the foil if I
don't use the toothpicks...
Well,  I really recommend you do 
it'll save you loads of paint and grace
this fake grass it's no faker than the
thread we normally used to make centre
of this particular flowers, I just wanted
to try it to experiment and see if I
like it.  I kind of like it I don't think
it's revolutionary and amazing but you
could argue that it gives it that little
bit of individual touch... so yeah you
could give it a go it costs about two
££ to buy it  from ebay... obviously
you might think why should I bother? Now
can you see this on this kind of a white
background for it? I don't like it I've
decided to cut it down and on a hind-side,
actually it turned out to be a good idea...
this little head keep it flat... see I'm
pinching off the excess... keep it as flat
as possible when you come to assemble
your flower you will realize that it was
a good idea for the whole aesthetics of
the flower... it's amazing how much you can
forget about making a very simple flower
if you haven't made it in a while! 
Here I would have so wish to have used a
little toothpick. This color just was so
so much way too much for a little light
shade I was looking for... unlike the
purple one in the beginning of the video
so I've ended up adding more and more
and more paste,  which would probably go
waste unless I use it for some other
flowers so bear that in mind.
Different colors work differently with
Cold Porcelain,  probably does with gum paste as well!
I think that the camera may not
have picked up on the fact that my Cold
Porcelain is rolled a little bit thicker
at the base of these flower petals, further
emphasized with the fact that they're
thinned them and I'm going to try and insert
the wire into these petals... right now.  I
have to say...the base is
rolled out a bit too thin so the wires might
just show through I'm really really
pushing the boat here, I'm really really
trying my luck but hopefully it would
work... it's actually a lot easier to wire
cold porcelain than it is with gum paste
because it tends to grab onto  the
wire a little bit better but if you see
the wire you've been warned!
So while  I'm trying to give  a bit of a
rustic touch to my Cosmos petals here,  I
just want to welcome all of you who are
watching my videos for the first time,  if
you love flowers , if you like making them
out of gum paste or cold porcelain,
please subscribe.  I do regular weekly
tutorials.  And if it's not your first
time,  if you are a regular viewer at my
channel,  i am so so so glad to see you here again!
Here with this tired petals I'm trying
to give my Cosmas flower a slightly
rustic contemporary look as I mentioned..
but I will show you another,
blue cosmos,  just to give you a
different ideas of what could be done with it
 
I am not going to lie at the moment I'm 
finding all this  fiddling with paints and
not having enough brushes to use them
separately and not being able to
properly mix them,  etc etc 
quite fiddly and not very gratifying
however I see a great potential when I
finally do it to my satisfaction,  I see a
great potential of flower's look after toning with paints, 
as opposed to edible chalk or dusts
that said  though
one of my viewers,  Thank You Christie,
she offered I mean she some suggested this
amazing chalks amazing little chalks the
color palette there is out of this world
so I am dying to try those and then
hopefully I would be confidently using
various mediums to get really nice
flower results!
Hopefully,  I was able to demonstrate well
some differences in toning ( = gently colouring)  the petals...
if you do a lot of it ( large area around  the centre, it gives 
you effect  and if you give it just a very
strong small toning it gives you
slightly different effect...
...And hopefully also you could see now why having the
middle of your Cosmos  sitting over
those petals flat and snug,  looks nicer than if the middle 
was slightly more round ...it just kind of
looks more natural I guess ...
So, just to
remind you who using cold porcelain then
when it dries the petals gonna shrink
and so if you bend them to a certain
shape like I did in this case,  the flower
is going to look smaller with the same
cutter,  just as here... also if you look at
the bigger flower at the it looks a
little bit messy the paint looks a
little bit messy it's because the middle
which I toned with color it didn't dry
and then I try to assemble it and it
kind of went over and finally this is
just what I do to make the stem graduate
nicely and naturally
