Hello this is Christina WallIs,  welcome
back, and thanks for popping in.  if it's
your first time watching my videos, I
hope you make yourself at home.  This
time I'm going to show you how to make
 Hydrangea sugar flower.
It's a lovely delicate dainty filler
flower or at least it's known as a
filler flower but it could be used by
itself as well.  I'm going to show you
how to wire it.  And I know,  I  always say that it's
easier than it seems, but this one is
really really is easier than it seems
and it's a fantastic flower to
wire, very easy, and I'll show you how to
just use little hydrangeas on cupcakes,
how to dust them nicely and make them
look perfect and very popular because
they are. They'd been really well
regarded and received by people who
order cupcakes for me and also by my
little crowd on Instagram. So, again
thanks for watching and see you next
week for my next video as well.
Those of you are new to my channel Luke
and Lucy was my first main website now
replaced by CAKELOSOPHY. So the first
thing we're going to do is a little
center for the wired Hydrangeas so I'm
using 30 gauge wire and then hook up the
very top of a wire so it doesn't fall
out on the little ball I'm going to make
now. So... prepare few balls at the time,
maybe as many as you want...and just keep them
in a plastic bag though. 
I'm using is sugar glue. You can google
it, it's very simple to make and then I
just kind of make a little 'necklace' move
like this and yeah make sure that your
little ball is sealed at the end, so it
sits on the wire firmly and then you
could take a Dresden tool and just give
it a little little flower like pattern
just like this.  If they don't have to be
uniform because in real life they're not
but they need to be kind of 'thesamy'
in their non uniformity, if that makes any
sense!  So with this one this is how I
prefer to cut my petals
I don't like cutting loads of them. I
like to clear the edges off the
cutter the problem here, I think, I forgot
to dust the surface of the board, so I
have to remove the spare gum paste like
this.  Generally it's easier to just
pick it up and then clean the
edges... and it was a bit tricky this time...
as far as I remember.  Anyway, this is
how I do it
I find that it leaves you with clean
edges. In general, it's good to
use petal dust or some kind of a
vegetable greasing agent on the board
petal dust is just a nicer
 
 
 
seasons are quite straight sometimes you
get curvy scissors and they don't do the
job quite as well so I'm thinning out
the petals to the end... it's up to you, you
could leave it un-thinned.  It's just a
matter of preference rather than
anything else, I think. IMHO thinned petals look fab, and would probably stick if
 
you don't  grease your board in advance.
Now,  another irreplaceable tool in
making flowers is this little palette
knife.  I have quite a few of them because
I keep losing them but... yeah... so this
is what you have, this is the veiner that
I use. It's not very true to life and I'm
on the look out for a new one that's
nicer but I do like this one in that
it's a very very good veiner for
dusting, subsequent dusting... or the way I
dust it, anyway, so I do love it, I just
want to get him a little companion so to
speak.  It's important to dust this
veiner itself,  because if you don't then
your  Hydrangea flower, all the gumpaste,  will just stretch and deform
when you're trying to pull it off. 
I've lost the top of this veiner,  but I
never really particularly used it
because I wanted to kind of have more
control over the over the top and I 
didn't want it sticking quite as much as they used to.
These flowers are so small, I'm not worrying too much
if they have
veins on the back  or not.  Here I'm
using a sugar glue and here comes the
middle that we've
made earlier on so here's your Hydrangea
starting to take a bit of a shape.
This one here is petal base just to
grease your board really a little bit so
your flowers don't stick and don't pull
when you try to take them off etc. It's
not very expensive and smells quite nice
and it doesn't kind of go off and gets a
bit gloopy glue- like as the vegetable fat
can do... so yeah I think it's a worth it
 
Here's me using this very
very commonly seen veiner, and not don't
like it much I think it's a bit it's a
bit familiar mainly for my liking, but
it's nice if anyone actually knows where
to get a nice Hydrangea veiner
all-in-one, I would be very grateful
because I'm going to look at one of
those, it would be nice to have a new one!
One thing I wouldn't probably do is to
use two different veinous for the same
flower in the same flower arrangement
because I just think it would look a
little bit random and not trendy just
random and here yeah that board that I
mentioned you can get it on eBay now.
Before we start dusting I'm going to
show you how to adapt the little
hydrangeas that were just made to
cupcake ones which are a lot simpler
obviously. So... yeah...we've done a bit of a
topsy-turvy here... So
what you do... once they're ready like this
...just don't wire them
or before you actually thin them and
vein them you might want to put them in
a drying folder just like this and then
when you've cut enough of them out and
shape them,  you could just nicely put
them on one of those to dry.  So these are
your ready wired ones so they look
really nice and dainty and delicate and
this is what we wanted.  And these is one of those 
dust powders I'm going to use
along with the rest of them because I
want to show you this very popular and
lovely rainbow effect.  The main
thing here is not to overdo on it
straightaway.  Take it easy,
use two brushes at least, one for your
pinks,  and one  for all other colours
and obviously, clear it in between, at
least a little bit, and yeah... just this
bit is actually quite easy you just just
 
 
 
If they're slightly
delicate and wet still or leathery
 
 
 
You could just use
some little sprinkles you find in in
supermarkets and just add a little bit of that
edible glue and stuff.  So here you go,
bunch them up in threes of twos or fours
using a little bit of a flower
wire ... god it's  late andI'm losing my
words... yeah
flowertape.   See they have this lovely lovely
shape which lends itself so well to
being bunched up like this
 
 
to hide away,  if you have few broken
ones, hide them! And
this is another video that's coming to
an end.  I hope you enjoyed it
I hope  you are  subscribing as we speak, and, 
hopefully,  I'll see you again soon, next
week, to be precise, this is Christina
Wallis. See you next Thursday! :) xxx
