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11 HD Video Lessons
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Jacqueline Butler
Jacqueline Butler is an award-winning sugar artist and owner of Petalsweet. She has been featured in American Cake Decorating. View profile »
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Handcrafted Sugar Flowers
with Jacqueline Butler
Awe your friends and family by creating delicate hydrangeas with Jacqueline Butler's skilled instruction and easy, effective techniques.
*NOTE: This class contains archived instructor responses but no active instructor participation. It features student-led (rather than instructor-led) discussion only. If you have questions, one of the many experienced sugar artists in Handcrafted Sugar Flowers will surely have the answer!
Awe your friends and family by creating delicate and exceptionally lifelike sugar flowers. With Jacqueline Butler's easy instruction and highly effective techniques, you will craft magical sugar flowers for wedding cakes, showers, holidays or any special occasion.
Bring a few basic ingredients together to make gum paste, and discover the supplies and tools that pastry professionals use. You'll learn to mold, dust, wire, paint and finish hydrangea flowers, filler flowers, buds and leaves. Once you master these techniques, you can customize and create flowers of all kinds - your imagination is the limit!
Create sugar blossoms as delicate and beautiful as the real thing. Sign up for Handcrafted Sugar Flowers today!
What You'll Need:
- Wire cutters
- Needle-nosed pliers
- Wire and floral tape
- Tylose powder
- Confectioners' glaze
- Petal dust
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 6:17 |
| 2 | Tools | 12:53 |
| 3 | Making Gum Paste | 18:41 |
| 4 | Coloring Gum Paste | 13:42 |
| 5 | Hydrangea Buds & Centers | 16:49 |
| 6 | Hydrangea Petals | 31:39 |
| 7 | Leaves | 9:33 |
| 8 | Five-Petal Filler Flowers | 28:42 |
| 9 | Filler Leaves & Buds | 10:09 |
| 10 | Dusting & Glazing | 43:45 |
| 11 | Arranging | 41:15 |
Skills you should have:
- Imagination for designing new projects!
- Make liquid paint out of powdered pigment
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Great class, don't hesitate
I wasn't going to get this class because like others, I do flowers already and thought those were fairly simple and but I went for it and learnt so much that I ended up doing the most wonderful topper for a wedding cake when I added my own peony, and the whole lot with no stress at all. Finger flowers which I had never been able to do properly are so well explained that I could make them with my eyes shut now. Hydrangeas I had done without wiring and again, doing 50 of them and putting ...
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Thank you
I really enjoyed your class. Wishing you the best on your new adventure. I learned so much in your class. I will try to stop by your store next mont ehen I am in San Diego. Regards
Thank you so much!
Very detailed and responsive. Worth the money.
I'm so glad I enrolled in the class...
I almost didn't because I wanted to do other kinds of flowers but I learned so much and the bouquet is lovely. I can see it being used by any bride in place of real flowers and be classy. The instructions are on point where you can't mess up. So much info to use in any sugar design.. thank you and hope to see more classes by Jacqueline
flower making class by JacquelineB
What a super video by JacquelineB of Petalsweet. Was blown away by her flowers, her detailed teachings and the economical price. Craftsy Please get more videos from this super talented lady...and fast pls!
Its a great medium for people who might be housebound but still want to be creative. Just love the idea of Craftsy. Thank you for bringing it to us. Janice870021 - UK.
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