WAFER PAPER MAGNOLIA

Author: RHIANYDD WEBB

FB: Dragons & Daffodils Cakes by Rhianydd Webb

Website: https://www.dragonsanddaffodils.com/

Skill level: BEGINNERS

I have one of these beautiful Magnolia trees in my garden and can’t wait until those buds appear because I know the tree will be covered in stunning flowers.

You will need:

Saracino 1 sheet wafer paper A4 0.27mm
Saracino Wafer Glue
Fabriliquid
Saracino dust colours: yellow, green, pink, plum
Small sharp scissors
No.2 brush for glue
No.8 filbert brush
28g white wire
Florist tape half width: nile green, brown, white
Aldaval Magnolia petal silicone veiner
Culpitt Magnolia cutter set
Steamer

Step 1

To create a shape to represent the Carpels, Cut a strip of wafer paper 18cm by 4cm. Lightly spray with fabriliquid, disperse the excess liquid with your finger, or shake to disperse.

Step 2

Cut a 28g white wire in half, bend a hook in one end. Wrap the wafer paper strip round the wire to just over 4cms long, leaving it thicker at the base. Keep the excess.

Step 3

Use a small sharp scissors to cut snips into the wafer paper centre.

Step 4

Using the remainder of the wafer paper strip (7cm long), cut 1cm deep “v” shapes into the wafer paper using a small sharp scissors.

Step 5

Wrap round the base of the centre to represent the stamen. Tape the very base into place with half width nile green tape.

Step 6

Thicken the base of the centre by taping with white half width tape. Dust the centre first with yellow, then mix yellow and green and over dust in parts.

Step 7

Dust the white tape with plum dust.

Step 8

Cut out three large, three medium and three small of the shapes using a sharp scissors.

Step 9

Place the shapes dimpled side up so that we can dust the smooth side as the outside of the flower. Cut a 2cm slit up the base of the petal. Paint wafer glue down one of the cut edges and place a half length of 28g white wire onto the glue. Press to fix then overlap with the other side of the slit.

Step 10

Hole the first shape against the female (inverted side) of the petal veiner and hold in the steam for three seconds. Press the petal between both sides of the double sided veiner and hold for ten seconds to cool. Repeat for the rest of the shapes.

Step 11

Take a half length of 28g white wire and bend at 2cm. Bend the wire back up and bend at 1cm (as the left hand wire) then wrap around to thicken the base. Finally pull the rest of the wire down as shown on the right hand wire.

Step 12

Tape the wire repeatedly until you have a smooth bud shape. Curve slightly. (I used 30cm of tape)

Step 13

Dust the back of the petal/tepal shapes first with pink starting at the wired end using the filbert brush. Then dust the lower half with the plum and swipe the brush upwards to create faint lines in the dust.