Hot Pink Day Lilly

Start the flower by creating the pistol.  

This is done by using a 20 gauge wire which I moisten and then insert it into a pea size amount of green gumpaste.  

Using your thumb and pointer finger, roll the paste gently up the wire leaving a small bulb at the base (about 2" down) and gradually getting smaller and thinner as you reach the top of the wire.  You can roll four very tiny balls of paste and glue them to the end of the wire creating the top of the pistol.  

Here I have used the tiny Hydrangea Center by Scott Clark Wooley.  Mr. Wolley makes well-made and useful Gumpaste equipment and you can find him on line at   www.cakesbydesign.com 

You will need to attach six lilly-stamen to the center once it has dried.

Here I have several size leaf cutters from several vendors, the green one is from the Wilton gumpaste set.  

Some Lilly's require two different size petals; however, day Lilly's are all the same size petal.

The petal veiner is from a company no longer in business, but there are many vendors who have veiners.

I roll white gumpaste on a Cel-Board with the long vein.  I cut three petals and insert a 26gauge wire into the vein and then press the petal in-between the vein impression and set it inside a styrofoam Lilly cup also purchased from Cel Cake in the UK.

Each flower will require six petals, so repeat the step above until you have all the required petals.

These Lilly's are to be dark pink.  Here I am using a mixture of gel color and lemon extract to paint each leaf front.  Notice I have left a white strip at the base of each petal ( these flowers grow in an array of colors but not all require the white stripe)

Before wiring the six petal around a pistol and stamen, I dust a pale green petal dust at the base end of the leaf.

You may also color the petals with dust.  This petal dust will need steam to set the dust so that you get a slight shine on the finished flower and dust does not get all over the frosting.

Tape three petals around the pistol and stamen, then tape three additional petals in between the first three petals.  Now dust or paint the back side of the flower and attach a calyx to the base of the flower Tape your stem with green floral tape and your flower is finished.