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2431 3229 3027 2825 26(^3536)33 34Step 25.Using edible dust colours in Vine and Nutkin Brown,dust the flower centres.Step 26.Using edible dust in Egg Yellow, dust nine hydrangeas asshown. Pipe a small amount of royal icing in the centreand dust it.Step 27.Mix a small amount of vodka with edible paste colourin Olive and paint the eight leaves. You will have to waitbetween coats to allow it to dry. Start from a very faintgreen to a deeper colour around the edges as shown.Step 28.Gather the seven large petals and one wired centre tostart taping the clematis.Step 29.Using a tweezer, bend the petal wire. Using a half widthfloral tape, start taping each petal to the centre.Step 30.Try to slightly overlap the petals as you tape themtogether.Step 31.This is the finished clematis flower. Repeat Steps 28-30with the remaining white petals, pink petals, purplepetals and centres. In total, you will have two whiteclematis, two pink ones and two purple ones, one ofeach in large and medium size.Step 32.Using edible dust in Rose, lightly dust the petals alongthe middle ridge as shown.Step 33.Repeat Step 32 with all flowers. Use edible dust inviolet for the purple flowers. Leave all flowers on aStyrofoam dummy until you are ready to place themon the cake.Decorating and painting the cake:For this project, I created my own template to drawonto the cake. You can download this fromhttp://www.cakemastersmagazine.comStep 34.Using baking paper, measure the circumference of themiddle and top tier.Step 35.Draw marks spaced equally and set your ribbon cutterto match the width between the marks. This is to haveequal widths for all strips of sugarpaste.Step 36.Mix some CMC (tylose) into white sugarpaste to addstrength (or mix flower paste and sugarpaste). Roll itto a 2mm thickness and using your already set ribboncutter, cut strips of sugarpaste as shown.