Here’s a quick way to make tiny gumpaste succulents that can be used to fill out a larger arrangement.
These are sized well for cupcake toppers or to use as a border around the edge of a cake.
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Use little cutters.
Start with a set of pointy cutters and cut out three shapes.
These are daphne cutters but you could also use small daisy cutters with pointy petals to get the same effect with a different final shape.
Pinch the leaves to thin them out.
Stack them using gum glue or water to attach them together.
Press a veining tool or the end of a paintbrush in the center of the stack.
Curve the leaves up around the stick, then “fluff” them to separate them a little if you need to.
Dry the succulents.
Let them dry on a cookie sheet, they should keep their shape.
If they start collapsing onto themselves the gumpaste might be too soft, so you can dry them in a bumpy mattress foam pad to keep their shape.
You can use different cutters with different shaped petals, too, and with polymer clay. Click here for an article about that: Polymer clay succulents
As long as you have three or four different sizes of the shape you can use them to make little layered succulents.
