Product Description

'Simplifying Sugar Flowers' teaches you how to create an array of beautiful life-like flowers using simplified techniques and the minimum of cutters.

From pretty country garden flowers such as scabious and bluebells, to stylish lisianthus and gerberas, each flower has step-by-step instruction. In the second section of the book, there are breathtaking cakes for all occasions.

Packed with information of foliage, arranging and Alison's personal tips, this is a book for all those interested in the art of sugar flowers.

Key Selling Points:
Make beautiful life-like flowers using the simplified techniques; Varied range of flowers, from the simple daisy to the striking gerbera; 12 beautiful cakes, each with a side design reflecting the petals or leaf shapes in the main arrangement; Stunning step-by-step photographs show exactly how each flower is created.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9238 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Alison Procter is a very popular sugarcrafter. She travels all over the world demonstrating. She is a talented watercolour artist and is a member of The Society of Botanical Artists. With her husband, she also runs a very successful business manufacturing metal flowers cutters, and selling other sugarcraft articles. Alison lives in Bleadon, near Weston-super-Mare, Avon and teaches sugarcraft, her courses (holding 30-40 students per class) are always full. She is a regular contributor to sugarcraft magazines.

Customer Reviews

wonderful
This book is full of some very realistic looking flowers. It can be alittle difficult to understand how to make some of the flowers at first because to make some I think you need some experience, but having said that once you have a basic understanding, if you reread how to make some of the flowers, it makes alot more sence.Some of the cutters I have found are quite difficult to find, but once you have found them, Alison makes about ten different flowers from the same design. At the end of the book you can see some of her cakes she has made from the flowers and are so realistic and beautiful. At first I thought I would never understand how to make the flowers because they looked complicated but as I said, if you reread, the instructions really are very helpful.

Colourful inspiration for all levels of ability
Certainly a book full of inspiration with good, clear instructions and photographs of different stages of flower construction. For the beginner, a good book to progress through from the easier flowers to the more complex. For the experienced, a good reference for new ways of making old favourites and some extra flowers not seen in other publications. Some of the cutters are difficult to get hold of though as they have been made specifically for the author and there are some designs which I felt were easier to do with methods in other books (eg. carnations). Overall, a good source of ideas and a different approach that will no doubt stir the imagination of cake decorators everywhere.