after I've created a peony bug I can take it and transform it into a full flower I'm using the same procedure that I did in order to create my peony but however I've switched to a larger five petal cutter our bud was made with a small five petal cutter now we've switched to a larger one cut it out and have ball tooled the edges in the same process that we were using before where I slide my piece all the way up to the base of my bud and add a little bit of glue and work around in the same way by using the bigger cutter our flower is going to start to get bigger and we can add as many layers as we wish again I'm using that same technique where I'm lining up the center of my petal with one of the places where there is an overlap from the previous layer so that each layer we can see the petals almost like through the window between each of the previous layer I tuck around making sure to tuck the fifth petal underneath the first one so that my pattern is continued I would turn it over and adhere it to the base of the bud to make sure that everything is sticking at this point I have enough structure that I could even just rest it right on the table for just a split second while I pick up my last layer I'll apply my last layer in the same exact manner and I can keep going with all of these pieces in order to create as big of a flower as I want I like adding two layers to my peony bud two extra layers and that usually gives us a good size that's going to go onto a wedding cake peony flowers are very popular flowers for wedding cakes we do a lot of these in May and June as I go around and make sure to adhere all of the petals to the bottom now when I want to dry this this is going to need to dry overnight I can decide if I dry it straight up and down you'll notice what starts to happen a lot of times the petals start to fall we have heavy petals at this point so I do have a preference to dry it upside down I can either just dry it straight on my flower mat or if I wanted to I can stick it into my styrofoam block and I just make sure that it is hanging straight down once I put it in my flower is going to rest overnight and then I'm ready to paint and finish it