1 Trace the design, turn it over and place it on your work surface. Place the perspex on top and pipe the main features of the design onto the perspex with royal icing and a no.1 tube, too much detail at this stage will create confusion.
Leave to dry for approximately 20 minutes.

2 When the royal icing design on the perspex is dry, center it over the cake and press evenly into the soft sugarpaste. Leave the surface to dry overnight before starting the brush embroidery.

3 With green icing and a no.2 tube pipe a line down one side of the leaf. Take a damp paintbrush and stroke the icing to the center of the leaf, continue along the line leaving the edge raised and a fine film of icing towards the center. Repeat the process on the other side.

4 Pull the thin edge of the paintbrush through the wet icing to create veins on the leaves.
Where leaves overlap, do the ones in the background first.
Pipe a borderline on the leaves in the foreground to give depth.
Pipe the stems and soften with the brush.

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5 With white royal icing and a no.2 tube pipe around the petals, starting with those in the background and with a damp paintbrush stroke the icing to the center of the flower.