Beads Make Your Own DIR: Roll fondant or other medium to 1/8" thick. Place between lace mold pieces and press. Roll with rolling pin, remove excess dough. Lace is ready to use. Stick lace to fondant iced cake with Piping gel. . Dress up your cakes with pearls. Fondant and gum paste easily  releases from the silicone material for less damage to the shape.  LACE INSTRUCTIONS | BEADS BY HAND |  HOME-MENU

The bead cutter is exceptionally easy to use and will mold and cut a string of evenly shaped pearls and beads very quickly. Bead Cutters by FMM INSTRUCTIONS Fold over plastic press-type mold is an exceptional easy tool to use and will mould and cut a string of evenly shaped pearls or beads quickly. Use gum paste, flower paste, mexican paste, almond paste, and air dry modeling clays. Instructions included. TIP: Removing the webbing between your pearls: Make the beads, put in place on the cake. Allow them to dry overnight. Use the point of a craft knife, just touch the webbing gently - it will snap off cleanly. Brush away the sugar crumbs with a clean dry brush. Shell or Bead Cutter  #1 is 9 mm 160mmx65mm The bead cutter is a easy tool to use, it will produce a row of evenly shaped beads. Makes 6" Strand of 9 MM (0.3543") Beads. #861431 $15.00 Bead Cutter  #2 is 4 mm The bead cutter is an exceptionally easy tool to use and will mould a string of evenly shaped pearls or beads very quickly. Size: 55x160mm Makes 6" Strand of 4 MM  (0.1575") Beads  #CUTBEAD2 $15.00 Bead Cutter #3 Tear Drop The bead cutter will make a string of perfectly shaped 9mm round beads that will perfectly finish off the joint between stacked cakes.  This is a great asset for any Cake Decorator or Wedding Cake Designer.  FMM provides instructions with all their bead cutters to assist you in making the perfect designed cake.  Size: 55 x 160mm  Makes 6" Strand of 1/4" Tear Drop Beads #CUTBEAD3 $15.00 The 'log' is a Yule log decorated like a real one.  Orchids ready-made Orchid Cutters

Silicone Bead Makers - INSTRUCTIONSsqueeze open, place log shape of medium inside and allow mold to close. Molds and cuts a string of evenly shaped pearls or beads quickly. Use gum paste, flower paste, mexican paste, almond paste, and air dry modeling clays. Instructions: Mold, remove and roll slightly to make 3D. 4 mm Bead Maker App. 1/8" beads #NM-157C $24.00 3 mm Bead Maker by CK Products  #44-2903 $17.40 4 mm Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2904 $17.40 6 mm Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2906 $18.70 8 mm Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2908 $25.59 12 mm Bead maker #NM-157 $24.00  12 mm Bead Maker #44-2912 $24.00 BR128 Perfect Pearls  14 & 12 mm: x 12 x Your Price: $20.00 Cavities: 2 BR129 Perfect Pearls  10, 8 & 6mm: x 12 x Your Price: $23.00 Cavities: 3 BR130 Perfect Pearls  5, 4 & 3mm: 12 Your Price: $16.00 Cavities: 3 Other BLUE shapes like these such as rope etc Here Rose 9 mm Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2920 $21.40 Rose 17 mm Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2921 $24.00 10 mm Oval Bead Maker by CK Products #44-2940 $24.00 Rope Border 8 mm by CK Products #44-2970 $24.00 Rope Border 12 mm by CK Products #44-2971 $24.00 Project No 17 Beads & Pearls Instructions can be ordered HERE Professional Bead Roller System - Creating your own art beads is as easy as:     * Measure softened clay, hand roll, and place into one of the channels of the base.     * Place the top onto the base and slide back and forth.     * Pierce beads with supplied pins, remove top and suspend for drying. Begin by rolling one bead at a time until you become familiar with these sets. Once you are experienced at measuring clay and rolling a bead, you may roll each of all three shapes at the same time, and perhaps a couple of each shape. When rolling multiple beads in the same channel, be sure to leave space between amounts of clay and space at each end! Accurate measuring of clay is essential to successful beads. ORDER HERE

Above picture shows sizes of tips sold below MAKE INDIVIDUAL BEADS with... Instructions: Roll out ROLLED FONDANT DOUGH about 1/8" thickness.  Cut dough with one of tip bottoms for however large you want your pearls to be, they will all the SAME size using these cutters!  Roll each into a ball. Let dry overnight.  Use SUPER PEARL DUST to dust them... just put them in a zip lock bag with pearl dust and shake.  Apply pearls using a dot of buttercream icing.  Keep container closed so beads stay soft and edible.  Tip Cutter Set: 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809 for cutting fondant/gumpaste dough (as taught by Earlene) to make edible pearls yourself. Great for figure piping large borders, clouds, balloons, etc. $12.00

As far as spacing goes I use a compass (you know the thing you use in geometry in school with the pencil in it?) I put something in there besides a pencil (don't want to be sued for led poisoning you know!) and separate the two points as far apart as I want the pearls and just put little holes in the icing where the pearls go. But if the bride wants them random, I just eyeball it.

If you make the pearls out of fondant yourself, you will be able to put wires through them if you need to. I bought the box of pearls from Dolores, so they are real hard and I couldn't do that if I wanted to.

When rolled in dry dust they were pretty and looked kinda sparkly.... but with the lemon extract they look more pearled like real pearls.

I rolled mine around in super pearl dust with lemon extract and they are really beautiful and real looking.
It's a little tricky getting the right proportions of liquid and dust. If too much liquid it doesn't coat... as the liquid evaporates it tends to get a little "clumpy" so you have to keep adding extract to keep it liquid enough

PJ says: I airbrushed mine with grain alcohol and pearl dust, it uses a whole lot less dust that way and you get the same effect.
QUESTION:  if you use pearl dust and grain alcohol (is that Ever clear?), can you clean the pearl dust out with the cleaner and it's
fine for going back to do regular colors? I was afraid I might not be able to get it cleaned out enough if I tried it. Also, does the pearl dust clog the needle? If not, what proportions do you use for the alcohol/pearl dust?
ANSWER: Yep, I just clean my brush out and off I go to other colors

From Marida: I just roll out a piece of fondant, use a tube (usually #10 or #12) and cut out loads of them. I roll them in my hand, put them onto paper plates until I get a lot of them. then I put them into a small jar, add about 1/8 tsp. of pearl dust, shake them up and put them away until I need them. Pearls on cakes is big this year.