In order to obtain a white rose with a pink center, paint the indentations of the center of the rose with pink, melted summer coating.  Next, fill the rose with white summer coating (chocolate compound).

To obtain a leaf with more than one shade of green for an interesting look, paint the leaf section of the mold with two shades of green (dark and medium).

A variation for rose colors is to paint the center of the rose with a bit of white.  (Just let the indentations fill with white and rub your brush lightly over the rest of the rose).  Next, dip your artist’s brush into the color of your choice and bring a “bulb” of melted chocolate over to the rose section of the mold.  Set the “bulb” of chocolate down on the inside surface of the rose part of the mold.  Continue doing this until the entire rose has been painted with a thickness that coats the entire rose so that no light shines through when the mold is held up to the light.  Now, paint the leaves.  Fill the entire cavity (rose and leaf sections) with melted milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate.

A nice variation for a rose color is to mix some yellow and some orange melted chocolate together.  Paint the center indentations with this yellow-orange color and let some of this color land on parts of the rose.  Now, let this solidify.  Cover this painted-coloring of the rose with yellow, melted chocolate.  Let solidify.  Paint the leaves.  Let solidify.  Fill cavities with milk or semi-sweet or white chocolate.

Immediately, after filling the cavities with melted chocolate, put the rose sucker stick in place.  Set the mold in the freezer to cool down.  When ready, remove the mold from the freezer and remove the molded piece from the mold.

Cover the sucker stick with green florist tape.  Place the rose/leave section into a sucker bag.  Use a curly ribbon and secure the base of the rose inside the bag by tying the curly ribbon.  Make a knot.  Make a bow and place the bow on the knot section of the curly ribbon.  Secure the bow in place by tying a knot.  Curl the ribbon.  Place this candy rose with the bow inside a cellophane bag.  Let the bag be “puffy” and make a knot in a chosen place toward the opening of the bag.  (The rose tip should be almost touching the “sealed” section of the cellophane bag so that the “opening of the bag” is about an inch or two from the end of the sucker stick.)  Use double-sided, sticky tape to attach the gift card to the knot of the curly ribbon that has been curled and placed around the section that is about an inch or two up from the end of sucker stick.