It's cold outside time to bundle up in Sweater, mitten and hat......cookies!!

It has been awhile since I have made a post but I wanted to share these cute sweater cookies I did for a good friend. I tracked down the ugly sweater cookie cutter because I have always wanted to do Christmas ugly sweater cookies but then I decided I want to do just some cable knit sweaters instead. And hopefully they are not ugly. :)

Here are the sweater my frosting was a little thick for the cable knit so my hand got a little tired.

I know the consistency is the main key but I am just too lazy to remix sometimes.

It's getting colder so you need to start wearing those beenies! I would wear a white one like these if I had one.

And keeping those fingers toasty it important. I airbrushed retro snowflakes on all the cookies first before the detail and you can see it in the hats and gloves the most. Stencil is from Artfully Designed. 

I thought I would put a couple of outfits together that might be fun to wear if they were real. But eating them will be even better.

And the whole wardrobe altogether. It's amazing how using just white can make really cute cookies. And if you have an aversion to food coloring you can see you can still have pretty cookies.

Thanks LJ for the order I hope your girls night is a blast!!

CookieCon 2014 Artfully Designed stenciled cookies

Just a quick blog filled with a lot of pics!! Shannon from Artfully Designed Co. Asked if I could make some cookies using some of her 75 stencils that she is selling at CookieCon this week. I said of course!  

Then I got scared when I got all the stencils. I really wanted them to look great for Shannon she just wanted to have some real life samples of what the stencils look like on a cookie. 

So I got to work...this first one is the Thankul for stencil and I thought what am I thankful for?? Well my kithchen and CookieCon of course.

This is the first group I did. I did not love all of them so I redid a few...

These were the few I did over.

Rose back ground. Seriously is so pretty.

I Do!!

Intertwined

Retro Snowflake featuring Elsa from Frozen

Branches and leaves 

Lips and Mustache Mini

Cats

Mustache and Lips Mini

Thankful For

Jungle leaf

Woodgrain

Fern leaf

I Do

Fall Leaves

Lips

Birthday Party

Geometric!

Lips and Mustache mini, I used it with icing on the stencil.

Clouds, using icing with the stencil

Double Chevron

Cats

Oval Background

Rose background

Geometric Background

Lips and Mustache Stencil

Cats

If you don't see Artfully designed at cookie con you should check out her etsy site!!  And thank you thank you so much for letting me help you out Shannon it has been a pleasure!

Gingerbread House of Cards!

A few months ago I got a email from Rebecca, The Cookie Architect, asking me if I would like to participate in a cookie online collection project. I with out thinking said yes!!  First of all I could not believe I was being asked to be a part of one of these online cookie collaborations that I have seen many times before and thought oh that would be cool to be in one of those.

Then after I realized who all the other AMAZING cookiers were in on this project I thought I was way way way out of league. But Rebecca reassured me that it would all be good and so I chose to believe her. :)

I of course kept putting off the project even after Rebecca had sent me my cookie to decorate. She baked and cut out the notches of all the gingerbread cookies and mailed them to all the cookiers participating in the project at the end of October. They were due back by the end of November. 

The inspiration for the project was to construct a house of Cards out of gingerbread cookies. The card deck was inspired by one designed by modernist architects Charles and Ray Eames. 

Here are a couple of the pictures from The Cookie Architects album of the finished project.  

Here is a pic with my cookie in it. Amazing to me that my cookie is so close to LilaLoa, Arty McGoo and Memories of Home!

To see all of the picture and all of the other 27 talented cookiers click this link HERE to see them.

I originally wanted to paint a picture of the nativity on my cookie. But I was so nervous to not practice so I made me a couple of practice cookies first. Well I thought I had made the right dimensions to copy the original cookie and I practiced on my version of the card. Well when I went to go do it on the "real" thing I did not like how it would fit on it and did not want to loose part of the scene in the cut outs so I just opted to do the new star. So below you see what I did on my practice cookie but it did not fit like I wanted on the real card so I did just the star.

Here is a close up of my practice card. I really ended up liking it and so now it is sitting on my shelf in my kitchen and I hope to frame it and keep it for a new Christmas decoration. We were told to decorate with a Christmas or Winter theme and I wanted to depict what the true meaning of Christmas is, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And her is the actual card depicting the new star, the sign our the birth of Jesus Christ.

Then when I thought I had it all figured out and picked what I wanted to do on the cookie I was rereading a email from Rebecca I realized, "oh man we have to decorate both sides of the cookies!"

I would think of different things to do but never could decided. So then I had some SugarDress left over from some cookies I had done and I figured I would use a piece to go on an Christmas Ornament and this is what I came up with. 

SugarDress is like Sugar Veil but easier and I have a post coming soon on it.

Thanks for taking a look and please check out The Cookie Architects album to see all the amazing cookies in this project you will be amazed if you are not already by the 27 cookie decorators I was so lucky enough to join in on this fun project.

Thank you so much Rebecca for inviting me in on this project and thank you for all your many many hours you put into this you are so so so wonderful!!