I'm seeing lots of Valentines cookies from others already......
but I'm too in love with snowmen and snow to let this season pass.
I hope to devote the next couple of weeks to WINTER.
But then will come Valentines Day cookies in all their glory. :)
These snowman faces got their shape from a stretched out diamond ring cutter.
Smooth out the edges to form the top hat.
Smooth out the edges to form the top hat.
Outline and flood the top hat in black 10-second glaze.
Allow it to dry overnight.
(I have a really hard time with black bleeding into white glaze.....so I take every precaution.)
Outline and flood the white snowman face.
As you can see in this photo, I immediately added black sixlets for the eyes
and black pearls for the coal smile.
However, now that I know black sixlets will bleed against wet white glaze,
I recommend that you let the white glaze dry before adding the sixlets.
Use black glaze to "glue" them on.
(The black pearls had no problem with bleeding.)
I didn't want to mix up orange glaze for the carrot nose,
so I added a huge round nose using white glaze...under the eyes.
After it all dried over night, I added pink cheeks by brushing on dry pink pearl dust
and painted the nose orange using Americolor orange gel.
Sweet snowmen......I luv 'em!
Simply Winter Cookies