I love the simplicity of silhouettes....especially on cookies!
All you have to do is get the outline over a plain or patterned background......
and you have a lovely design.
The first step is to look for silhouettes all around.....
whether tangle photos/clipart you have laying around or pictures found on the internet.
Once you've decided what shapes you want to put on the cookie.....
print them out to about the size wanted on the cookie surface.
Outline and flood the cookies.
Both a plain one-color background or a patterned background will look good.
You can make it as simple or complex as you wish.
Once the background has dried a bit,
you need to outline and flood the silhouette.
A Kopy Kake helps immensely.....but it is definitely not an essential.
I don't use mine often, but in this case, it came it super handy.
(For a brief overview of how a KK works, check out this post.)
If you don't own one......
just cut out the shape and trace around it directly onto the cookie using a food color marker.
Outline and flood from there.
The simplicity really makes for a beautiful cookie.
Winter 2014 Cookie Collection