CookieCrazie Chatter...... Friday, March 4, 2016

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CookieCrazie's Week in Review

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Personal Side

Last weekend was filled with Easter cookies.....and I had a blast with those electric colors!

There's something about those colors that really encourage everyone after a long winter.

I started a new job this week as an office manager in a doctor's office.

For now, it's just one day a week.....but eventually it will be several days per week.

I'll have to step up my organizational skills to keep up with cookies and work too.

But I'm happy to get out of the house one day a week and be with lots of people.

I was finding myself becoming more hermit-like these last few months. ;)

I'm starting a set of strawberry-related cookies today.

Sometimes the planning stage is as fun as the decorating stage......

and that was the case finding all-things-strawberry. :)

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Instagram photos for this week:

Happy Friday!

It won't be long and we'll be seeing new life all around us. :)

Grapevines and moss.....

THIS is happening today.....

Have a glorious Sunday.....

Taking advantage of this beautifully sunny day to take some photos of some BRIGHT cookies. :)

Rustic was what I was going for....

Happy Tuesday!

Bunnies are peeking out all around here.....
These are new shapes from That's A Nice Cookie Cutter.

Don't forget the carrots.....we gotta feed this crowd. ;)

One of my favorite flowers done with an awesome cutter from Creative Cookier.
Here's last year's tutorial.
It won't be long and we'll be seeing the real ones around here.

These bright colors tend to put a huge smile on winter-weary recipients. :)

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CookieCrazie Chatter...... February 26, 2016

Small Details with Big Effects on Decorated Cookies

Wet-on-wet technique on cookies is the quickest and easiest way to decorate.

You just flood the cookie with one color and then add any number of different designs

to the base with other colors of glaze.

To help make wet-on-wet cookies POP even more.....

allow them to dry overnight and then add small details via food color markers or painting with gel.

It's amazing the DRAMATIC effect that a few well placed dots, dashes, or swirls 

can make to a cookie! 

I have two favorite brands of food color markers.

FooDoodlers have been around a long time.....and were the first markers I ever used for decorating.

Their tip is not as fine as my second choice, but they are less expensive and have several colors.

And then there are these beauties......Rainbow Dust Double Sided Food Pens.
These markers are pricey (they come from UK), but they have an ultra fine tip and work great!

For white details, you can paint on regular Americolor Bright White gel with a fine paintbrush.
Or you can load an empty pump marker with white gel to make your own!
Here's the tutorial to make a white food color marker.

Now start adding small details with big effects!

Snowman Cookies (Tutorial)

Here's a quick easy way to make some adorable snowman face cookies. :)

Cut out circle cookies.
Make some eyeballs and long carrot noses out of sugar cookie dough and
add them to the snowman's face on the circle cookie.
(see photo below)

Bake and cool the cookies.

Flood the entire circle including the eyes and carrot nose with white glaze.

Allow the cookies to dry overnight.

Using food color markers, add black to the eyes (Americolor black marker), 

orange and brown to the nose, (Foodoodler orange and brown markers)

and eyebrows and a mouth with a fine tip marker. (Rainbow Dust black fine tip marker)

(see photo below)

2016 Winter Cookie Collection

Happy New Year 2016!

Winter Woodland Animal Cookies (Tutorial)

Elegant Dimensional Snowflake Cookies (Tutorial) 

Snowman Cookie (Tutorial) 

Snowman Cookie Collection 2016 

Winter Tree Cookie Quilt (Tutorial) 

Scrapbook Cookie Tags with Vellum (Tutorial)

Grateful Hearts Cookie Collection

What better way to show a grateful heart at Thanksgiving than to supply yummy, colorful cookies?

I hope the preparation for such a special holiday is wonderful!

Thankful Heart Cookie Jar 

 Heart Mosaic Cookies (Tutorial) 

Thanksgiving 2015 Cookie Collection

Thanksgiving Burlap Text Cookie 

Heart Mosaic Cookies (Tutorial) 

Thankful Heart Cookie Jar 

Grateful Hearts Cookie Collection 

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Cookies (Tutorial) 

Happy 2015 Thanksgiving!

Thankful Heart Cookie Jar

Here's a fun cookie idea to use for the family's gathering at Thanksgiving.
It's fairly simple and gets everyone thinking grateful thoughts.

Decorate some fall cookies by simply outlining and flooding them in solid colors.
For the cookies below, I used this acorn cutter and this leaf cutter.

Once the cookies are dried overnight, place them in a "thankful jar".
 Have a supply of food color markers handy.
Have each family member choose a cookie and express what they are thankful for.


And might I just add here......that I'm thankful for YOU!
Without the gracious support of my blog readers, I couldn't do what I do.
Thank you. :)

Thanksgiving 2015 Cookie Collection

Thanksgiving Burlap Text Cookie 

Heart Mosaic Cookies (Tutorial) 

Thankful Heart Cookie Jar 

Grateful Hearts Cookie Collection 

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Cookies (Tutorial) 

Happy 2015 Thanksgiving!