Cookie and Mixbook Giveaway!
Have you enjoyed the scuba decorated cookies series this week? I hope I've inspired you and have been able to teach you a new trick or two. I'm so excited to give these to my dad for Father's Day! Every year I gift him a special set of cookies and a photo book. I take so many photos and love to share them on social media, but I rarely print them out. My Dad knows each year I will gift him a book that has all our family photos from the past year.
A few months ago my scuba loving dad traveled to Fiji for an amazing diving adventure - sunken ships and beautiful sea life. I know he had an amazing time and was so excited to share that with my children with his photos. I knew that creating a photobook of his adventure would be the perfect gift for this Father's Day!
I met Mixbooks at the SNAP convention back in April and have really wanted to collaborate with them. I saw their high level of quality that had been missing in books I've ordered from other companies. The printed color is true and gorgeous clarity!
And now you can win too! Mixbook and I are sponsoring a giveaway below for $50 credit for any of their amazing products and dozen of my cookies in the theme of your choice. You can create a photo book for dad, a calendar of your kids or get started on holiday cards! I know you will love working with them and be thrilled with the quality.
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Scuba Decorated Cookies - Part Two
Today I'm diving into the softer palette of the ocean in my scuba themed decorated cookies. When I think of the ocean and beach, I think of soft sand and searching for shells. The color palette is muted tans and palest blues. This color palette and imagery is so calming, isn't it? You can almost hear the waves crashing. And there is something so beautiful about a starfish.
This sweet guy could be perfect in bright hues for Little Mermaid or Finding Dory themed cookies too. Want to learn how to make these pale beauties?
Materials
- starfish cookie (I've had mine forever and not sure where it's from, but they are common)
- flood icing in: white and sandy (Americolor ivory and a touch of warm brown)
- Petal crafts color dust in Palette B - I think this is the cyprus color. The chart is crazy!
- food only paintbrush
Directions
- Flood the cookies in sandy icing and allow to dry 8-10 hours or sit in the dehydrator for 10 minutes at 90 degrees. Need a good royal icing recipe, click over here!
- When the cookies have completely set, you will darken the perimeter of the cookie with petal dust in the cypress shade. This is a dry brush technique - though if you want it to be darker, you can dip your brush into vodka or clear vanilla.
- Using the white flood, add a few medium sized dots in the center of the starfish. You can be sporadic like me or choose a fancy design.
- Fill in the rest of the starfish with smaller sized dots in the sandy flood icing.
And that's it - gorgeous soft beach themed cookies. Have any questions, let me know! Want to see those shells created? Jump on over to my Instagram page.
Come back tomorrow more the whole Scuba Dad cookie set!
XO,
Jenny
Scuba Decorated Cookies - Part One
Father's Day is around the corner and it's a big deal here for my husband and dad. I love to make them decorated cookies and customized gifts. My kids love to create things for them as well. It's so important to let the people that love and protect you, know just how much you appreciate and love them.
Many of my cookie friends are starting to reveal their Father's Day sets. I love all of the barbecues, ties and golf. But my dad is a master scuba diver now and that's pretty cool! I love that all my life he's shown me that education is its own reward. He recently traveled to Fiji with several scuba friends for an amazing week of dives. I thought it would be perfect this year to create cookies of a scuba nature.
Now unfortunately I don't always plan in advance and I didn't have time to purchase scuba stencils. I could have done a royal icing transfer, but I thought this would be a great time to show you how easy it is to create your own stencil!
Materials
- images in the size you want to cut
- dura-lar in .005 thickness
- stencil cutter - I found mine at Hobby Lobby
Since I like to use a Stencil Genie when I airbrush, the first step for me is to frame my genie around the image and material. This way I will know the image will be centered and easier to place on my cookie.
For my stencil cutting setup, you have to create a sandwich in this order: image to copy, transparent cutting mat and then the stencil material. You will be able to see the image clearly and the mat is not slippery, so it doesn't move around.
And then cut! It's really easy, isn't it? There is the slightest smell, so I open a window right by where I am cutting. You could also easily take this project outside to cut. The tip on my cutter is only active when I activate two buttons and cools quickly!
And you are done! Just pop out the positive image and your are good to go. You can use the stencil for airbrushing or icing spreads. These stencils will be more effective with images that are not too detailed.
Want to see the airbrushing stencil in action and done only with one hand? Come join me on SnapChat! I walk you through the steps and if I can do it holding my phone, you can do it too! Search for "sweetjennybelle" and add me, I'll add you too!
Did you like those starfish? I'll post the step by step tutorial tomorrow or join me on Facebook and you can watch my tutorial video!
Are you looking for a royal icing recipe for your cookies? Click on over here!
Thanks for joining me and come back tomorrow for more scuba fun!
XO,
Jenny
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I Want S'more Campfires Cookies
I hope you have enjoyed this camping series of decorated cookies. I think they would be so fun to make for a summer birthday, for your troop of scouts or for a family camping trip. Cookies are a perfect dessert to take with you this summer since you don't need refrigeration and they pack well!
Do you want to make these campfire cookies? They are pretty easy and everyone loves them! My favorite part of camping has always been the dinners and desserts roasted over the open campfire. Here is a quick video of how I made mine.
Materials
- round cookie
- flood icing: black, red, orange and yellow
- soft piping: chocolate brown, tan, grey, and green
- americolor white (for splattering star effect)
- food-only paintbrush
- toothpick, cookie scribe, or turkey lacer.
Directions
- Flood your round cookie in black icing and allow to set. Then using a food-only paintbrush, splash a few drops of americlor white on to the background. This will give the appearance of a dark, starry night.
- Next using chocolate brown, ice two intersecting campfire logs. With your tan icing, frost two large ovals on the bottom ends of the logs and a few jagged lines on the logs to create the look of wood. Add a small swirl of chocolate brown in the tan ovals.
- Pipe a few rounds of grey around the campfire - avoid the top, that's where your fire will go. Add a few lines of green grass near the stones.
- Allow everything to dry - you can quicken the time by placing it in a dehydrator for 10 minutes at 90 degrees F.
- Add a large raindrop of red in the center of the two logs. Then add some orange and yellow in the middle. Using a sharp toothpick or tool of your choice, run it through the center of the fire and feather it up and out to create the illusion of flames.
- Allow the cookie to dry overnight or 8-12 hours.
Thank you so much for joining me! Did you see the other camping cookie tutorials? I have one on fireflies here, another on camping lanterns here and my favorite royal icing recipe can be found here. If you have any questions, please let me know!
Come back next week for series on all things bubbly and fishy..
XO,
Jenny
Camping Cookies - Firelies in a Jar
I'm going to confess - as many times as I've been camping, I've never seen a firelfy, let alone capture one in a sweet mason jar. However, I love the idea of them and the magic they must illicit in young children. And I do believe that all beautiful things are those that are wild & free.
I created these fireflies as a royal icing transfer on Facebook live. Have you joined me for a live tutorial? They are fun and messy and full of real life - so if you have any desire to see a behind the scenes, be sure to like my page and keep an eye out for my live demos.
Royal icing transfers are awesome! I sketch on the back of parchment and ice on the top. You could do accents, letters, and more. If you mess up, no big deal - it's not on the cookie yet! This is an excellent way to practice and try new things out. I do suggest making more than you need because they can be fragile. Once they are iced, let them dry for a couple hours. Store the leftovers in an air tight container - they last forever!
This ampersand is so easy and there are so many themes you could create with it. I purchased the cutter at Semi Sweet Mike. I iced the background in a neutral white, but you could leave it naked if you didn't want that much icing. What would you fill in?
Wild & Free
You & Me
Now & Forever
Have you seen the other camping cookies? Try out these fun camping lanterns or sweet glamping trailer!
Do you need a good royal icing recipe? Try out my favorite here!
Camping at Night - Decorated Cookies
For the cookies today, I'm focusing on all the fun that happens at night when you're camping. I love the idea of comfy sleeping bags in the grass and the sweet glow of the lantern at night. Though when we're actually camping, I'm not sure that I have fond feelings about my sleeping bag. lol! What is your favorite part of camping?
The key part to a successful sleeping bag cookie appearance is waiting. You need to wait to add adjoining segments of the bag until the last one has slightly crusted over, otherwise they will run together and it will just look like a long tube.
The soft green grass needs to be done with stiff royal icing. You can see with my yellow sleeping bag cookies that the icing was a bit too soft and didn't want to keep the shape. I used Wilton top 233 for the grass. If you need a good royal icing recipe, click here for my favorite recipe.
On Instagram, the lantern is receiving all the love. Maybe there is something in the nostalgia of a camping lantern?
What cookie cutter did I use? I just happened to buy a bubble jar cookie cutter from Bobbi's for a different set of summer cookies and when I opened it, all I saw was a lantern! I think it's perfect. You can either flood the base in a neutral color ( I did white) or you can leave it naked.
Again, the key to this cookie will be waiting to ice the different parts of the lantern until the adjoining parts have dried. I did use a wet-on-wet with the grey filament in the golden lamp.
I hope you are enjoying this camping series! I loved making it - come back tomorrow for more outdoor fun! And please let me know if you have questions.
Let's Go Camping
Hello my cookie loving friends! I'm so excited to tell you that I'm changing my format a bit. Each week I will specialize on one theme and bring you a ton of tutorials, videos and pictures. If you have any requests, please let me know it the comments!
This week my focus will be on camping because I love the great outdoors! Do you camp or glamp? Where are you favorites places to go? My husband and I love to take our three kiddos out camping in our camper trailer every chance we get during the summer months. We go hiking, fishing and of course eat way too many s'mores!
How many of you would buy anything that had a cute little picture of a trailer? I love them! When we go camp over the 4th of July, we bring decorations to spruce it up a bit. And well, who could imagine that great outdoors without oodles of pine trees? Their sweet smell and beautiful presence - a favorite image in my mind.
A pine tree cookie is really easy to decorate too! I have a quick video here to show you how I make mine. It's basically just a fancy scribble.
Pine Tree Cookie Tutorial
Materials
- Tree cookie
- Royal icing in forest green and chocolate brown
Instructions
- Using a thick piping consistency of chocolate brown royal icing, frost the tree trunk. Ice a single line for the trunk and several little lines for branches - a majority will be covered up.
- Create the pines of the tree using a thick piping consistency of forest green icing. I scribbled up and down the tree leaving some of the trunk and branches showing.
- So easy, right?? And you could use this for the winter holidays and add snow or ornaments.
Want to see the camper trailer in action? Here is a quick video!
Come back tomorrow for more camping fun!
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