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Today is the day that Harry marries his lovely Meghan! Even if you weren’t invited to the wedding, it’s still a good excuse to celebrate! 

Linda loves a G&T, red wine, music, flowers, and the Seven Sisters. I created these cookies for her using several decorating techniques, including wet on wet (for the Seven Sisters cliff representation), piped rosettes, airbrushing, and hand-painting.  For the black stripes and polka dots, I used Kroma colour black airbrush color. It can be challenging to avoid overspray while you’re airbrushing, especially black on white. But thanks to some fantastic videos by Stencibelle, I’ve learned that getting the stencil as close to the cookie as possible and slowly and carefully airbrushing with a thin stream of color is the best way to go. I hope you had a wonderful Birthday Linda, and enjoyed your special birthday cookies!

1st Birthday cookies for little Alice. Airbrushed, and hand-painted cookies to celebrate a first birthday!

“If you go down in the woods todayYou're sure of a big surpriseIf you go down in the woods todayYou'd better go in disguise! For every bear that ever there wasWill gather there for certainBecause today's the day theTeddy Bears have their picnic.” Little Alfie is 1! These cookies started with a white royal icing flooded base. Then I used Americolor red, green and blue sheen airbrush colors to create the Gingham background. I did this by using a stripe stencil, airbrushing with the stripes one direction, waiting for that to dry, then airbrushing the stripes the opposite direction.  On top of the gingham background, I traced teddy bears and their picnic, then filled those traced shapes with white piping...

Spring flower themed wedding cookies for Courtney and Andrew.