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Reply to "How to Get Started with Cookie Designs?"

Hi Ms. K,

I agree with @Julia M. Usher , following tutorials is a good advice. Personally I started my cookie journey last November by following her tutorials and her video projects and then I found her Cookie Connection. Since then I spend my free time looking at the beautiful cookies posted here. All cookies are beautiful and all deserve to have a look at, because sometimes you may learn from the cookies of the "beginner cookiers" just because you may notice some little mistakes.

Look at all the cookies, at their designs, at their details, how the space is filled, read the comments because you will find a lot of advicesand tips from the cookiers. This is a community that shares. For instance the idea of the design of one of my cookies "A Golden Fan on a Red Velvet Cushion" came from "Cupid Strikes" by Diane @Cookie Celebration LLC
http://cookieconnection.juliau...s-cookie-celebration

Diane explained in one of her comments how she had used a hole puncher to repourpose wafer paper. I used a flower puncher for my wafer paper fan. The flower shaped cuts on the fan revealed a handpainted inner layer. Few days earlier I had read a tutorial from @Lucy (Honeycat Cookies). Now that I am thinking, I guess that my idea came really from reading that tut.http://cookieconnection.juliau...iligree-heart-locket

If you see my cookie, it has nothing to do with the ones I got inspired from, but I owe my design inspiration to Diane and Lucy and of course CC.
http://cookieconnection.juliau...-velvet-cushion-manu

Read the past chats and the past interviews with the cookiers. You will learn what inspires them and many other things about their style, because the veterans have developed their own style and design. And you will be inspired.

Participate in the challenges! This will be a great push to brainstorm something new in order to follow Christine's "rules". When the challenge will be finished you will have learned a lot and new ideas and design will come to your mind.

Last thing that may sound weird. I was reading at the beginning of my cookie journey that most of the cookiers were so passionate that at one point they were seeing everything under a cookie perspective and turning everything into cookie and dreaming about projects and designs. It is not weird anymore, it happens. The idea of my cookie above came to my mind after I got an invitation to celebrate the Chinese New Year and during that period there was the Mixed Media Challenge... and out came the design.

I have been really long, but that's me. I just wanted to tell you about my little experience and telling you that you have already all the instruments in your hand to create something just because you are part of Cookie Connection and the guidelines are here. Have fun!

Last edited by Julia M. Usher
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