Thank You Julia! I like the example where 'Sugar Pearls' lightly coated the cookie with royal icing, smoothing it with a spatula. (letting it dry.) Then stamping it. I'll try that next time. My specific plan is to use the sheet music stamp. Not something that I could pipe by hand, and it's a big stamp.
I've purchased pre-printed wafer papers before and put them on a cookie. I didn't know how to do it so I just put them straight on the wet royal icing.