Valentine's Day Cookies

For the round butterfly cookies I used royal icing transfer with silver lustre dust, stamped wafer paper, painting for the wood planks, and sugar pearls and crystal sugar.

I tried the burlap effect I learned from Dolce Sentire and royal icing chain from SweetAmbs.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh   he..............!!!!!!!!!!!   i knew you were busy designing and would enter the challenge!   which i kept awaiting   looking    wondering      bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

crying!   okey doke   did you cut out the butterflies  then cut out each vein?  not sure im asking this correctly     it almost looks like  origami?  smiling    maybe thats a better way to ask     hahahhaaa    and if you did   howthehe..didyouaccomplish that!?  hahahaa      you must be very young with a steady hand and eagle eyed     i barely can see my touch downs  lol             maybe i should abandon myself to the cinders of he..!  hahahhaaaa   staring at your masterpiece!

i just opened for a close up view   butterflies do  look like  origami     so did you use an exacto knife?   just damnnnnnnn!   bravooooooooooooo    

donaharrisburg posted:

i just opened for a close up view   butterflies do  look like  origami     so did you use an exacto knife?   just damnnnnnnn!   bravooooooooooooo    

Hi, I believe it's a royal icing transfer - piped on acetate or parchment in two parts, allowed to dry and then lifted and iced in place.

Hi! Lovely! This photo is an exact duplicate of another one you posted to the challenge, so I am deleting the other one completely from the site. 

Julia M. Usher posted:

Hi! Lovely! This photo is an exact duplicate of another one you posted to the challenge, so I am deleting the other one completely from the site. 

Thank you Julia, I thought the first uploading failed but actually it didn't.

donaharrisburg posted:

i just opened for a close up view   butterflies do  look like  origami     so did you use an exacto knife?   just damnnnnnnn!   bravooooooooooooo    

As Julia says they are royal icing transfer. I made six of them just in case and broke two. They are extremely fragile!! Under the RI transfer are wafer paper wings.

I love the keys! You always make me surprised because you always try new skills and keep evolving although I thought your cookies had already reached perfection when I saw your cookies for the first time. Just amazing!!!

in love with this entry! what a gorgeous set!

mintlemonade (cookie crumbs) posted:

donaharrisburg posted:

i just opened for a close up view   butterflies do  look like  origami     so did you use an exacto knife?   just damnnnnnnn!   bravooooooooooooo    

As Julia says they are royal icing transfer. I made six of them just in case and broke two. They are extremely fragile!! Under the RI transfer are wafer paper wings.

tskkkkkk at me   okay     just darn   lol at myself      i wouldnt have guessed  ri transfers   but to plop atop wafer paper is genius     truthfully   i kept looking    getting closer and closer      - i need a sherlock holmes magnifier  -   lol          i couldnt detect the wafer paper      sighhhhhhhhhhhh     genius!

Even without your watermark I could recognize your cookies in one million! So beautiful! Perfect and delicate as always ❤️

Gorgeous set!

You combined all the elements so seamlessly!  I'm in complete awe!

Such amazing work!!! I absolutely love the set

What an amazing set!  I love the light colors it makes all your details stand out.

Fabulous!

Gorgeous set!  Your chainwork is impeccable, and I am in awe of your butterfly wings.  Please tell me you made a lot of extras to insure against breakage, because I can't imagine successfully transferring those onto a cookie without breaking more than a few!

Bakerloo Station posted:

Gorgeous set!  Your chainwork is impeccable, and I am in awe of your butterfly wings.  Please tell me you made a lot of extras to insure against breakage, because I can't imagine successfully transferring those onto a cookie without breaking more than a few!

Thank you! Yes, of course I made extras. I made six of them and broke two just when I peeled them off from acetate. After I took photos, I broke one...

I love the colors of these cookies!

love these

Just gorgeous.  I, like everyone else, love those butterflies!! And I love the idea of putting wafer paper behind the royal icing...now that is a wafer paper idea I can get behind!! And your colors are always so gorgeous and unique.  Really amazing, beautiful set.

i always look to see another of your splendid art     just love you      bravooooooooooo    staring at the bfly           lol   no i havent tried it yet      maybeeeeee    lol     trying to keep pressure off myself         ill boast if i succeed          lol       need to cut a bfly now     or maybe i already did        anyway   my fingers are crossed

Gorgeous work!!

I'm pretty sure I squealed, shrieked, squeaked or something along those lines when I saw these....LOVE them. OMG,  completely awesome!!!

stunning!

So beautiful!