To make this cookie extra fun and dimensional, Julia turned once again to fondant appliqués! Here, she airbrushed and stenciled the swag, mantel, and two sets of gifts – all elements in her To All a Good Night Dynamic Duos™
Bearing the namesake message from Julia’s A Haunting We Will Go Dynamic Duos™ design, this cookie tricks the eye into seeing a round moon. How on earth did Julia do this?! Answer: She created a circular royal icing transfer about
Not only that, but keep it real easy if you can. Julia simplified the airbrushing of these cookies considerably by limiting the colors to essentially two – orange and black – with accents of purple. The tighter the palette, the
Even without use of the message and frame portion of Julia’s A Haunting We Will Go Dynamic Duos™ design, this cookie screams Halloween with its dimensional royal icing moon, patch of pumpkin fondant appliqués, haunted tree, and Grim Reaper silhouette.
Here, Julia conjured up another frightful Halloween scene with her Home Spooky Home Dynamic Duos™ stencil release. This cookie bears the release’s namesake message (from the message and frame set) and two other foreground elements (the poison bottle and raven)
Which will it be – purple or green?! As you can see, so many eerie vignettes can be staged on this Halloween mantel, just by virtue of mixing and matching elements in Julia’s Home Spooky Home Dynamic Duos™ stencil sets.
Julia’s Home Spooky Home Dynamic Duos™ stencil release looks appropriately creepy even without any spooky sayings from from its message and frame set. For this cookie, Julia embellished the mantel with a trio of ravens. She even perched one on
One can never have enough tropical getaways in life – or paradise-themed cookies! That being said, here’s another (closer) view of the cookie bearing the namesake message from Julia’s Slice of Paradise Dynamic Duos™ stencil release. (A more distant view
Another cookie using both sets in Julia’s Slice of Paradise Dynamic Duos™ stencil release, this design charms with its colorful tropical bird and the added dimension afforded by the message and floral fondant appliqués. For extra lift, Julia contoured the
Even without any messages remarking about paradise, Julia’s Slice of Paradise Dynamic Duos™ stencil release clearly conveys its tropical getaway theme with its profusion of plumeria-like flowers. The flowers shown here were made of fondant and stenciled with the background
This distinguished cookie makes use of both sets in Julia’s Groomsman Dynamic Duos™ stencil release, meaning the background set (with all of the clothing elements) and the companion message and frame set. Julia also embellished it with a tiny fondant
He sure does when he gets a cookie as striking as this one made with Julia’s Groomsman Dynamic Duos™ stencil release. As you can hopefully see, countless design variations are possible with just the two sets in this release. Here,
That’s right! These cookies, made with Julia’s Groomsman Dynamic Duos™ stencil release, lose none of their appeal for not including words from the message and frame set. They shine instead in full-on sartorial splendor using only clothing elements from the
Lady Liberty sure stands tall on this cookie (literally off its top and bottom edges) by virtue of being a fondant appliqué. When air-dried, fondant becomes firm, allowing you to make dramatic statements by hovering it above cookies or over
For the three cookies on this plate, Julia fully exploited the stars-and-stripes background stencil in her God Bless America Dynamic Duos™ stencil sets. She also used a star-framed Fourth of July greeting from the complementary message and frame set on
Julia dispensed with fondant appliqués and messages on these cookies, letting the background set in her God Bless America Dynamic Duos™ release ring on its own. But you, of course, have the freedom to arrange the elements in both sets
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