What does one do with a cookie box like this? Good question – and there’s an equally good answer! Julia likes to use cookie boxes as either party décor or party favors. Here, she took the décor route by filling
Indeed. You’d hardly know these royal icing pine cones weren’t the real deal. And what an appropriate addition they make to the base of Julia’s 3-D woodland cookie box! Simply perfection! For Julia’s entire woodland cookie box and all of
One of Julia’s latest fascinations is creating dimensional royal icing flowers with a piecework technique, wherein each petal is piped separately and then joined together. These fabulous folk art-style flowers were made precisely this way, and were later used to
After spotting some colorful bird-themed pottery in her local art gallery, Julia got to thinking that a quirky folk art bird’s nest might be a fun cookie project. And here you see the result of Julia’s crazy brainstorming! For the
One version of a 3-D project is rarely enough for Julia! She loves to try out variations in color and structure, and then, of course, if anything should go awry in the construction (particularly with a project as complex as
With 3-D cookies, it’s not enough for a project to look good from an overhead view; it needs to view well from all angles, and from bottom to top. This zoomed-in view of Julia’s folk art bird’s nest project demonstrates
Here, you can see Julia’s famous piecework flowers in action on the base of an actual 3-D cookie project. The folk art-style daisy on the side of this towering 3-D bird’s nest cookie was made of individual pieces of royal
This little blue bird found the best of nests in this contoured cookie filled with wafer paper grass. The bird is a 2-D cookie but is given dimension through the application of royal icing transfers for wings and feathers on
Here, Julia worked the graveyard scene in her Boo to You Dynamic Duos™ sets in various ways and with different mediums to make it literally jump off the cookie. First, let’s talk about that moon! It’s a royal icing transfer
As always, the design possibilities with Julia’s Dynamic Duos™ sets are nearly limitless. Here’s yet another style variation of her Boo to You design that puts the emphasis on the bats in the set. They were first stenciled with royal
This cookie using Julia’s Boo to You Dynamic Duos™ sets is a great example of the over-stenciling technique. A term Julia coined, over-stenciling refers to one element being stenciled on another stenciled (or un-stenciled) element to lend more depth. Julia
This side view gives a good picture of just how much dimension Julia was able to create simply by layering her Boo to You Dynamic Duos™ sets in creative ways. She made a puffy moon as a royal icing transfer
This summertime cookie made with Julia’s Beach Cabana Dynamic Duos™ sets may seem complex, but her innovative masking concept makes it easy to layer design elements to create rich, dimensional looks. Here, Julia airbrushed and stenciled the message, hat, oars,
It’s indisputable – these cookies made with Julia’s Beach Cabana Dynamic Duos™ sets are so full of interest! First, what about that weathered cabana siding? All it took was airbrushing a few different colors over the background stencil in this
Made with just the background set in Julia’s Beach Cabana Dynamic Duos™ design, this cookie still shouts summertime fun without any messages – and with mostly surfboards! That’s the beauty of each and every one of Julia’s two-set Duos™ designs:
This cookie made with Julia’s Live Sweetly Dynamic Duos™ stencil sets has more sweetness than you’ll find in any spoonful of sugar! Perhaps a pallet-load would equate? Maybe not even that. Just look at that darling cupcake platter . .
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