freehand painting

Painted Vintage Paper Doll Cookies

For this week’s tutorial, I wanted to push my painting techniques and paint Dolly Dingle paper dolls on 4.5 x3-inch royal icing covered cookies. To my delight, I discovered paper dolls are not...

Vintage Foxglove Flower Cookies with a Stucco Background Set

The foxglove is one of my favorite flowers, with it’s unique tubular shape and lovely colours. For this weeks tutorial I am going to show you how to hand paint realistic foxglove flowers on...

Sending a Letter to Santa

I saw this Sarah Kay illustration, and it reminded me of Margret O’Brien in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” a personal favorite of mine! This week’s tutorial is inspired by the movie and Sarah Kay...

Spooky Tombstone Cookies for Halloween

I can’t believe it is almost Halloween and time to start holiday baking! Ergo I created these Spooky Tombstone Cookies in a graveyard for this week’s video tutorial. Each tombstones is...

Antique Violins and Poinsettia Musical Note Sheet Cookies

I adore André Rieu, the violinist, his DVD “Home for Christmas” is spectular!. Each year we have it playing in the background as we decorate our Christmas tree in the family room. For this...

Decorated Floral Topiary Cookies

I love to pressure pipe with royal icing, it is an impressive prodigious technique. I created these pressure piped floral topiary cookies, for this video, I will teach you two styles of...