Stitched With LOVE: Valentines Cookies

It is a super windy Monday morning (almost scary wind!).....as I sit here with a lovely winter cold.....sneezing, coughing, and blowing my nose. :(

Thankfully, I already have plenty of cookies and photos in line to show you.......so it is just a matter of putting together a post.

I've got a few more "stitched" cookies to share with you......there never seems to be a shortage of those type cookies around here. hee hee

And just in case you weren't aware........my cookies are 

Stitched with Love...

I think that is probably the best part about making and decorating cookies. You put your heart and soul into them and then delight someone with them. I call that "Cookie Joy". :)

I hope your day is filled with lots of joy....despite the weather or how you're feeling. There's too many good things about the gift of another day to live to allow the "not so good things" to get you down.

Happy Monday!

Stitched Valentines Cookies (Tutorial)

Wanting to make some Valentines heart cookies to share for the holiday?

I've put together a little tutorial to help you make some of the simpler designs you see in my
Stitched Hearts collection.

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To make the polka dot hearts.....

Outline and then flood the cookie in your base color.....then immediately add your polka dots (wet on wet). For the size polka dot you see here.....I used a #2 round tip.

But if you want larger dots, use a #4, and for smaller, use a #1.

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To make a checkerboard heart......

Use a #2 round tip to make your criss-cross pattern.
Dry with heat gun and then let it air dry for 20-30 minutes.

Fill in the darker of the two colors. Dry with heat gun and then air dry 20-30 minutes. 

Then fill in your lighter color. Dry with heat gun and air dry overnight.

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For the button hearts......

Outline the heart and add small circles to the center of the heart for your button holes.
Caution: Don't make them too small causing the icing to run together with no hole.

Use heat gun to dry....and then air dry for 20-30 minutes.

Flood the entire heart except for the button holes. Dry with heat gun and air dry for 20-30 minutes.

Add a outline to the button with your original color and then make a thread cross in a different color.
Dry overnight.

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Once your hearts have dried overnight, you can take your black food color marker (I use Food Doodlers) and add your stitches.

And there you have it......some wonderfully simple heart cookies to share on Valentines Day. 

More stitched Valentines cookies coming soon.

Here's some of my stitched Valentine cookies from last year HERE.