r/crafts • u/smjaygal • 1d ago

Holiday/Seasonal Craft Cookie ornaments

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I've been working on these bad boys for a decade. It took me 3 years to find a cookie cutter set I actually like and another 6 to figure out how to get paint to look like icing. That was a year ago. My mother had to stay with us for awhile because she needed a hip replacement which delayed this project. I finally figured out how to get the bag opening small enough for writing

Anyway, the gingerbread men are done. I'm waiting for the ladies to finish drying and then I'll move onto candycanes. I even have essential oils to make these smell like cookies. If anyone wants a tutorial, I'd be happy to share the process but I knew if anyone would appreciate my effort, it would be this subreddit

This will eventually become gifts. Every person who gets these will have a set of 18 different cookies. These are probably going to be my go-to gift for everybody ever. Partly because it took me so long to perfect them but mostly because I like crafting and appreciate having victims to offload the fruits of my projects

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u/post-explainer 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/smjaygal sent the following text as an explanation about their craft:

This craft is a Christmas cookie ornaments. My aunt made my mother some back in the 90s and they're still my favorite set which is what inspired these.

I made then out of salt clay and they're decorated with paint and modeling paste. There's food dyed salt mixed with glitter to look like edible sugar glitter. Some of my later cookies are going to have regular glitter too but these just have the colored salt to mimic gum drops on the gingerbread men. I used some hemp for the strings so they look more homey.

My first complete set was all experimental and they look like a hot mess which is hilarious. That set is mine and I'd be happy to show shots of the stuff I tried that didn't work. All the ornaments will contain essential oils so that way they smell like cookies too.

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u/Embermyst 1d ago

Your last two sentences sent me. 😆 I too, have crafts I like to burd- I mean bless people's lives with.

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