Birds, polka dots, and more gnomes

I've never seen a red and white polka doted bird. For some reason, I still felt the need to put a couple on a cookie the other day. I love putting polka dots on cookies, so why not add a few spotted birds?

I like how the white and red contrasts with the blue on the gnome cookies, so I put them together. Birds and mushrooms kind of go with gnomes, right?

I'd like to get a mushroom cookie cutter if I make more mushroom cookies. A gnome cookie cutter would be nice too. (If i don't watch out I'll be overrun with cookie cutters. I don't have enough space for the ones I have now...)

Comic strip cookies are coming tomorrow!

Owls

I made pink owls and flowers to bring to my church small group last night.

For the owls, I drew circle with pointy ears on top, filled it in, and let it dry for about an hour.

I added white eyes next and let them dry for about 15-20 minutes.

Then, I put a light pink circle under the eyes and added dark pink U shaped onto the wet light pink icing. When you add a different color to icing that is already wet, it dries flat. I let that sit for about 30 more minutes before putting the blue pupils on the eyes and the orange beak, feet, and wings.

I got the design for these owls from the site sweetopia.net, I just changed the colors a bit.

I also made dark and light pink flowers to go with the owls. Tomorrow I'll post a tutorial about royal icing & making the flowers.