{"id":5278,"date":"2025-01-12T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverdoves.com\/blog\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2025-01-12T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:30:30","slug":"christmas-cookie-designs-for-2024-a-pinterest-perfect-christmas-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silverdoves.com\/blog\/christmas-cookie-designs-for-2024-a-pinterest-perfect-christmas-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cookie designs for 2024 – A “Pinterest-perfect Christmas” Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A quick history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The very first time I made royal icing was actually for Christmas cookies in 2011. I didn’t bother coloring any of it, I just used colored gel tubes and experimented with wet-on-wet techniques. Now I giggle looking back at them<\/a>, but it was the tiny spark that set off this hobby. It was another 5 years before I was ready to try again, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things picked up a few years after that and I’ve continued to bake and decorate sugar cookies for Christmas each year. Here is a quick look at our Christmas cookies through the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year’s inspiration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Now that I bake and decorate sugar cookies more frequently than once a year, this year’s theme had been on my mind quite a bit. It was early in the year that a vision for this year’s Christmas cookies began to form in my mind. I wanted to bring that vibe of sitting in your comfy sweats and socks, curled up on the sofa with a mug of hot chocolate, all cozy and soft and feminine<\/a>. I frequently daydreamed about my ideas and by the time the winter season was upon us I had built this vision up to what I can now admit was a bit too much. (What, me? Never.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran into the issue that cookie cutters didn’t seem to exist for the very specific ideas I had in my mind’s eye. So I began by sketching some ideas in Procreate on my iPad<\/a>. I then turned those sketches into vectors in Illustrator and used them to create shapes that I could cut out of cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo. Then I used those stencils to painstakingly cutout shapes of my cookies in dough using an x-acto knife. Yeah. I know. I’m nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also purchased a projector this year, which I used to project my sketches onto my cookies as well as to use as a reference for the “painting” cookies. It was a bit annoying to use (perhaps because I had not used one before) but it did help get the basic shapes for my designs blocked out before decorating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the obligatory flat-lay photo of all the cookies laid out in order to document my insanity this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A closer look at a couple stand-out designs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back of hair with bow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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One of my favorites turned out to be this back view of a girl with a bow. Inspired by this photo<\/a>, but I experimented with a few colors and techniques and was over all very fun to do. Do not regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double decker modern house<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Possibly the most insane of my designs this year was of a house<\/a>. The inspiration was the idea of looking in (I also had an idea of looking out that I never could flush out) large glass windows on the scene previously described (curled on the sofa by the fire, etc…) I had to adjust this idea somewhat and instead ended up with a double decker cookie with a painted interior scene on the bottom cookie, framed with a second cookie layer made using melted clear mint candy glass that became windows. I also made a couple versions that was a single cookie with just the clear windows. Do not regret, but probably will not bother to make them again, lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stack of books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This was inspired by an AI generated image that was included in a bundle I purchased from Etsy to print for Christmas decor this year<\/a>. I really wanted to lean into the bows this year. This was a really fun cookie to design, as well. Do not regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holding a stack of presents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Inspired by a photo I saw on Pinterest<\/a>. The hands this year were a struggle, but still a fun cookie to make. Probably not one I’d bother with again, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Framed “watercolor” paintings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This idea was similar to some cookies I’d played around with earlier in the year. This time, though, I used the projector to get the basic shapes laid out in the scene and added some depth and details after. These ended up being my favorites, I think. Painting is just so good for my soul, I really loved making these. <\/p>\n\n\n

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