We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

Girls, I came across a video of baking on a bowl, brought it, I don't know in what language, otherwise the text could be translated. It seems in Hungarian though.

And here is the gelatinous glaze, very similar to the lacquer one from Liza, but the gingerbread cookies with her are not put back in the oven.

ABOUT! I tried to do it like in the last video And cover it with icing, pouring the hemispheres from above - the result Either you need to play with the consistency, or dip, but the cellulite surface did not suit me. Elechka is the inspiration, how she finds something, how she shows!

I subscribe to every word. I, too, did not succeed in anything sane. And dipped and watered - the result: hug and cry.

[Valyushechka_ya]

Girls tell me, I want to bake gingerbread for the new year, but can I paint it with sugar caradash?

Valyushechka_ya, if you are talking about gel pencils, then you can, of course. Only it won't be good. This gel does not harden, does not dry out and smears with any touch. I also tried to paint my first gingerbread cookies. It turned out to be a rare muck.

I drew with Otterov pencils, but the palette is meager and ends quickly

These pencils are suitable for children's creativity. If the gingerbread or the house stays at home and does not need to be carried anywhere. Better to paint with chocolate or icing. Can be decorated with mastic

Valyushechka_ya, I have not tried sugar pencils yet ... For painting in a gingerbread postcard, I partially used felt-tip pens with food dyes (5 colors) from Parfait Decor. The contour in some places outlined them. They wrote a little pale, but they held up well, did not flow.

Burunduk, Babovka, elena88Thank you very much, I am looking for dyes and I saw these pencils, but I did not find anything about them in the topic, I will try for home and for loved ones with chocolate or icing.

[Tanya]

An order for a young man on the DR. BMW car 20 * 10 cm, weights 11.5 * 8 cm

Tanya, Oh, weights are so cool! And the car is not bad!

Mona1what an interesting set! Such weights are mischievous!

Mona1, Tanyusha, the set is very beautiful and original!

[Vera]

And I have autumn leaves 7-8cm

Vera, are we seeing off autumn? Autumn leaves always look bright, the veins of the cord are large, and so I even looked at the photo where they are already packed in the basket, there are still real ones lying next to it, and the first feeling is that you put real ones in the basket, then I looked closely - like some gingerbread. So a very similar nature came out.
And how it happened with the weights. The customer ordered her son, and the son pulls kettlebells, and 25 kg each, well, she asked 16 to write like her wish to him, so that he would lower, worried about him. Well, when I was drawing, it seemed to me that the left weight is my mother, and the right one is her son. Therefore, the right weight has such an expression, like I can handle everything, I can do anything. And the left one is a mother who looks at her son with love, and, as it were, says: be careful and with the hope that everything will be fine with her son.

Vera, I would make the veins on the leaves with a thinner nozzle, it would turn out more gracefully, and even better on a wet one draw, as I had:

Tanya, it's a good set!

Vera, I liked the veined idea in the leaves. More precisely, they are made in the form of an ornament and it attracted my eye. The leaves look good in the basket!
I have a question for you about packaging) Purchased bags or did you make it yourself? It looks like a wrapping oilcloth for flowers. But along the edge, like a shovchik goes.Elizabeth, the veins on the leaves are very neat and realistic. At first I thought that they were painted over dried icing, but it turned out all the same on wet ... Mastery on the face! Great!

Elena, Purchased bags. Lena, you alone understood my idea with streaks now I will show you another photo

Vera, I now also understood it was necessary to immediately show this photo)))

Liz, but I agree with you that the lines should be thinner, only the icing spread all at once and it spreads. And why are you so thin on wet?

Girls, did anyone order molds from Dasha? 🔗

I ordered, and Natasha 🔗, also at Olya 🔗, and Yura 🔗, of course, Yura has the most excellent quality, but there the price is biting and he takes a long time, but you can even bake in his molds, in Olin's they don't, but they do it quickly, the size you need and, if necessary, according to your sketches, from Natasha and Dasha prices and quality are about the same, Natasha works a little faster, but I'm happy with those and those molds. in general, for a person who does not deal with gingerbread all the time, I have a half-dresser cut-down, I am a cut-down alcoholic, and also for cakes a gingerbread man .

How many there are ..... goliks))))))) And everything is necessary, and everything is necessary.

love you sister!

my family has already begun to control the parcels, I don’t know the measures, I don’t see the banks. : girl_red: mutually!

and I introduced myself a 3-month maratorium on the purchase of felling. And then I already have too many of them. Today the last order came and that's it. 3 months like a drug addict :-)

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, well, every time I make a promise to myself, but yesterday I ordered it again, I hope that I will calm down for at least 2 months.

[Mona1]

Oh, I haven't been for two days, and then new gingerbread cookies appeared!
Mona1, Tanyusha, original combination of a machine with weights Difficult work on a typewriter But I would do round weights. More classic or something.
ledi, Vera, interesting design of leaves. Somehow I'll try this too. But about the thinner lines of the pattern, I agree with Lisa.

[elena88]

elena88, Lena, cool snowmen, such Soviet cartoons, from childhood)))
It seems to me that it’s not bad even without a stroke, in the photo, it may merge a little, but in a living thought, you can see it normally, you can also icing a little darker, but if you don’t find it difficult to do with a stroke, then of course with white it is more contrasting.

fomca, Svetik, although you rarely do gingerbread, but your work is of the highest quality, the lace heart is excellently done!
Shoulder straps cannot be distinguished from real ones! It is a pity that Yoda did not show us here (((
Burunduk, Tan, well, the frog is finally hilarious, how cool you are to convey emotions through the expression of faces and muzzles! I can imagine what you will do with us when you study art!
Schischok, good gingerbread and a very good start The main thing is to learn how to do drawing icing correctly, then the work will be even better. Monkey cute
Elena.P, Lena, I really liked the picture with the car and the girl, these postcard pictures are very original, especially in a good performance, like yours. Unfortunately, it is very difficult and time-consuming for me to make such gingerbread cookies, so I will admire other artists)))

Nehorushka, Natasha, but I liked your pineapples and the whole tropical set is very cool, I really wanted exotic, I'll go eat a banana

Mona1, Tanya, well, you finally can be a hero! I would not dare to draw such a cool car
Nabotchik, just such a kid Girki with a meaning - cool you came up with!

ledi, Vera, the leaves with the pattern look very good, the girls noticed well, in the basket they cannot be directly distinguished from the real ones, beautifully, in autumn and festive. You are smart! You always come up with something interesting!

[Mona1]

Well here, my Firebird and feathers wishes
The bird itself is 20 * 14.5 cm, feathers are 14 * 5 cm each.

Tanya, how beautiful! I really liked it ! The idea, execution, colors ... is original for me) and it is noticeable that it is done with soul! Well done!

very nice!
Are the gingerbread cookies themselves covered with dark icing or is it yolk with coffee? or with a dye?

Mona1, Tanyusha, a very beautiful set! The bird turned out super, the whole set is very harmonious!

What a funky gingerbread color. How I love such gingerbread! What are the covers? Decorated beautifully

This is the yolk with water in which the dye is diluted. This is me trying to mix colors, to achieve the desired brown, as on Czech gingerbread, since I have no dry brown. But I read that if green is mixed with cherry (or raspberry?), Then you can get red-brown or more brown, depending on the ratio of cherry or brown. I threw it in half, this is such a burgundy. now I want to throw a little cherry-raspberry, and 2-3 times more green.
I have dry ukras for varnishing. I didn't like the gel ones here. She used to paint gingerbread, maybe someone remembers, the word DONETSK is in roses. Black gel Ateko, and the first day they were black, and on the second day they somehow brightened and became brownish. And I dyed Christmas boots on Ukrasovskaya dry with this raspberry crimson - so it still stands in the sideboard with my mother, and the same rich crimson-cherry color, although the light falls on it, did not fade a single gram.

Mona1, Tanya, it turned out very festively, I also look at the design of the Firebird. So I took note of the feathers with wishes.

In the sideboard behind the glass? If yes, then it is not surprising, glass almost does not transmit ultraviolet light, hence the fading is several times less, well, this is one of the factors ...

suvoyka, for almost a year it will fade behind the glass. But the ones painted with gel discolored in a day in a semi-dark room with the blinds down. Maybe this Atekov gelka has such a property, but there are no other companies, I don’t know, I haven’t tried it.

Mona1, Tanya, cool zarpbird and feathers, beautiful colors and cover. I also suffer with powder. Ata used the last one for mastic, in the spring I was lucky to buy Dobrik powder a couple of times. And now I have tried types of 5-6, not only is the price of space, but also a large whole. And Donetsk, too, took, sowed, so much sugar. I grind the same with my coffee grinder, so I decided to do it myself.

Tan, boldly! Contrasting colors, bright, eye-catching. I would make the current even brighter and introduce at least one more shade (well, I have a fad for shades)

Tan, I have ordered this bird again, maybe I will introduce one more shade, and I'll try to make the background a little brown.

stumbled upon a very interesting drawing transfer technique)

[Natkamor]

Natkamor, but I was surprised by something else. At the end of the video, this gingerbread is glued into the center of a premium, homemade rosette. It seems - well, what's strange, BUT. Well, I'm not a culinary pastry chef at all, I have been making premium rosettes from silk ribbons for many years, however, my rosettes are not as scary as here, but it's just the very meaning that my two works are connected here in the video in the most amazing way. By the way, this is what I do (well, and a couple more people with me)

🔗

Mona1, Tanya, COOL !!! I didn’t know that we have such sockets, I only saw them in the movies. What a fine fellow you are, you create such beauty.

Elya_lug, yes, for more than ten years I have been doing them alone, right now, for a couple of years, there are two more girls in the load. Almost all exhibitions of large Ukraine are awarded with them, and they were sent to Russia, even to Italy a couple of times, by the way, if anyone, girls - Ukrainian girls, dogs have exhibition dogs and received prizes, you can look on the back side if it says: made in The Dream Valley workshop, it is almost certainly done with my hands, a piece of my warmth.
For reasons known to all, a lot in our city has changed over the year, there are fewer outlet orders, which is why I developed gingerbreads gradually, so thanks to this generally bad external and internal situation, oddly enough I became a gingerbread maker, to live then it is necessary somehow. Otherwise, I would hardly have started it all.

Mona1, Tanya, be stunned! I ran to look at the daughter's award rosettes on purpose, she brought them from the equestrian competitions. And sho would you think !!!! Well, the world is small!
So you and I, it turns out, "struck" each other for the first time more than three years ago!

Well, three years ago, I was the only one who made them, so I held them in my hands, and you held them now, as if we shook hands. And I even now do it for the horsemen, because there the hook is attached at the back, and other workers do not do it with the hook, there is a different technology.

Mona1, Tan, well, just stunned! I didn’t even suspect that there were such sockets for something. I’m not a dog lover, not a horseman or even an athlete. Therefore, this area is far from me. But I always admire creative people with Hands. Precisely with a capital letter.

Mona1, Tanya, yesterday I looked at all the rosettes for a long time, how much work, how much accuracy, I cannot imagine how these ribbons are folded so neatly. Once again I affirm that you are a good fellow with the right hands and a talented person!

Mona1, Tanya, talented people are talented in everything! Well done!

Girls, thanks for the praises, in principle there is nothing complicated there. The only thing that helped me in the gingerbread. It's just that the rosettes are glued together with a glue gun, where the glue comes out of the nozzle when pressed with a thin strip, which must be led along the line, this stuffed my hand very much, it was easier to get used to the nozzles and icing.

Mona1, Tanyusha, what a clever and needlewoman you are!

[Mona1]

Girls, tell me, what do you make holes on the gingerbread? That year I cut out gingerbread cookies straight from the oven with a cocktail tube on my boots, but the plastic tube quickly lost its shape from the hot and got clogged with a gingerbread inside, so it was enough for a few gingerbread cookies, and the hole was big, I had a thick tube, half a centimeter diameter somewhere, but they ordered me for a Christmas tree on small gingerbread cookies, I have a hole for a third of the gingerbread. Maybe a skewer, but it's kind of thin. And just sell with holes, and they themselves will make the cords, or what? And then I already have a lot of people who want to buy Christmas-tree gingerbread, small, somehow silk ribbons will run out at once.
By the way, I graduated from a technical university, engineering thinking is constantly haunted, so I have invented something on this topic, it may be useful to someone, as an idea. I will probably do this:
You can use a piece of a tube (as long as the thickness of the gingerbread, pierce the gingerbread and leave this tube there, just clean the gingerbread inside with a skewer, and then you can just thread a thread inside this tube). The tube will protect the gingerbread from the thread and will not let her break it. But I don’t know whether to pierce the hot gingerbread or wait until they cool a little to warm?

Tanya, and I pierce before baking from a pen or from a felt-tip pen with a tube. But I also have big holes. Gingerbread size from 6 to 9 cm

Ver, and the gingerbreads themselves are up to a maximum of 5 cm, probably for hanging on the tree. My dough is not very hard, no matter how it falls, it hangs, it will absorb moisture from the tree. Well, although my clients are mostly Donetsk residents, it is unlikely that there will be many natural Christmas trees that will be sold and bought, although right now I am talking to the customer who took the weights and the car, she orders a lot to hang on the tree, and tomorrow I need to bake, she wants to send to the USA on the trail. week to relatives, so, hello, America, as they say. ))
And also, you just sell them like this, without the ribbons?
And you pierce it hot, or how cool it is?

Mona1, Tanya, 3 years ago, I puzzled my husband with such a question and he found the simplest (for us) solution - he dismantled an unnecessary antenna from a small kitchen TV set, and it turned out 3 rigid tubes of different diameters with pretty sharp edges. Such antennas are still in radio-controlled cars ... Ali and in raw dough and hot. I liked the hot one more, it was even and ... ,, at the same time I will eat ,,

Mona1, Tanyusha, last year I did this: before baking I made a hole with a wooden stick for sushi, it is 3 times thicker than a regular skewer. And immediately after baking, I went through the holes again, otherwise they swam a little during baking.
I do not take satin ribbons, but a ribbon for flowers. I just tear off the stripes in width with my hands, it turns out about 5-6 ribbons from one cut.

Girls, in principle, you can do without holes, just make a loop from the ribbon and glue it with icing on the back of the gingerbread.

Sold 3 mm tape of different colors, it is just suitable for Christmas tree decorations.

I still have an idea, one of these days I will try to apply it, you can make a hole with a skewer, just like for gingerbread on a stick, only do not put the stick there, after painting and drying, drop a little icing into the hole and use a skewer to push the loop of the ribbon.
Honestly speaking, I am always confused with holes - I cannot beautifully circle this hole and, as a result, the gingerbread looks sloppy (((

Baba Valya, Valya, how do you get the gingerbread circle out of the tube? Toothpick?
Sahara, Ler, is it a silk or paper ribbon, in which shops to watch it?

Tanya, my customers had it Yes, these are without ribbons. They come in a set. yes, and I'm cheap, so I wrote: girl_haha: before baking

try to make a hole with a drill on a ready-made, cooled gingerbread. They are of different diameters. They showed us so in the courses, it turns out very well

Tan, well, this ... I blow out one by one on the other side of the tubes, they fly out easily, it is smooth (more precisely, the husband cuts / blows / eats right there, yeah).

Baba Valya, Val, it's like in a cartoon Two from the casket, the same from the face, when gingerbread and clubs themselves flew into their mouths. So it is with you, the husband blows, the cookie flies out, and here you - with your mouth open - yum, that's all.

I'm embarrassed to ask which drill?

[Nehorushka]

Good evening everyone!
I brought my next "test" of 3D gingerbread. The seams and filling of the hemispheres turned out to be terrible ... The seams had to be decorated with icing circles ... I forgot to put the candies inside, so the rattle does not rattle

Nehorushka, Natalia, cool rattle! For me, this is a godsend! And then I kept thinking where to use the 3D molds for the balls that I bought Now I know. Just tell me: did you decorate with mastic? And what kind of wand? it feels like a cocktail tube

harmful78, a blue flower in the center and a blue ball at the bottom, yes mastic. Everything else is icing.
The stick is a skewer, I just wrapped it with a ribbon

How did you fill in and how did you dry the halves?

I did the filling by completely dipping the hemispheres into icing. Dried on small baby food jars

Nehorushka, Natasha, the rattle is very cool! High-quality and difficult work, well done!

thanks for the rating Katya))

Liked the rattle! The photo shows no flaws in the fill

Girls, I did it !!! Accept the fair report https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=433630.new#new

[Chelsica]

I liked the first set of frames from everything, the rest is too small, plastic sets were cheaper here. In general, the Chinese need to carefully look at the dimensions, mostly they have 5-6 cm of felling.
Chelsica, in any case, thanks for the links, you gave me the idea to order confectionery disposable bags at the sale))) Listen, have you come across a small brush for cleaning tips? Or maybe Wilton's confectionery devices?

on aliexpress, Wilton is somehow very expensive
look here, down there you can still flip through many pages there

Sahara, Ler, I've met some brushes. I wrote it out, I'm waiting.

[m0use]

m0use, Ksyusha, cool exhibition, also, opening her mouth, looked at the stained glass gingerbread. Simply incomprehensible beauty!
P.S. By the way, there you wrote about a craftswoman from Arkhangelsk that she didn’t want to slam her work and forms. And she realized late, ALREADY.I looked at her work and suddenly I see a deer, which I decorated the day before yesterday, taking a picture from Pinterest. Here she is, so, I hope, the craftswoman will not be very offended, and finally, there is nothing to shine on the Internet, and then be surprised. Here.

Well, I also added a bunch of everything, forgive me if I offended anyone with plagiarism and do not hit anyone with slippers. )))

Tanya, exactly, deer! And what kind of beauty has I added

Mona1What gingerbreads are wonderful !!! I'm just learning how to make them. I just did it once .... it turned out not very neat .... poke my nose at the recipe with what you are drawing ... it turned out to be thin, everything spread out ... and squeeze it out through the cornet? I apologize if I asked the wrong questions.

Mona1, Tan, very nice plagiarism. You know, this is how I feel about it: I put it in open access - say goodbye to copyright. All. It is useless to be offended later. And not productive. The one who took your idea into service from insults is neither cold nor hot. And the customers and even more so on the drum. If you don't want plagiarism, sit on your ideas yourself and don't show it to anyone. I don't feel sorry for my own ideas. And I use strangers with pleasure and gratitude. At the beginning of the year I saw my "eight" in the store of one of the craftswomen. I was pleased that the idea was continued. Means, not only I like it. Therefore, I think that you should not be complex because of this. Be proud of your work. She's really good.

Lenochka, thank you, I will also be glad if someone does something of mine. And with the lady of this Arkhangelskaya we are not competitors, we live in different cities and countries, it is unlikely that I will entice her clients or somehow reduce her sales.
Girls, and I seem to be planning cooperation with one children's development center, they have an emblem - a rabbit and an organizer - a girl, I already took gingerbreads for christening, I liked it and now I offered to make them gingerbreads in the center - like their rabbit emblem. The figurine is simple, but very small. It is necessary to make the rabbits many and thin, about the size of a matchbox in height and 1.8 cm wide, some will be covered with icing and dye with a brush, outline the eyes, nose, antennae, and other rabbits (for very young children) - without glaze at all , just a gingerbread and on it with dye dots eyes and a nose with antennae. I bought the thinnest brush. But I have a question. I used a dye brush to use icing all the time, but not just gingerbread. Will he dye or not? I'm worried that the varnishing will interfere, the paint is normally applied to the varnish, or is it not necessary to finally cover it with yolk, but so that the rough gingerbread would just be and draw on it?

And why can't you mark eyes with icing and everything else?

Lena, there will be children from one year old, they do not want to give them with icing. Who will be older with icing.

Tan, yes there will be 2 points of that icing

Mona1, Tanya, what a beauty! Just a lovely sight!
I could not resist not to express my admiration. This is how long it takes to create such creations!

Mona1, Tanya, I agree with Natalia - there are only two points of icing. That's not a lot.


that's really true so true Often they send photos of works and ask how much it will cost "to do exactly the same". The last time they even sent work not from Western craftswomen, but to our local one. So understand them, these customers

Tanya. as for me icing is better than dye. And the gingerbread cookies are very, very, and mnogooooo !!!!!!!!!!

Exactly! What is more harm (not a word about the benefits) - in dye or icing ...?

Mona1, Tanyush, you with your gingerbreads are like a Lefty !!! Such miniatures !!!

Mona1, Tanyusha, you are already getting ready for the New Year with might and main! What a clever girl you are!
Everything in advance, with a huge assortment!
The gingerbread cookies are very wonderful!

Katerina79Katya, I would also not be in a hurry with the New Year's assortment, but this is my first New Year and Christmas - for sale, that year I baked only mine, so only mittens and boots that year were.But those who are not the first year, those who have something from that year in the photos, and just add a little new, and that's all, and then from scratch. I will also make angels in three sizes and price categories, a small house and some kind of 3D New Year's composition and Christmas.

Tanya, I made to order last year. But I just had something: snowmen, Christmas trees, snowflakes, mittens, socks and a lamb. All:)
This year I bought a monkey's face and a Christmas tree toy. For me, it's over the roof :)
And you spoil your clients :) Angels in three sizes! ))

As in "Prisoner of the Caucasus": You asked in three copies. By the way, I give 6 big angels to the lady that I wanted to send my gingerbreads to America, but it turned out that it would not be possible to send them there, the American customs do not allow homemade cakes there, as it turned out. But she's going to give someone here.

[Burunduk]

Burunduk, Tanya, tell us how the master class went, interesting!

Thank you for your interest. I'll make a reservation right away - these are my personal impressions, other participants will probably tell you differently. Judith is a professional artist who painted ceramics. MK was rather a demonstration, they counted on the starting level of the participants. The technique for me (and not only) turned out to be very difficult, for the first half hour in general, everyone had a moment of panic - nothing worked from the start. Then, little by little, things started to go, the idea and the basic techniques were clear, but again (again!) On the same rake - there is not enough artistic skills either to apply the correct relief, to present it in space, or for correct toning. You will see in the photo how much paler my colors are than the samples. All from the fear of using rich colors.
By the end of the MK, the understanding even began to ripen that I would not work in this technique, but on the way home on a sleepless night on the bus I grew up, the bad thoughts disappeared from my head, the right ones were blown Not gods burn pots, everything is like everywhere else: practice and practice! What to move the cornet, what to vazyukat with a brush There are ideas, while I swing at not so realistic plots, but eventually I will get to them, I hope
Well, in order not to be unfounded, I present a photo of the results (the volume is poorly visible on them, but it is there :-)) In a curly frame - these are Judith's brought works, rectangular gingerbread cookies without filling are those that she did with us, well and the rectangular ones with fill are mine.

Burunduk, Tan, it turned out very well for you, I don't even know who the girl came out prettier, you, or Judith. Very cool! The dog is also good, only the muzzle is more miserable than that of the other two. And by the way, Judith has different facial expressions on her two dogs.
But the kitten came out a little worse, the back left leg seems to be on its own, somehow strongly to the left, I just want it to be to the right. Although I don't like Judith's kitten as much as the dog and the girl.
In general, I did not understand why you were jittery, and what was wrong there? Except for the leg, everything is almost like Judith's, in general, well done!

And by the way, Judith has different facial expressions on her two dogs.

:-) Well, it's impossible to repeat even your own work one to one

But the kitten came out a little worse, the back left leg seemed to be on its own, somehow strongly to the left, I just want it to be to the right

Yeah, just not with your fingers, but with the base. Well, so that the legs are not parallel, but sparsely, right? The kitten is the most difficult in relief. Well, at least guessed!
And about the jitters - nooo, it's not jitters at all. I just remember my feelings at the MK on sculpting - by the end of it I was sure that it was not mine, although my work was no worse than others, despite the fact that at that moment I took mastic in my hands for the first time (well, with the aim of sculpting) ... Here, too, it seems like a gingerbread, but you create a semi-sculpture, it is easier to make it in full volume and put it, than to convey the position in space with a bas-relief. And then the same sensation began to ripen in me, but I did it with a slipper, a slipper!

Burunduk, Tatiana, just great work! The girl is just a sight for sore eyes!
It seems to me that this is a difficult technique, but the result is five points!

Nehorushka, Natasha, thank you for your support, but minus five points, please do it ... :-) The technique is really complicated and time-consuming. The master herself said that she does not make such gingerbread for sale.

Oh that! This business is unprofitable. For the soul and exhibitions only. Tan, but you're a fine fellow! And that I got together and went, and that I overcame my panic, and it turned out great! And if you practice, you will not be distinguished from Judith at all.

Burunduk, Tan, well, if we compare the works, then the coolest ones that she brought with her
And the ones I did with you are simpler.
So what to say about you, when it was all new, both technique and drawing.
As for me, you have very, very worthy jobs !!!

Burunduk, Tatyan, somewhere I can understand a little disappointment after such MKs, you always expect more from yourself, but it seems you have come in vain, everything is useless, thrown away money, etc. But knowledge is NEVER superfluous! Something somewhere will come in handy. Even just calling myself her student is already a great honor for me. Someone will be able to use this knowledge, and some will not, but I believe that nothing happens in vain. And it's very difficult to draw such a live picture, that's understandable! For me you did a great job !! I have already seen Vika's work on the insta!
You now have certain knowledge, now it's easy to develop! Of course, this is a piece goods, not for a client, not for bulk orders, but how great and beautiful it is! And what a spiritual enrichment !! I'm very glad for you!! Lizochka is silent for something, I'm afraid that she may have expected something more from these courses, but maybe not, this is not her first course! Girls, you are smart! We have Judith's students on the forum! And that's great !!

I think about it all the time. If a person does not know how to draw, then it is very difficult to teach him this in one or two lessons. Making eyes realistic is not easy. But, it is true, all these thoughts I had about Olga Zimoglyad's MK. Most of the gingerbreads in her program require artistic skills. Maybe not quite developed, but still ...
And you girls are great. We did our best, the gingerbreads are good. And knowledge, I agree with Larisa, is never superfluous

Lizochka was not on this course))) I didn't pull this pleasure financially
But on the last day in the evening I went there to see and meet them. I liked the girls' work, in general, I was a little let go, because I realized that this is the same technique that Natasha Ananyeva and Nastya Sitdikova gave us, that is, the classic English technique of piping (extrusion). Only Hungarian women also add starch to their icing)))
And then all of us together with the girls and Judit (only without Tanya, she had to hurry to the bus home) went to have dinner at a nearby cafe and chat, share our impressions. So I met everyone there, whom I did not know before. We talked a lot with Judit, she is very pleasant, and her manager is generally darling))
So if you really itch, then in the spring you can come to them in Hungary, perhaps even a Russian group. We discussed this too.
Vika-Vikulya, from her I am in complete delight and charm - such a hard worker and a very good person! We exchanged experience with her until late at night)) It's a pity that Tanya did not have time to get to know each other better, I have a very pleasant impression from her

But to be completely honest, it is difficult to call colleagues in the gingerbread business friendly towards each other. How many I attended various courses on cake decorating, I have not met this, I do not understand why there is such a difference in attitude. Everyone is smiling, of course, but the feeling of a snake's nest did not leave))) This remark does not apply to our HP girls.

Vei, Liza, perhaps due to the fact that the gingerbread business is still highly developed in our country, and prof. society. Everyone imagines himself to be an artist ... And how not to smile, but you can feel it behind your soul. This is the case everywhere. In artistic and theatrical circles, it is generally tough. Terrarium. So, you can still live with us.Well done for taking the time to drop by and meet: friends: there are more such opportunities in Moscow. Although (I'll tell you a secret), in my profession, I don't like to meet with colleagues either. Mostly by phone when needed. Although the relationship is more than normal. Happy holidays to each other ... But to meet in person just to chat, no, thank you. I recognize some of them only by their voice on the phone. I’m not like that.

if we compare the works, then the coolest ones that she brought with her

Everything is logical here, in my opinion, the bar should be set high! Thank you Katyusha for your support

Burunduk, Tatyan, somewhere I can understand a little disappointment after such MKs, you always expect more from yourself, but it seems you have come in vain, everything is useless, thrown away money, etc.

No, everything is fine :-) I have plans, I will try. By the way, there was a girl on the courses, who attended Neli Josefsen's MK, and was so enthusiastic about the course, and about herself, even the characteristic sounded "she is like an angel" So now we are waiting for your impressions, Laris!

Burunduk, Tan, there are no words! Honestly awesome
To repeat the work of the master from the first time is something! And you still complain that you don't have artistic skills!
In the form of a flaw, I see exactly what you say - the fear of using brighter and more saturated colors, as if you were afraid that dark shades would show mistakes. In fact, your work is a bit paler and some lines are slightly uncertain, but this is precisely because of the lack of experience, because the girl, as everyone has already noticed, you did just super! It's because you've done something like this before.
In any case, you did not go in vain, and I am more than sure that this technique will be useful for you for exclusive work and, if you wish, you will sometimes train.It is very great that there is an opportunity to attend such courses, and most importantly, learn from real gingerbread craftswomen ... Larisa spotted to be a student of Judit very honorably. My heart skipped a beat that she was Hungarian, and how close it was to me to go to her, but I couldn't
It's also a little enviable that I met our Vika, although I do it in absentia, I just adore her!
Tanya, in a word, you are a great fellow and every time I will sincerely rejoice for you when your dreams come true!
Keep it up!

Girls, about bad relationships, it’s basically everywhere and everywhere, it all depends on the human factor.
Someone considers himself a supermaster, someone is a superhuman, but do such people have happiness?
I think if we are always sincere and good-natured, and treat everyone as we would like to be treated, it would be much more comfortable in this life
About plagiarism, rightly say, don’t figure your work on the internet, I’m always looking for new ideas, and I copy in batches of my favorite works, but more often I change a little in the sample or add something, basically my gingerbread turns out, as it were, in a collective way a few gingerbread.
I stand my gingerbread with pleasure and even am glad that someone has a desire to repeat my "masterpiece"
I will try to put out test samples before the holidays as soon as possible, maybe someone will like it.
Right now, I really can't take on Christmas and New Year, but I really want to, I have a bunch of monkeys, Santa Claus and snowmen in mind, but for now I’m just going over old felling areas for new pictures, oh, this is a dreary job ...

[kolobashka]

We opened the workshop of Santa Claus today.

kolobashka, Barbara, well, with such a master assistant, things will go quickly

Girls, and I dreamed of showing my first big gingerbread cookies, usually all sorts of animals, etc. I make about 10 cm, and then they asked for a large one))
I'll tell you, nevertheless, gingerbread cookies are easier to draw, there is where to turn around and make everything more expressive.
True, out of habit, I was a little worried that the pouring of such a large area would be uneven or even a thread would happen, but thank God everything worked out, dried a little under the heater, it turned out pearlescent, shiny, well, of course, there are some jambs
The size of the elephant is 21 cm in height, the goose is 15 cm, the goose was requested for St. Martin's Day.

Lera, what wonderful gingerbread, just great! to me only the color of the eyes of the elephant is very sharp and bright. But still very cool!

Lizun, thanks! The elephant copied from the client's picture.
I just decided to make the pink a little lighter, perhaps because of this, the eyes turned out too bright.

very nice! and the size I like to paint such is just a pleasure

[Tanya]

Lerchik, what dumb things! Especially the elephant, despite being big, but so cute! And Gusik is a serious guy, you can see right away! And tell me, just how clearly everything looks when you draw on a big one, it's a photo, not gingerbread! Well, and I, as you rightly said, continue to mince. Today she sculpted hearts, doves for one lady and asked for a fox, she was going to Istanbul to her beloved. Probably Fox is the one who is waiting for her there. Well, I did it. Fly with doves to Turkey.

Tanya, Tanya, cool! And tell me please, did you order three pieces or you just didn't show everything?

Ver, these were the little foxes. Apparently, amorous affairs here, and the fox is her beau. He flies to him and carries.

Mona1, Tanya, the fox is so cute! Is there a special cut-out for him?

Mona1, Tanya, really amorous set))) Very cute and gentle!
Welcome to the international market!

Sahara, Lera, thank you! I thought one order would go to America, but it was canceled, the customs office would not let it through there, they said, but this one will be able to get to Turkey, they said - this is possible, but only - in the luggage compartment of the plane.
Elena_Kamch, Lena, thank you! A fox is not a felling, but a shabolonchik, made on paper on a printer, then transferred to cardboard and cut out. I offered the customer 3 suitable and cute pictures. She chose this one. and I made a template. Cuttings are good for such massive gingerbreads - hearts, flowers, bunnies, eggs, Easter trees. And this is not often ordered better by templates, they take up space - zero in the box. In addition, I can make the same fox, for example, but of a different size, if the next customer needs to do this. I will have to do hundreds of tiny rabbits here all the time (I hope), so you won't be cut out with templates, such a small thing, so I put my husband , from a hundred years of a tiny cutting of a mushroom lying idle, made me a rabbit. And I'm just happy how the work with these rabbits will speed up!

Mona1, fox and doves are lovely! the fox just wants to stroke

I asked if I thought you were taking an order of three

Ver, I take an order for one too.))) Only on condition that they themselves come for it (to the bus stop near my house, I or my son will take it there. .)) Each client is from God.

Tanya, how are you with the dough? don't you knead it for one gingerbread? And if icing remains? I guess that you can make all sorts of gingerbread for the future, but this is if before the holiday, but on ordinary days? You can do something for the album. I understand that at least the children next to you will eat later, but I have nobody. You can just take it to work and treat it, but not all the time. They also order two cakes for me, but it's not profitable for me. So much time to spend on kneading the dough. And earn a penny. So yesterday, they ask for small gingerbreads, the word love is four gingerbread cookies for 10 hryvnias. Do not bake 4 pieces. Use up gas. water, etc. I really don't know what to do. I tried to put the dough in the refrigerator, then I don't like its structure.
Well, teach me how to do it right ?! At the moment I have a batch of baked gingerbread by St. Nikolay. They were generally wanted for this Saturday. But another order appeared and I pushed it to this, that is, I baked everything at once. Class! I liked it so much. But on Saturday I don't have time to do it, it's good that people understood my problems, went to a meeting and said that they would wait .. And today, in a friend's contact, a girl sent a photo of Peppy Pig's gingerbread and asks for 2 pieces for Monday. No test.And what to do? And it is not convenient to refuse and it is not a hunt to take

I, if a small order, then knead half of the kneading norm, that is, for 260 g of flour. The rest - or I bake a store of unadorned for my granddaughter, they often come in and she already knows what grandma has in store. ))) Or I bake, as now, for a photo, and then a friend from Mariupol said that their friend was coming from us to them, so I will give her this Christmas, the rest - to my husband's nephews, my sister. Or if everyone is already gifted and the granddaughter will not be soon, then I bake a full meal, the rest - in the refrigerator. But in truth, it rarely happens that one or two gingerbread is ordered. Pieces of 5 are usually asked for a minimum. And from a half-batch I have pieces of 10-11 centimeters 8 each. A few extra gingerbread and we will eat ourselves. You can make a third of the batch. It is possible to bake mittens, boots, Christmas trees from the remainder right now, something that will soon be in demand, but not decorate yet. And let it lie in a sealed package.
If I stayed, I can also keep it in the refrigerator for three or four days. Sometimes they order four or five gingerbread cookies, but the icing is already there. But, basically, it goes for filling

[Nehorushka]

Good evening!
I have done a little New Year's. Mittens-boots about 8 cm It turned out not quite what I wanted, but New Year's

Nehorushka, Natasha, funny and neat gingerbread! The main thing is New Years!

Katya, thanks!

Nehorushka, Natasha, not always, or rather, very rarely, for example, I get my plans. But the set turned out to be very joyful. Creates a festive mood. Liked the DM made from hearts. I'll take a note. What if they come in handy ?!

elena88, Thank you! I didn’t know what to make Morozov out of .. so I made from hearts

Nehorushka, neatly and New Year's you did it! I imagined them on the tree, I think they would look very beautiful!

[tania T]

Hello, craftswomen!
I mastered the topic from the first page
Oh, if I had started reading the forum earlier, I wouldn't have had to reinvent so many bicycles
You have an unusually pleasant atmosphere here, you want to chat
Is it better to insert a photo through a local gallery or radical? It seems that I figured out both with that and with the other bootloader

Ira, how much beauty she brought !!! : girl_love: And how did you do the icing under the tree?

tania T, thank you!
This effect was obtained from icing, painted in the color of wood and a diluted kandurin similar in color to a hardened one, applied with a rough wide brush.

Yrochka, welcome, Irina! Good work !! And here it is true, it is so cozy ... So at home ...

Wow! Just like a wizard!
Yrochka, Irina, several times I met information that it is better through the local one, since the pictures inserted through the radical disappear rather quickly and there is just an empty space. Even a year does not pass

Irina, very beautiful work! And what did you paint in gold?

harmful78, I breed dry kandurin. Xanthan, water, kandurin. I take the proportions by eye. Xanthan is a thickener and is found in many gel dyes. Thanks to him, the particles of kandurin do not settle and lie well, forming a film.

Is this xanthan sold separately? And what color is the icing under the gilding?

harmful78, we sell xanthan gum in special confectionery stores, the same thing. Under the golden kandurin I use icing of a warm shade of dark brown.

Thank you!

Irina, Welcome! Very nice gingerbread and made very professionally! Now we will torture you with questions !!!!!!!!!!

ledi, thank you! Who else will torture whom
I'm still wild, I haven't talked to colleagues
I brought a search engine to the forum on the issue of craquelure, which set the teeth on edge. I'll ask right away, okay? Is it tasty or is it decorative and conditionally edible all over? The texture appeared to be decent, but it tasted like rubbish in the end ...

Yrochka, Ira, chic gingerbread! It's good that you came to our company.

Yrochka, decorative and very conditionally edible, since it is a dye
But! Beauty will save the world, as they say! Personally, I consider cookies more from the standpoint of ah! How beautiful! Not mmmmmm .. How delicious!
Ideally, when both, of course,

Yrochka, Ira, you are welcome!
Your work is very cool!

welcome to us !! : friends: so nice to hear that someone studied Temka first!
your gingerbread is wonderful! under the tree in general struck! have you been doing gingerbread for a long time?

DaNiSa, Thank you!
I have been studying for 2.5 years. During this time, the hobby has become the main job. Beloved

Yrochka, Ira, you are welcome. It's really cozy here. It's nice when newbies come with such "gifts". It is evident that not a random person came. Although we are all happy here Work is super !!! Bright, joyful. And high quality. Catch the plus sign!

Yrochkawhich Ira
M-daaaa ..., your gingerbreads are unusual, eye-catching, they look very much for bagatam. Still, gold and an airbrush works wonders!
Be kind, please us more often with your works! And warmly welcome to our gingerbread family

Ira, that's very cool!
Here you are like a gingerbread cookie with a decent experience, tell us, please, what gingerbread cookies are you preparing for St. Nicholas Day?

Katya, for some reason I think that where Ira lives this holiday is not celebrated

At the same time we will find out :)

[ledi]

And my hands do not reach NG gingerbread. I just barely mastered the order with high quality Letters 9 cm, cool 10 cm, Teso Lera

ledi, Verun, the set looks very elegant! The word Alice you decorated each letter differently, cool! So much patience!
In the set of round gingerbread, the theme is immediately recognizable, a good combination of colors!

Vera, beautiful gingerbread! the bunny and the cat immediately attract the eye!

ledi, Vera, the gingerbread with Alice are very pretty! And the color scheme is great!
Alice herself turned out great!

[Katerina79]

Katerina79, but in our multinational republic there is no demand for gingerbread for religious holidays. There was only one christening order for the entire time.
Once I was preparing for an Orthodox fair, I decided to ask the priest's blessing for souvenir gingerbread cookies in the form of angels. So, he says, it's not good for angels to bite their heads. Therefore, she left the angels for secular orders. I, of course, was upset by this turn. Maybe in the framework of that fair, he was right. And, frankly, I don't really understand who orders and makes painted gingerbread crosses.
Well, this is all IMHO, as they say on the Internet
These are the angels and what eventually had to be replaced by the assortment. Well, for the christening.

Yrochka, Ira, bells are lovely! and your photos are so artistic, I really like it!

Climbed into old photos, had fun
This is my historical tree, she is 2 years old. Before the New Year there was such a stir that I drew practically around the clock. Naturally, eyes in a bunch and on the machine. I unsuccessfully picked up the color scheme, just slept through and realized that I was navayala It still lies as a reminder that everything must be done in advance and on time, and not when the roasted rooster bites)

Thank you :) The gingerbread cookies are very beautiful!
I liked the christening very, very much!
I think so, if no one throws up an idea, I will have snowmen, Christmas trees, mittens, snowflakes

Yrochka, tree otpad!
I thought about bulging eyes
Although there below I see Christmas trees with patterns, a very unusual option. Are there any closer?

Katerina79, not preserved, it was long ago. Crookedly inserted a photo, here's a bigger one

The pattern is simple: curls and like balls are randomly hung on them.

Ooooh! here it is already more visible. Ira, there is something to compare! Now your gingerbread cookies are made professionally.
How did you decide to do this? Have you worked before? If so, how did you decide to leave work, were there many orders?
Thanks for the compliments, the idea is not mine

ledi, before the gingerbread, I cooked soap from scratch and sewed interior toys.At that stage, I still quit. The accountant-economist in me died without much suffering. There were times of despair when, from a stable salary, I came to a seasonal income. It is thick, then empty. Waited out, got a clientele. Gingerbread was already met with a bang. And at first I hooked on the lace painting technique. I found a VK group, learned everything there and did not leave the group and Instagram account. Because now I feel insecure. I spend mk for a level from scratch. For housewives. There is a demand for an advanced level. I got into some questions and got stuck with you

Ira, I don’t know how advanced we are here, but the fact that we are on gingerbread is for sure.

[ledi]

ledi, Vera, cool letters, and so many hearts! I would have fizzled out after the first letter. Did you draw them straight from the fill, or cast them on the file? By the way, I still didn't understand, according to your answer - do I have everything to Nikolai? Christmas trees, bells - is that what you need for this holiday?
Well, today I have an angel, however, he is 12.5 * 10.5 cm, a little big, in general, it is more an angel than an angel.

And now their whole detachment, with a different fotal filter, became completely black.

Mona1, Tanyusha, you have a meeting of angels
I wonder what holiday this is?

[Mona1]

This is what I got from the remains of the dough and icing.

I just stuffed my hand on the lines and points. The star was a success, but the snowflake ... It itself is anomalous, from five rays, so I also disfigured it with the design.

Len, well, I don’t know why I have such associations, looking at your star and what you wrote, that you disfigured the design - the phrase immediately emerged in my mind from Shurik: There was Doctor's, became Amateur.

And I see a Slavic symbol in this snowflake. good. I think you find fault

Mona1, Yrochka, oh, girls, and laughter and sin! If the asterisk contains Scandinavian motives, then the snowflake is more Indian ... Although it was bought in Ikea in a set of several fellings. I use it with a creak. Finally, this year I wrote out a set of normal six-rayed in China. I'm waiting, they should arrive by the end of the month. Since childhood, it annoyed me when snowflakes were cut out of paper with either four or five rays.

elena88, a star with perfect lines!
And the shape of the snowflake, indeed, is not some kind of snowy

elena88, Girl, you fill your own price, everything is cool!

[ledi]

And I will not start working after the events in my life ... Yesterday, with grief in half, the first New Year
8cm
10-11cm

ledi, Vera, hold on!
Hurray, the New Year's gingerbreads are gone!
I liked the waffle picture with the monkey. Do you have a mockup with pictures of these monkeys?
Maybe I need this too. They look very smart, but there is not a lot of work :)
And another question: you seem to cover the decor with gel on top?

Yes. cover. And where to throw them? right in the subject? I just have a picture on my computer. I don’t know what size, I don’t understand this

I don't like waffle pictures, as well as sugar ones, although they look festive with you
but the mittens with boots are wonderful! fashion man

Lisa, I ordered it in case you need it quickly and you don't have time

Vera, cool gingerbread! Especially felt boots and mittens. I want that too!

Ver, I'll give you an email address in the PM. I'll throw off the mail. As the time will come, please come

ledi, Vera, the socks are very cute and what are they sprinkled on top with?

Olya, ordinary white dusting, small balls

I'm not a fan either, but I really wanted to make New Year's Soviet ones. But our price is gold, 1 200 rubles a sheet. And there was no money to order from afar, but now they will not reach
And yesterday they plagiarized me for the first time. In the tape of a local craftswoman I saw her jar with "Stock of Patience". Feelings are mixed. I am glad that they did not put my photo, but did it themselves. But two things are unpleasant: first, the carrot is worse in execution. Secondly, in our small town, you also have to pull ideas - you have to manage

Liza, do not be upset, it means that you can feel free to feel like a real professional. And copies are always worse than the original, and people love the original.

Olya, thanks for the compliment I'm still far from a professional, but I'm trying. And people, for the most part, like it to be cheap

[Yrochka]

Yrochka, you have very beautiful works
And I have not yet reached the New Year's gingerbread. While I have ordinary






And special thanks to Lera (Sahara) for her delicious gingerbread recipe. They are really very soft.

Olga_Z, Olya, you have such colorful and positive gingerbread cookies
only your icing is too liquid, so the drawing and inscriptions are blurry, especially on gingerbread with owls. But I still like it))

Elizabeth, thank you, I still can't get the hang of understanding with the density, then it is liquid, then on the contrary it is thick.

Olga_Z, Ol, the gingerbreads are pretty. Lisa has already said about the consistency of the glaze. But again, this comes with experience. With time you will decide. I liked the very blue gingerbread.

Olga_Z, Olya, beautiful gingerbread!
Looks very stylish with a girl! And children's festive, bright!

Olga_Z, Olya, the gingerbread cookies are elegant and bright, I especially liked the owl and the girl's silhouette looks good

[ledi]

ledihow smart, bright! Is it red American?

harmful78, 1200 rubles A4 sheet? Am I getting it right? What is this stamp on?

Girls, and who has experience with both waffle and sugar printing, please tell me, are they very different in taste and bite? She worked only with sugar. I would like and cheaper. We have the following prices:
Wafer paper "Standard" (regular thickness) format 20.5cm * 28.5–150 rubles.
Waffle paper "Extra" (double thickness) format 20.5 cm * 28.5–200 rubles (when ordering from 4 sheets the cost is 180 rubles / sheet)
Sugar paper format 20.5cm * 28.5 - 370 rubles.
Well, the last orders with print. Thematic DR: Jurassic Park and Pirate. True, it helps a lot when there is no time, and it's embarrassing to refuse.

So much for the waffle pictures! They look like a masterpiece in this performance! super!

Ira, I mix everything at hand. Gel Russian, Ukrainian dry, Atekov gel

ledi, eh ... I can't make a rich red. Amerikolor only with me and everything in a pink shade runs away.

Irina, wow, how cool !!!! The frames are just awesome !!! I would draw such each for half an hour.
How do you get such a metallized shine on the stones in the frame, where are the pirates?

I tried it with waffle paper, I didn't try sugar paper. It bites normally when on gingerbread. But I don't really like it.

Yrochka, my red American color Super Red does not go into pink. I even overdo it a little. It still darkens when it dries, so I won't get the hang of it so that the icing is not too dark.

Yrochka, Ir, I agree with Liza that all these pictures are very conventionally edible, but here we are not talking about the benefits of the product, but about its aesthetic component. And gingerbread looks very gorgeous. Perhaps this is one of the few cases when the design of the picture was unconditionally liked

Yrochka, Ira! What gingerbread, or rather, what frames! I would even make the frames big - big, for the whole gingerbread, but I would remove the picture (well, I don’t like pictures, although they look great for you, of course. But frames are utter waste!

Yrochka, Ira, what cool gingerbread !!!
Frames are just a masterpiece!

Yrochka, do not be offended, please, I am delighted with your work, but still gingerbread with the use of pictures, somehow I do not combine with painted gingerbread. It seems to me that this is a separate direction in the gingerbread art, it is more a decoration, not a painting.
Your works are very presentable, luxurious, they remind me of vintage things or even some very old ones, with rich gilding and highly artistic inlay creations.
Girls, please don't be offended, I didn't want to offend anyone, but just voiced my opinion

Olga_Z, shine - kandurin. I breed thinner or thicker, depending on the task.
elena88, and my super red brightens when it dries. Probably, the matter is in the composition of icing.
I suspect lemon juice is out of place here.
elena88, Mona1, Thank you!
Katerina79, are good! Is this the kind of technique they call piping on a snowman and girls?
Sahara, did not even think to be offended! Thanks for the opinion)

[Katerina]

And I drew the heroes of the cartoon Frozen.
This, of course, is not New Year's, but already winter

Katerina, well done! Well done! What size are they? Didn't you fill in the background on purpose?

Katerina79, Katyusha, how cool Elsa and Anna turned out! Very similar! And Olaf the snowman is cool! All the time I want to make this snowman, my hands do not reach (((
Tell me please, how did you make the girls eyes? And write the size, be weasel ..

harmful78, Sahara, Yrochka, girls, thanks!
Size 10x10 cm.

Didn't you fill in the background on purpose?

The background, yes, I did not fill it in on purpose.

Tell me please, how did you make the girls eyes?

Lera, when she poured her face, left room for her eyes. When it dried up, I filled my eyes with white and immediately made pupils. I waited until it was dry and painted eyelashes with black icing. But I think that the eyelashes can be painted with a brush. Next time I'll try it.

Is this the kind of technique they call piping on a snowman and girls?

Ira, I don't know anything about piping
The snowman was flooded with parts.
Liza (Vei) knows about piping, she seems to have attended a master class.

no, this technique has nothing to do with piping, it's just sequential filling. Piping (literally "extrusion") is made with a denser icing, it keeps its shape when extruded and does not spread, thanks to this, the bas-relief gets a pronounced volume only where it is needed, depending on the pattern. The difficulty is in the very technique of applying such a thick icing so that it is smooth and not cellulite as a result. This is a classic English technique. Here they are the coolest in all icing techniques, because historically these are their chips.

Katerina79, Katya, there is a clear creative success here Master work!

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanyusha, very cute angels, and all the gingerbread cookies are touching, your style is very recognizable
elena88, Flax, the asterisk is very neat, but if there were no beads on the snowflakes, it reminds me of a turtle)))
ledi, Vera, mittens and boots are very cool, in my opinion they fit very harmoniously into the Christmas and New Year theme, and they are suitable for St. Nicholas, in general - universal
Pictures, of course, with a lack of time, you can use, but honestly, I do not like them

[Vei]

and I'm here buns I dabble in gingerbread)))



so to speak, I fill my hand for great achievements, you can see from them, which is the first, second and third, right?

Vei, cool gingerbread! I just love these on Ng. I forgot what is the name of this string? and on top is this colored glaze not icing?

Vei, Lisa, just lovely! Neat and filigree. I look, I look to find fault, and I do not see. I'll take it to my bookmarks.

I forgot what is the name of this string?

This is a paper twine, it is easy to thread it through the holes, as it is tough. And it looks good in my opinion.

and on top is this colored glaze not icing?

no, this is not icing, but Hungarian varnish, there is a link to it on the title page of this topic.

Vei, Liza, gingerbread is awful! Straight jewelry work! One snowflake probably has three nozzles! But everything is always very filigree with you!
I’m thinking, for New Year’s gingerbread it’s very, very beautiful, but it’s a long time to order each gingerbread. Or for you, such a painting is not difficult and not very long?

Vei, very, very beautiful !!!! I have not figured out where the first or the last is. They are all beautiful

One snowflake probably has three nozzles!

thanks, of course, for such high marks)))
one nozzle when painting the whole gingerbread. True, the one on the right I painted 2 from PME, and the rest 1.5. I liked the slender ones better.
As for me, this is the simplest painting for me, and most importantly, you don't need to do color icing - it takes so much time and nerves to do it))))

Super! I went and looked again, for one nozzle it's very cool! I kept the drawing for myself, I can't do the same, but I'll try to depict a similar one :)

Lisa, it's just some New Year! Just a holiday, not snowflakes. Looked at, examined and it seems to me that the lower right is the first, the lower left is the second, the upper is the third? Is that so or not?

Vei, Lizonka, how are your snowflakes pleasing to the eye! These are real painted gingerbread! I love your painting!
Are the holes so neat than they did? And what is the size of the snowflakes?

I make holes in the raw dough with a cotton candy stick (I have them for attaching tiers in cakes), their diameter is the same as for cocktail ones, only the plastic is thick and durable, they do not bend or break. And then in the still hot ready-made gingerbread, I roll the swollen hole with a skewer from the center outward to expand it.

And what is the size of the snowflakes?

the size of the snowflakes is 10 cm.

[Anjela1]

Anjela1, cute gingerbread. And the decoration is mastic?

Yes, I'm trying to make friends with her)))

[elena88]

elena88, Katerina79, Sahara, thanks girls)) I strive for your masterpieces
Yrochka, and dilute the kandurin with some water, and then top it over the old or dry cover?

Katerina79, very neat, realistic and beautiful !!!! And where did you buy such forms (cuttings) for gingerbread (where Elsa, Anna and Olaf are)?

[Yrochka]

no, this technique has nothing to do with piping

Thanks for the information!
The stars are so festive! New Year's spirit in them

Yrochka, and dilute the kandurin with some water, and then top it over the old or dry cover?

One does not cancel the other. Only with this method of application, Kandurin then stains the bags. And you can see the difference in gloss after application. With some water, a more matte surface.

[Elena.P]

I haven't been here for some time, but here are so many new works and impressions! I looked at everything with pleasure, read it and completely left me in peace, because inspiration bursting))) What are all the same you, girls, do super great work !!! I am delighted!

I am now overwhelmed by the idea of ​​making a New Year's gingerbread with a winter rural landscape (in color, on a fill of icing). I looked in the internet, there are a lot of pictures with landscapes, but there are almost no gingerbread with such a theme ... Once I saw it at a craftswoman, but now I can't find the link. If someone has info on this topic, discard it, please! I will be very grateful!!!

Elena.P, I saw landscapes at Nikolai Gagarin's. On Instagram he is @gift_cookies

ledi, I can't figure it out yet, so I'll show you the picture

Corrected.

Irina, thank you very much!

[Martha]

Good day! Gingerbread based on the works of Dasha Rokitskaya, size 14 by 12 cm, dough by Victoria Bredis

Martha, The beauty! Have you attended Masha's courses?

Martha, a very cute snowman! Cheers up!)

ledi, thanks, unfortunately not, but I really want to get there))) this girl was a friend of hers, she gave me a master class, so to speak
Elena.P, Thank you)

Martha, the gingerbread turned out to be very similar and beautiful, but how long does it take to draw such beauty?

Olga_Z, In fact, it turned out pretty quickly, the drawing itself probably took about 30 minutes

I was, there was a lot of positive impressions, in addition to knowledge, Dasha is a very bright person! if possible, I recommend.

[Lera]

Well, I finally finished the first part of the trial batch of winter gingerbread))) I say winter, because everything is mixed here, except for Christmas. More ideas, there would be enough time. Most of the blatantly plagiarized, for which many thanks for the samples to the authors
But there are also my ideas, I show them with pleasure for those who want to repeat
In general, I chat a lot, girls, I ask you not to pay much attention to the quality, I wasted these samples for almost three days, the icing eventually stratified and on some gingerbreads the colors began to migrate or spots appeared, and the icing density is not ideal. I just wanted to quickly make them and decide what of this will remain in mass production, what I will change, and what I will remove completely. and tried to determine how laborious a particular sample is.
The monkeys did not work out at all, I will remake them, I will leave only a few of Santa Claus and snowmen, I still don’t know which ones will go to the flight.
Girls, I would very much like to know your opinion, who likes what, or vice versa, to help me with the choice.
Thanks in advance to everyone







And finally, these are the Nikolaychiks

pancake, Lera, here I am not your assistant at all ... I LIKE EVERYTHING !!! THAT'S EVERYTHING !! UP TO ONE Gingerbread !! as it is already on New Year's and monkeys and snowmen and that's it. everything, everything !!! clever girl !!!!!!!

Sahara, Lera, it's easier for me to say that I didn't like it. These are the last monkeys. Well, I am also indifferent to Santa Claus. Santa Claus is closer to me all the same. Although now I am also plagiarizing Santa Claus. And all other options have every right to in-line production. You are a hard worker and a great clever

Sahara, Lera, from the mittens I liked the one with the twig and the sleigh. From boots - a snowman with a blue and yellow hat, and Santa Claus on a red background. Santa Claus - with snowflakes, socks and a Christmas tree. Snowman in a green sweater and a snowman in a black hat.

This is not Santa Claus, this is Santa!

Lera, I'm in solidarity with Alena's opinion! I watched it all with such delight! And all this in 3 days! This is work! I liked everything!!! But a very, very snowman in a sweater with a hat, a snowman in a checkered jacket, penguins with an Eskimo girl! The monkey on the mitten is very funny, probably because it turned out to be lop-eared)) In general, well done !!!

Sahara, Lerchik, well, you give, how much beauty! And how is it to take away, how to throw it away! Let them be for the assortment. I'm just plague, well, such a multicolor, how you do it all and at what time of day, that's what's interesting, and even knowing your volumes. There will be a bunch of orders for Christmas, there would be a single color to cope with, that's why I made a bunch of everything white on cherry, I will only do monkeys with colored monkeys and that's it. In general, you are a hero and a hard worker.

Sahara, LeraMost of all I liked the snowman in a green sweater and hat and the penguins with a cane. Santa Claus is the most successful with a garland. The orangutan turned out to be interesting, I don't like the rest of the monkeys. But Saint Nicholas, mittens and socks are ALL wonderful. It seems to me that they should be left that way. And do it according to your mood: today snowmen, tomorrow penguins

Sahara, I looked at all this variety and was stunned, such a beauty! Then I imagined that I saw all the gingerbread cookies at the fair, I would definitely buy mittens (very beautiful), snowmen from the first photo and a gorilla (the first monkey, very cute), penguins are also cool, but I would not have liked them and would not have bought them. Something like this...

Lera, I am delighted! And I would have put everything in the album! And there, whoever likes what they will order. They are all good !!!!!!

Sahara, Leer, as I think, how much icing you dyed in different colors and how much to wash then after this "creativity", I just feel bad. Once again I bow to your ability to work

[Yrochka]

Yrochka, gorgeous frames on gingerbread with pictures, great work!
Katerina79, very similar heroes from Frozen!
Vei, Liza, wonderful snowflakes, all the same, the lacquer glaze looks very elegant, and with curls it is generally so cool.
Anjela1, interesting gingerbreads, voluminous flowers "extended" simple gingerbread. I just think that with such a decoration there will be problems with carrying, you need to carefully pack so that they do not touch each other.
MartaIg, an interesting snowman, an unusual dress.
Sahara, Lera, I also like all-all gingerbread! Mittens and socks immediately give a New Year's mood, I can already see how children's hands grab them. Snowmen are so cute, pretty sweaters and scarves. Monkeys are also good, as if for clients of different ages. Only in the average photo of monkeys do not like their eyes, maybe the photo glares, but it seems that they are convex like those of toads.
And I haven’t started New Year’s yet, I’m looking through ideas, I want to do everything, I have to decide and do the felling. Yesterday I decided to monitor the situation with gingerbread in the city. I searched the bulletin board. Sadness, I found 5 ads, it's a shame to look at the gingerbread, a couple of photos of my own, the rest from the Internet. And one "craftswoman" offers New Year's, and the pictures are different, even the names of the masters and sites are not removed. How can this be? They don't want to put in their work, do they hope to pull it to the proposed level?

ElyaI don't even know how to comfort you. You can't influence the situation in any way. Spit on them. Well, not to the police to claim them, in fact!

elena88Len, I won't say that I was really upset, I just wonder what drives people: whether they want to make money by any means without even knowing how to do it, or they think that it is so simple and they will then easily repeat the selected pictures.

[Mila_Toronto]

I'm new!
Recently I got carried away with decorating, but not gingerbread, but cookies
In this regard, the question is: how to make sugar / shortbread cookies keep their shape, but not be tough? I mix butter + sugar + eggs with a mixer, then quickly mix the flour with my hands, then freeze. Where is my mistake?

Here is one of the recipes. I seem to stick to the described technology.

1 cup lightly softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
0.5 cups white sugar
2 large eggs
vanilla
0.75 tsp salt
0.25 tsp baking powder
4 cups flour

A source: 🔗
thanks for answers

Here are my works - this is for the christening of a little girl

Mila_Toronto, I do not bake cookies, only gingerbread, so I cannot comment on this recipe. Maybe try another recipe? Check out the blogs of Larisa Volnitskaya (Loravo) and Julia M Usher. Their recipes are 1000% tested and you can trust them, plus both live in your area (Canada and the USA), that is, the products should be the same as yours.
We also have a recipe for icing cookies and mastic from Larissa_u on the forum, but it also contains almond flour.

Mila_Toronto, according to the recipe I will not say anything, I do not bake. I liked the cookies with the correct shape, an uncertain hand is visible in the decoration, but everything will come with experience.

Mila_Toronto, I like this cookie recipe (shortcrust pastry recipe - French saber). This is a delicious cookie recipe. But cookies do not last long, unlike gingerbread.
120 g softened butter
2 yolks
75 g icing sugar
250 g flour
a pinch of salt
quarter vanilla pod

In a large bowl, use a wooden spoon to combine softened butter and icing sugar. Add 2 yolks. Stir well.

Add sifted flour. Use your fingertips to rub the mixture into crumbs. Add water and form the dough into a ball.

Use the palm of your hand to knead the dough until it is well kneaded, but no more than 30 seconds. Press the dough ball lightly, wrap the dough in plastic wrap. Let the dough sit in the cold for 30 minutes.

Recipe from here 🔗shortbread% 20 dough

When baking, it does not creep anywhere, bubbles are sometimes, but small.

thank you all for your help!

[Anjela1]

Girls, look with your experienced eye and tell me what is wrong, it is conceived, like a New Year's gingerbread saucer, but something is wrong, and what I don’t understand is the background or the toys ... or the proportions are violated ..

Anjela1, Angela, in my opinion it's very good! Well, if you really find fault and if you doubt the proportions, the branch could be put on the top right

Ira, they were there, but it seemed to me that there were a lot, and I removed them, and then corrected them with icing, but then both options are not very good for me

Larissa uThank you, Laris, do you think the branch is not very big? Maybe you need the background to be visible from the edge? And maybe whiten it a little?

Anjela1, can it still be white? For texture, just so that the eye clings slightly to something.

Anjela1, in the second version there are really a lot of balls, my first one is more nra. As for the spruce branch, it doesn't matter, try a trace, make a thinner option and compare

[Craquelure recipe]

Craquelure recipe
As always, it's three in the morning ...
I decided to start with postcards. First New Years this year:

Ira, what awesome snowmen !!!

Yrochka, Ira, very cool !!!
And how do you do "aging" or don't know what to call the background on which the snowmen are? And on hats, scarves, mittens, is it a drawing with a brush or what?

Olga_Z, Thank you!
On hats-scarves - drawing with a brush.
Craquelure - white gel dye + sah. powder + starch. I put it on the eye. Stir until sour cream. Do not mix with icing! Cover the gingerbread, dry.

Yrochka, Very good! The beauty!)))

Yrochka, Ira, thanks for the craquelure recipe, I couldn't find it anywhere)))I just want to ask, sah. powder and starch you take in what proportion? I understood that by eye, but maybe something more or less?

Is it necessary to mix it into icing or without it? And approximately "by eye" what proportions - equally or something more, something less?

Olga_Z, Anjela1, it all depends on the dye and the% titanium dioxide content there. I bought 3 MKs on this topic. There are completely different ways everywhere. Titanium dioxide cracks and sugar is hygroscopic. Accordingly, there is very little sugar. And then, if it is not in the dye. Experiments are our everything

Yrochka, Irin, wonderful postcards, and why in sand colors? Winter in the desert?

Larissa u, the light is yellow in the kitchen
They are so moderate colors, vintage. Food photographers were asked to do for a photo shoot. I hope something worthwhile comes out

Yrochka, Ira, thanks again for sharing the recipe)))

Yrochka, Ira, well, great snowmen! I want to see it in daylight positively and professionally. And a larger sketch, pliz. Did you draw the picture yourself or find it where?

elena88, thank you!
Pictures with snowmen were found on the website for designers. And just in the search engine, interesting vector pictures come out.

white gel dye (or diluted powder) + starch + sugar powder + the desired dye, if you need a colored one.... proportions by eye .. approximately: 1.5: 1: 0.5 ... The thinner you dilute with water, the finer the crackle

Thank you! So I tried to make figs from memory, but how to dry? I dried 50 degrees + convection

Right. Dry at 50 degrees for a couple of minutes, then dry on the table)

[Yrochka]

Yrochka, Ir, I also love to rummage in vector pictures. I just thought maybe you paint yourself? And I have a series of plagiarists. I wanted to make Santa Claus, I was looking for some sketches, so that not in full growth, but only a face with a beard. I found these freaks and decided to repeat them. My son has been trying to eat for two days, did not give it until I finish. Now I took a picture while they are still alive, otherwise tomorrow morning I might not keep track.

elena88, ahhh !!! What cool freaks!

Ira. Thank you))

elena88, funny Santa! The kids will definitely love it!

elena88, great and not beaten!

Mom Tanya, Larissa u, girls, thanks for the praises. I want to try to make Santa Claus in this vein, but so far I can't figure out how ...

elena88, replace the cap with Santa Claus's hat !!! The face is very beautiful! Merry !!!

Mom Tanya, it's still a matter of form. This is me on a bourgeois site came across the results of the competition. If I understood the translation correctly, then the cutting of these forms is very good. popular among the people. And they decided to hold a competition for the best design of these gingerbread shapes. There were many different options. Mostly of the type of Christmas tree decorations. And there were several attempts with muzzles.Not only Santa Claus, there was also mom Claus and a deer and all that. I cannot imagine how you can depict the boyar hat of the DM on these forms. Well, our grandfather's mustache hangs down. The nose is mostly potatoes. Still, you need a different form. Our Grandfather is a more solid character than the bourgeois Santa. And he doesn't climb pipes ... While I think. I hope it dawns on NG. Or next.

So cool! already smiled looking at them!

elena88, Lena, you have made such a perky set of Christmas tree decorations! They all have such kind faces, I drew great eyes and their noses are super-good! What's the size of the gingerbread? And how did you make the beard of the lower Santa? What is the largest?

Lerochka dear, thanks for the praises! the size of the gingerbread is 20cm in length, and the width is from 9 to 11cm. I don't like small gingerbread. You can roam the big ones. Now I think, can I make such felling? ... but it's so much trouble! and I made the beard of big Santa with the handle of a teaspoon. I put a layer of icing on the gingerbread, and then started from the bottom up: I applied the tip of the pen flatly to the surface of the gingerbread and pulled it down slightly on myself, so that such a horizontal peak turned out. Then higher, higher, and so on to the end in no particular order. I don't know if she explained it clearly ... in general, something like that.

[Lera]

Well, I finally finished the first part of the trial batch of winter gingerbread)))

Lera! I have always said and will continue to say: you are a hard worker !!! Clever girl! Persistent! Strength and inspiration to you!
Because of your perseverance and hard work, it is impossible to say that you don't like some gingerbread! How can you ?! I can say that I especially like mittens, socks, snowmen ....... and the "shaggy" monkey!
What is it? Sugar or cocoa?
Mila_Toronto, Welcome!!! You got such delicate cookies! Very much in line with the theme !!! The girls told you about the recipes. Aising can be watery? And the confidence of the lines will come with experience and practice!

Yrochka,

First New Years this year

how nraaaaaavyatsya !!!!!!!!! Unusual! It's so warm! Handsomely!

[ledi]

I’ll just ... I’m simple. Gingerbread size 13 cm, 11 cm, 9 cm

ledi, Verahow I like with gingerbread cavities !!!!!!!!

ledi, Ver, what a fine fellow !!! Patience and work will grind everything, that's really true, they are just perfect !!

Veraaaa! this is how indescribable beauty! As if I got to the Czech resource! bravo, smart girl! I especially liked the star, the fishnet bell and the angel! although the Christmas trees and bells, which are carved inside, also really liked!
I really love this style, especially for the winter holidays it suits my mood!

Verawhat beautiful gingerbread !!!! Real New Years, immediately smelled right in winter)) I liked the angel very much and next to him was a snowflake and a bell in a net

ledi, Vera, how I like it! I, too, like these, with a cut out center going to do. Did you cut out the middle before baking, with a knife? And also - paper floral ribbons on them, right?
And I also like the angel, I also laid my eyes on this, I thought to bake, but at the very last moment I stopped at another option, in this the palms and the bell need to be done thinly, but I have powder - coarse, thin nozzles are not used therefore, I draw everything Ateko No. 1, I was afraid that it would come out very rude, but your agelochek came out very super-duper!

ledi, Vera, gingerbread in the best traditions! : girl_claping: still the most beautiful gingerbread with a white pattern. Whatever they come up with and no matter how multicolored icing they fill, I think the most airy and laced are classic gingerbread. Either white for the varnish, or white for the white fill. A very festive winter series turned out.

ledi, which style! Needless to say, how festive, warm, with a soul they are!

Did you cut out the middle before baking, with a knife?

Tanya, cut out the middle with a small mold, and the edge with a knife

And also - floral paper ribbons on them,

Satin ribbons

like the angel

Most of all I am not happy with him, I was already drawing with my eyes closed, falling asleep, he is small, it was hard

Ateko No. 1

Drawn angel Ateko 000. And all the gingerbreads are mostly 00 and 000. I noticed the curls are difficult for me to give with a small nozzle

Girls! Thank you all for the praises: friends: Nice !!! All the lacquer glaze has begun. What to cover with what brush? The photo does not convey the anointing that came from the brush. I decided that it was hefty thick, thinned it more and the gingerbread took on bubbles. But in fact, I enjoyed these gingerbread cookies. Especially draw these faces. Already the second gingerbread monkey and Santa Claus lie and wait for them to be eaten, some freaks turned out

ledi, Vera, she left you for a snack))) Do you know why?
I love these Christmas tree decorations, real Christmas gingerbread on the tree !!!!!!!
Lisa is right, just like on Czech sites! I adore such painted gingerbread, it's very sad that now they are not in such demand as for colored gingerbread, but my soul lies with these, with or without varnish, but they look awesome with painting, I especially like the cavities! I also want to repeat, I just have a set of Teskom's fellings with such cavities, so I will definitely do it, I just want to buy some hemp twine.
So sho, Verun do not be offended, I will blatantly plagiarize your gingerbread

and why be offended! To your health! I do it myself

but my soul lies precisely with such,

And my soul lies, because it was with such a painting that everything began for me. And they are easier for me!

[Two New Years]

Two New Years

MartaIg, Santa is great, what a curly beard, shaded cool! And the monkey (I think so?) Looks like a Cheburashka. In the monkey, a "prominent" lower jaw is a characteristic feature. But it's funny anyway!

Mom Tanya, thanks, let it be a Cheburash-like monkey))

I liked Santa Claus very much. I wanted to do something like that. Martha, as I understand it, you need to fill in your beard in turn, stripes through one?

[MartaIg]

MartaIg, good characters turned out
Such is the New Year here! And I'm postponing again ... Order for the day of the accountant. As always, for tomorrow, urgently, 80 pieces
Today, in snatches, I managed to arrange a postcard:

Yrochka, Irina, I want your MK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, how interesting! Handsomely! Unusual !!!

Mom Tanya, Thank you! Just ask, I'll tell you. Nothing complicated, it's just dreary to draw.

Nooooo, MK with a photo! And with words aaaami !!!!!!!!!!

I want it too, and even better real!

very beautiful, neat and high-quality work, you can just admire for hours! so many colors !!! What dyes do you use?

Vei, Thank you! Amerikolor. I love to mix them.

Yrochka, Ira! well, you can't! Looking at your gingerbread cookies, I feel incomplete. Another artist wound up in our house. What a beauty!

: girl-swoon: I have no words. I understand, you can't envy, but I can't.

Yrochka, sooo beautiful !!

Yrochka, stunned !!!!! This is definitely not allowed !!!!! Very very beautiful!!!!! How much drawing !!!!

Sometimes girls in the post insert a mouse that faints, so I would put it here too because of such beauty

Oh, girls, how many beautiful and beautiful-beautiful you have here !!! What fine fellows you are! Slowly, in fits and starts, I read the topic (I don’t look into the cakes, otherwise the real will stall at all)) You have inspired me incredibly! Today I sat down to try to paint the gingerbread and only after five hours I was able to come off - it was dark Captures - not the right word!

Girls, I envy you so much !!! Gingerbread, new year, christmas !! My hands itch so much !! And I have cakes until mid-December, and even 2 wedding cakes!
And so I want cookies, so I want !!!

Larissa, and you combine. Now it is fashionable to cover cakes with gingerbread. )))

nooo, it won't suit my cakes. I'll be patient.

[Yrochka]

Yrochka, you have amazing work !!!

Girls, you have so many cool Christmas cakes! A lovely sight!
Now it's even embarrassing to show your ...
And I brought my next failure. From the category: "I wanted the best, -turned out ...." -... as always clumsy

Nehorushka, wow failure !!! Cool chess!

Nehorushka, Natalia, chess is excellent, only the background in the photo is too rippling and distracting, it is difficult to see anything.

Natalia, chess is cool! The idea is just wonderful))) once - and ate a pawn!

Nehorushka, chess is a very interesting idea and a good job

Nehorushka, I'm shocked by the "failure". The background spoiled a little, of course, everything is too motley, but chess, this is daaaaaa !!

Nehorushka, Natasha, what kind of self-criticism ?! Chess was a success. now I think many will follow in your footsteps

Girls, thank you very much everyone for the comments!
I will definitely take into account the background.
I just love this paper madly, so I use it on the case and without
Perhaps it was worth spending more time on this work. Therefore, there is no satisfaction from incarnation.
I did everything in fits and starts in my spare moments. While the husband and daughter were engaged.

Nehorushka, Natasha, you are a hero !!! I so many times was going to start chess, but shuddered even from the thought how many work with them to be: crazy: And you took and did, and very neatly it turned out, I would say ideal! Well done!!!! Beautiful fill on the board itself, all the squares are even, the figures are alright, in general, super!
The only thing I did not deduct was the size of the board itself and the figures. I wonder how much time did you spend on this masterpiece?

[Nehorushka]

Nehorushka, you can't be such a pessimist! Above nose, good chess. Lisa is right about the background, she's a distraction.

Irina, killing us just outright! Very beautiful gingerbread. I agree, you immediately feel inferior. And I also think with horror: how long does it take for one such postcard. This is how many flowers to dilute and how many nuances to draw

And I have two little ones for Mother's Day. The cats are painted with food dyes, the diameter of the gingerbread is 10 cm. I diluted the paints with water, it eats away icing terribly


And also by the day of the accountant there was an order. These were my first gingerbread cookies with a logo, and although it is simple, it was not easy to draw. That is, it turned out to be more difficult than just signing, and it took more time.


And in the same order there was such a postcard. Its size is 20x15 cm, the dough is from Lera Sahara. By the way, all the cakes are made from this dough. I also had to tinker with the postcard. To be honest, I thought that now I have to act like an engraver: the larger the text, the more expensive. Drawing the title turned out to be more difficult than I thought. And when I finished it, I looked at the text of congratulations. And a little horrified Gilding did not work. I diluted the kandurin with water, so the surface of the letters and the eagle became rough. In short, I need vodka urgently, vodka!

Liza! Blagoveshchensk is almost my hometown, I was born in Raichikhinsk))))
How wonderful you write! There are simply no words, what precision of movements is needed to make such gingerbread. Shocked by the tax courier ... so many letters ... With a logo - a great start: clean, laconic, everything in its place. I like your work! And if there was also vodka ...

harmful78, the inscriptions are excellent !!! There is even nothing to complain about And the logo, in my opinion, is also very successful !!!

Natalia, thank you for rating. It turned out, of course, not perfect, but not so bad either. Let's get acquainted

Tanya, I liked the calculator myself, for a long time I just wanted to make buttons for filling. In general, I noticed: I always underestimate the work. That is, it seems to me that it will not be difficult. And in the process I understand that it is difficult, and how! What can we say about customers? They are generally far from this ...

harmful78, Liza, I am also very much a calculator and I liked the tax congratulations! well done

Lisa, thanks!

harmful78, I join the praise! Liza, do you write with icing right away? Or how do you mark each letter?

harmful78, Liz, I repeat once again, your emphasis is something !! If I were you, I would use it more.

harmful78, Lisa, what wonderful works! What neatness and amazing clarity! The calculator is just amazing - it's an idea, but you have to buy vodka. I put a 100g sample in the refrigerator and use it as needed. I have enough for a long time.

harmful78, Liza, the accountant's set is superb !!!
The calculator is straightforward! I agree with the girls, your handwriting is beautiful and you did an excellent job with the inscriptions!
The postcard with the coat of arms is impeccably made, the very inscription "Russian Tax Courier" and the coat of arms look like a print or as if it were printed!