Welcome Baby Brynn!  Some dear friends had a baby girl in September.  The baby shower for Brynn was in August and Sadly I missed it.  I was so bummed I was unable to make cookies for the baby shower.  Mommy is from California so I wanted to incorporate California into the theme of the cookies.  When I think of California, I get a bohemian vibe.  The color pallet was built off the baby's nursery color of coral.

Poppies are the state flower of California.  To make the poppies I used a sand dollar cutter.  I followed this tutorial to make the flowers.  The only thing I did differently was use a dark grey for the flower center.  Black was too harsh with this softer color pallet.

For the monogrammed plaques, I used this cutter.  I used the wood plank stencil from StencilBelle to create the background.  Ivory icing was used and I painted it with a combination of ivory and brown.  The roses and letter "B" were royal icing transfers I made ahead of time.  I piped the leaves with Wilton 352 tip.

The kept the California cookies pretty simple.  I piped and flooded the cookies with ivory icing.  Then I used gold lust pearl dust mixed with alcohol to create the splatter effect.  The arrow cutter can be purchased here.  To create Brynn's name, I used a water brush.  I wrote her name with water on the dried cookie.  Then I piped over it with a yellow icing.  I could have used a food coloring marker, but I hate when I don't pipe perfectly and the marked lines can be seen.  This way if I didn't pipe perfectly the water just evaporated.  Once the name was dry I painted over it with the gold lust dust.