Birthday cookies

My old roommate, Jo had a birthday recently. I decided to be budget friendly & make her cookies. I asked her who her favorite Disney character was, she said Cinderella. I even printed off some Cinderella stuff. Here are the cookies. I ventured into non circular ones for the first time. I need to get some more cutters.

I also need better colors, I have Wilton colors. I don't like them. I tried to make red, it turned out pink so I thought I'd ad a tiny bit of another color to darken it up. No, it turned brownie burgandy. Orange was neon though, pink was very pink.

 These ones were for one of the renters recovering from surgery & for my mom & aunt.

 Close up of some of Jo's.

 She likes Twilight (see howling wolf), Harry Potter (Hogwarts crest in pink with hearts on corners & wrong lightening bolt). The rest were sort of random & learning how to pipe better. While I'm happy with the majority of my lettering, I really need to do that on less of a slant.

I used the chocolate sugar cookie recipe from Joy of Baking (the only thing I changed was extract I think), and a thinned down MP Buttercream from Karen's Cookies.

I have learned that I'm not liking the cleanup of icing with proper tips & couplers. I DO LOVE the control of them though, and that far out weighs the cleanup.

I found a local supplier for Americolor, unfortunately it's $30 for 12 small bottles. I think I'll go for it, since online they are WAY cheaper but adding in shipping/customs it's almost the same & I don't have to wait.