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And there it is…cookie number two for Lily’s basketball
teams is done. This one is for the Lady Millers, her school
team. I could have done something really similar to the Team Elite Cookie and
no one would have noticed, but as always, I wanted to push myself and see what new
design I could come up with for a basketball cookie…this being my 5th
one?! Wow! But if there is on sport I know
and love enough to keep trying to find new fun ways to design around, it’s
basketball.
So, for this cookie I decided to make the whole cookie the basketball,
I know, it doesn’t seem like such a novel idea, but it would be a first in my
sports cookie designs. Making sure that in doing this, all the basketball
details were right, it turned into a pretty successful cookie design. I have
used the basketball design on a cookie many times, but this was the first time
that because of the scale of the ball, I was able to really detail the texture
of the surface. The black lines are concave just as they are on a real ball and
the elevated grips you can feel on any good basketball are there well really
elevating the ball and making it a more elevated design instead of the
cartoonish designs I and many other people use when creating a basketball.
To make the logo and the name stand out a bit so the
basketball isn’t the only thing to draw your attention, I added one of my
favorite embellishments, clear sugar flakes. The way they glitter and glisten
really adds emphasis to a border or a design element making the whole cookie
draw your attention and want to take a closer look. More important here, it
highlights the team name and logo making it about the girls and the team and
their accomplishments.
