Ladybugs Galore!!

I was asked to make cookie favors for a one year old's birthday.  So, I made almost 50 pink ladybug cookie favors: 

Since I had SO much fun making these ladybugs, I made some more for a dinner that I had to go to:

And this is what you get when you run out of black icing but you have leftover dough:

Aren't they cute??? 

The ladybugs I made for the dinner were just made using a circle cookie cutter.  But when I was making the favors, I wanted the shape to have a body and a head.  Since I didn't have a cookie cutter in the shape of a ladybug, I had to design my own.  This is how I did it:

First, I used two cookie cutters - a large circle and a smaller circle:

Using the smaller circle, I cut out a small piece of the larger circle: 

I then put the two circles together, forming the ladybug!