flail!

A few weekends back, I tried to nail down two main elements of the travel theme: the luggage tag place cards and the globe cookies.  One was a pretty big score! and the other an epic fail.

The major score was the creation of our luggage tag place cards.  I had to choose the pictures to use as the image on one side and this was pretty uneventful.  We're planning on using our personal photos from different locations:

The harder part came in figuring out what to write place people's names and tables on.  After initially trying plain paper, I lucked out and came across some little jewels at Michael's.  In the scrapbooking section, I found four packs of Colorbok's Sticky Journal Stax-Travel.  These little babies have 36 acid free travel themed sheets, 24 of which are business card sized and 12 that I can cut and stylize to fit.  They're immensely more fun than the simple green sheets of paper I had intended on using.  My favorites are styled like postcards and say "air mail" and "wish you were here."

My mom thinks we should list people's actual address like on this place card:

But I think it would be best to just do their names like this:

Which do you think guests would prefer?

And now for the epic fail.  We want to give out homemade sugar cookies decorated like globes as favors, using an old family recipe.  All's well with the cookie making part- it's the decorating part where I fall ridiculously short.  I need to make friends with an artist stat, or find some sort of stencil, cuz my natural "skills" ain't gonna cut it:

These are the two best products from the batch. Fail and now, I *flail*.

Anybody know where I can find a globe stencil, or having a brilliant idea on how to make these cookies look like our actual Earth?