Archive for 2012

An Elf on the Shelf Card

November 24th, 2012

I saw this sketch at Just add Ink and instantly had the idea of the elf sitting on the shelf. We are awaiting the arrival of our Elf on the Shelf. We are hoping Santa sends him from the North Pole soon. So, with visions of elves and Christmas, I had to make this card.

Here is the Sketch from Just add Ink:

Here's my card:

This cute little elf is sitting on the shelf atop a present wrapped in red and adorned with green ribbon.

Materials used:

The Elf on The Shelf: is an SVG file purchased from MyScrapChick last Christmas.

Paper: I used all scraps from my paper stash. The printed paper is from The Christmas Combo Stack made by DCWV

Pop Dots were used to pop the elf off the card

Embossing: Used my Cuttlebug to emboss the shelf

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I’m Back! It’s been a while.

November 23rd, 2012

I'm back! I had a fun and busy summer, as well as busy Fall. Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking it was time to come back to crafting. I just had to find the time. Well, with a wonderful long weekend, I put aside time to sit and craft. It was great!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I so enjoyed spending time with my family, eating great food, watching the parade, and just enjoying being at home.

I made this card for Freshly Made Sketches. I followed their sketch and created a cute winter card.

MATERIALS USED:

PAPER: (A2 size)-navy blue, white, and blue printed paper- all from my stash

Ribbon- used a small piece I recently got off of packaging

Embossing-used my Cuttlebug to emboss the bottom piece

Snowflake- used an SVG file to cut on my Cricut at two inches and adhered some bling onto it

Sentiment-is from Robin's Creatve Cottage "Snowman's Prayer"

Ink-Blue ink from Michaels

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Making Bread In A Bag

June 7th, 2012

I love bread, my kids love bread, hubby loves bread, we all love bread! I have been on a baking-bread kick and trying different recipes, I am even considering buying a bread machine. Have you ever looked at the bread labels at the store? There are so many added chemicals these days, I almost feel guilty making toast for my family. So, I have decided I am going to bake my own bread! This particular recipe was snatched from The Creative Homemaker.

It's quite simple to make…

First, get your ingredients ready:

DRY INGREDIENTS:

Gallon Size Ziploc Bag

2 cups of flour

1 tsp. of salt

2 tsps. of sugar

1 envelope of yeast

WET INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cup of hot water

1 tbsp. of oil

Put all your dry ingredients in a bag, close the bag, and shake well. Then, add your wet ingredients. Squish and knead the dough in the bag. Be careful, the hot water makes the dough and the bag a little hot too. When the dough is clumped together and moves around freely in the bag, you can take it out.

It will look like this in the bag.

Now, I put a heaping spoon full of flour on the counter and had my son pat his hands in flour and begin kneading the dough a little more. He thought this was great!

After a few minutes of kneading the dough, you will feel the dough start to expand. It's time to put the dough aside for a few hours and let it rise.

I put my dough in a bread pan with a towel on top. I let it rise for a few hours, while we watched it pour and rain outside. Literally, thundered and poured here all afternoon!

After a few hours of letting it rise, I put in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes.

Here it is! I also made a Minnestrone Soup and everyone enjoyed dipping the bread in their soup. Yummy!

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Girlie Page Time!

May 20th, 2012

This week, there's a fun challenge over at Amanda's Crafts and More! This week, the challenge is to create something GIRLIE!

Here's what I created this week:

Come on over and join us this week! Looking forward to seeing your GIRLIE PAGES!

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Let’s Celebrate Come On!

May 6th, 2012

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Let's Celebrate!

Happy Sunday! This week we have a really fun challenge…scrap about a celebration, anniversary, birthday, etc.

Here is what I created for this CELEBRATION Challenge:

Our May Sponsor is Ginger Snap Scraps. It's an awesome online store and has some fabulous products. The prize is the new Tim Holtz Spring Inks (Yeah!!!).. Here's a pic of the prize and the link to the store if you want to check it out http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/

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Guest Designer Day on Inking It Up Crazy!

May 1st, 2012

Hello! I am very excited to be Kassidy's guest designer today. I love Kassidy's projects, so I was very excited to be able to guest design on Inking It Up Crazy!

Today, I made a simple A2 sized card with a pink and white mat. I love pink and brown together and haven't used those colors in a while. On the side, I cut ribbon strips at two inches and bent them in half, keeping the edge round. I used a glue dot to keep the ends adhered together, then I adhered the ribbon to the card. This is a great way to use up some of those little pieces of ribbon you have laying around your craft space!

The sentiment is a digi stamp I found online and I cut scalloped circles (using an SVG File) at 1.5 inch and 1.75 inches. The sentiment reads "Just for You."