Eat Dessert First

Hi Guys!

Well this is a recipe card that almost got lost in Blogger Drafts, I had made it "just for fun" but never got around to posting it.

The stamp is an ooooold Stampin Up image and Ive colored it with CrabOthello Pastel pencils on pastel paper. The paper scraps are MME from the Lost and Found series.

Recipe:

Image: Stampin Up image stamped with Momento ink

and colored with CarbOthello Pastels

Paper: MME: "Rosy" and  Best Creation "Mom's Kitchen"

Twinery Twine in "Pink Sorbet"

Glittermist in "Pearl"

Spellbinder's Dies

Hope you can read my writing on the recipe card, and hey, if you can, can you let me know what it says? lol

Have a great weekend!

In A Country Kitchen

Hi Guys!

So I have two recipe posts for you today. I'm not sure how it happened, its called "double booking". lol

TBoth recipe pages are so similar color wise that I got mixed up and should have put them both on one post. Oh well, no one's perfect! 

This is one I grew up making with my sister. Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. Its foolproof

My Recipe:

Image: Belles N Whistles

Colors: Lyras and Prismacolors

Paper: Jillibean Soup "Apple Cheddar Soup"

Buttons: Home Sew and Sew Sweet

Twine: TheTwinery

Dies: Whiff Of Joy

And here's the recipe a bit closer up. You can click on it to enlarge even more.

That's it from me today!

Happy Crafting and thanks so much for coming by to visit!

Apples are Sweet and so are You

Hi Guys!

Well I was in a bit of a quandary when I made this recipe card. I needed a pie recipe but I'm one of those pie makers that never measure. I just throw it all together. Stacey was over the house crafting with me and she started telling me about an apple pie recipe she really enjoys using frozen apple juice instead of sugar. I had a look on line and found it, so here ya go!

Recipe:

Image: Belles N Whistles "Warm Apple Pie"

Memento Ink

Colors: Lyras and Prismacolors on kraft

Paper: Jillibean Soup "Apple Cheddar"

Spellbinders Dies

Martha Stewart Punch

I am also using this project as my Catered Crop project for this fortnight which is :

Seeing Red

I hope you can play along!

Baking With Mum

Well I have some awesome news! 

This month, along with GDing for A Day For Daisies,  I have the awesome privilege of joining the crew at the Kraft Journal for the month of January ! Isn't that sweet of them to let me crash their party?

 Yay! This is going to be so much fun! Kraft paper and ADFD images, what a perfect mix!

So this week's challenge at the Kraft Journal is :

Your Favorite Colors

Since these are my "comfort crafting colors" I take them to be my favorite. :-)

My image is from A Day For Daisies and the papers are part of a gorgeous pack by October Afternoon, called "Modern Homemaker". I found it at Hobby Lobby but I'm sure you can buy it online, too. They're just perfect for this country kitchen style page.

The twine can be found here at the Kraft Outlet and the ribbon is from Sew Sweet.

And oh! This pie is to die for! Ok, that would rather defeat the purpose but you know what I mean. :)

Trust me, you'll love it!

I generally make my own crust (see recipe below) but I've also bought  Gluten Free pie shells before, made with rice flour (when my sister is pogging with me) and its come out just fine.

Recipe:

Image: ADFD

3 Ring Book: Kraft Outlet

Lunchbag Kraft paper: Kraft Outlet

Brown Kraft cardstock: Kraft Outlet

Brown and Red Bakers Twine: Kraft OUtlet

Red Check Ribbon: Sew Sweet

Thanks for coming by!

Baking Day

Hi Guys!

Well to hop off the new term at Pumpkin Spice we are having a HOP!

The theme is:

Showing Our Style

I'm not sure how I would define "my style" (suggestions are welcome) but I guess you could say there's always (or very likely) certain elements you'll  find in my projects.

1) Pencils

2) Kraft

3) Stitching

4) Quiltlike paper assembly

5) Twine

6) Buttons or Brads

Of course in this work in progress you should also find recipes!

I am using papers by MME (Honeycake)

Images: Mo Manning and TLC

Twine in "Marachino" : Pumpkin Spice

The recipes up close. And they're pretty stinkin yummy too.

You gotta love quiche. The variations are endless!

And baked beans below:

Pssst) The first time I made my hubby Boston Baked Beans he just about threw up. It totally was NOT what he was expecting. Being English, he was used to tomato based beans, not sweet molasses beans. lol Over the last 18 years he's got a bit more used to them but I also have toned down the sugar a wee bit. Add more onions, herbs etc.

Ideally (if you're not worried about a stroke or anything) baked beans are best eaten with fried dough dripping with butter.

Ummmmmmmmm!!

I can't tell you how happy it made me coloring that pig. I was in "hog heaven." 

No one enjoys their food like a pig. Unless of course its my overweight orange tom cat. (The Incredible Bulk)

But look at him! Isn't it great?

So now its time to get hopping!
You should have come here from Lezley's blog. If you get lost head back to Pumpkin Spice and start again.
Now its time to hop on lover to lovely Courtney's  blog where I just know she'll have some awesome eye candy for you!

Salsa!

Hi Again everyone!

Guess what I have here? Yup! Another recipe page for you!

It was time to spice things up with something hot!

The challenge at Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge this week is:

Punches and Dies

as you see I went a little crazy with them. :)

For the page on the left I was hoping to find a senor for my Senorita Rosa (on facing page) but since Mo didn't have one I went digi hunting and found this awesome cactus from Elizabeth Dulemba. It's free, too. How cool is that?

If you click on the picture it will blow it up a bit more so you can read the recipes.

And here's lovely Rosa...

Recipe:

Images: Fiesta by Elizabeth Dulemba and Rosa by Mo Manning

Papers: MME and DCWV

Dies : Spellbinders

Punches: Martha Stewart

Ribbon: Sew Sweet

*Remember, there's still time to join in my blog candy if you haven't already done so, its open til Dec 30th and you can find the original post here.


Challenges:
Craft Room Challenge - 2W - Must display shop logo to be in draw - Die Cuts & Punches Week2

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything Goes
Partytime Tuesdays -  PTT #47 Use Ribbon
ColourQ - #116 Color Challenge* (I did use some blue too, don't know if thats ok)

Everybody-Art-Challenge -Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday  Anything Goes


Have a great weekend!

The Fabric Of Our Lives

Hi all!

Today's challenge at Mo's Digital Pencil is : Fabric

Yikes! And you know what? I thought up the challenge and its still Yikes!

What was I thinking? LOL

Actually it ended up being a lot of fun.

As you know, I started making this recipe book and the fabric reminded me of cafe curtains so it worked out.

I stuck it down with scortape. Awesome stuff!

The button is a brad that I covered. You know, they make these  gadgety doohickys to cover butons/brads but I remember just using my fingers to tuck and secure the covered buttons when I was learning to sew as a teenager so that's what I did here. Nice to know you don't have to run out and buy every new tool they come out with. In saying that, it would be handy My address is as follows... :)

Anyway!

So this is page 2/3 of my recipe book:

Recipe for Card:

Image: Mo Manning

colors: Lyra Rembrant and Prismas

Papers: My Minds Eye

Fabric: from stash

coverable brad: bought at Michaels (unsure of brand)

Both recipes are so easy peasy but soooo GOOD.

I would like to enter this in:

Anything Goes Challenge - Anything But A Card

City Crafter Challenge -Get Booked (Make or Alter a book!)

Creative Craft Challenges -  Faux Or Real Stitching Week 2

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Ooh La La Creations -Anything BUT a Card

Scrappy Frogs - Stitching

For my blog candy click here.

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

In The Kitchen

So I finally bit the bullet.

 I've been wanting to make a recipe book for the looooongest time but kept chickening out. As you know I like to color rather large images so I was puzzled how I was going to stick a "Dorcas" image on the usual index card/recipe card. Until.........I found this chipboard book at the Kraft Outlet. Problem solved. Each page is 5x7 inches or there about so presto! I did have to go down a bit in size for my images but they're still pretty workable.

By the way, now that I've started this project you're all going to have to bear with me as I post page after page for the next several months. I have the perfect occasion, a friend is getting married in the Spring. So I have the occasion plus the deadline. What more could I need?

I know! The perfect images! And soooooo without further ado, enter perfect image number one, page one!

Since I didn't want to cramp my images too much I had to print my recipes in really small print. lol

Hey! This book is only to look at, not use!!

But just cos you asked I will blow up the recipe so you can see that it is real. :)

It is helpful that I write my recipes in criptic speech otherwise they  wouldn't fit!

Card Recipe:

Image: ADFD

Paper: Mainly K&co.

colors: Lyras and paper piecing

Punch: Martha Stewart

Ribbon: Sew Sweet

Lock and key bradz: Kraft Outlet

So today I would like to play along with:

ADFD: Anything Goes

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge -- Try Something new (a recipe book)

Cute Card Thursday -Anything Goes

Cooking It Up With Katie -  anything goes

Anything Goes Challenge - Cutting Corners, decoratove

Remember to join in my "no strings attached" blog candy here

Thanks so much for coming by!!