Eggplant and raspberries

The last few days have flown by and I've barely turned my computer on - my Godmother left today to go back to California after a wonderful few days of catching up, fabulous meals, laughter, family memories and shopping til we dropped!

So it's Sunday again and time for another challenge over at Stamp With Us - a recipe challenge today with the following 'rules':
-No patterned paper
-Two ribbons
-Two stamps


I'm not usually a huge fan of purple (actually any fan of purple!) but I do like Elegant Eggplant and love it with Tempting Turquoise:


Recipe: (All Stampin Up unless stated)

Stamps - Seeing Spots/Cheer and Wishes
Ink - Tempting Turquoise/Elegant Eggplant
Card - Tempting Turquoise/Elegant Eggplant/Whisper White
Other - Turquoise and Elegant Eggplant ribbons/punches - scallop edge, corner rounder, circles/Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder

Don't forget to check out the Stamp With Us blog to see the other DT creations and for details on how to enter.

Remember the Raspberry Semifreddo I mentioned, here's a quick pic I took of it and the recipe too for anyone who wants to try it. It's a big dessert - too much even for a 2 lb loaf tin so great if you're having 8 - 10 for dinner, and the best thing is because it's an iced dessert you can prep it the day before!



Raspberry Semifreddo

Ingredients:
6 eggs
250g/9oz caster sugar
250g/9oz raspberries
750ml double cream

1)Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water until thickened.
2)Remove from the heat and continue whisking until completely cool
3)Mash the raspberries in a shallow dish
4)Stifly whip the cream and stir in the egg mixture and mashed raspberries
5)Line a rectangular loaf tin with cling film. Pour in the mixture and smooth the surface. 6)Put in a freezer overnight. Turn out and remove the cling film.

Thanks for visiting today!!

Kate x

Circle sketch

A very happy sunny Sunday to you! I've no doubt that everyone is enjoying the sunshine as much as me, and maybe the same shade of pink as me!!

I've had a lovely chilled out weekend - went to the TwentyTwenty cricket on Friday evening ( we lost boo-hoo!) then spent the rest of the weekend catching up with friends, cooking some great food and enjoying the sun.

And now it's Sunday which means another Stamp With Us challenge - this week it's a sketch challenge:


And here's my take on the sketch:


I had issues with this card, not least because I was adding some stitching to finish it off when my machine decided to chew it up so I had to start over - ggggrrrr! So this was a slightly rushed version of the orginal, still, I do like these colours together - Kraft, Elegant Eggplant and Sage Shadow.

Head over to the Stamp With Us blog to see what the rest of the Design Team did with the sketch and to enter.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the sun while it lasts!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Seeing Spots
Ink - Sage Shadow/Elegant Eggplant
Card/Paper - Whisper White/Sage Shadow/Elegant Eggplant/Kraft DSP
Other - brads/1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches.

lotsa circles

The Inspiration and Themes challenge over on In Love with Stamping yesterday was 'circles' - and these cards are what I came up with for it. I hadn't used my Seeing Spots stamp set much and fell in love with this colour combination - Real Red, So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise - so played around and made three different cards.

The first one is based on an old Taylor Van Bruggen sketch - the turqouise panels were embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. I stamped the thank you circles in Real Red then used the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to position the flower stamp inside.



For the second one I used the same circle and flower stamps and again punched out the circles with the 1 1/4 inch and 1 3/8 inch circle punches.



For the last one I used the solid flower stamp from the set and used the scallop circle punch for the middle circle. I again rounded the bottom corners with the corner rounder punch.

So there we are - a whole lotta circles and a cheery colour combo on such a dreary day to boot!! I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend with plenty of stamping!

Recipe -
Stamps - Seeing Spots
Ink - Real Red/Tempting Turquoise/So Saffron
Card/paper - Real Red/Tempting Turquoise/So Saffron/Le jardin papers
Other - corner rounder punch/circle punches - 1 inch, 1 1/4 inch, 1 3/8/scallop circle punch/ crafter's tool kit/ swiss dots embossing folder/ brads/Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Spotty thank you

This was my sample for last week's Inspiration and Themes challenge on In Love With Stamping - I took inspiration from the Cath Kidston dotty fabric and came up with this. I wanted something clean and zingy and this colour combo dies the job!

I used the Seeing Spots set, masking the circles as I stamped them using eclipse tape.

Thanks for visiting today!

Recipe
(All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Seeing Spots/Wonderful Words
Ink - Tempting Turqoise/Real Red/So Saffron
Card - Whisper White/Tempting Turqoise/Real Red/So Saffron
Other - brads/eclipse tape