Boyscout Stew Recipe Page

As I sit at my desk on this dreary, stormy day I thought this scrapbook recipe page would be a perfect one to share.  This recipe is one that my Grandad used to make on his Boyscout camping expeditions.  He'd put his cast iron pot on the campfire and fill it with all this yummy goodness.  Of course I just throw mine together in the crockpot and let it cook while I'm at work.  And I've modified it a little in that he used to put green beans in his and since I can't stand mushy green beans I leave those out.  Another thing I've done is that I like to use the spicy V8 only for my broth since we like spice.

 

The cuts I used for this page are:

 

From My Kitchen for the recipe card

 

Italian Mice from Marjorie Ann Designs for the mouse in the pot

 

And now I'm off to enter this into the following challenges:

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Let's Scrapbook - Ends August 22nd

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Co-Worker Appreciation Gift Set

 

Today I have fun project I'd like to share with you.  Earlier this month I entered this project into the Customer Appreciation contest at Jaded Blossom and am happy to say that it was chosen as the fan favorite.  And now that the contest is over I can share my project with all of you.

 

For my project I used the Good Day at the Office file from SVG Cuts.  This file set has the perfect focal point project - the typewriter treat box.  The box was easy to assemble and it wasn't until I cut out the keyboard that I had any issues.  I think I ended up cutting out three of them that were messed up before I decided to try using a brand new mat and had success. 

 

 

 

To decorate the typewriter I chose to use some flowers since I used flower print papers.  On the knobs I used a couple of mini bottle caps from my stash.  For the sentiment I used the recently released Coworkers stamp set from Jaded Blossom.  And since I somehow managed to smear the dot of my exclamation point I added a small sprinkle to cover the booboo while adding a little bit of emphasis at the same time.

 

Next is the rolodex greeting card. 

 

 

 

This is another file included in the Good Day at the Office.  For this card I used another sentiment from the Coworkers stamp set.  I also decided to use a couple of raspberry colored skittles from DoubleClick Connections.  And then to finish it off I used a fun foot shaped paperclip that was in my stash.

 

Then we have the business card holder. 

 

 

 

I saw this idea in a magazine years ago and just fell in love with it.  I've made several of these and even use them to hold my business cards when I'm out doing craft shows.  So here's how you make one of these for yourself:

 

Cut rectangles in the following sizes:

 

• 1 @ 1 1/2" x 4 1/4" 
• 2 @ 2 5/8" x 4 1/8"
• 1 @ 1 1/8" x 4"

Glue the pieces to the cassette tape cover accordingly and then decorate.  Again, I used another sentiment from the Coworker stamp set.  The telephone is from the Cricut cartridge From My Kitchen.

 

Finally, what's a treat box without treats?  For my candy kisses I used the BFF Candies and Hello Candies from Jaded Blossom. 

Crab Dip Recipe Page

Today's page features a recipe I found in a cooking magazine about 10 years ago.  You might find this hard to believe but even though I was born and raised in the town over from the World's Luckiest Fishing Village I am not a seafood person.  Don't get me wrong.  I will eat seafood......as long as it is fresh caught......as in when my dad or husband have been out fishing and bring it back.  Now I do indulge in the occasional crawfish tails or whatever but it is rare. 

 

I tell you all of that because crab is something I typically do not eat at all.  It has a flavor that I find too strong.  But in this recipe the horseradish (which I love) helps to balance that.

 

For this page I thought it would be great to use Mr. Krabs from the Cricut cartridge SpongeBob Squarepants.  Instead of cutting and piecing together all of the small pieces though I decided to flatten the image for print and cutting.

 

I did something a little different with my printing this time too.  Instead of printing on cardstock I decided to try printing on photo paper.  Needless to say I am thrilled with the results because the colors pop so much better. 

 

For the recipe card once again I used the cartridge From My Kitchen.

 

And finally, I'm going to enter this into the Anything Goes July Linky Challenge over at DL Art.

Broccoli Corn Bread - Recipe Album Page

A week ago I crafted a series of food pun cards.  This week I'm sharing a series of pages I created for a scrapped recipe album I am giving to a family member as part of a wedding gift.  Hopefully this isn't a cheesy idea and they'll love it.

 

The majority of recipes are ones that have been enjoyed in my family for many years and several of them have been handed down from other family members.  Like this first one I'm sharing with you today.  This broccoli corn bread has been a staple in our household for well over 20 years and the recipe was shared with me by my children's grandmother.

 

And don't go asking about the calorie content because you really don't want to know.  LOL

 

What you do want to know though is that this cute little Italian mouse sitting in his bread basket is part of an SVG file from Marjorie Ann Designs.  The file is titled Italian Mice and you can find it here.

 

I also used the Cricut cartridge From My Kitchen for the word bread and the recipe card.

And now I'm off to enter this into the following challenge:

Lots of Layers - Hiding in my Craft Room - ends July 24th

In the Kitchen Recipe Page

This Christmas I made scrapbooked recipe albums for two of my son's girlfriends.  It was a slight challenge in that I started on them late - two weeks before Christmas - and one child in each household is a vegetarian.  Luckily, I was able to pull it all together in plenty of time and the girls loved them.

 

Now I've already shared a couple of pages from the albums and today I have yet another to share.  This one was inspired by a page I found on Pintrest.  I did change it up just a bit - instead of the potholders that were on the wall over the stove I decided to place a picture of each of the girls.  Choosing the picture was very easy since all I did was use their Facebook profile pic.  There was something else I did a bit different but I don't remember what it was now. 

 

But to create this page I used the appliances from the Cricut cartridge From My Kitchen.

 

And there you have it - a quick and easy to put together recipe page.

Jammin' Quiche Recipe Page

Hello fellow bloggers.  I've been on a little bit of a recipe album kick here lately as I'm attempting to get some Christmas presents completed.  This evening I'd like to share one of the pages I just finished putting together.

 

For this particular page I used this Chicken Little SVG cut file from SVG Cutting Files.  I don't remember which hop he came from or if he was just a freebie that was given to those who belong to their Facebook group or not.  The eggs though are from the Cricut Cartridge titled From My Kitchen.

 

The recipe itself is one that I've had for at least 20 years back when prepping several meals and placing them in the freezer for later use was really popular.  I used to do this type of meal prep every time I was pregnant and close to giving birth.  Of course I still try to do it now but the difference is that I plan healthier meals that don't go in the freeze.

 

And now I'm off to enter this in the following challenge:

 

Anything but a Card - Fantabulous Cricut - Ends December 14th

What's Percolating

I was thumbing through one of my old Cardmaking & Papercraft magazines the other day and stumbled upon a card that I just had to scraplift.  It used printed and chipboard elements which I just replaced with my paper stash and Cricut die cuts.....well I did use one small piece of chipboard.

For this card I used:

From My Kitchen for the coffee pot, cup and saucer

George for the hearts

For the curved background I tried cutting a circle but couldn't get it to look right so I went to the kitchen, grabbed a saucer, traced and cut away.

At first I was going to used more subdued papers for my background but switched to these brighter colors at the last minute and I'm glad I did because they worked to pull everything together nicely.

The stamped sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set Brew HaHa.

And now I'm off to enter this punny card in the Pun challenge over at Craftin Desert Diva's.



Recipes Scrapped With Love

I love being able to create gifts for people.  It's so much more personal than going out and buying a gift that anyone could buy.  Not to mention that it's an expression of how much I love/care about the person I'm making it for. 

Today's post is all about a recipe book that I made for one of my daughters, featuring recipes that I used to make for them when they were growing up.  Now before I share the pages I will admit that I personally do not eat this way anymore just because I've gone to a more plant based, as "close to nature" diet as I can.  (You can read more about that on my other blog - A Journey Into Fitness )

This recipe book was made over a period of weeks due to my crazy, chaotic schedule.  There's just never enough time in the day, but we've been cutting back on our weekend running around so I've been able to scrap a bit more here lately.  I picked up the album from Michaels and it's one of those 8x8 page sizes.  I love that it has the window on the cover because that allowed me to make "cover page".

But here are my other pages, along with the cuts I used and the recipes included.  I'm also going to enter this in the Hiding in My Craft Challenge this week where the challenge was to use 3 different designer papers. Mine are all from the DCWV mat stack Nana's Kitchen.  After all what better mat stack to use for a scrap booked recipe album?

Cartridges: From My Kitchen

Cartridges: From My Kitchen

Cartridge: From My Kitchen

Cartridges: From My Kitchen, A Child's Year

Cartidges:  Animal Kingdom, Graphically Speaking and From My Kitchen

Cartidges:  Animal Kingdom, Graphically Speaking and From My Kitchen

Cartridge:   From My Kitchen

Cartridge:   From My Kitchen

Cartridge:   From My Kitchen

Dessert Recipe Page

Happy Monday everyone.  After a bit of a hiatus it's time for another Pause Dream Enjoy challenge.  This will be the second challenge, but the first one for team two.  We changed things up a bit this year.  Challenges will begin on Monday and run for two weeks - giving you extra time to find your creativity so you can play along with us.

This week's challenge is all about desserts.  Create a project with desserts as the theme and your good to go.  For my challenge I chose to create a recipe page featuring one of my mom's homemade candies.  Every year she made these to gift to our teachers, bus drivers and to use for various church functions.  Of course when my children were young I carried on the tradition but now that they are to old to gift their teachers I just make them for parties.

And speaking of recipes, for this project I used the From My Kitchen cartridge to cut the recipe cards and A Child's Year for the silhouette of the mom and child baking together.

Now that you've seen my project, hop on over to Pause Dream Enjoy to check out the other wonderful designs our team created for you this week.  Then create your own, link up and play along with us. 

Our sponsor this week is TSQ Royal Castle Shoppe and they are giving away the Royal Pain stamp set (must have a USA address).

Food & Beverage Challenge Recipe Page

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to our food and beverage challenge, brought to you by Pause, Dream Enjoy! Our directive for this challenge was to create any type of project featuring food and/or beverages.  As you can tell I chose to feature food in the form of a recipe page spotlighting one of my family's favorite cold weather soups.  (I admit we make this year round though.)

 

For this recipe page (which I have created a couple variations of because I LOVE this little pig face) I used:

 

Animal Kingdom for the pig

Graphically Speaking for the arrow

From My Kitchen for the recipe card

 

And now that you've seen my project for this week's challenge, pop on over to PDE and check out all the other exciting projects our team created for you this week.  Then after  you've oohed and aahed, create one of your own and link up for your chances to win 3 digis of your choice from this week's sponsor

 

Fresh Brewed Designs

http://freshbreweddesigns.com/

Prize: 3 digis of the winner's choice

Enter your project below!
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Telefono Penne Recipe Page

Can you believe how quickly this month is going by?  Before you know it it'll be all over and all of our children will be out of school for the summer.

Today I'd like to share a recipe page I created for one of my daughters.  I don't remember where I found this recipe but as soon as I saw the name of it I knew exactly what I was going to do for my cuts on this page.

Only one cartridge was needed/used for this project.......From My Kitchen.  And this is going to be my entry for the BBTB2 kitchen challenge for this week.  You won't believe the creations their DT has put together this week!  Talk about fabulous - you should really go take a look.

Quiche Recipe Page

Yes....it's another recipe page.....can you tell I'm on a roll?  LOL  Today I'd like to share a page that I put together for a quiche recipe that my children loved when they were all growing up.  We haven't had this in a while as most of them seem to have outgrown quiche but it's a great put together, freeze and cook when you need something later recipe.  So since my daughter is so busy with work I thought this would be a great addition to her book.

For this page I used:

Animal Kingdom for the chickens
From my Kitchen for the eggs

To get the recipe to print on the eggs just right I measured the area where I wanted the print and laid it out in MS Word using two different text boxes.  I then print the recipe onto paper, taped the eggs on the paper and print again.  BUT, for the second print I made sure to remove the outlines from the text boxes BEFORE printing.  After all we don't want those pesky boxes on our finished product......

Recipe Album is Now Complete

After working on the final pages for several hours this past weekend, I was able to complete the two recipe albums that I have been putting together as the focal point for a couple of gift baskets.

Overall I'm pleased with the way it all turned out and the fact that I was able to "color coordinate" things so well.  And I was even more excited when I was able to find a rolling pin recipe card holder from one of my craft suppliers.  What a perfect item to have for this fun gift basket.  Now hopefully someone will enjoy receiving and using it as much as I enjoyed putting it all together.

Daily Bread

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to use a cup from any cartridge we desired so I chose to use the cup from Christmas Cheer.  As I thought about that cup of coffee or hot chocolate I wondered what I should do to go with it. 

Then I thought about doing devotions while having that cup of coffee so I used the cut from Graphically Speaking to create an open Bible.  After laying the cuts out for my card I felt like something was missing and immediately thought about the daily devotional that our church has sitting in the foyer called Daily Bread and so I used the bread cut from the From My Kitchen Cartridge to complete my card.

The inside sentiment says, "I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.  Psalms 77:12"

A Witch's Work....

....is never done.  Especially at Halloween.  That's the sentiment inside this card I created to play along in this week's Apron challenge over at bittenbythebug2.

For this one I used:

Mini Monsters for the witch cut at 5"
Happy Hauntings for the cauldron cut at 3 1/2" and embossed the kettle with one of the folders from my Sizzix Halloween set.  The bubbling over 'goo' was created with my Snow Writers pen which I painted over with two coats of Shimmerz paint in Evergreen.
And of course there's the apron cut from the From My Kitchen cart.  For this cut I worked with skewing the width to height ratio on my Gypsy so that it would fit my witch.

My background papers are from My Mind's Eye Halloween {Scary Sparkles} mat stack.  The top (orange) paper was inked using Distressed inks and then punched with the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch.

Woman on Caffeine

Before I get to work demolishing more of my house (we're remodeling our living room - Yeah!  I'll finally be able to put the Handy Man cart to use :o) ) I thought I'd finish putting together a card that I had printed a sentiment on months ago.  Back then I thought I knew what I was going to do with it but as quick as I printed the card I lost my train of thought.

Well today I pulled out a couple of my older carts that I haven't used in a while along with one of my Sizzix dies and went to work.  Another easy card but I think that it turned out nicely.

For this one I used:

Accent Essentials - scallop cut at 3 1/2"

From My Kitchen - coffee pot cut at 1 1/4"

A Child's Year - coffee cup cut at 1"
Sizzix Die for the coffee beans on the inside

Snowball Cookies - Gate Fold Card

Made this one using my Speaking of Winter and From My Kitchen cartridges.

The outside snowflakes are 4 and 3 3/4". The white snowflake is covered with MS crystal fine and carrara marble to give it a snowish texture/sparkle.

The snowman is 2 1/2" and the bowl is just under 1".

The inside snowflake is 5".

Spongebob Altered Clock & Birthday Card

My youngest daughter turns 17 tomorrow and as those of you with teenagers know it's difficult to know what to do for them sometimes. Yeah, you can always buy music, clothes, or movies but would you buy the right ones? Ah, now you see my problem....Too often I have purchased some of these items for one or another of my children but it wasn't the right style, color, size, genre, etc.

So Saturday morning my daughter woke up poured herself a bowl of cereal, sat down and turned on Spongebob before getting ready for work. Needless to say, the lights went on and I knew whatever I did would be Spongebob related. Then I remembered that I had another clock waiting to be altered and the rest was history.

For this clock I cut:

Spongebob at 3 1/2"

Hamburger at 1"

Spatula (From My Kitchen) at 1 1/4"

And of course I had to have a card........