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Monday, December 07, 2009

myStampBOX Party Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Let's Party!" blog hop for myStamp BOX! If you have just happened upon my blog, you'll want to start at the beginning our blog hop. Take the time to leave some love on each design team members blog post for the blog and you could be be picked to WIN a very own myStamp BOX stamp set of your very own! You have until Friday December 11th at 6pm EST to leave your comments for a chance to win. The blog hop winner will be announced on the myStamp BOX blog on Monday December 14th.

Here is our blog rotation for this evening:
mSB Blog/Bettina
Virginie
Trace
Nathalie
Liz
Jolene
Ellen -----> you are here
Tracey
Tina
Marci
Leica
Kim
Gudrun
Elisa
Ally

Here is a little about my project...I did little invitations for a Cookie Party! The holidays are all about cookies and baking and being in the kitchen with your friends and family. Every year we make cookies that you roll out the dough and paint them with food coloring and egg wash and they are soooooooooooooooooo fun. I did it when I was little with my mom and now owen and do it, too. My mom would let me have some friends over because we did 100's of them so I do the same with owen and we have some friends come over to help. I thought these would be perfect for them and they each get their own cookie cutter.

I used the hohoho set and the Funky Alphabet sets. I stamped the reindeer right on the patterned paper and then I stamp the alphas on the back of the Core'dinations Cardstock. The front is white because it is from the Whitewash collection and the yellow is the core color that comes through when you sand. I love how the burgundy ink pops off that yellow and the Funky Alphabets are soooooo fun to cut out!

On the inside, I printed the recipe...

another Close up....I used Webster's Pages patterned papers for this project.

Now on to Tracey's wonderful blog to catch more fun ideas for all kinds of parties! Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog to be eligible for our blog hop prize! Good luck.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Welcome to Day TWO of the CC&M Mega Blog Hop!

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you don't know, today is the second day of the Creative Cuts & More Mega Recipe Blog Hop which features the Apron Holiday Treats Recipe Kit. It is loaded with unique Apron pages for your album with coordinating Doodlebug Holiday papers and die-cuts. We have 24 designers who will be showcasing wonderful pages and yummy Holiday Treat recipes. As part of the celebration CC&M will be having a great sale. For the next six days, CC&M will offer 20% off the entire store. But act quickly, it is only for six days – this sale will end on Nov 14th. Make sure you enter this code recipebloghop2009 during checkout.

As a continuing part of the celebration CC&M will of course give away great gifts. Each day we will give away one kit. Here is the twist – go through the blog hop, leave wonderful comments for the great designers. After you have finished the blog hop, return to www.diecutdiva.com and instead of leaving a comment, you need to share a recipe to have a chance at winning the kit. Share the recipe on your blog and link it back and get another chance to win the kit. Help us also make this a great recipe swap! We can't wait to see all the delicious recipes...I am getting hungry already ;)

So if you are venturing along blog hop land, you will have come from Rachel's blog. After my blog, you will headover to Celicia's blog. If you get lost you can head over to the Diva blog.

AND if you weren't around yesterday...make sure you check out my post to see how you can follow along for yesterday's hop and the chance to win more goodies!

I printed the recipes directly on the front part of the apron. I just practiced on a scrap sheet of paper and the taped the cardstock on there and ran it through. My printer is an 8.5x11.

Here is a close-up of all the fun little die-cuts and trinkets you get in the kit. They are so fun and just the perfect size to add those fun little touches to your pages.

Here is the recipes for my Grandmother's Butter Cookies and the Hershey Kiss Cookies..they are a tradition in our house!

Grandma’s Butter Cookies

1 lb. real butter 2 tsp baking powder

2 c sugar 2 tsp vanilla

4 egg yolks ¼ cup milk

6 cups flour 2 tsp shortening

Cream shortening, add sugar, mix well. Add egg yolks,

Vanilla and mix well. Add dry ingredients to creamed

Mixture and alternate with milk. Separate and add food

Coloring. Press through cookie press. Bake @ 350 degrees.

Hershey Kiss Cookies

1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda

½ c sugar 1 tsp vanilla

2 tbls milk 1 bag of Hershey kisses

1 ¾ c flour ½ c real butter

½ c peanut butter 1 egg

½ c firmly packed br sugar

Blend all ingredients at one time at lowest speed on mixer.

Shape into walnut sized balls. Roll in sugar. Bake @ 375

10-12 minutes on a greased cookie sheet. When out of oven,

Press in a Hershey kiss on each cookie.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Welcome to the Caardvarks and CC&M Blog Hop Day THREE!

Welcome to day THREE of the Caardvarks and CC& M blog hop! I just realized now that I forgot my links yesterday. I do apologize for that. I hope you are all having a great time hopping and getting some great ideas for the Holidays!

If you are here for the hop, you are coming from Chris's blog. Don't you love what she has been creating??? Don't forget to hop over to Jennifer's blog when you are done. I know I am...I just loved all of her projects from yesterday.

The one thing I have been focusing on during this crop is simple and cost effective ways to get your Holiday deocrating jump started. You just can't go wrong with Creative Cuts & More die-cuts when it comes to decorating for the holidays. Here are a few things I have done for some easy and inexpensive table decorations.

First off, I created some napkin rings. For this first one, I used some craft wire and wrapped it around my foam snowflake to make a "hook" to attach it to plain napkin ring I already had.

I added a vintage button from my stash {I am SO loving the blue and silver combo right now for the Holidays} with a pop-up dot and then threaded the wire around to the back.

Next, I twisted the wire and bent it down to form a hook to slide it into the napkin ring.

Now you have a clean and simple napkin ring. At 35 cents a piece, if you had 8 people for Christmas dinner, this would cost you $2.80 cents to spruce up your table.

Now for this table setting I used the the Sleigh die-cut. The great thing about the Metallic Cardstock at Creative Cuts & More, is that they don't need a lot of help to look great. I added some holly from my garden, silver balls, pine cones and some gift wrapping ribbon to finish this centerpiece off. Oh, and we can't forget the ambiance ;)

Now you have to check out the Velvet die cuts. They just SCREAM winter and holidays. For this quick napkin ring, I used the velvet snowflake, some hemp and a Jillibean Soup button.