My Last March Card for 2012

Tomorrow is my best friend Debra’s Birthday!!! We are going over to her house I think tomorrow night for a pot luck dinner, at her niece’s request.  I still have not decided what to bring...hummm
I have been crafting this afternoon and made her a card which we will bring over tomorrow so I thought I would share it with you first.  She is not someone who reads my blog regularly so I don’t feel worried about her seeing it early! She live 4 doors down from me so if she pops in I’ll have to hide it. I’m not so worried about her card as much as her present which her husband is hiding over here!

The beautiful flowers and leaves for this card have been stamped from the Papertrey Ink stamp set Spiral Bouquet. The sentiment on the outside of the card is from a My Pink Stamper, Flowers and Friendship. The birthday sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms stamp set Everyday Greetings. The scallop that the purple flower is stamped on is cut from Elegant Edges. 

I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Thanks for stopping by,



Cheryl

A Quick Congratulations

Two of my good friends became engaged about three weeks ago! We are so happy for them and excited for their wedding which will be this summer out east. I wanted to send them a congratulations card and this is what I came up with:

This card is a little darker than something I would normally make but I wanted to go with a black and white theme. My friend loves sapphires so that is what she got on her ring with clusters of diamonds all around it. Her ring is so beautiful and very unique, so I wanted to make it for the front of their card!

This image was cut twice and is from the Wild Cards Cricut cartridge. There is wedding band that is also cut in this image, so I just cut it off. The first cut was in blue and the second was in white, and on the white layer I cut away the diamond as well.

All the paper is from Recollections and the black background paper was embossed with the Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots. To finish of the ring I added white glitter glue to the white band of her ring and Glossy Accents to her sapphire.
The stamp is from the Scrappy moms Everyday Greetings stamp set.

I hope everyone is having a great day...

Thanks for stopping by,



Cheryl

My Winter Blues Card

I organized the Winter Blues Card Swap this year and we 7 people who participated. We each made 6 cards to mail out to the other members of the swap.
I wanted to make something bright and cheerful to send out to the other members of the group. Here is what I came up with :)

I used a Stampin Up flower from the Simply Soft stamp set. I panted it with some Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint Distress Inks. I then distressed around the flowers with some Faded Jean Distress Ink.

I hope everyone is having a great day...

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



Winter Blues Card Swap 2012

I am hosting the Winter Blues Card Swap this year and I would love for you to join us! I made a video describing all the details about the swap, so instead of typing them all out, I thought that I would just share my video here too :)

Please leave a comment and come and join us in this fun winter cheer up ... lol

Thanks for stopping by,



Cheryl

Cupcake Thank You Cards

Our church has an annual Sweet Notes concert, which was held this past Sunday. This event is a concert made up of all the wonderful musicians in our congregation followed by a reception of lots of wonderful Valentine's treats. This year we had a candy table and lots and lots of festively decorated cupcakes :)

I wanted to send the two wonderful ladies that organized and ran this event a little thank you card to let them know how much we enjoyed the evening! Here is what I came up with,

I could not decide between two different ribbons so I used both, one on each!

The patterned patter is from K&Company’s Sweet Nector pad. The rest of the paper is from Recollections.

The cupcake is cut from the Something to Celebrate Cricut cartridge, and is cut at 3”. I have popped it up with pop dots and added some glitter glue to the little heart at the top, just to give a little shine...lol

The sentiment is a stamp from the Sweetest Cupcake stamp set from My Pink Stamper.



I hope everyone is having a great day :)

 Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Who Loves Valentine's ??

Hi everyone,

Today I have decided to participate in the February MY PINKALICIOUS BLOG HOP @ My Pink Stamper.

It was a lot of fun, here is what I came up with:



The cute little owl and her branch were cut from the Create A Critter Cricut cartridge, and the circle and the scallop were cut from the Winter Woodland cartridge.

All the paper is from recollections and the patterned paper is from the All Seasons paper pad.

The sentiments on the outside and inside are from My Pink Stamper’s Happiest Moments and Punny-lcious stamp sets.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend :) :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

More Baking...

Hi everyone,
Just a quick hello today... I host a small ladies group on Wednesday afternoons and today I decided to bake up some tasty treats for all of us.
It is gray, damp and cold out so I wanted to create something that would be cosy to eat while drinking a hot tea or coffee!


I found this great recipe for French Toast cupcakes and I thought is there anything more cosy than a nice warm breakfast on the weekend?
So I thought that I would try to capture some of that weekend brunch feeling right here in the middle of the week...lol

I found these really cute cupcake liners at Michael's

French Toast Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup All purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Unsalted butter melted and cooled
2 EGGS
2 teaspoons Maple extract
1/2 cup milk

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350'F and line baking pan with paper liners.
2. Mix together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Make sure the butter is cool or you?ll have scrambled eggs.
4. Whisk in maple extract and then alternate between whisking in flour mixture and milk. Make three additions of flour mix and two of milk. Beat until smooth.
5. Scoop batter into prepared mini-muffin pan and bake 12-14 minutes until golden brown and tops spring back when lightly touched.
6. Cool the cupcakes on a rack for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and cool completely.

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting  - Makes 3 cups

1 package (8 ounces) reduced fat cream cheese, at room temperature
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, at room temperature
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Place the cream cheese and butter in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed until combined, 30 seconds. Stop the machine. Add the conFectioners' sugar, a little at a time, blend?ing with the mixer on low speed until the sugar is well incorporated, 1 minute. Add the cinnamon, then increase the mixer speed to medium and blend the frost?ing until fluffy, 1 minute more.

They were really easy to bake and turned out beautifully :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl