Happy New Year

Wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and I hope this year brings good health and happiness to each of you.

I want to thank Mary at CardzTV for featuring a card I made. Mary was sweet and featured it on a Cards and Coffee this week. She is such a wonderful, talented friend.  If you would like to see the details of the card click here Mary's Birthday Card.

I haven't been making any paper crafts with everyone home - it's such a mad house. But they are all going back to school on Monday.  I was lucky enough to get Life is a Beach, Winter Wonderland, Robotz, and  50 States (I love birds and flowers, and now I have 50 new ones of each.)  Can't wait to use them.

In the mean time, I'm busy thinking up ideas.  I think on Mondays, I will create a card made using a card feature on one of the Cricut cartridges.   Gee, there are so many of them throughout all the cartridges.

So I hope everyone enjoys this evening and a this weekend.  Be safe!

Sue

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!!

I wish you all a Happy Holiday Season.  May peace and love surround you and joy and comfort abound.

Sue

Hot Cocoa, Candy Boxes and Cakes

Good afternoon everyone.  I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long.  I've been working day and night on catch up projects.  I completed gift containers for the boy scouts, the girl scouts, teachers, bus drivers, co-workers, my grand children's bff, and other friends and relatives.  All together I made 30 hot cocoa cards, based on Mary's post here , and 40 of the candy gift boxes based on Mary's post here.

Here are some of the candy gift boxes I made.

The peppermint pretzel recipe is here.
My DIL and I made 30 dozen cookies and a ton of fudge. to fill trays we give away.  I made the best two cakes.  They are both bundt cakes.  They looked very pretty for the middle of cookie trays.

One is a Candy Cane Cake

Here's the recipe
The Second is Butter-Rum Pound Cake

Here's the recipe


I don't own a camera, so I've been using my DILs.  However, she is on vacation with my grandchildren for the next week.  So I won't be able to post any pictures.  I still have a few Christmas cards to get in the mail and I haven't wrapped anything yet.  Is anyone else swamped?  It didn't help that we got dumped with a blizzard last weekend.  It took until Tuesday to get dug out.  I can't bake with a bunch of people in the house, so I baked all day Tuesday when the kids got to go back to school and my son and DIL got to go to work.  Whew.
Well, I spent today designing a few last Christmas cards.  I just need to cut them out and assemble.  Then I think the cards are finished.  Yeah!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue

Charlene's Great Soup

Please stop by and visit Charlene at Paper and Ink Playground she has this wonderful soup recipe that will warm you up:

And this gorgeous Christmas card:

Charlene is a great artist.  I've been following her work for a long time and she is very talented.  I promise you won't be disappointed if you check out her blog.  She is also giving a chance to win beautiful blog candy.  See the left side bar for a picture of it.
Have a great day.
Sue

Chistmas Ornaments from Christmas Solutions

Just a brief post to show a couple wall decor ornaments I made from the Christmas Solutions Cartridge.  They are cut at the maximum size I can get on an Original Cricut. 

The tree is cut at 8.35 inches (turned at 90 degrees on my Gypsy).  There are three layers, dark green shimmer, white and lighter green.

 The wreath is cut at 5.5 inches.  There are three layers dark green, green shimmer and green shimmer leaves. 

I used gems and peals and a white gel pen to "gussy them up".

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue

Holiday Candy Snowman Hats

If you have never visited Scraphappy, I suggest you do.  Julie Moss is so talented.  She made the cutest Snowman Hat candy holders    Here are my renditions of the hat.  I used the cardboard tubes from the pastry tubes here to make these. My tubes were 2.5 inches in diameter.   I covered the bottom of the tube with a 2.75 inch circle of white card stock, folding the edges of the circle to adhere to the sides of the tube.  Then I covered the tube with a strip of black card stock.  Then I cut a 3.5 inch circle in black card stock and glued it to the covered bottom of the tube.  I found that attaching the ribbon band is easier to do before attaching the bottom circle.  Trust me there is a band of red and white polka dot ribbon around the hat.  I then threaded a white snowflake brad through a red and white polka dot flower and added a loop of sheer green ribbon to represent leaves. I attached the flower to the hat band with a glue dot.  I went around the brim of the tube with a black marker to hide the edge of the tube.

This was a fast and easy project.  I'm filling them with Andes Mints for treat cups to hand out at my son's office.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  If you have a moment, please leave a comment.  I'd love to hear from you.

Holiday Cookbook Day 5

Wow, I can tell I started way too many projects at the same time. Sorry for the delays in the cookbook pages.
Today we have Stuffing Bread.  I make mine in a bread machine because I can no longer knead dough because of the arthritis in my hands.  I rarely bake it in the bread machine, but I do all the steps up until the baking then I transfer the dough to my bread pan and bake in the oven.  I usually don't use this to make stuffing, although it is very good for flavor.  We like to make turkey sandwiches on this bread.  It's like a second Thanksgiving meal.

The sign post is from Pooh and Friends and is cut at 4".  The bread is from From My Kitchen and is cut at 2".  The font for the sign is from Calligraphy Collection and is cut at 1".  The title font is from Plantin Schoolbook and is cut at 1".  The paper is from an old K&Company stack.  I thought the blue card stock I used on for the recipe brought out the blue in the background.   Here are closeups of the pages:

Thanks for stopping by. If you get a chance, please leave a comment.  I cherish them all, but I know how busy everyone is this time a year.  Take care.
Sue