Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Do you have any big romantic plans for the day? We will be staying in and cooking a yummy stir fry and I'll make some chocolate covered strawberries. Nice and relaxing and perfectly up my alley!
I used Love Always Wins by Ali E and Love Ali by Ali E. Both, cute as can be, Technique Tuesday stamps!
Have the best day ever everyone!
Hey Everyone. Yesterday I had a cookie decorating party for my crafty friends. I wasn't sure I was going to blog it but we had so much fun I wanted to share. This is not going to be one of those blog posts with the fancy dancy paper striped straws or perfect Ball jar drinking glasses. Those are perfectly portrayed parties but this was just a perfectly FUN party.
I started out by baking 9.5 dozen cookies a couple of days earlier. I loved this part. Rolling out and cutting the cookies was very enjoyable for me. And I got to put to good use some of those cookie cutters I hoard from the thrift stores! Yep, justifying my hoarding hobby. Go me.
The cookie recipe I used was Sugarbelles Basic Cookie Recipe. So easy and so yummy! It's a winner recipe for sure. I also used her Royal Icing Recipe but it didn't turn into a meringue texture like her tutorial says. I don't know what went wrong but it worked out in the end (thanks to my awesomest friend Brenda for fixing the consistency for me) and it tasted SO good that it didn't matter. Definitely add the Almond extract! Yummy. Oh, to make 9.5 dozen cookies I made 3 of her cookie batches and the double icing recipe.
I decorated some spots at the dining room table but everyone moved over to the kitchen island which ended up working out great. I printed some cookie pics for cookie inspiration. That's a vintage twin bed sheet I used for the table cloth. (iPhone pic....sorry)
Paper doilies from the Dollar store on the kitchen doors and windows.
Cookie cutters under the glass cloches.
We drank. Red wine Sangria and white wine Sangria. It was yummy. All we did was add a bottle of wine to the pitcher and 3 cans of Fresca plus whatever fruit I had on hand. I had seen this idea on Pinterest and it links back to Eddie Ross. So good!
We ate. Have you seen this Peanut Butter Cream Cheese ball on Pinterest? Steph made it and um, yeah, it is soooooo good. There was not much left of this baby let me tell you.
We decorated. My friend Brenda saved the day by colouring and thinning my weird icing. That girl has a pretty sweet cake shop and knows her icing. We were able to pipe and flood immediately. It was perfect!
I've been collecting supplies for a while preparing for this. Sprinkles, bottles, tips, bags etc. I think we all agreed that we preferred using the icing bags over the bottles though. I have enough icing left over in the bottles and bags that I'm going to make a batch of cookies to take to my sisters next weekend and decorate with my nieces. They are age 4 & 5 and they will love this! The icing will last for several weeks.
This is Wendy. My bestest friend for the last 18 years. XO.
Look at her go. I called this her Charlie Brown design cookie.
We had a couple of 14 year olds here and boy did they take to this project. Those girls blew us out of the water. They were uber talented and so focused.
I'm not kidding. This is Libby's tray of cookies. Wow, right?
This is Joely's tray (with some of her mom's, Wendy's, cookies). Can you believe these are first time ever cookie decorators? We were so impressed.
Here is Steph. She's my partner in crime for everything. For work. For thrifting. For paper crafting and now for cookie decorating. She made more than what is on this tray and less than 24 hours later she reported to me that her cookie monster husband and son ate them all. Less temptation for her that way. Haha.
These are Tami's cookies So sweet!! She's a fan of Hello Kitty so I'd love to get my hands on a Hello Kitty cookie cutter.
Here is Brenda's cookies. Love. I am still chuckling picturing her eating that large sprinkled heart cookie on the drive home last night. Too funny.
Here is some of my cookies. I totally copied Libby's X & O with the silver balls on it.
This is also my cookie. The girls voted it the Ugliest Cookie award. Nice friends, hey?
My island is 10' x 4' and believe me we used up ever square inch of it. I'm so glad the girls took to this and we hope to do it a few times a year.
When everyone was done their own they all made Mike his own tray of cookies. What guy wouldn't love that?
Everyone brought a cookie sheet to transport their cookies home. We had trays of gorgeous coloured cookies everywhere!
There ya go! A look into our fun Valentine's themed day. I highly recommend a Cookie Decorating day for you and your friends or kiddos. Next time.....Spring Themed. Think tulips, bees and green grass. Thanks for visiting!
Just like Christmas cards I didn't get any Valentine's Day cards sent out to my crafty friends and Lord knows I have enough V-Cards to go around. I'll be seeing my sisters little ones next weekend so I'll be giving them each one.
For this card I used the stamps from Love Always Wins by Ali Edwards. It's such a stinkin' cute set!! You just can't go wrong with Ali E stamps from Technique Tuesday.
Hope you're having a happy weekend. Thanks for stopping by.
Hello!
Welcome to the "Brand New" Technique Tuesday blog hop.
Technique Tuesday’s Stamping Techs are blog hopping again, and we are delighted this month to share with you some cool projects made with some of the new stamps Technique Tuesday is debuting this week at the CHA trade show in California.
Now I wish I could say that I have some brand new stamps to share with you but Canada Post hates me and I didn't get mine delivered. {{don't even get me started on Canada Post!}} Anywho.....instead I decided I'm going to use a stamp set that hasn't been inked up yet therefore it's "new" to me. It's called I Love You - Eye Chart. Such a simple and cute stamp set, don't you think?!
Be sure to check out the blogs of everyone taking part in today’s blog hop. These girls actually do have brand new stamp sneak peeks to show you! I'm really excited about all the new stamps coming out this year. There is some good stuff, people!
Char (You're here)
We love reading your comments so we will have some random draws for prizes.
From the comments received on all the blogs, we will pick one lucky person to win the Flurry
stamp set. We’ll also pick one person to win the Missing You by Ali Edwards stamp set.
You don’t need to comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. But the more comments you
leave, the more chances you have to win!
Comments must be posted by midnight on Feb. 2nd The winner will be announced on Feb. 3rd sometime on the Technique Tuesday blog.
Thanks for stopping by!
Hello Everyone!!
Welcome to the All Things Love Technique Tuesday Blog Hop.
Technique Tuesday’s Stamping Techs are blog hopping again, and we are sharing love-themed projects this month.
For my card I used the Mon Ami Paris stamp set. This includes the little key, the sentiment and the large fleur de lis on the heart (heat embossed in red on red) as well as the teeny tiny fleur de lis that I stamped on the patterned paper and heat embossed in white. This stamp set is so detailed and it's so very easy to make a clean and simple card have some character and interest.
Be sure to check out the blogs of everyone taking part in today’s blog hop.
Char (You're here)
We love reading your comments so we will have some random draws for prizes.
From the comments received on all the blogs, we will pick one lucky person to win the Bear Necessities stamp set.
We’ll also pick one person to win the Home Tweet Home stamp set.
You don’t need to comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. But the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!
Comments must be posted by midnight on Dec. 28th. The winner will be announced on Dec. 29th sometime on the Technique Tuesday blog.
Thanks for stopping by! Have the best day ever!
Hi Everyone......Welcome to the newest Embellish Magazine Challenge. As you can see in the challenge image above the colours are black, blue, kraft and red. The theme to incorporate is STRIPES. {{I love how the bounce of the girl in the photo is captured. It's just so carefree and natural.}}
The inspriation to make the stripes the way I did came from a photo I snapped with my iPhone this summer. There was a van that was parked on the street near the parking lot at my work place and I thought the pin striping would be a cool idea for a card. Here's the pic of that van.....
I just cut some strips of cardstock at an angle and matched them up to create the portion that extends up.
The hemp cord is glued onto the blue strip and does not wrap around as I wanted to keep the white block flat on the card base.
So? Who's up for playing along? Please do. I can't wait to see all the amazing entries! I'm always in awe by the talent we see. Trust me it makes voting very hard. See ya over at the Embellish blog. Have a great weekend everyone.
Happy Valentines Day everyone! I hope you had a happy ♥ day!
This card is for Technique Tuesdays current challenge over on the Splitcoaststampers TT forum which is to use red or pink on a card. You have until February 18 to join the challenge for a chance to win a great prize!
The music paper was created with GLEE as was the sentiment. A little twine and cutie heart and voila!
Before I go~~~I wanted to share and let you know that I was chosen as the Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers this week. This is where someone chooses a card from my SCS Gallery to CASE in any way that they are inspired by it. This is a huge honour for me!! I am still in shock, totally on Cloud 9 and completely in awe at how incredibly sweet everyone is! Be sure to check out the thread to the challenge and follow the link to everyones CASE'd cards. It has been a blast to see just how someone re-creates a "Char" card and makes it their own. WOW! Thank you Michelle and SCS!!
Hey everyone. Last night we went to a launch party for our contractors TV show (called Remodel It)which they had taped our kitchen renovation to be a part of. I'm so impressed with the preview they showed and I'm looking forward to it airing. I admit I didn't know what to expect so I was nervous but it is very well done and fun to watch. I can't wait to see the episodes with our kitchen. Apparently they put our whole reno into 2-3 episodes but they are not going to air them until around the end of April. I'll keep you posted if in fact they post it to their website. The contractor is called The Remodelers and they are in Calgary. Last week a photographer came and took still shots which I am going to try to get copies of. I'm feeling motivated to get a final kitchen reno post done to show you.
It's Friday so that means I have another LSC card to share with ya. Dee chose these great colours for us. {My picture is terrible}. It's so hard to photograph all that white space. What I need is someone to come here to show me exactly what settings I need to use. I've been told about a set of photography books that are apparently that easy. As in "you want this shot? Use this setting". I need to order them on Amazon and get working on getting decent shots with the Nikon. {these photos are taken with my HP so I didn't even try the Nikon this time. Ugh.} In case you're wondering that's a lemon in the background. haha.
ETA: I've been trying to get another picture of the card but with my Nikon D90 this time. It's still so washed out but I think it's better than the first one. Not by much mind you but I just need to keep practicing and learning.
The heart punch is Martha Stewart and they were randomly stitched onto the centre card block. Oh I have to point out that my wood buttons are representing the "kraft" colour. It works. Just go with it. I love how this card turned out and it's a great way to use patterned paper. I'll have to play around with some more shapes and see if I can use this layout for other events.
Here's hoping my girls rocked the challenge. Let's go see!!
We are back! The Embellish Color Trends team is back with our first challenge of the year. Yay! We hope you are as excited as we are to get right back at it!
Our February sponsor is Tiffany Doodles ~~ a digital stamp store. She has some reeeaaally cute images so be sure to check it out. Especially for Valentines which is coming up soon!
Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a total computer dummy. When I heard digital I thought "uh oh" but I did manage to download and print this great image from LOVE BANNERS. {Just don't ask me to remember how I did it....haha}. I didn't know how to change the colour so black it is. But seriously.....how cute is that? I love the details of this digital stamp and how clean and crisp it is. There are several cute sentiments included in this digi stamp set.
We hope you will join us for Embellish Magazines Color Trends {Hearts} challenge! Incorporate the colors from the inspiration photo above as well as hearts and Linkz up your creation for all to see. The winner will receive 10 digital stamps from Tiffany Doodles.
For your convenience the team has each added the Link Widget to our blogs. {I'm not sure if I've loaded it right but if I didn't I'll remove it and link you up directly to the Embellish blog}.
Happy Monday everyone. {{How annoying is that? Very...cuz it's Monday so it can't be happy....HA}}.
But I did have a very happy weekend so I won't complain! Mike got home from a Chicago trip and my mojo just might have found it's way home too! YAY!!! I made my nieces birthday invites {which turned out very cute}, next Friday's LSC card {which I LOVE} and this card for the current Technique Tuesday challenge {which I love....both card and challenge}.
The challenge is Polka Dots. I used Technique Tuesday's Passion for Polka stamp set. It's an excellent set and if you don't have polka dots you really should check it out. Just saying. The 'Love' stamp is from Love, Ali.
The deadline to play along is Monday January 20th to win a stamp set. Hope to see you HERE!
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
