Recipe Mini-Album {Cosmo Cricket: Early Bird}

Hello! It has been waaaay too long since I've posted here on my poor neglected blog. I have been working on some projects though ;)

This mini-album is something I started (notice, I didn't say completed?! lol) for Kayla's June challenge at Creative Cookbooking. She was our guest designer and challenged us to alter something useful for your kitchen. I had an album that I bought over a year ago and cut up some pieces of chipboard that comes in packaging with paper. I covered everything with Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird collection.My goal is to have my common recipes here in one easy to grab location. So far, I've gotten one recipe done! It's a weight watcher recipe for Chicken Marsala...

But there are other pages covered and just waiting for their recipe and embellishments!

I had a lot of fun doing something other than my 12x12 layouts :) Thanks for the challenge, Kayla!

Magpie Challenge at Creative Cookbooking

Tara from Magpie Club is our guest designer at Creative Cookbooking this month. Her challenge has two parts and the prize is one of her kits! Click here to join in the fun. {hint...your odds are pretty good at winning since not too many people have entered yet ;) shhh}

The first part of the challenge was to create a food LO using only the colors black, white and gold. This was realllllly hard for me but once I found the background paper, things came together. The paper is actually printed with Christmas theme text but since we normally have the same meal for Christmas and Thanksgiving I went for it. This was our first (and so far, only) meal that was just our little family. I happened to be pregnant with The Tasmanian Devil (she's that NOW, not back then) at the time and had just had an ultrasound. See... she was making a turkey hand wave at us? We told the big girl at that meal that she would be a big sister so I thought it was appropriate to add the ultrasound picture.I wanted to journal about our meal and how we told the big girl about the little girl, so I added a hidden tag for all of the journaling. The gold mat is actually a piece of mat board that had come in a project kit a few months bag. I had no interest in the project so I've been using it on LOs and I really like the dimension it adds. It is NOT the easiest thing to work with though since it's too thick to cut in a trimmer and the finish is not one that takes to adhesive well. The ribbon also came from the kit - and I've got to tell you, at times like this, it really comes in handy that I hoard so much!

Iron Chef Crop Sketch Challenge {BoBunny: Kitchen Spice}

My challenge for this week's online crop at Creative Cookbooking is a sketch challenge. I used a PageMaps sketch:
and came up with this:This layout also served as my layout for Debbie's pantry challenge. Click here to come play along - you have until end of the day May 3rd to enter your layouts into the gallery to be eligible for prizes :)

Bingo! {Basic Grey: Nook & Pantry}

Kristie posted a Bingo Challenge at the Creative Cookbooking Iron Chef Crop and I spent nap time on Monday completing it :)

I made my bingo by using: red, bling (stickles on the dots & flowers), a dessert picture and/or recipe, and flowers. I'm not liking the title - I wanted sooo badly for those wood grain letters to work but they are too big. As soon as I find a suitable replacement, I'm going to fix that :)

I scraplifted my own work for this one LOL Which actually started as a scraplift from Suzanne.

I post my challenge for the crop tonight so I'll be back tomorrow to share it and my example ;)

Creative Cookbooking National Scrapbooking Day Online Crop

Yay! The online crop for Creative Cookbooking is finally here so I can officially share some projects that I have had completed for some time now :)

This layout is for a scraplift challenge...and for the life of me I can't remember what brand of paper this is! I completed it over a month ago and the only thing I have left is scraps :\ If anyone can name the paper, leave me a comment so I can update the title of this post - thanks!For more info on the crop, you can read about it on the blog here or just come join in the fun here. I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge layout!

Slacker

I've been quite the slacker around here lately....but I'm making up for it by blogging over at Creative Cookbooking's blog this week :) Come check it out and you could even win a prize!

Peanut Butter Cookies {Pinecone Press: "C" is for Cookie}

My four year old loves to help me in the kitchen and this peanut butter cookie recipe is pretty kid friendly. She helps me all along the way including forking the cookies to put in the oven and then putting the chocolate chips or M&Ms on top when they come out of the oven. This little cookie is actually pretty similar to how the real cookies look!We don't make gingerbread men out of the dough, but I liked him with stickles :) I didn't have any pictures of the cookies or us baking them...but I think I'll make a coordinating page later on when I can remember to snap a few pictures.

Chocolate Chip Cookies {Graphic 45: Domestic Goddess}

Our favorite chocolate chip cookies in this house are the very same recipe on the back of the bag of chocolate chips! I do change it up by using the butter flavored Crisco sticks instead of butter. This is a layout I did of the recipe and a picture of my oldest and my niece. They were baking with their Grandpa in their fancy aprons from Grandma.

This LO will be going in a recipe album that I've decided to start. Not sure yet if I will have just one or one for each of the girls....

The flower is made using this tutorial. So easy to make - just dust off your crimper!
I found the tutorial on the Creative Cookbooking message board which can be found here...there are other tutorials on the board that are just as cool, you should check it out!

Oh, I almost forgot to give credit for the layout - I lifted it from Suzanne :)

Altered Clipboard/Recipe Holder {Graphic 45: Domestic Goddess}

I altered this clipboard (I think it came from Stampin' Up!... It's more square than normal) with Graphic 45 papers - from the Domestic Goddess line. I wasn't sure what to do with the silverware paper on a layout but like it on the clipboard. The apron is made from a template in the Pine Cone Press book that came with the paper.My thought was to use it to hold lists or recipes. It's perfect for the recipe cards I have from my mom...

Love the apron!

Although I think this is cute, I'm just not sure it's my style...so I'm thinking of opening up the Etsy shop to list this for sale! Must go clean the cobwebs ;)

YAY for me!

I've been quiet here on the blog lately but I have been working on some things.

I will show you over the next few days what's kept me busy... They are things I've come up with because I applied to be on the Creative Cookbooking Design Team - and I made it! Be back soon with a project :)

Lil' Helper {Graphic 45: Domestic Goddess}

This page would have been Lil' Helpers if I hadn't run out of the letter "s"! But it would have been a tight squeeze so it all worked out...

This LO is based on the weekly sketch at Studio Calico...and was made for the Kids Challenge at Creative Cookbooking. The Graphic 45 papers are from one of my NYOBC kits... I don't consider myself a "Domestic Goddess", but the papers definitely worked for the little girls! I almost forgot to blog this but wanted to share with my sister since my niece is on this page ;) Next up, a layout of all four of us!