Recipe Swaps

They're finished! My daughter and I are headed for the CK Scrapbooking Convention in Manchester New Hampshire next week. It's our annual "girls weekend" with my sisters-in-law. This year, Flora gets to take classes for the first time. One of the most exciting ones

we're taking is the Paper Crafts Magazine "Recipe Swap" next Friday night. We each had to scrap 20 copies of a recipe on 6x6. At the class, we'll embellish an album and make 3 food-related projects. Then we swap recipes with the other attendees. What fun. Recipe collecting and paper-crafting all in one class. Two of my favorite things. Here are our recipe pages. Flora's honors her Gram's famous Whoopie Pies. She's going to journal a bit about what the recipe means to her on each page. All her idea, as is the layout. My recipe is a favorite of Flora's, Stuffed Shells. It uses that cute Crab and Company set.

Stamps: Crab and Company, Sandy Shells wheel, Seeing Spots (Flora's), Little Pieces (Flora's), Live Your Dream (journaling lines, Flora's)
Inks: River Rock (mine), Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Basic Black (all Flora's)
Paper: Sahara Sand, River Rock, Blue Bayou, DS Paper Western Sky (all mine), Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue (Flora's)
Accessories: Punches (1-1/4" circle, 1-3/8" circle, scalloped circle, 1/2" circle, 1-1/4" square, 1-3/8" square), Bashful blue striped grosgrain ribbon

Chip Board Day

It's a chip board, gift idea Wednesday. I made this photo holder for my cousin. The On Board Book Basics are great for making photo gifts for people. You can see another sample of one on the front cover of the Stampin' Up! catalog. I used 2 chip board letters from the On Board Lots of Letters, as well. The colors are the same ones I used in the Layout on Monday. Enjoy.

Stamps: Collage Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Ruby Red, Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red Craft (for the "A"), Not Quite Navy Craft (for the "L")
Paper: DS Paper Western Sky, Ruby Red, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky
Accessories: On Board Lots of Letters, On Board Book Basics (the small size), Soft Sky Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, 3/16" corner rounder

A Bevy of Baskets

Here's the gift idea for the week. A cute basket to package things in for teachers, friends, co-workers, just about anyone. These baskets are really easy to make. No cutting involved at all. I first saw these made at the Stampin' Up! convention last summer. I'll try to find a tutorial for them (or make one myself.) In any case the boxes are made from a square of DS paper (small 6x6, medium 9x9, large 12x12), scored in thirds each way.

Some of the sets I used were: Wanted, Friendly Flowers, Tart and Tangy. The embellishments are what make the boxes fun. I used a build-a-brad on the friend box, the Felt Fusion Flowers on the medium box, brads, eyelets and different ribbons, as well. If you need specific supplies, let me know.

Meanwhile, enjoy your weekend and I'll see you Monday with the layout of the week.

Kids Design the darndest things...

When I asked my daughter, Flora, to help design a card for her Aunt Sandy, she knew immediately what to do. This design is all her idea, I just implemented it. Her original idea was for an "Earth Day" card, but it easily was changed to a "Birthday" card. Sometime soon I'm going to have her make that Earth Day card to share. Thanks Flora! Here's the recipe:

Stamps: Voila!
Ink: Basic Black, Ruby Red (marker), Lovely Lilac, Real Red, Summer Sun (marker)
Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Western Sky DS Paper
Accessories: Blender Pen, Die-cut Blooms, 1/2" circle punch, 1-3/8" square punch, Fire Rhinestone Brads, Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, narrow white grosgrain ribbon.