Jo's Funday Friday

Hello my crafty friends, this is my second post for today so if you are looking for SOUS it is the next post down. Every Friday Jo at Jo's Scrap Shack has a new challenge.  Today the challenge is "anything goes". It was nice to play just with my embossing folders for one and that is what my card is about. I didn't use anything but embossing folders on my card and ribbon. The "forever & always" is a Sizzex folder and the the dots is the Cuddlebug "swiss dots". The ribbon was in my stash, the double bow was tied with the Bow Easy, I think that is what it is called. lol The pearls were made using a Viva Decor Pearl Pen. And that's it folks. Simple, but elegant I think.  I hope you have enjoyed it too.  Now go over to Jo's Scrap Shack and check out the inspiration my design team sisters have for you and then create a project and link up with us! We love when you all get crafty with us! Thanks for stopping by today and as always thanks for the lovely comments!

My First SOUS Challenge!

Hi my crafty friends! Happy Friday to you all!! Today is my first challenge with the SOUS die cut team and our challenge is "Here Comes the Sun". My card base is a 5 x 7, I used my Wild Card Cricut cartridge to cut out these trees and hammock.  The person in the hammock doesn't have any clothes and I didn't like that. When I cut it out it look like the guy/gal was naked. lol So using my Spectrum Noir markers I gave him/her a pair of shorts and a shirt, now I think he/she looks much better! I used scraps from my scrap bin to cut all the layers. For my background, I embossed the blue with a SU cloud embossing folder but didn't photograph it well. It looks much better in person. I layered my images on pop dots to give dimension to the card. My sentiment on the front of the card came from My Creative Time and the inside sentiment was made using My Creative Time letter stamps.  I thought this image from Wild Card 2 would make a great retirement card so that is what it became. Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will go over to SOUS and check out what my design team sisters have done with this challenge and then I hope you will decided to play along with us. We so love when you get crafty with us!

Dear O'l Dad!-My Paper Crafting Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, Happy hump day to you all! Today at My Paper Crafting we are celebrating dear o'l dad!  My card is very simple and basic, but is perfect for that no frills kind of dad. I used the Father's Day Cricut cartridge and welded 2 of the ovals together on my Gypsy to make my card base. Then cut it out of paper from DCWV The Guy Stack.  I used plain black paper to cut out the "happy father's day" layer and dressed it up a little by using my white gel pen and put black pearls on with my Viva Decor pearl pen hopefully to make it look like it was attached with a rivet or something to that effect. That's it. Simple huh?! So see  more inspiration go over to My Paper Crafting and see what my design team sister had made, you will be amazed at the talented projects for dad!! Thanks for stopping by today and thanks for the lovely comments!  Enjoy the rest of your week! 

With a Cherry On Top! BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, hope you have a nice and relaxing weekend. Since it's Monday that means it is time for a new BBTB2 challenge!! Our sweet and talented Shelly gave us the theme of "From the Kitchen", so we can make any project as long as we use a kitchen cart. I chose to use Wild Card for my card base and Kate's Kitchen Imagine cartridge for my cherry and papers. I cut the cherry out in all it's layers and pop dotted them up. My sentiment comes from My Creative Time as well as the banner die I used and I inked up everything using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo. Some red seam binding that I won and I call it done.  So please go over to BBTB2 and see what other inspiration my design team sisters have for you then read the rules on the side bar and come get crafty with us! We so love it when you do!! Thanks as always for stopping by today, until next time....crafty hugs-Brenda

Inside of card

 The popped up layers

Here Comes the Sun! MPC Challenge

Hello crafty friends! I have to tell you that my mind is lost. lol Spring is always so busy and since my hubby is a farmer on the side, I have all the lawn care to do. I've had to mow every other day since April and now the strawberries are coming in as well, so that means remembering to pick them. Well it seems that I'm remembering to pick the berries but can't remember to post my challenge posts! Yes, Wednesday was a new challenge at My Paper Crafting and do you think that I wrote my post to have scheduled? Nope! And here it is Thursday night! I guess better late than never, right?!  Our challenge was to use a Cricut cartridge that started with an "S". Yeah, didn't read that right either, I thought I was supposed to make a project using a die cut that started with "S". Yes folks I'm losing my mind!!! So here is my project using the Wild Cart 2 Cricut cart for my die cut of the sun. Sun does begin with "S" right?!!!  It seems I've messed up everything else so I thought maybe I can't spell now too. lol  I used my cloud embossing folder from SU, my grass punch from Fiscars, my daisy's are a SU punch and my butterfly is from a Martha Steward punch. My sentiment and banner is from My Creative Time. Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me and my dippy mind. And as always I love when you stop by and love the beautiful comments you always leave me! Crafty hugs, Brenda

Ladybug, Ladybug-BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, it is time for another BBTB2 challenge and our own sweet Susan picked our theme and it is the ladybug! Now who can resist the ladybug?! Not me!! lol Now we can make any project we like using any Cricut cartridge for our ladybug. So I am making scrapbooks for all of my grandchildren, once I pass on these books will be theirs to keep. So having 5 grand-daughters and one grand-son, this is quite a job.  I have decided to make as many pages alike as I can. For today I used the new Cricut cartridge, The First Few Years. Love this cart!!! I mixed a few elements together from two layouts in the handbook, but all cuts are from the handbook. So here is my sweet Cadence, she is the third grand-daughter. I love to cuddle the babies especially my grandbabies, so that's why I went with "Cuddlebug". For the cuts I used the recommended sizes in the book except for my journaling box, that I made a little bit smaller. For my ladybugs, I used black Viva Pearls on them. I didn't add any inking, just kept it simple since I'm making so many of them.  They all look alike except for the pictures. Now to make my grandson's. lol Now please go see what my design team sisters have made as well, you will find great inspiration from them. Then find a Cricut ladybug cut and join us! We love when you get crafty with us!!! Thanks for stopping by today and thanks for the lovely comments.

Cake, Strawberries and Whipped Cream!

Hello my crafty friends, hope that you all are having a wonderful weekend. I must say it is has been beautiful if not down right hot here. But that's ok because the pool is open and I had my first swim today!! 

I was telling a friend about Hot Milk Cake. A few friends actually and they had never heard of hot milk cake, please tell me some of you out there know about hot milk cake!! lol We eat hot milk cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream or if you are my husband he has milk instead of cream on his cake and strawberries. It is so good! Another friend told me to put the recipe and pictures up on my blog, so I though why the heck not?!

Cake:

Look good, huh?!

Cake, strawberries and whipped cream:

Sinfully delicious and yes I picked those lovely strawberries from my strawberry patch!

Wanna see more? Well look at the berries I picked this morning and mind you I ate a lot of them too. LOL

Recipe:

Hot Milk Cake

2 c. flour

2 c. sugar

4 eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 c. milk

1/2 c. butter-I use real butter

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs and vanilla together. In a small sauce pan heat slowly the butter and milk until scaled. Then slowly pour while mixing into the flour mixture. Mix well. For a denser cake don't beat very long, for a "fluffier" cake beat for a while. My husband likes it denser.

Place in a greased bunt pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes or until your pick comes out clean. Cool, turn out and enjoy with some fresh strawberries or on it's own. 

I hope you try this recipe out, it's a really easy cake to make and people usually fall in love with it! lol 

 So if you can stand it and me I will be sharing some more baking recipes from time to time. These are tried, true and tested on my family over the years and with 6 boys, let me tell you a lot of snacking went on in this house and still does! 

 See you all on Monday for another BBTB2 challenge!  Crafty hugs!