Paper Crafts Gourmet

Have you heard the buzz about this fabulous book??
Well....it is FULL of goodies!!! Here are a couple:



Cheesy Garlic Drop Biscuits

by: Alisa Bangerter

This is a perfect recipe to pull out if you are short on time because there is no rolling or cutting. The cheese and garlic add extra kick to a plain biscuit, and kids love them. They are the perfect accompaniment to serve with soups or stews, and are great served with a salad.

INGREDIENTS

2 c. flour

2 tbsp. granulated sugar

4 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1/2 tsp. salt

2/3 c. butter or margarine

1 1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese

1 1/4 c. milk

Chives (optional)

DIRECTIONS

Mix together dry ingredients. Cut in butter with pastry cutter until mixture is fine. Add cheese and mix well. Add milk and stir until just moistened. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased baking sheet. Sprinkle top with chopped dried or fresh chives if desired. Bake at 400 degrees for approx. 15 minutes.


And take a look at this fabulous Halloween tag also made by Alisa Bangerter!!!

SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (ivory) Dye ink: (Black) Stewart Superior Corp.; (Summer Sun) Stampin’ Up! Specialty ink: (Mango Lemonade color wash) Stewart Superior Corp. Color medium: (black chalk) Craf-T Products Accents: (black brads) Making Memories; (chipboard bat, moon) Melissa Frances Fibers: (black striped ribbon) Pebbles Inc. Font: (Black Family) www.dafont.com Adhesive: (foam tape) Finished size: 3" x 4 1/2"

1 Make tag from cardstock. 2 Crumple tag and smooth out. Spray edges with color wash; let dry. Apply chalk. 3 Ink chipboard moon; let dry. Chalk edges and adhere. 4 Ink chipboard bat; let dry. Adhere with foam tape. 5 Print sentiment on cardstock; trim and tear edges. Chalk edges and adhere with foam tape. Attach brads. Attach ribbon with brad.


If you are interested in purchasing this wonderful book...you can do so here!!!

Handmade Holdiay Crop

Have you heard??

Paper Popsicles is having a super fun "Handmade Holiday Crop" on November 14-16!!! There will be lots of fun games, challenges, prizes...and of course LOTS of ideas to help you with those holiday gifts!!!
I hope you join us!!!

CPS #88

What a fabulous sketch over at CPS this week!! I used my new goodies that I won over at 2 Sketches 4 You...and the new SEI Christmas line!! Can't remember what it's called off the top of my head, but it's amazing!! Beautifully embossed papers that are double sided!! Can't get any better than that!!!!

2 Sketches 4 You

First of all I would like to say "Thank You" to everyone over at 2 Sketches 4 You for choosing my card to be "Card Of The Week" the Sunday before last!!! That totally made my day!!! I got my prize a couple days ago and LOVE IT!! Thank you!!

Well...her is my card using this weeks sketch!!
Thanks for looking!!

Card-a-licious 3

WOW...I'm so sorry I havent' updated in FOREVER!!!
Time just flew by this week!! We had a couple set backs with DH...but the doctors were able to get it recorded through his heart moniter so that was good!!

Anyways,
this week at
Card-a-licious you had to make a shaped card...BUt it couldn't be the traditioal square or rectangle!! So here's the card I make!!



Make sure you check out the DT's card too....WOW!!! Let me just tell you, they are FABULOUS!!!! I hope you play along with us this week!!

Card-a-licious 2

Well everyone, it's Monday again!!!
And actually I'm ready for a fresh new week to start!!
I have to give out a shout to my oldest son who is turning 6 today!!!
"Happy Birthday Baby!!!!!"
Mommy loves you soooooo much!!!!




And the new challenge over at Card-a-licious is up!! You'll just love it along with all the gorgeous cards from the DT!!! Lot and lots of inspiration over there!! I hope you play along with us...make sure you link us your card so we all can see!!!

Christmas Explosion

Well, I hate to say it, but Christmas will be here really soon!!! So, I've been really busy creating some fabulous cards to stock in my store!! Here are a couple of them that I've made!!





Please come visit my
Etsy Store to see them all!!

Haunted House

So, the fabulous Paper Popsicles class instructor Stacey completely "WOWed" us all with this months class!!! She showed us how to make a Haunted House!! Okay, where this girl gets her amazing ideas I don't know...but my goodness!!! Keep them coming Stacey!!
It so happens that my husband brought home some business card boxes for work today so I put my thinking cap on and got to work!!! Here's my how my house turned out:

2S4Y #11

What a perfect Monday!! After shopping this morning for a little while I checked the sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You and knew instantly what I would do with the sketch!! Because earlier this morning I bought the snowflake [you see on my card] at J's for 25 cents!!!
I actually stumbled upon it by accident...well, to tell you the truth...my little guy saw it and asked if we could buy it!! So, he was the inspriation for this card!!

Have You Checked It Out Yet???

For all you card lovers out there...you totally have to check out this *new* card challenge blog called Card-a-licious!!! This weeks challenge is super fun...go check it out!! And you have to see all the amazing cards the DT made!!! WOW!!!

Here's the card I made:

BOO Mini Album & Hubby Update

Have you seen the new Halloween collection from Cosmo Cricket??
If you haven't you must...you can find it
here...just scroll down a little bit!!

Anyways, the challenge over at Caardvarks is to create something that incorporates scoring in a special way!! So this was my perfect opportunity to use this amazing line of papers!! So, I decided to make a tri-fold mini album to hold all my little spooky photos and stories for this coming Halloween!!



How did I make the base you ask?? WEll, it's super easy!! All it is is one sheet of black cardstock...yep that's it, one sheet!!

1. Score at 6.5"
2. Turn cardstock around at score 4" and 8 1/8"
3. Fold the 6.5" line first, then your 4" and 8 1/8" lines to create the tri-fold
4. Cut the shape you want for your flaps (you can see mine are diagnal and the middle is straight
5. Glue down edges and creases

See...I told you it was super easy!!
If you have any questions please feel free to post a comment or e-mail me!!

Here's my finished album:







***Update with Hubby***
Sorry I haven't given you an update lately!! We are still going through a lot with DH's health!! But his thyroid medication is starting to work...but as most of you know, if you fix one thing then several others arise!! The doctor's still think there is something wrong with his heart, so he went and saw the Cariologist on Wednesday...he's not sure what's going so DH has to wear a heart moniter for three weeks to record all the "episodes" he's been having!! Hopefully they will be able to pick something up!! One top of that I had to take him back to the ER the week before last because he passed out and hit his head pretty hard! Don't worry, he's okay...and so is his head, but they were able to find out that there's a really high chance that he has epilepsy! The kind they are think he has affects his brain...his brain is having seizures! So he's on another medication to help those episodes and then he will have to go see a Neurologist to confirm the doctors findings!!
So, that is what's going on right now...hopefully I will have a better update for you all in a couple weeks!! Thank you ALL for your prayers, love and support!! I wouldn't be able to make it through this if it wasn't for your sweet comments!!!

Card-a-licious

I'm super excited to announce that I was chosen to be on the Card-a-licious Design Team!!! Haven't heard of it, well if you are into cards (we all are!!) then head over and check it out!! Each Monday a new card challenge will be posted!! Sounds fun, right!!! This coming Monday will be our first upload and challenge...make sure you come over and play with us!!!!! :)

Did You All Have Fun??

Happy "day after" World Card Making Day!!!
I hope you all had a blast where ever you were participating!!
There were lots of fun challenges out there!!

Here are some of the cards I created for yesterday:

CPS #84

I absolutely LOVED the sketch this week over at CPS!!! Lots of fun with many possibilities!!!


**BUt there's one problem...the ribbon!! I SWEAR it's not really that bright in person!! WOW!!

Rock Star

Can you believe it Thursday already...and October??

Nope!

OMG, you totally have to go check out the new sketch for this week over at Sketches {by tamara}...it is amazing and so are all the cards the DT created!!!

Here's mine:


Hope you decide to play along with us this week!!!