Candy Push Pop treats

Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Ours was filled with soccer and girl scouts and birthday parties. My son won his first soccer game and it was so fun to watch. He plays U-12 division and those boys really know how to play. I just love watching. My daughter tied her soccer game, so it was a good soccer weekend.

Today i'm sharing some treats that I made for my daughter's girl scout troop. This weekend they had their bridging ceremony. This means they moved up from brownies to juniors and we had a fun party where they actually walked across a bridge to signify the move up. I have these push pop containers that I previously made cake pops in (you can see them here!) and I turned them into candy party favors for the bridging ceremony.

 I filled the push pop containers with hershey kisses plus green and brown M&M's (girl scout colors!).

 I used printables that I found on etsy, in the Creative Capz store. The images are originally made for making bottle cap art but I printed them big on my home printer and they turned out great. The final size of the image was 2 inches and I matted each one on kraft cardstock.

I love how the insides of the push pop become part of the decoration. The pops are cute even from the backside!

There is a stand you can buy to display/serve the push pop containers, but I don't have it. I ended up lining a big tupperware container with green tissue paper and displaying them this way. I love how they look all together. The Peace Love Girl Scouts was the most popular one!

We had lots of fun at the bridging ceremony and the girls loved these favors. And I am looking forward to making more of these favors. You could really add anything to the pop molds, they are so versatile for any occasion!

I hope you had a great weekend...Happy Monday!

Another Happy Birthday Card

Happy Friday and Happy Birthday to my sweet daughter! She turned 9 today and we had a great day celebrating. Sometimes I can't believe we made it to 9, she's quite the firecracker. In honor of her birthday, I have a birthday card to share!

I used lots of Jillibean Soup for this card. I love their decorated wood buttons!

I am getting ready to head for bed after a long day. We have early morning soccer and the ONLY good thing about an 8am game is that it won't be 110 degrees outside yet. I will take early over heat right now for sure!

Have a great weekend, friends!!

Chocolate Mint Oreo Cookies

I love the mint/chocolate combination almost as much as I love the peanut butter/chocolate combo. I could not resist picking up a bag of mint Oreos when I was at the store. I don't even know why I go near the cookie aisle, it turns out the same every time. So instead of just eating the oreos, I make cookies with them. Redundant, maybe...delicious, YES!!

I've made triple chocolate oreo chunk cookies in the past and I used that recipe to start with. I used mint oreos instead of plain and I added just chocolate chips (no white chocolate chips in these cookies).

The bonus ingredient was a cup of chopped Andes Mint pieces. Have you seen those at the store? They are already chopped up and ready to add to any cookie recipe! They were a fantastic addition to these already minty cookies.

Here is the link to the original recipe from the Two Peas in the Pod blog: Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies. I left out the white chips, added Andes Mint pieces and mint Oreos. I think these would be great with the Halloween Oreos out right now. How festive would those be on a fall cookie plate or in a neighbor's Boo Basket?!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sweet Strawberry Birthday

Do you know what's great about scrappy friends? They buy the latest tools and then let you borrow them. On the last scrap retreat I went to, I was able to borrow my girlfriend's 'around the corner' punch. It was really cool...once I got the hang of it! I made this strawberry birthday card using the border punch.

I love that lattice border!! The paper is Jillibean Soup and I also added a Jillibean corrugated heart and sentiment sticker. The red bling I found on the table at the scrap retreat. And it's pretty much 'I saw it FIRST' at the scrap retreat...so I used it.

I also borrowed that great polka dotted ribbon from a friend...scrappy friends are the best.

Thanks for stopping by today, scrappy friends!

More canvas art

Happy Monday!! It was another hot, sticky, humid weekend here. The humidity is not normal for us and I don't like it one bit. We celebrated my daughter's birthday this weekend with family and friends and had a great time. Now it's back to the regularily scheduled program!!

One other fun thing I did this weekend was check out a new art studio this past Friday night. A few months ago, some girlfriends and I bought groupons for a Girls Night Out at the art studio and finally had time to cash it in. We had such a great time. We were allowed to bring in snacks and wine, which was pretty cool. The woman who owns the place guided us through a painting. Here is my finished product!

We started by adding tissue paper to our canvas using mod podge, which added some great texture. And then she guided us through mixing paint colors, drawing the base of the tree, added a border and more. It was so much fun, I loved the whole process. It was fun to draw out the texture of the tissue paper with some random swiping of paint.

We painted all the circles and then added a border and some color inside. It was fun to see how some people filled their whole tree with circles (that would be me) and other people just had a few. She also showed us how to make leaves and a little black bird, but I didn't think I had room to spare.

This class was SO much fun. We are already planning another night. The owner of the studio was awesome. She told us if we had enough people to reserve the night for just our group, we can choose the theme and she'll show us how to paint it (whatever 'it' may be). Isn't that cool? What a fun girls night out!

I hope you all had a great weekend...enjoy your Monday, friends!

Momenta Altered Canvas

Happy Happy Friday!! I hope you all had a great week. Momenta recently released covered canvases and I could not wait to get my hands on one. These canvases are covered with patterned paper from some of their collections and comes with a small sheet of chipboard embellishments and bling. I had a great time altering this Kaleidoscope Creative Canvas.

The subtle pink pattern is the original background and then I used the Kaleidoscope pyramid paper pack to create the rest of the details. I hand cut the house and the flowers and banner.

 I used torn paper for the grass and used the flower chipboard embellie as a cute adornment to the roof.

I finished it off with lots of paint smudges, toilet paper roll stamping and random rub-ons!

This was so much fun to make! It was nice just getting messy with paint and not having to worry about straight lines or perfect stamping. I learned alot of these techniques from the She-Art workshop I took with Christy Tomlinson. If you are interested in anything mixed media, I highly recommend her workshops! They are so much fun and you will learn a ton of new techniques.

Hope you have a great Friday and weekend...thanks for stopping by!

Back To School

My kids went back to school a few weeks ago and that inspired me to dig out some 1st day of school photos that I haven't scrapped yet. These are from 2 years ago and it's crazy to see how they have grown in just the last 2 years.

I used tons of Momenta product for this layout. I used paper from the Family Outings paper pack, clear layered stickers, and 2 kinds of alphas. I think those polka dotted alphas are my favorite. Polka dots make me happy.

And love this cute bus!! I'm not usually into cutesy embellishments, but I couldn't pass up these fun school icon stickers.

Gee, maybe in a few years I will scrap my first day of school photos from this year! By then my kids will be in middle school and i'm sure they just love standing in front of the front door getting their photos taken. Those photos will make good layouts. Ha ha!

Hope you're having a good week and thanks for stopping by!