Sweet Bookmarks

Happy Wednesday everyone!! I have been on vacation for the last 5 days, visiting family. We had a great trip and I am hoping to get my photos downloaded and edited soon. I hope to share some on the blog! Now I have to get my brain ready to go back to work tomorrow morning. No easy feat, that's for sure.

I have some bookmarks to share today that I made using the American Crafts Confetti collection. I loved the colors (I think I say that all the time!) but didn't really have any birthday photos to scrap. So I made some fun bookmarks for my kids and myself.

 

I cut long rectangles and rounded the corners and went from there. I used my Cricut to cut the sweet treats and added some jewels for sparkly accent. I didn't want these to be too thick, because they are supposed to lie flat between the pages of my favorite book. 

My kids like them, too!! I hope you've all been having a great summer. I am hoping to play catch up on all your blogs this week. Thanks for stopping by!

Lovely Cousins

Happy Friday Everyone!! How is your summer going so far? This week has been kinda cold and drizzly, but the weather seems to be looking up for the better. Yeah for summer sun!

I have a layout today that uses some of my favorite photos. My sister-in-law took these photos of my kids and my niece during one of their visits. I enjoy using wallet sized photos on my layouts because I can add more photos and not be crowded. Wallets are the best for that.

I used the American Craft Abode line for this layout, I love the bright colors. And I love how the opposite side of the papers have a solid color that coordinates. So easy to put together a layout with these papers! I made some rolled flowers for the tag and added lots of jewels around the layout.

And more doilys cut with my SCAL software!

I love how close in age all 3 of these cuties are. I hope they group up to remain great friends! Hope you're having a fabulous Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!

July Citrus Tree Studio!

If you are a Websters paper lover, the Citrus Tree Studio July "Memories of Longwood' kit is for you!! Here are a few cards I made with this kit.

How much fun is that lobster paper? Totally reminds me of my Maine sister!! The only thing not from the kit is the ribbon. And I got super excited when I found that ribbon in my stash bag and it matched. It's the little things...

One more card using the pretty greens and blues...

Come on over to Citrus Tree Studio and check out all the DT creations. There is also another fun kit available this month called Summertime Fun you might want to check out!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

A Boy Banner

I make alot of crafty things for my daughter. It's so easy with all the fun flowers and girly scrapbooking stuff out there. But I think my son feels a bit left out (even though he would never admit it). So I resolved to make him something that wasn't girly but he could have in his room. I ended up with this name banner. The colors of the Good Day Sunshine collection from My Mind's Eye was perfect. As was the paper with guitars, and woody beach cruisers!

 

I used a Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard banner album for the base of the banner. Lots of mod podge and patterned paper later, the banner came together. 

I used my Cricut and the George and Accents Essentials cartridges to cut all the shapes. The font is from the Cuttin' Up cartridge.

Do you want to know the hardest thing about this banner? Getting a good photo of it!! Everyplace I tried to hang it was just plain wrong so I had to put it on the ground. That concrete sure is beautiful, isn't it???

My son was fired up when he found out this was for him. I was so happy to hang it in his room wherever he wanted it. He will be 10 in December so I wasn't sure if he was going to be 'too cool' for it or not. Thankfully, NOT!!

Hope your week has started out great! Thanks for stopping by...

Cupcakes In A Jar

Remember when the only thing people ate/drank from a jar was moonshine? Me neither, but serving and baking things In A Jar is a hot trend right now!! Just look through Pinterest and you will see all sorts of things in jars...buttons, pies, cheesecake, cornbread and chili. But the one thing that caught my eye was Cupcakes In A Jar. I rushed immediately to my kitchen and got to work.

I used this recipe from My Baking Addiction for Lemon Cupcakes  as a starting point. I made the cupcakes as in the recipe, then I made my standard cream cheese frosting and added freshly squeezed lemon juice. I added the lemon until it was to my liking. And I liked it tart and lemony!

I baked the cupcakes with no liners. I let them cool, then sliced them all in half. I took clean half pint jars and started layering. 1/2 cupcake...swirl of frosting...1/2 cupcake...swirl of frosting...1/2 cupcake...big swirl of frosting with white sprinkles and a long lemon cookie.

The layers don't have to be perfect. I found some of my cupcake tops didn't fit in the jar, so I just trimmed them. If you feel like this might be frosting overload, just add enough between layers to have a nice visual break between layers, then add a big swirl on top.

Just imagine the possiblities with these...holiday layered cupcakes, baby showers with cute pink and blue frosting inbetween layers, chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting inbetween. Endless combinations! You could even leave off the cookies, and close the top and give them away as teacher gifts or neighbor gifts. I also will have to admit I made a 5 layer jar using a pint jar and that one was delicious. And put me into a sugar coma. I don't recommend that kind of jar for just anyone.

What do you think? Cupcake overload? Too much frosting? Cupcakes gone wild?? Not enough frosting? I think it's a fun twist on the already cute cupcake!! I will be making more for sure...

Thanks for stopping by today!

Pebbles cards

I've had these Pebbles scraps on my scrap table for a while now because I love the paper so much I couldn't stand to part with it. And scraps are the best when you want to whip up a few cards. So whip up I did.

I cut the doily on my Cricut using my SCAL software. I got the free doily svg files at My Grafico. By adding some fun ribbon, I had a fun doily flower!

I also just had to use this cute bird patterned paper, isn't it so cute??

Some ribbon and a big layered felt Maya Road flower that i've been hoarding forever rounded out my card.

Yeah for paper scraps!! Thanks for stopping by today!

Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies

Hi Everyone!! How was your holiday weekend??? We've been so busy with lots of fun parties and celebrations. Our little town celebrates on the 3rd and our neighbor always has a big party. And we hung out with family on the 4th. It's been a fun, busy weekend.

Today i'm going to share these amazing chocolate cookies that I made last week. They are by far the best chocolate cookies I have ever made. So chewy and moist and filled with chocolatey goodness!

Cocoa powder, chocolate chips, white chocolate chunks, and chopped oreo cookies. Triple whammy chocolate extravaganza!!

And in case you need an extreme oreo closeup...

I have some of these in the freezer right now, just waiting for some good friends to arrive tonight. I hope they enjoy them as much as I did!! The recipe is located on the 2 Peas & Their Pod food blog: Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies.

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!