Holy cow...Top 5!!

I am excited and thrilled and shocked to say that I made it to the Top 5 of the Practical Scrappers card contest!! There have been so many wonderful cards displayed over the last few weeks. Thank you for all your votes so far, they are so appreciated! I seriously never thought I would make it this far.

This week we needed to create a card using a rainbow as inspiration and that included dry embossing. I pulled out all my Papertrey Ink cardstock colors and started pulling what I needed to complete a rainbow. I don't have any embossing dies, so I decided to use my Scorpal to create score lines as my background.

I punched 1 inch circles from all the cardstock colors and made rolled flowers for each rainbow layer. I painted stickles inside each flower for a little bit of glitter and shine. And I couldn't resist adding some baker's twine!

 

Now is your chance to head over to Practical Scrappers and check out the other amazing top 5 cards. Each one is wonderful, I really loved seeing what everyone did with the rainbow inspiration this week. Don't forget to vote for your favorite!!

Thanks for all your support and for stopping by today!! Happy Monday!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars

Happy Saturday! I have a delicious, quick, easy recipe to share today. Tis the season for baking with pumpkin and this recipe brings together 2 great flavors, pumpkin and chocolate. It's an easy one-bowl one-pan recipe.

 

 

These are moist, dense bars with bits of chocolate throughout. I love the pumpkin flavor and the chocolate really kicks it up a notch. It is a great flavor combination.

If you eat these right out of the oven, you will be treated to warm, dense cake and melted chocolate all over your fingers. If you let them cool, cut into squares, and bring to your favorite pumpkin carving party, you will be treated with compliments and requests for the recipe.

 

Please head over to the Two Peas and Their Pod food blog for the easy recipe: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars.  The hardest part about the recipe is remembering to take out the butter and let it come to room temperature. Make them for your next fall get together today!

Thanks for stopping by today, have a great weekend!!

You Are So Sweet

Have you voted yet? In case I hadn't mentioned it, I'm in this card contest over at Practical Scrappers. And I need your vote. Please head over to THIS POST to vote for your favorite card.

In the meantime, here's a little card to show my appreciation for all your votes!

So yummy Bo Bunny papers, ribbon, bling and a fun doily. Do you know where I get all my doilies? The cake/baking aisle at Michael's. They have packs of 30 for $2.99. Now that's a steal.

Thanks for all your votes, I truly appreciate them. And...Yeah for tomorrow being Friday! Thanks for stopping by, friends.

S'mores on a Stick

So...what do you think? Of my new blog design??? The fabulous Kristine Davidson designed the header for me and helped me with the redesign. I am very happy with the results, thanks Kristine!!

And next...what the heck is a S'more on a stick? Well, it's two graham crackers, chocolate, marshmallow all dipped into chocolate and served on a stick. Does it get any better?

Here they all, packaged up to take to a fun Oktoberfest party. And i'm going to show you how to get to this packaged point.

What you will need:
1. Graham crackers
2. Hershey chocolate bars
3. Big marshmallows
4. Chocolate for dipping
5. Sticks
6. Sprinkles for decoration

First, assemble your s'more using one big marshmallow:

Put this in the microwave for about 10 seconds. The marshmallow will get all gooey. Press the two crackers together and smash the marshmallow. Push your stick into the gooey marshmallow. Line them up on a cookie sheet or cutting board and put in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. 

Melt your dipping chocolate. After taking the s'mores out of the freezer, dip each pop into the chocolate, coating them completely. I had to use a spoon and spoon chocolate over some of the parts that didn't get dipped. After dipping, place them on waxed paper. Then decorate with fun sprinkles. Look at these sprinkles...fun halloween colors and in test tubes? So cute!

Here is the finished product!

 

I used popsicle sticks for some of them and bbq skewers for some. I prefer the bbq skewers, but both worked just fine!

I had to place them in the fridge to get them completely set. I then packaged them in cellophane bags and they were ready for the party!

These were a great project for the kids, too. They had a ball putting together the s'mores and decorating with the sprinkles. And they were a big hit at the party. Delicious and festive! You could customize these for any type of occasion, birthday, halloween, Christmas, baby showers...the list goes on.

S'mores on a Stick...try them today. A shout out goes to Tidy Mom for giving me the great idea. Thanks for stopping by today!.

Top 10!!

I was so excited to learn this weekend that I made it to the Top 10 in the Practical Scrappers card contest!!! And I want to thank all of you for voting for me, I really truly appreciate every vote. So thank YOU!

This week's card was really difficult for me. It needed to include a chevron pattern and stitching. I searched through every single piece of patterned paper I had for something with a chevron pattern. Eventually I found some scraps that were shoved way at the bottom of a bag. Thank goodness for scraps!! And stitching is something I rarely do. So, with my chevron scraps and a needle and thread, I created this card.

I had that one green strip of paper with the chevron pattern. I paired it with some other patterns from the same collection, Oliver by Basic Grey. I also added some non-traditional stitching on the tag.

 

I used my circle punches to create this 'flower'. I used my scissors to cut into the circles and then sorts fluff up the flower petals. 

 

Please head over to the Practical Scrappers blog and you can check out all the cards in the top 10. At the end of the blog post there is a poll for you to vote for your favorite. So please check out all the beautiful cards and then cast your vote. Easy peasy!!

I hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by today!

Ain't nothing but a Bling thing

Happy Friday everyone!! It's been a long crazy week and i'm very happy it's Friday. I have a quick share today. It's a card I made for the Scrapbook Express blog challenge to use bling. Why, yes...I think I will use some bling.

 

These are papers from the Hometown line by Pink Paislee. I tried to focus on the greens and blues in the paper and I really love this card turned out. The bow is sitting just right, I love when they do that. Sometimes I spend 15 minutes trying to tie a darn bow, but this time it came together so nicely. And that big bling swirl...LOVE!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a fabulous fall weekend!

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Who likes candy corn...raise their hand. For me, it's not my favorite candy. Give me some chocolate or a peanut butter cup or some swedish fish. But not candy corn. But some people LOVE it. I mean, really really love it. I've seen lots of candy corn treat recipes lately but these really caught my eye. They were so much fun to make!!

 

The recipe is a basic sugar cookie dough which is then divided into 3 sections. One section is colored orange. Using a loaf pan, you layer white dough, orange dough, white dough. What you end up with is something that looks like this.

 

Slice a piece off the end, and then start cutting triangles.

 

Bake for 7-10 minutes and then cool. How cute are these little cookies!

I then melted some white chocolate and dipped the big end in yellow sugar sprinkles. And then they look like real candy corn.

 

I really loved making these. And they are delicious, little bites of sugar cookie with white chocolate and sprinkles. These would look great on a platter for a Halloween party or on a cookie plate for a neighbor! 

Here is the official recipe from The Adventures of Sweet Sugarbelle: Candy Corn Cookies.

Thanks for stopping by today!!