Old German Honey Cookies

Good Morning,
It's been awhile since I've done a recipe swap layout on the blog, thought it would be good to do one today. Next month is our last month with the recipe swap we decided to try to do something different and get together each month and one girl is to be the teacher and will do something crafty with the group so I'm looking forward to that.

This is the swap I did in September and the theme was honey. I chose a very easy layout cause I just loved that pattern background cardstock and I wanted that to show through. The honey jar cut came from the Just Because Cards Cartridge, page 53 is the sticker with the circle edge cut off. The negative I added to the bottom of the recipe paper to emphasis the theme. I look forward to trying the cookies over the Christmas holiday.
Thanks for stopping by today and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.
Entering this in Challenge: Stuck on U Sketches: Die Cut challenge: Food

Don't forget about the big prize for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.

Smash your Stash: Challenge 3

Good morning hope your having a fantastic day! We just had the best weekend by the way of weather for this year, I think spring finally shown up. It was absolutely gorgeous with temps close to 60 and sun sun sun all day! Enough of the weather and on to the challenge:

Challenge 3: your nicknames, we all have them...time to SMASH them....but here's the twist, all elements must be in your favorite colour :) So the challenge is your nicknames and your favorite colours!!!!!!

What is a nick name:

1. A descriptive name added to or replacing the actual name of a person, place, or thing.

2. A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.

Since my name could be the nickname of other names, I feel I was already born with a nick name. The page was smashed in my Black: Book About Me smashbook. My fav colors are purple and gold. All the various names were cut from the cricut: from top to bottom: baby 1" Child's Year the negative of the scallop oval, Gram 1.75" Jasmine, honey 1" @ real size w/ the Just Because, Mom 2" Mother's Day, Sis .75" Don Juan regular font, Mommy 1.5" Heritage and Cous 1" Don Juan under pressure font. The purple cutout behind the smash sheet was in my scrap drawer, this is from a calender I received one year and I'm unsure the cart that it was cut from. The smash book page is from the family pack. The flowers are from 2 different companies that I have in my stash.

It was fun and interesting to put this together. It took a while to cut all the words out with changing out the carts and using the different fonts.

Hey you all have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.

 

Half a Century! Happy Birthday!

Yes! Today I turn a half a century old-50! Wow I really can't believe it! Because it's my birthday I want to share in some of the fun with all of you. So this will be an all year party, for 50 weeks (2 weeks off at Christmas time) I will give out a piece of blog candy. 50 different prizes WooHoo! Todays prize is a secret and to win the prize you have to be a follower and leave a comment on this post I will leave it up for the weekend and choose a winner Tuesday morning. Check back often cause I really don't know what days I will be offering the weekly prize.

I also want to mention It's World Card Making day! WooHoo double celebration! My day is planned with some shopping and a few card challenges on a FB group I belong to. To honor the day:

This card was made from the Just Because Cards cricut cartridge. I used various scraps I have left over from other projects. This is the perfect card for a youngster in your life.

So two big events today and 1 winner will win not one but TWO mysterious giveaways! I hope you all have a fantastic day today and make a card to celebrate the day. Stop back on Monday for another Creative Cutting Challenge card. Tomorrow I will be enjoying a daylong crop my first one ever! I'm so excited! Thanks for stopping by and see things from my little corner of the world.....

One for Melissa Pinter

To carry on from yesterday, this card was made for Melissa. Melissa is a very special Mom as we could see in the bio she gave us on Ethan. She sacrifices each day and her family to be with her son. This card is for you Melissa:

 This card was made at the same time as with Ethan's card, so I used the same cartridge for it. The outside of the card was done with Wild Card on pg 47 the phrase and the frame. I'm glad I used this cartridge because after locating the designs I wanted for this card it open up so many possibilities for other things within this cart.. Looking for specialty envelopes it's in there, Looking for frames for you sentiments it's in there, how about a variety of phrases it's in there, even a liner for the envelope and an alphabet. It's a well rounded cartridge that I plan to do more with in upcoming projects. the doily and the bird I received in a cut swap: Renee Benson and you can check out her blog at CraftyPinkNayNay it's from the Cindy Loo cartridge (need to investigate that one more too).

 The inside is out Wild Card cartridge too. Pg 44 phrase and pg 45 Icon: Smiley face which I hand cut the smiley open to give it character. So Melissa I will be getting both cards out in the mail and into your hands soon with alot of prayers in between.

 These 2 pictures are of my dogs Buddy above and Jake below, we finally had a real snow storm yesterday and these were taken while they were having fun in the snow. We got 5.25" of the white stuff and I enjoyed a day home cleaning (not enjoyed but needed done) and perusing the internet for ideas and some genealogy research. Thanks for stopping by and checking on what I've been up to.

Stop back tomorrow and see what new project I started working on, I think it's gonna be a fun week with lots of crafting to do....

Blog Hop for Ethan Pinter

Welcome to Blog Hop for Ethan Pinter. He is a little boy that is very sick. Here is a bio from his mom, Melissa Pinter: My name is Melissa Pinter and I have a 2 year old son name Ethan Pinter who was diagnosed with a rare liver disease called Biliary Atresia att the age of two months old. This is a rare disease because he was not born with Bio Ducts. So Dr. Pintinger and the Akron Children's Team reconstructed them and the procedure was called a Kasi. So at the age of 8 months old Ethan and I were Life flighted to Cincinnati Children's because he had Upper GI bleeds. The only thing that woud help him would be a New liver. Feb 18th 2011 he had recieved a half of another babies liver. This baby saved my son's life and we are so ever so greatful. Ethan and I had waited a total of 9 months for this. We have been seperated from my husband and daughter during that time. Ethan is now 2 years old and is having complications and we are currently living at the Ronald Mcdonald House in Cincinnati till we get him better. He has two crucial virus's that he is currently fighting, they are the EBV Virus and CMV Illuminitis (Fatal Virus- it attacks every organ) .

 Welcome and if you came from Courtney's blog then your at the right place, if not and want to start at the beginning you need to head over to Jenn's blog.

We found out at the beginning of this that Ethan likes Elmo and trucks. Since I had no Elmo cartridge I decided to make him a get well card with a truck on it and on the inside too. The front truck came from Just Because Cards cart. I took the sticker element and cut it for the card. The add the sentiment from a variety of places but all the words came from this cart other than the word flat it came from the Wild Card cart, nice font on that cart.

The inside of the card came from the Just Because cards cartridge too. This truck was the basis of the card. Learned something about the card cartridges that all the elements with the card follow the size of the card. Which at first I didn't know that and when I cut out a wanted 2.5" truck I got a 

The 1st image is at 1" not exactly what I wanted but the next image is right around 2" after I put the size on the cricut at 4.5" (the card size). I guess sometimes you have to think outside of the box when it comes to the cartridges.
Recipe for the card was a variety of scraps, scotch scrapbooker's glue and True Blue sticles
Stop back again tomorrow and check out the card I did for Melissa..


This was a fun card to make and I'm hoping that Ethan enjoys it too. If you would like to send a card to Ethan and his Mom Melissa you can send it to:

Melissa Pinter
Ronald Mcdonald House Room 17
350 Erkenbrecher Ave
Cincinnati Ohio 45229 

Next stop is at Tina K's blog: Crafty and Green

In case you get lost at all here is the list:

Jenn www.memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/
Courtney www.craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com
Tina C. www.tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com
Tina K (Crafty and Green) http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com
Michelle Ferris - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Michelle Peak - http://queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com
Kimberly Pate  ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
Nicolette- http://beyondscrapin.blogspot.com
Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com
Autumn - http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com