I love searching for future tag project ideas. I have pinned several on my Pinterest Board "Art: Cards/Tags/Bags/Wraps". These two pieces of little art immediately caught my eye and I quickly added them to my Board. I like the use of lace at the bottom and the clever buttoned hearts at the top with golden honeycomb background and black bees. Aren't they awesome?
Credit: Suzz''s Stamping Spot
Happy Crafting! ... Barb
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Did you play any pranks today? I usually forget to play a prank until my husband "gets me" with one! I'll be on the alert today ... and maybe even "get him" first.
In keeping with my monthly Calendar Collages here's the one I just finished for March:
Happy crafting! ... Barb
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Other ceramic bunnies and baskets would appear on side tables and on bathroom counters holding soaps and hand towels. Oh, how mom loved to decorate for the holidays.
When I ran across this card showing Dutch children and rabbits it made me remember those days and I just had to use it as my blog's Easter greeting.
Enjoy the day! ... Barb
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If you're like me, and enjoy using centerpieces geared to each holiday, you like finding ideas that are (1) a bit different, (2) easy to do, (3) inexpensive, and are (4) attention getting. Here's an idea I found that answers all four:
Photo from Easter.HolidaysCentral
Isn't this just the "sweetest" centerpiece for Easter? I think making several arrangements and lining them down the center of the table would be awesome ... the more the merrier!
For me it isn't Easter without marshmallow peeps (bunnies in this case) ... but I never thought about adding them to a vase of flowers. Not just peeps but jelly beans too! To make this centerpiece place a 14-ounce paper cup in the middle of a 4.5 inch square glass vase. Fill the cup halfway with water. Add about half a pound of jelly beans around the base of the vase (I think using all green jelly beans would make the bunnies appear to be on grass). Then, add about 10 bunny peeps on top of the jelly beans between the cup and the vase with the bunny faces facing outward. Next, add a dozen daisies to the cup. Of course, the size of the cup insert and the amount of flowers, jelly beans, and marshmallow peeps you use will depend on the size of the glass vase.
Once the flowers are removed it's a snap to clean-up ... just eat the contents of the vase(s)!
Happy crafting ... Barb
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While searching online for some Easter desserts for the grandkids (knowing the adults would like them also) I ran across these cute Bunny Cupcakes:
1 container (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
McCormick Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye
2 cups flaked coconut
12 unfrosted cupcakes
12 plain donut holes
12 large marshmellows
6 pink jelly beans, halved crosswise
Chocolate sprinkles
Miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
To make 6 each pink and blue cupcakes, use 2 drops of each food color in each half batch of frosting and coconut. For ease in frosting donut holes, first insert small wooden skewer into donut. Use skewer as a handle when frosting donut. Invert frosted donut onto cupcake then remove skewer.
(The photo and recipe are from http://www.mccormick.com)
Happy Crafting ... Barb
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With Easter fast approaching I've been thinking of additional "sides" to go with our ham dinner ... to augment our family favorite potato casserole, veggies, and salad. I was searching online and came across a recipe for Sweet Potato Scones with Brown Sugar Glaze from "Confections from the Cody Kitchen". They look delicious:
Sweet
Potato Scones
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1 3/4 C flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 Tbsp baking powder pinch of pumpkin spice 1 C cooked sweet potato, peeled and mashed 1/4 C vegetable oil 1/4 C milk 1 egg, lightly beaten 2 Tbsp brown sugar Preheat oven to 410 degrees. Sift flour, salt, baking powder, and pumpkin spice into bowl. Set aside. Stir together potato, oil, milk, egg and brown sugar together in separate bowl. Stir flour mixture into sweet potato mixture to combine. Turn dough onto floured work surface and pat to 3/4 inch thickness. Use round biscuit cutter to cut out scones. Place on prepared pan and bake until golden brown, 12-15 minutes. |
Brown Sugar Glaze
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1/4 C butter 1/2 C milk 1 C brown sugar pinch salt 2 1/2 C powdered sugar Combine milk and butter in small saucepan over medium heat and allow butter to melt. Add brown sugar and salt. Stir until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in powdered sugar. Mixture will thicken to a glaze. Add additional powdered sugar if thicker consistency is desired. Photo and recipe from http://codykitchenconfections.blogspot.com |
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Julie Nutting, the author of Collage Couture, has introduced a series of six “doll” stamps – four women and two little girls. They are nice and big at 7 ½” (except for one woman stamp that is 6” tall). I eventually plan to buy the other two stamps in this series.
I chose to first use the little girl stamp on a large manila tag:
I’m in the process of using this same doll stamp on a canvas, which I will share when I’m finished. Until next time happy crafting! … Barb
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Hope you’re wearing green today so you don’t get a pinch! I have green eyes so I’m always “wearin’ the green”!
I just received my order of Julie Nutting's "Doll" stamps and I've been busy playing. Will share the results in a day or two. Until then, happy crafting ... Barb
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I thought I was being smart by doing a post in advance and setting it for a particular date ... February 28 to be exact. I'd done this once before with success so didn't expect it wouldn't post on the date I'd selected this time - wrong. No big deal but I'll maybe not try that again. In January I decided to do a monthly color calendar filled with tiny bits of collage in my color choice for that month. I wanted to post each month's calendar collage on the last day of the month. I'm a day off but here's the red collage I did for February:
Here's the Pantone chart for the colors of red:
Happy crafting ... Barb
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