A Chirper Recipe

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For the Chirper Challenge we are joining forces with a new challenge blog, Creative Cookbooking. Creative Cookbooking is the brain child of Debbie Sherman.

Here’s what she has to say. “Creative cookbooking is scrapbooking your recipies! It's about sharing and creating your own personal cookbook. The best part about doing this is, every recipe in your book has been tried and tested by you! The next best thing is you love every recipe in this cookbook!!!

Our Chirper / Creative Cookbooking challenge is to create a recipe page (any size you wish-mine is 8x8) featuring your favorite pumpkin treat. Please include a picture of the dish and the recipe on your page as well as a Cricut cut. The Creative Cookbooking challenge is to include any die cut, not specifically Cricut. So those who aren’t lucky enough to own a Cricut, you can play along too!

I shouldn’t have done this, but I tried a new recipe for my pumpkin treat. It turned out OK but not the best I’ve had.

Do you remember the day that I spent at the pumpkin patch with “the Aunt’s”? This is why I wanted to go. I wanted to personalize this page with a picture of them “hunting” for pumpkins!

I cut the title using the Lyrical Letters cartrudge. I used the George cartridge to cutout 5 ovals, about 6 “ each for the pumpkin. I chalked in red around the ovals and aranged them to look like a pumpkin. I’d seen this done but hadn’t tried it. I think it worked out great.

When you pull on the pumpkins green ribbon stem . . .

. . . the recipe comes out.

I made picks for the cupcakes using the pumpkin and spider cuts from the Doodlecharms cartridge. I tied a little yellow ribbon (that reminds me of a song-hehe) around each one for extra decoration.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my project. I love the Creative Cookbooking challenge and definately plan to participate again. However, I have to catch up on a few challenges – favorite soup and bread, favorite main dish and favorite Halloween dessert or cookie. I think I’ll just combine the favorite Halloween dessert with the favorite pumpkin treat challenge. It works for me anyway!!!

If you would like to participate in the Chirper Challenge, you can go to the challenge blog and see all of the DT projects before you get started!

Blessings,

Christine

Hemmingway’s Chirper

We are back after a short break with the Chirper challenge.

The photo didn’t turn out very well but you get the idea. Last fall I took a drive through the mountains to Sun Valley. Just out of Sun Valley is a monument to Ernest Hemmingway. The spot is beautiful and I love just sitting there deep in thought and listening to the stream. While I was there, a nice couple came buy and I offered to take their picture next to the monument and then they took mine. I don’t very often get into my own pictures!!!

The monument reads:

Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills the high blue windless sky
….Now he will be a part of them forever.
Ernest Hemmingway - Idaho - 1939

I used miscellaneous cardstock from my stash. The tree and leaves are cut from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. I tore and inked the paper for the ground. Inked the tree to make it look it a little wood grained and chalked the leaves. The title is cut from the Lyrical Letters cartridge and I doodled on them for an effect.

Please go check out my fellow DT’s beautiful creations on the Chirper Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by to see me.

Blessings,

Christine

Chirping Tree

The challenge at Chirper Challenge is to make a shaped card using your Cricut. Love that!!!

I cut the tree using the Stretch Your Imagination cart but didn’t use the apples that are automatically cut out with the other pieces. I instead, sewed tiny red buttons on with green embroidery thread. I chalked the background with clouds and grass and added the sentiment. Pretty easy card, huh.

Well it did take quite awhile to sew the buttons on. Next time I’ll count the number of buttons I have before poking holes in my paper. I didn’t have enough buttons and had to go to the store. You know what that means don’t you? You can’t go into a crafty store and only buy red buttons, can you. Or maybe the red buttons cost $38 because that was the total at check out.

I don’t have the details written down and I had to look through several stacks of paper to find them so no deets today, sorry!

My sis and niece came over to help me out today. Of course, I work hard too while they’re here so now my legs are very tired and sore. I’m going to rest and watch the news and then I’m going to make something. We’ll see what I come up with. Ya never know!

Blessings,

Christine

Chirping Watermelon

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What a great challenge this time at Chirper Challenge. It is to use brown, zig zag and brads. I went for the Shabby Chic look this time. I really love being on design teams because it really brings out the creativity. Sometimes I even dream about what my cards are going to look like. This was the case with the last two Chirper Challenges. I knew that I wanted to use a watermelon, this brown fringe and some rick rack. I didn’t actually dream about this card but it came to me as I was trying to go to sleep (I did dream last time’s card).

The watermelon cut is from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. All of the DP (and, if you look closely there is a LOT of designs) is from a K&Co stack. I distressed it ALL (and their were a lot of edges) with the edge of a scissor and a craft knife. It was very time consuming. I NEED to get a Ranger edge distresser but I can’t find one in any of the stores. Look closely and you’ll see some off white lace under the pom-pom trim (which was a RAC) and then the rick rack. I made a lollipop flower with a brad holding it together. However, when I got it all put together, I didn’t like the brad so I added a pom-pom from the fringe to it. I hope that it still meets the challenge, but there is a brad under there. Trust me (shifty eyes)!!!

Now, head on over to the Chirper Challenge and check out all of the other DTs projects and play along! It’s fun!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Distressed Lady Bug -- Chirper Challenge

I’ve been so busy getting the pre-wedding stuff done that I forgot to get my Chirper Challenge card up. So, now here we go!

The challenge this time was a very difficult one for me. It is to use no patterned paper with black as the background with bright colors and stitching or doodling in black or white using this sketch.

I definitely wouldn’t be doing a scrapbook page. The dark colors were way to much of a challenge there. I actually dreamt about what I was going to do it was on my mind so much. I thought I would do a lady bug cad with the Black Magic paper from Core’dinations.

I used the ladybug cut from the Walk in my Garden cartridge. (After I finished the card, I realized there was a cuter lady bug on the Doodlebugs cartridge that I wish I would have used.) The letters are the standard cut from Lyrical Letters.

The great thing about Black Magic paper is that it is colored on one side and has a coating of black on the other side of the paper. I demonstrated three ways of using it on this card. First of all, I drew around the lady bug with a white pencil, removed her and then sanded around the white pencil marks. This takes a little more than I thought it would. I used a nail block but I think I needed one with a little more grit.

The second and third techniques are on the flower. I crinkled the paper and then sanded the crinkles. Then I tore out the individual circles and stuck them together with a brad. When you tear the paper it leaves a pink border around the black.

I also distressed just about everything. I sanded the sides of the cardstock. I used black chalk on all the pink paper except the letters and put a little ink on the brad. I doodle stitched around the lady bug and her dots and I put some dots on the letters.

I gave the lady bug wiggly eyes and I mounted the whole thing onto dark grey cardstock.

The Black Magic card stock was hard to find. I had heard about it before but I hadn’t seen it in any of my LLSs. I had some errands to run including a stop at Joanns so I drove around one day hitting some stores with no luck of finding it. I did get the number of a store in a town about an hour away that probably had it. At my last stop, Joanns where I knew they didn’t have it, I was looking through the DP as I always do and, guess what? They have it now. I bought two sheets and only used 1/2 sheet to make this card. Now I have more to play with.

Sorry once again that I didn’t get this posted. I could have done it last night but it just slipped my mind.

If you have a Cricut and what to play along, go to the Chirper Challenge blog to read about the challenge and look at all the lovely layouts and cards the other Chriper’s made.

Blessings,

Christine