Count Your Blessings!

This time of year, having just celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving and looking forward to American Thanksgiving, it reminds me to count my blessings for which I have many. I have been blessed with four wonderful children, now grown to adults, and six living grand children.  Being a grandma is one of the greatest feelings!

Anyway, here is my card for this week - a cute little mouse from Digital Delights to help us count our many blessings.

Card Recipe

Images: Digital Delights, Acorn Fall value set

Paper:  Stampin Up Fall speciality paper
Markers/Ink: Copics, Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Prima pearls , Wild Orchid flower, Spellbinders leaf and label

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Rhedd and Rosie Challenge - Anything goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - Autumn
• Die Cuttin Divas - Autumn and Animals
• Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes
• Always Something Creative - Fall and Halloween
• Animal Friends - Fall or Halloween
• Feeling Crafty Challenge - Autumn

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this weeks challenge.

Have a Great Day!

NancyD

Give Thanks at Love to Create

Our theme this week at Love to Create is "Give Thanks".  The timing is perfect as this week the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving.  

My card features an image from our sponsor Robyn's Fetish that reminds me of visiting Apple Hill just outside of Sacramento, California.

The kids and I would drive out to Apple Hill and buy up all kinds of apples (by the box) for making pies and applesauce. Yum!

Card Recipe:

Image: Robyn's Fetish Basket of Apples, SU Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment set
Paper: Bazzill

Markers/Inks: Copics, Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Spellbinders Decorative Labels One, In-Shape Crealies edge die

Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish. Hop on over to the Love to Create challenge blog and check out all the great inspiration by the Design Team.

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
• Scrappers Delight - Thankful
• Scrappy Frogs - Give Thanks
• My Sheri Crafts - Give Thanks

Have a Great day!

NancyD

Let's Talk Turkey - redo

The new Paper Cutz challenge this week is Let's Talk Turkey.  Make your card or project this week with a turkey.


I confess that this is the second time I posted this card.  I posted it last week when I thought this new challenge was getting underway.  Unfortunately, my dates were mixed up.


I am posting it again so that you can see what the design team created to encourage you to make something and enter it into the challenge.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Digital Delights Turkey, Tickets Sentiments

Paper: Bo Bunny Garden Girl Collection, Bazzill Basics

Markers/Inks: Copics, Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Ribbon, EK Success punch

Hop over to Paper Cutz Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created.  I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations for our Let's Talk Turkey challenge.

Have a wonderful day!

NancyD

Happy Thanksgiving from the Original Cooking Team

This week at Paper Cutz our challenge is "Gobble, Gobble"!  We want to see your card, layout or craft project that incorporates a recipe of your favorite Thanksgiving dish.

My card this week uses two of the newer characters from Digital Delights Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Indians. I also followed the Mojo Monday sketch for this week.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Digital Delights Thanksgiving Indians set and Thanksgiving Pilgrims Set

Paper: My Minds Eye Sunshine Collection, Very Vanilla

Markers/Ink: Distress Tea Dye, Copics - E01, E02, E11, E15, E17, E33, E35, C00, C01, C03, C05, C08, B06, R20, Y08

Embellishments: Prima Pearls, Wild Orchard flower and Corner piece, Tim Holtz leaf die, Spellbinders Label Six, Label Four, Scalloped Circle, Grand Scalloped Square

My favorite Thanksgiving recipe is for bread stuffing to go into the turkey.  This is my step dad's recipe and I think it came from his Irish mother.

Ken's Stuffing

• Use 3 full loaves of three different kinds of bread (white, wheat and rye are nice)
• Cut the bread into cubes and moisten with about 2 cups of water or chicken broth sprinkled over the cubes (in a very large bowl).
• Add these dry ingredients to the bowl and mix
• 4-6 crisp pieces of bacon crumbled
• 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)
• 2 tablespoons of cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons of nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon sage
• In a large skillet (my dad used an iron skillet with bacon grease)
• Add a tablespoon or two of your favorite cooking oil
• Saute a large chopped onion
• Add 1 cup of chopped celery
• Now add the bread mixture to the skillet
• In a small bowl combine 2 eggs and 2 cups of milk.
• Pour the milk/egg mixture over the bread in the skillet and saute (keep folding over the layers) until the egg looks cooked - about 10 minutes.
• Stuff both ends of the Turkey with the stuffing and cook as normal
• Be sure to remove the stuffing from the bird as soon as it comes out of the oven.

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Mojo Monday - Sketch
• CCEE Stampers - 4 embellishments
• Dutch Dare - Give Thanks
• Moving Along with the Times - Eat and Drink
• Paper Crafting Journey - Use a digi
• Sweet Stamps - So Thankful
• Partytime Tuesdays - Phone inspiration (sparkly goldy yellow)

Hop over to Paper Cutz Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created.  I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful pink creations for our Gobble, Gobble challenge.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday!

NancyD