Thursday, November 22, 2012
BFF Open House Link Party #80
Hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Are you out braving the Black Friday madness or do you have other Black Friday traditions? We always go to downtown Seattle to see all of the annual Christmas decorations and then end the day back in our city w/ the kickoff Santa coming to town. Let's see what creative goodness everyone's been up to this holiday week!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Wishing You A Happy Thanksgiving
When we host Thanksgiving, I like to have a quote expressing gratitude, thankfulness etc. as part of my place setting. I used PicMonkey to create this one.
Wishing you all a day filled with family, friends, food, love, and happiness. Grateful for all of my readers and BFFs here.
Easy Cranberry Sauce From Scratch
I shared the recipe straight from the Ocean Spray website last year but this year, I remembered to take pictures while I was making it.
For this you will need:
- Fresh or frozen whole cranberries. I used Ocean Spray
- Sugar
- Water
- Orange peel ( optional)
Photographed here before adding the water.
Mr. Chocolate loves cranberry sauce as its own dish. Not as a condiment. He will literally eat a bowl of it. So this time of year I stock up and throw bags of berries in the freezer.
Once they’re cooled down, pour into bowl, cover, refrigerate. I leave the orange peel in until I ladle into my serving dish to let the flavor set.
Seriously. Easy. And the recipe’s from the back of the Ocean Spray bag!
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Frosty Blue Wire and Bead Crocheted Bracelet
Do you ever finally get around to trying something and then kick yourself for not doing it sooner because you thought it must be much harder than it actually was? Raise your hand and fess up.
I have wanted to try: 1.) Crocheting with beads and 2.) Crocheting with wire (and beads) but thought “Oh no. It has to be really really REALLY hard”. I was wrong.
I found a video on You Tube. Most people go to YT for laughs or clips of things they missed. I go for craft tutes!
Following the tutorial, I went to work and made this in about well I don’t know exactly how long but it was less than an hour!
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As a member of the Blue Moon Beads Design Team, these products were provided for my use. All opinions are mine.
Monday, November 19, 2012
BFF Open House Link Party #79 Wrap Up and Features
Happy Thanksgiving Week crafty peeps! I’m so thankful to have all of you creative people in my life!
Once again, you all didn’t disappoint with ideas shared at Friday’s BFF Open House.
Here are just a few, some last minute Thanksgiving ideas and a couple to get you started on Christmas!
I love these faux wood leaves from Carolyn over at homework. Pop on over for the secret ingredient.
Doreen, from Altered Artworks shared her “Giving Thanks” journal ( I think I may even have that paper!) . This would be a fun thing to bring out each year and then start another volume once filled up.
But back to Thanksgiving and this week’s chocolate feature. Jocelyn from Inside BruCrew Life shared these adorable peanut butter cup turkeys. If I have one teeny tiny whine about Thanksgiving, it is that it is not known for being a chocolatey holiday! Problem solved.
Thanks again to all who linked up. Make it a creative week!
Once again, you all didn’t disappoint with ideas shared at Friday’s BFF Open House.
Here are just a few, some last minute Thanksgiving ideas and a couple to get you started on Christmas!
Doreen, from Altered Artworks shared her “Giving Thanks” journal ( I think I may even have that paper!) . This would be a fun thing to bring out each year and then start another volume once filled up.
Nichole from PinkieforPink shared how she made this lovely burlap and lace Give Thanks banner. No sew and great tip to keep burlap from fraying.
Looking ahead to Christmas , visit Sarah at Alderberry HIll to see how she made snowballs for her gorgeous lantern:
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Embossed Metal Snowflake Tile
The card I made was all about Thanksgiving so I decided that I’d make something Wintery since we’re nearing the end of Fall. I started with a plain MDF plaque I’d picked up along the way and the plan was to Mod Podge a Winter Branch die cut and embellish from there. Except, once I podged it on, I hated it!
This was much more “me”. I grabbed a handmade paper scrap from my stash, tore the edges, and Mod Podged that on. Now I was really feeling this project. After the inks dried, I sealed with a layer of Mod Podge and sprinkled with fine iridescent glitter.
Went to my embossing folders and pulled out a snowflake design ( Sizzix) and ran a piece of Art Emboss metal through my Cuttlebug.
Trimmed that to a size that would fit with my tile, added decorative brads to each corner, and glued to my tile as shown. Punched some snowflakes from the metal scraps, and dotted the centers with adhesive pearls, and finished with a free hand sort of pom pom of ribbon yarn.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
BFF Open House Link Party #79
Happy Friday Eve all and yikes, Thanksgiving is a week away! I still can't believe it but I guess I better because I'm cooking lol.
So let's see what everyone's been up to this week ( which once again has flown by so fast) . And let's share the love and make sure and visit some of the other BFFs!
So let's see what everyone's been up to this week ( which once again has flown by so fast) . And let's share the love and make sure and visit some of the other BFFs!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Giving Thanks Card with Pendant Focal
We’re thankful though that he was invited to his Academic Adviser’s home for Thanksgiving. I’m sending along a token of our thanks and made this card for him to give to his hosts.
Included in the design team supplies I received from Blue Moon Beads was this beautiful wood pendant.
I was debating what to do with it and it just went perfectly with my card so it became the focal.
The card is 6x6 so I cut the papers to fit and layered them together as shown. Then I glued the pendant to the center panel and embellished my card with paper flowers.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Blue Moon Beads Design Team Project : Rum Raisin and Gold
You might remember last month I announced that I’d been selected to be part of Blue Moon Beads 2012-2013 Design Team. I’m so excited to share the first project I made with the wonderful supplies they sent me to play with!
Included in the supplies were several tins of color coordinated beads. The first one I played with is called “Rum Raisin”
Pinks, purples, lavenders and orange. The colors immediately said “gold” to me so I used some gold BM chain that I already had in my stash. I made several clusters of beads to intermix with the chain using beading wire and wrapped loops. A great video to show you how to make a wrapped loop is here: Wrapped Loop Tutorial
I didn’t have any particular order so I just kind of eyeballed my spacing of the beaded sections.
II folded my large completed chain in half and attached jump rings to each end and then added some more chain to each end.
Using stringing wire, I strung a small section of beads that I attached with jump rings to the middle of the double layer:
Disclosure: As part of the Blue Moon Design Team, supplies were provided for my use. Opinions are my own.
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