More Mini Card Sets

Here are two more card sets! I think I am done with these as far as Christmas gifts go...maybe one more if my friends decide to do an exchange. I ended up liking the format of this note pad better, so I changed the purple one from the previous post. hehe...

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Colouring Fun

While making some Christmas cards, I broke out some SU! Stamps,a nd my Martha Stewart craft markers and had some fun colouring the images! Here is how they turned out!

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Keeping Busy

** Edited to include recipe for Asian Chicken Soup. Scroll to bottom of post please. **

Hello! It is a busy day over here! I have just finished cooking up a storm, and am now going to tackle some more Christmas gift projects.

On the stove right now I have simmering:
- Pasta Sauce (to freeze)
- Asian Chicken Soup (for dinner tonight)
- (Regular?) Chicken Soup (to freeze)

I find it so much easier to do several recipes at the same time, especially if they all have to simmer for awhile. They way I have dinner for tonight, plus at LEAST six frozen dinners for the next few weeks. Yummmmmm...

I am done one of four mini card sets I am making for some friends for Christmas. I showed a sample of the card from this set in an earlier post, but here is the finished product!

Included are eight cards and envelopes, an 'important dates' book, and a note pad, all packaged in a little silver tin I found at Solutions.

Four of the cards have a sentiment, and the other four are blank so that they can be personalized as needed.

Asian Chicken Soup

(Please note that I made this up based on an episode of Chef at Home that I watched last week.)

Ingredients:
- 2 chicken quarters (leg and thigh attached)
- 2 bunches green onions - 1 bunch cut into 2 inch pieces, 1 bunch cut into small 1/4 inch pieces
- 2 inch piece of fresh ginger sliced (1/8 inch pieces approx), leaving a piece at the end that can be grated.
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 6 cloves of garlic - 2 whole, 4 minced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- salt to taste
- hot pepper flakes (to desired spice level)
- pkg pre-made chicken dumplings (unless you want to be brave and make them homemade) I used Wong Wing Oriental Dumplings - Chicken which I found in the Oriental section of my frozen food isle.

Directions:
1) In a medium pot saute saute the minced garlic in the olive and sesame oil for a few minutes.

2) Add the chicken and saute until lightly browned on each side (about 2 minutes per side)

3) Fill the pot with 8 cups of water, and allow water to simmer, taking time to skim off the foam from the chicken.

4) Once the foam is skimmed off completely, add the green onions which were cut into 2 inch pieces, the sliced ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and hot pepper flakes. Allow time to simmer and reduce, to concentrate the flavours and fully cook the chicken (at least an hour).

5) When you are ready to serve the soup, remove all of the contents from the pot, setting aside the chicken to eat, and leave just the broth in the pot.

6) Add the frozen dumplings to the broth, as well as the smaller chopped green onions. Grate some fresh ginger. At this point I also tasted the broth to see if it needed additional salt, and added a few more hot pepper flakes. Allow the soup to simmer for about 5 minutes, or until the dumplings are cooked through, and then serve!


It was DELICIOUS! Even my hubby loved it!

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Crop-O-Dile and Snowman Tag

Hello! I have a quick video today demonstrating the Crop-O-Dile, as well as a snowman tag from the Cricut Winter Special Edition 'Very Merry Tags' cartridge. Hope you enjoy it!





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Welcome Little One

Hello! Just a quick post based on a sketch by Liz at Scrapbooking, Sketches and Life...Oh My!. Friends of mine had a baby boy recently, so I am sending off a little congratulations card to them!

The card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select White, Papertrey Ink True Black

Patterned Paper: ?

Ribbon: Papertrey Ink White Grosgrain, Papertrey Ink True Black Gingham, Papertrey Ink Spring Rain Gingham

Ink: Stampin' Up! Basic Black

Stamp Sentiment: Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings

Stamp Image: Imaginisce Baby Powder Collection

Hope You Like It!
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Happy Thanksgiving...

Just a quick Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American Friends! Hope you are enjoying your holidays!!! (...and maybe some fun black friday shopping as well!!??!!??)

:)

'Merry Christmas' Card

Hello!
Just a quick card that I made that I thought turned out really cute! I am definitely 'branching' ( :) sorry, couldn't help myself) out from what I normally do, and am enjoying the results!

I made this card using:

Cardstock - PTI Stampers Select White, PTI Dark Chocolate, Stampin' Up! Rich Razzleberry

Patterned Paper - ? Found it in my collection

Ink - Stampin' Up! Rich Razzleberry, Martha Stewart Silver

Stamp Set - PTI Holiday Button Bits, PRI Polka Dot Basics

Buttons - From my collection

Cricut Cartridges - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (tag pocket), Home Decor (branch)

Hope you like it! Leave a comment, I love to hear from you! :)

Scrapfest U! Update

Hello! Sorry this post has taken so long to go up - I was having some difficulty with uploading the video. I had an AMAZING time at Scrapfest U!, and I am so looking forward to going to the next Scrapfest event in April. It will be held in Kitchener on April 16th and 17th. You can check out all the details for the next Scrapfest event HERE!

In the meantime, I wanted to share a bit about my weekend, which was easier to do in a video than in pictures and text - so here it is!

I forgot to mention that I also won this great book - It is called The Scrapbooker's Handwriting Workshop, and it has pages and pages filled with different styles of handwriting, directions on how to recreate them, and then practice pages as well. It is so cool!

At the end of the weekend we each received these cute 'diplomas' - too cute.

More pics of the giveaways:

Door prize from Scrapbook & Cards Today

Goodies:

Someone PLEASE write me a message and explain what this is :) - hahaha

Thanks for checking in! Please leave a comment, I love to hear from you!

Lisa

Scrapfest U

Hello! I am super excited right now b/c I am participating in my very first Scrapbooking weekend event starting tomorrow! I have my bag packed with all of my supplies, (and a few extras just in case), and am ready to go! Here is what I will be doing this weekend:

Workshop #1 - Bring on the Holiday Cheer - Card and Layout
Workshop #2 - The Time Traveller's Memory Journal
Workshop #3 - Two of a Kind Cards to a Layout

You can check out all the details HERE. SOOOO excited! I will be sure to share my projects (probably in a video), as well as fun details about the weekend!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Plum Crazy! Challenge

Hello!

Over on Moxie Fab World, they are hosting a Plum Crazy Challenge, where your inspiration for your next project is none other than the colour Plum! I chose to make this cute card, (which may also be part of a card set for someone's Christmas gift) - haha.

I used all Papertrey Ink Products:
Cardstock - Plum Pudding, Stamper's Select White
Patterned Paper - Bitty Box Basics, Friends Till the End, Polka Dot Parade
Ink - Plum Pudding
Ribbon - Plum Pudding Luxe Satin
Stamp Set - Mega Mixed Messages

Edit: The envelope is stamped with images from a Martha Stewart Set I have that I do not know the name of.

I hope you like it!

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