Project Project Challenge

Here is my layout using Glitter...



All paper is DieCuts with a View. Edge distresser by Heidi Swapp. Inspired by a sketch in the July 2009 edition of Scrapbooks etc. Magazine. Chipboard swirls are blue "Chips" by Pebbles Inc. that I painted darker with Navy Blue Pebbles Inc paint. Glitter Chipboard letters are distressed in blue paint. I found them in the dollar section at target.

Strawberry Danish Cheese Cake

1 white cake mix
1 (8oz) Cool Whip
1 (8oz) package Cream Cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. milk
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1 package strawberry danish dessert
2 cups sliced strawberries

Mix up cake according to box directions and pour into greased 9x13 pan. Bake 15 minutes and cool. Softened cream cheese and beat with 1 Tbsp milk. Add coolwhip and powdered sugar. Spread over cooled cake. Make Danish dessert according to box directions, add strawberries, and cool. Spread over cream cheese layer and refridgerate until ready to serve.

Challenges

A fellow blogger and a fabulous creative mind came up with this...

I love the show Project Runway and am excited to participate in the crafting version... essentially Emilie picks a challenge based on the challenge from that weeks episode and we have until the next episode to create something. This weeks challenge is to use glitter in unexpected places. I am pretty excited to stretch my creativity and play.

Another great challenge site is write.click.scrapbook. They have a month by month thing as well as mini challenges each week. Since I have moved I haven't taken the time to participate well, but some I want to still work with are:

The Love of Color

Sweet Summer

Star Wars Birthday Party

For my sister's party we had a Star Wars birthday party. It was pretty easy...I just followed many ideas I had seen and shared on a previous post.

-Made a pinata deathstar out of a soccerball pinata.

-Bought a roll of starwars wrapping paper to create a background for taking pictures with my yoda and darth vader masks and light sabers.

-Light saber cupcakes as well as a darthvader bobblehead topping a grey round "deathstar" cake.

-Lots of yummy food...

Yoda Soda (Lime sherbert and Sprite)

Mini Droids (1/3 a hot dog with 1/2 a uncooked pillsbury biscut wrapped around it)

Princess Leia Cinnabons (got lazy here and just bought Pillsbury frozen mini-cinnamon rolls)

Ewok fruit salad (cottage cheese, jello, fruit, and coolwhip) &

Bantha's and Hoth Dip (Fruit and creamcheese/marshmallow creme dip)

getting back in the groove

Since I have been moving and trying to pick up hours at the hospital I haven't been too crafty as of late. Trying to get back in the groove I did this:

This is a picture frame I made for a friend's baby on her 1st birthday. Daphne loves Minnie Mouse.

I found this great paper at Joanns. I don't know what brand it is but it is texturized. Also got the cute little mickey buttons there as well. Frame is just a basic wood one I picked up at Michael's, and the name I cut with my Silouhette machine, using the "Waltograph" font at dafonts.com. Glues the letters on by running them through my Xyron machine.

and baked this:

I love love love the cute little muffins. They are banana chocolate chip bread muffins. I love banana bread but it is still too hot to have the oven on for an hour, plus I hate waiting for it to cool a bit after it bakes before you can take a yummy bite. Bananas to muffins in my mouth is only 30 minutes total. Excellent.

Breakfast Casserole

August's recipe of the month is one of my all time favs, a breakfast casserole. Simple, fast, and yummy. Learned this one in college from my roommate Sarah.

Sarah's Breakfast Dish

1 package crescent roll dough (in the "pop" can)

1 roll of sausage meat, cooked and crumbled

6-8 eggs

1 & 1/2 cups of shredded cheese

3/4 cup milk

salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan.

Whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.

Roll out crescent rolls to cover base of 9x13 pan. Sprinkle crumbled sausage over the dough and sprinkle with cheese. Pour over egg mix.

Bake for 15-20 minutes until eggs cooked through. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

FOR A LOWER FAT OPTION:

try and find fat free or reduced fat crescent roll dough. just sprinkle a small layer of cheese, and use non-fat milk. Subsitute with mostly egg whites. Use1/2 a roll of sausage, bacon bits, low fat sausage, or crumble up meatless sausage patties instead.

beginning scrapbooker

sorry it's been awhile...I threw a bunch of parties, moved, and have been working a lot. I have some new goals for this site that I will go into later, but on a side note I spent the afternoon today teaching some beginning scrapbooking. My friends are hosting a 15 year old girl from Kryzacistan (spelling? who knows! It is between Armenia and Russia). She instintly fell in love with the idea of scrapbooking (who wouldn't) and wanted to start. After buying a lot of random stuff and printing off tons of pictures she was ready to go. Except she had never even heard of scrapbooking or done anything of the sort. It was a very interesting afternoon of teaching some basic principles of design, and trying to explain with her limited English level what different supplies were and how to use them. But hey she finish 1 layout!! It was a good start, and well see how it goes over the next few weeks.