Valentines Baking with FREE Printable Recipe Cards!

Hello! I sure hope you are all having a sweet week! Mine definitely got sweeter with these pretty & delicious cookies that I made for Erica to take to school for a little Choir party! I decided to make a little digital scrapbook page using the Project Life App and add in the recipes for these simple, but awesome Sugar Cookies and Glaze. The Project Life App is FREE to download on your devices and I use it for so much more than making digital pages. I edit my photos, use the template to create two 3x4 sized photos to print out as a 4x6 - as well as many other sizes, save journaling cards, and today I decided to use the Recipe Value Kit ($1.39 CAD) to create my own recipe cards. I also purchased the ability to add extra text to photos and cards in various fonts, and I use this feature all the time!

Feel free to save these cards and print them out for your own use! This is one of the best Sugar Cookie recipes I've found. It pretty much stays the size you cut it out as and I always take them out of the oven just before they turn brown. They are delicious as is, but I wanted to kick it up a notch for Valentines!

I used the Rhonna Designs App to add a fun frame around my cookie pic and a cute and fitting sentiment! Because, hey, why not?!!

 Thanks so much for stopping by! I'd love to know what you do to celebrate Valentines - whether it's baking, making cards, decorating or giving some chocolately goodness to your family, friends or yourself 💘 Wishing you all a very Happy Valentines!

Linked to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge - With Love

Canvas Corp Video - Holiday Baking Mix and Match Pad!

Hi! I'm back today to share a video I have up on the Canvas Corp Brands YouTube channel - Holiday Baking Mix and Match Pad Review!

I know you'll love seeing exactly what is in this beautiful Holiday Baking Mix & Match pad - and I hope I've given you some ideas on some fun Christmas ideas that you can use it for!

Inspiration Saturday!

Hello friends! We've had a busy week this week; we went to the local amusement park, to the wading pool, lots of park time, to see the Emoji Movie - which was a hit! and had a water balloon fight in the backyard. And, Amie, who's 10 has been baking up a storm! She made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, which were really good, on Wednesday, and has made scrambled eggs and regular, blueberry and almond flour pancakes Friday morning as well as a grilled cheese sandwich for herself for lunch. Her dad bought her a mini griddle and she already has tons of recipes pinned to try!

Here are some crafty inspiration sites, videos and freebies for you to check out!

1) I've really been enjoying finding some awesome home decor inspiration lately, and I was so impressed when I came across Bless'er House. You'll find some amazing 'drool-worthy' home decorating pics and tips on the Blog and Instagram feed! I'm warning you though, it's addictive!

2) Crafty Bit Creations has a great video tutorial showing four different Distress Oxide Ink backgrounds with the cutest mermaid stamps! I am loving playing with my first set of DOX inks, and I'm working on the second set!

3) Craftin Dessert Divas have their August New Release event going on right now, and depending on the number of attendees, Tara puts the occasional FREEBIE digi stamp up in the CDD Store! Every month they have a New Release Event, so it's worth following along to see all the awesome inspiration and pick up a couple free digi stamps! And who knows, you may even find a new stamp set you can't live without 😉

4) Dreaming Tree SVG has the most adorable Fairyville SVG Bundle out, and it's free with a $9.98 purchase. Details are in the link!

5)And, lastly, Dawn Nicole Designs has a beautiful August tech calendar for you to download FREE for your computer, phone or ipad! If you sign up for her Happy Mail you'll always be notified everytime she has a new one available.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Inspiration Saturday!

Hello friends! I know I'm getting this posted a little later than normal, but it is still Saturday, and you still have lots of time to check out all the inspirational sites I found this week!!

1) I've been playing around with decorating my Happy Planner this week and my daughter, who also has one, wanted some printables. Well, I was so excited to come across the Victoria Thatcher website - with amazing free downloads!! Here's a link to her adorable Oh Deer printable, and if you check out the right side of her blog there's a direct link to all of her printables in either EC or HP size. You don't even need to have a planner to enjoy these adorable images!! Grab a coffee and have fun looking through all the awesome designs she has - and if you're feeling generous, leave her a little thank you in her 'coffee fund' on the right side as well for all her hard work!

2) And, while we're talking about planner printables, here's another cool website with amazing Free Planner Printables! Visit Fit Life Creative to check out all the fun goodies they have available!! You can sign up for email notifications to find out whenever they have a freebie available. 

3) I tried these yummy Molasses Drop Cookies this week - and they were sooooo good! I sub'd the shortening for veg oil and actually made half the recipe, which still made a lot of cookies. I used my Pampered Chef small scoop and the PC stone baking sheet and they turned out great!

4) I thought this video from Lindsay at the Frugal Crafter was so cool! I've seen the new animated stamps before and she shows you a way to create this effect with any stamp. She really has some awesome videos available!

5) And, lastly, May Flaum has a free Camp Scrap class starting on Monday! I just love her crafty style, and you can check out Camp Scrap on her BLOG, where she'll be creating a new post daily - sign up for emails so you don't miss anything - and join the Facebook Group to join in the fun! She has prizes she'll be giving away and lots of inspiration.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend <3

SpiegelMom Scraps November Blog Hop!

I'm so excited to be joining the SpiegelMom Scraps team as a Guest Designer today to bring you some inspiration to Cozy Up and Create! There is a super fun Blog Hop going on to bring you tons of inspiration to start creating. You should have arrived from the SMS Blog - and if not you can pop over there to start your creative adventure! When you are a crafter, Christmas is one of those events where you want to get lots of things created to give to those special friends and family members, but you also want time to enjoy the holidays. Even though it's still early, by starting now you'll have time to make those special presents and even get in a few last minute ones - because we all know about that!

I love to give handcrafted gifts for the holidays, and I love to bake - so what better than to start thinking about packing some yummy and beautiful gifts for those loved ones on my list! I started off with a kraft cardboard box and added some pretty patterned papers from the Heidi Swapp Believe collection. This is paper that I've had for a while - one of those things I have hoarded because I love it, but I am really trying to work on using those things! I added some layered papers and journaling cards to decorate the front of the box and for the pretty tag. Then, comes the fun part - embellishing!! I'm sure you know there are tons of fun embellishments in the SpiegelMom Scraps Shop! I added the pretty sequins from the Holly Berries sequin mix as well as a few white sequins from the Wedding Bells sequin mix to my tag and tied it with the Natural Burlap String before adding a pretty red bow. On the front of the box I added Cork Confetti Stars, Cork Confetti Tiny Stars and the pretty Holly Berries Sequins again!

Here's a peek at all the goodies I packed inside my Christmas baking gift box! These fun SpiegelMom Scraps embellishments were perfect to add to my gift packaging - and the awesome Glassine Bags were wonderful for adding packages of tea, muffins and cookies! I used doilies, stamps from the Lawn Fawn Love You A Latte stamp set, Christmas patterned papers and lots of sequins, burlap string and cork! I think that packaging really is everything and makes even a simple gift so special!

You can see below a description of each of the elements in my gift packaging:

1. Layered patterned papers and journaling card on the outside of my gift box decorated with sequins and cork.
2. The tag for the gift box using a journaling card from the Believe collection, tied with burlap string and decorated with sequins and a stamped holiday sentiment.
3. Goodies inside the gift box tucked into glassine bags and decorated.
4. Mini Pumpkin Loaf (recipe below!) and Banana Bran Loaf, wrapped with patterned paper and decorated with a handmade embellishment topper.
5. Supplies: Holly Berries Sequin Mix, Wedding Bells Sequin Mix, Mini Glassine Bags, Medium Glassine Bags, Natural Burlap String , Cork Confetti Stars, Cork Confetti Tiny Stars.
6. Flavoured teas tucked into a glassine bag and decorated with stamped tags, a doily, sequins and a cork star.
7. A hand crocheted mug warmer with a stamped tag. I pinned the burlap string on with a safety pin filled with sequins for extra embellishment!
8. Mini pumpkin muffins and chocolate mint cookies tucked into glassine bags and tied with string and handmade tags.
9. Yummy chocolates inside these adorable mini glassine bags, which I first stamped using Stazon and then tied with string and a button. A little Glossy Accents holds on the shiny sequins.

Here's the Pumpkin Bread recipe, which I used for the mini muffins and mini loaf! It will have your kitchen smelling like Christmas in no time!

Here's the Blog Hop line-up, and next on the list is the very talented Lisa Kingston . Head on over to her fabulous blog to see the amazing project she has come up with after leaving a comment for a chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate!

SMS Blog 

Karla Yungwirth That's Me! 

Lisa Kingston 

Christy Harriman 

Sarah McClellan 

Hannah Lemieux 

Khristina Sorge 

Sara Scraps 

Katty Miranda

Evi Cortes 

Rachel Stewart 

Laura Rumble 

Felicia Young 

I'd love for you be in the running for the $10.00 shop credit, so be sure to leave comments on all the blogs to be entered! Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a wonderfully, fantastic, creative day! 

Linked to:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG
Sunny Day Crafting - AG

PDE Linky Party - Anything But A Card
DL Art - Nov Linky Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Nov Link Up
CHNC Christmas Challenge - AG Christmas
CHNC Extra - Nov Link Up

PDE Friday Linky Party - Vegan Banana Bread!

Hi there! It's almost the end of the week.... Hope you had a lovely one! I'm sharing a project for this week's PDE Linky Party - the theme, as always, is Anything Goes, and we'd love to see what you've been working on!

I wanted to share this Vegan Banana Bread I recently made for my oldest daughter who is vegan. I have had good and not so good experiences with different vegan recipes. When you bake without eggs it changes your end result somewhat, but I seriously could not tell the difference when I ate some of this bread. And, my daughter loved it!

I used some scrapbook paper to package it up over the plastic wrap to keep it fresh. Then, I added a doily and a couple circle diecuts, and I stamped a couple of hearts around my hand written tag. I'm a firm believer that adding a few extra touches to the packaging adds so much to the gift!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and if you love baking you can give this Vegan Banana Bread a try a let me know what you think!  Don't forget to check out the fun projects the other PDE Linky Party Design Team members have come up with for you this week, and enter your own so we can see what you've been working on!

Linked to:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  - AG
DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Linky Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge - February Link Up
Cookin & Craftin - My Two Favorite Things Thursday Link Up 

Christmas Baking!

I had a spurt of energy this week and decided to do some Christmas baking!

 Melt in Your Mouth Shortbreads

from Allrecipes.com

Donut Muffins

from Allrecipes.com

 Peanut Butter cookies from Epicure

 Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Epicure's Almond cookie bars

Banana choc/butterscotch chip muffins

 

Peppermint Snowballs from Epicure, Butterscotch chip sandies from Taste of Home, which I substituted butterscotch chips for the pecans (since I forgot to pick them up!) & Cookie Jar Gingersnaps from Taste of Home.



I packaged up one of each cookie into a cute container from Dollarama for Amie's sports class teachers as a little Thank You for the last day.

Linked to Friday Link Party at Creation Corner, Simply Link Party at Simply Designing, & Show & Tell Friday at My Romantic Home.