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Bird Nest Cookies

Erin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:34:38 +0000

Remember those wonderful no bake chocolate cookies you made all the time growing up? Mix a little cocoa powder, oats, and a few other ingredients and you had delicious cookies? A few years ago I found a no chocolate version for my husband. (He’s allergic to chocolate!) It uses peanut butter instead. You can find the recipe here. I needed something to take to an Easter brunch but wanted something a little different than my usual cupcakes with green coconut and jelly beans on top so this is what I came up with. It was SO easy!

Just make the cookies following the instructions. Immediately after scooping them onto your parchment paper (I used a cookie scoop for this) use the back of the cookie scoop to make a little indent. This squishes it just enough to allow a small crater, perfect for little jelly beans. All I had on hand were jelly beans, though next time I’d probably do the little Cadbury chocolate eggs, then you’d have peanut butter AND chocolate (plus of course a few Reeses peanut butter eggs for my husband)! If you have a hard time getting them to stick, use a little peanut butter and glue to the cookie. (Peanut butter works to glue your tongue to the roof of your mouth and it also works well as edible glue!) Hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter weekend! See you tomorrow for Tutorial Tuesday!

Tutorial Tuesday – Stamped Spring Napkins!

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:00 +0000

These were super simple to do! I used the stamps from the Have A Tweet Day stamp set. These are cotton napkins I found for $1 a piece at Garden Ridge. Just pull out your ink and stamp directly onto the napkins! It’s easy using the clear stamps because you can see exactly where the image is going, and you can make sure that you have ink covering the entire image before you stamp. Use a permanent ink like Stewart Superior’s Hybrid ink. Heat set it with your iron without using steam and you’re ready to go for a wonderful Easter brunch!

I love the little bird feet border on this one!

And a little nest garland with occasional eggs!

Happy Crafting!

Tutorial Tuesday-Happy Spring!

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:17:00 +0000

Here’s a quick Happy Spring Card I did this weekend in honor of the 1st day of Spring. This would also make a great Easter themed card! I used my Have A Tweet Day clear stamp set for this one. I LOVE the little nest stamp. If you look at the stamp set you’ll see a little “bundle” of sticks. With this, you can make your nest as big or as small as you’d like. Just stamp it multiple times in an oval shape to get your nest! Or if you want a border, just stamp it around in the shape of a circle or square. (It’s super easy to do because your stamp and the mounting block are clear so you can see right through everything to line it all up!)

I stamped the eggs on white cardstock, cut out, and layered with different thicknesses of foam tape. (Don’t forget that you can stack two layers of foam tape to get even more dimension than just one layer. Here I adhered one egg directly to the nest, put 1 layer of foam tape on one, and 2 layers of foam tape on the one in the middle for added dimension.)

After you’ve stamped the main image, just put a border of velvet rickrack around it and secure the corners with brads.

Happy Crafting!

My first published project!!!

admin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000

If you’ve been reading my blog long enough you’ll remember that back at the end of August I was excited that I was getting one of my projects published. (You can read the post here) When I signed the publication contract it stated that I wasn’t allowed to show the project to anyone until two weeks before the on-sale date of the magazine. Well, the on-sale date is February 5, which means I can now share my project with you!!!! I’m so excited!!! It will be published in the March 2008 PaperCrafts Magazine. Their website is here. They are always looking for projects! Go ahead, submit! Here is where you find out which ones they need at the moment. So without further ado…my project!

Easter Surprise Card

I designed the track system with brads to enable the top to slide up and down. Christian is the one that suggested that I make it an Easter egg with chicks inside. (Thanks Christian! Don’t let the accountant persona fool you, he’s actually quite creative!!!) When I get the magazine I’ll post the page and instructions. I had to write them up and take step by step pictures for the publication, and then they were going to edit and refine them…so as soon as I have the final I’ll post it here too. Thanks so much for looking!