CSS Recipe Blog Hop

It's time for another CSS Blog hop!

Several members of the CenterStage Spotlight Alumni team have gathered some of our favorite BBQ Picnic recipes together to make another cookbook! The cookbook will be available for FREE over on the StampTV Freebie page for you to download and print at your leisure.

But, since we are paper crafters - we were challenged to make a project with our recipe in mind to share tonight on our blogs! (The projects are also included in photos on the recipe booklet as well.)

I shared a favorite recipe for Picnic Coleslaw (from a Cooking with Paula Deen magazine) and it is so delicious, beautiful AND healthy! It is a favorite anytime we are grilling :o)

Please check out the links of all the participating designers and then download the Recipe booklet and let us know how you like them!

• Jessica Fick: Grilled Pizza


• Betty Neville: Mom's Chinese BBQ Ribs


• Joy Hadden: Whiskey BBQ Sauce


• Tina Gilliland: Homemade Enchiladas


• Sue Van deVusse: Midwestern Kabobs


• Melissa Shultz: Foil Babies


• Geri Utterback: Oven Baked Beans


• Pam Imholz: Foil Potatoes


• Sharri Seffens: Calico Beans


• Carla Suto: Grilled Vegetables


• Dawn Lusk: Roasted Corn and Black Bean Salad


• Peggy Wainman: Bean Salad


• Karen Knegten: Miss Lucy's Rice Salad


• Jennie Harper: Picnic Coleslaw


• Cheri Weston: Fiesta Pie


• Brenda Turner: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake


• Lori McAree: Dessert Pizza


• Giovana Smith: Peruvian Alfajores


• Carolina Buchting: Vanilla Cupcakes with Butter Cream Frosting


• Jen Charboneau: Dirt Cake

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your hop along for some BBQ Picnic Recipes. I am looking forward to trying these recipes very soon myself!

Have a *delicious* day :o)

Blessings,

The Best Things...

I am a huge fan of sketches and this week Nina is hosting the sketch challenge over at Card Patterns. I also made this for the Moxie Fab Start to Finish Challenge and did the inside as well. I have been trying to make more of a concerted effort to *complete* my cards, inside and out this year. I used three different stamp sets for this card: Lovely Shelf, The Best of Life and My Cuppa' Joe (for the steamy swirls).

I made this for my daughter who has developed a great appreciation for hot tea. This year her grandmother gave her a whole gift package full of various loose tea, a tea pot, strainers and a special tea mug for Christmas. Each evening (about an hour before bed) she takes off for the kitchen to make the perfect cups of tea for us both. She makes a mean London Fog (Earl Grey tea, hot steamed milk with a touch of Vanilla syrup). Isn't that sweet :o) It is just delightful and something I look forward to each evening. I made this card for her to show her how much I enjoy this special treat each evening. She really is just the sweetest...my only girl and there is a special bond between mothers and daughters!

I combined this sketch challenge with the Inspiration Challenge CIC42 from Hope Stamps Eternal which had some beautiful cupcakes as the inspiration. My inspiration came from the colors of the cupcakes and I used Groovy Guava and So Saffron.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I pray you have a wonderful day!
Blessings,



Card Deets ~
Stamp: Lovely Shelf, The Best of Life and My Cuppa Joe
Cardstock: Groovy Guava, So Saffron, Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday
Ink: Groovy Guava
Accessories: Swiss Dots folder, Tag Punches, Brads, Ribbon, Border Punch, Nesties, and Pearl Bling

Baby is 1!

My baby is turning one today! I am so amazed with how fast his first year has flown by... It feels like just yesterday we brought him home and now he is toddling around all over the house investigating absolutely everything. I am slowly in the process of creating a scrapbook for each of my children and starting from the very beginning is quite fun. I think I am going to have to dig out pictures of my other two when they were newborn... scrapbooking is something I resisted for years! I used a scrapbook kit from SU which helped me to put this one together, as well as a great sketch by Erika Martin. She has wonderful tips on scrapbooking and I am learning so much from her. I am off to enjoy my children today and create some more memories. Have a great day!

Best Friends

I made this for the sketch challenge on StampTV. Quite a cool sketch and I found the perfect reason to use this great new plaid dp. I love the pastel colors of it and used two Gina K. sets: The Best of Life and Warm and Fuzzy. The animals were colored with Copics and I added a little grass with a tiny little grass stamp I have from Art Impressions. Tomorrow is a new stamp release day from Gina K. and I am really interested in seeing the new set Asela designed...she had a sneak peek yesterday on her blog and it looks just delightful! Have a great day!