Ideas For Gifts
Time to get your holiday craftiness in gear with goods from the recycle bin. Have you ever noticed that the POM wonderful pomegranate bottle looks a little bit like a fat, round snowman? Well take a look; once the little plastic wonder is painted white you can clearly see the resemblance.
So snag a few bottles from friends, family and neighbors, because you’re about to decorate your own little frosty friend. For the how to jump over to my piece at Phoenix New Times Jackalope Ranch: A (POM) Wonderful Snowman
I needed to send a thank you note out to a special person and decided it was worth taking the time to make a lovely card. I used Bazzill Basics Herbal Garden colored card stock, a red satin ribbon, clear hot rocks and my Cricut along with the Trim The Tree Cartridge to make it. It is so festive I am loving it.
A simple project as we all gear up for the holidays is a gingerbread book. Make this book and you’ll be ready to write a story in it, do drawings in it or tape in photographs of your gingerbread house making party. This book is made using the fabulous new Your Story Photo machine.
For the complete tutorial click here:Â Gingerbread House Book Enjoy and happy crafting!
For the Fall Harvest Festival at the short ones school I made caramel leaf cupcakes. I thought the kids would be a bit pickier so I made both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. I was wrong they just devoured without taking flavor into account for a second. The frosting was butter-cream, tinted orange and flavored with almond.
The topper was thin caramel sheets cut on my Cricut Cake, using the leaf shape on the Cake Basics cartridge. set the design up multiple times on my Gypsy and then just laid down sheets of the caramel you can buy for caramel apples and let it cut.
After I had all of the leaves cut out I just bent them over, sort of in half by hand and them placed them on top of the frosted cupcakes.
I made Pilgrim hat cookies as a test run for Thanksgiving. I am going to make them the day of Thanks for those who do not want pie. This would be a fun project to get the kids involved with too.
To get the recipe and full how to jump on over to my piece at Phoenix New Times Chow Bella: Pilgrim Cookie
