I Learn Something New Everyday!!!

I was so excited when Cindy from Monday Night Class told me about this little tip. When I was in Montreal in early October, I brought back some Maple Leaves with me because the colors were gorgeous and it's just not something we see a lot of in Calgary.  I knew that there were several ways to preserve the leaves but I wasn't sure which method would be the best and how much time or effort it would take.  

My leaves were starting to crumble and I'd only brought two back with me and didn't want to lose either of them so I was afraid to touch them at all but then Cindy told me that she'd done many so I thought I'd give her method a try...........Mod Podge.

Just cover the leaves with a generous layer of Mod Podge, let dry and do the other side.  Now the leaves are actually pliable and these were crumbling before.  My leaves were so dry that I had to be careful when i applied that 1st coat but the other side was really easy.  This would be easy and fun to do with kids.

Have you seen the New punch boards from We R Memory Keepers?  Here is something that I made with just scraps using the Candy Treat Box Punch Board.  I just made a few minor alterations to make this a Christmas Cracker that really works and now I can't wait to make the REAL ones!  Next week, I'll show you how I used my Gift Box punch board to make something really exciting!!!

I hope you were as excited as I was to find out about this great tip! Here are the two tags that I did for this week's 'Sunday with Sandy' at Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog.

 Have a Great Week,

3 down and 9 more Christmas Tags to go!

Hmmmm, Only 5 more weeks until Christmas and still 9 more tags to go so I will be doubling up for 4 of the next 5 weeks.  This means that next Sunday there will be two tags....and Yikes!...twice the work.

Here is the 3rd tag:

This week I will also add a couple pictures of my new project.  I finally found some crackers to make my own Christmas Crackers and I have an idea on how to make this work with my new Candy Box punch Board.  I can't wait to see if it works!

Christmas Tag # 2

Here's my 2nd of 12 tags that I've made for Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog. I love the colors and I absolutely want to make more of this Poinsettia.  I have to make more of them and use them for scrapbooking.

...........And here's another cake that Katie made this week.  I love the fun colors!!!!!

She used the opportunity to practice making different types of flowers.  The most amazing part is that only the flowers and the ribbon are made with fondant. The rest is all made with butter cream icing.  I really have to get her working on some gluten free cakes so that I can taste them too.

Have a great week,

The first of the 12 Tags of Christmas..........

I'm doing the 12 Tags of Christmas for Scrapbooker's Paradise and here is the first of many more to come. I will post the pictures on this Blog but all of the instructions will be on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Bllog.

I can't wait to share more tags.  They are a lot of work but also lots of fun!  I hope you enjoy them and give some of these techniques a try.

Turkey to go!

I guess it's better late than never.

I meant to put this one up earlier but life got in the way.  I flew back from Montreal on Thanksgiving Monday and my darling husband was taking care of the entire meal.  When my daughter walked in with a 2nd turkey, I figured there had been a communication breakdown somewhere.

But,........It's a CAKE!!!

Ever since she started her little cake business she has been practicing some of her designs on us.  We've never been the biggest fans of fondant and this had to have fondant to achieve this look.  To our surprise and delight, she has been working on a much thinner and not so sweet fondant and this one was really good. This was a pumpkin spice cake with a Maple icing and although this is not a gluten free cake, the wings and the legs were gluten free.

This was so good that I thought I'd share.

Time to get caught up......

I was away for the last couple of weeks and as it turns out, it was a great weather choice.  The first week was spent in San Antonio, Texas and we were so lucky to arrive after the rains and just as the beautiful sunshine arrived.  In Montreal, I had incredible days of  20 - 25 degrees Celsius everyday. The best part is that I missed the cold and snow in Calgary and I got to spend time with the grand-daughters and my mother.

Here are just some of the Halloween bags that I made with Molly while in San Antonio.  These were actually lots of fun to make and it was really interesting to see how focused Molly could be when she's in a creative mode.

The instructions for this project were featured on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog last week.

Have a Great Week,

More Copic Fun!

This week on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog, I completed my project using a plastic lid from an ice cream pail.

I also had a lot of fun teaching myself how to make beads. Using Copic markers for this project made my imagination go wild.  I'd seen a lot of posts and tutorials on how to do this but nobody is using Copics.  The Copics gave me such a nice color variation within the same color family. I didn't want the individual beads to have a rainbow effect. I wanted them to have instead a more monochromatic effect.  

These are all of the beads that I've  made in the last couple of hours.  my next step will be to use these for a project.

And here they are all dry.....

And here is the plastic lid project that I mentioned;.

Have a great week,