International Friends Blog Hop

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the International Friends Blog Hop. If you arrived here from Lena's Crafts then you are in the right place. (Wasn't her apron just beautiful?)

When we were introduced to the idea of sharing a family tradition I didn't hesitate to decide on making Aebleskivers. What are Aebleskivers? Read on to find out.

On my mom's side of the family we are Danish. I never knew my maternal grandparents for they passed away either before I was born or shortly there after. When My twin sister and I were born my mom found out she had cancer. To make a long story short, my mother passed away when we were only seven years old. The reason for telling you this is; I didn't hesitate because making Aebleskivers is the only tradition that we have from her side of the family.

Aebleskivers are "round pancakes" (as my nieces and nephew call them). The pans we use to make them are my mom's pans and we cherish them. The batter is dropped into the heated and well oiled pan, once the air bubbles begin to appear they are turned 1/3 and then again another 1/3. This ensures perfect round balls. In researching Aebleskivers I found out the word actually means apple slices. Traditionally some people make these "pancakes" with apples inside. (if you look closely at my layout you will see that I used apple paper for the background) My family has always eaten them with strawberry preserves and powdered sugar. This past Christmas all of my brothers and sister came over to my house and we sat down to a huge breakfast of Aebleskivers. This project was a lot of fun. I hope you like them. You can visit Solvang, California and taste these wonderful treats. They even have Ableskiver Days, a festival celebrating the traditions of Denmark.

The journal on the right of the page is left blank on purpose. I will type up our family history and the story behind Aebleskivers and add it to this scrapbook page.

I used the "From My Kitchen" Cricut cartridge to cut out most of the details on my pages.

White puff paint and Glossy Accents were used for the powdered sugar, the jar of preserves, and the bowl of Aebleskivers.

click on the images to get a better view.

This is a mini recipe book that I made using my scrapbook pages as inspiration. This is also the blog candy I am offering for this Blog Hop. Please leave me a comment (become a follower if you want) and I will draw a winner using random.org on Wednesday, March 23rd. Don't forget to include your e-mail address in the comment so I can let you know that you won. I forgot to mention that the recipe for Aebleskivers is in the mini recipe book that I made for you! :)

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CAS Challenge

Over at Simply Scrapping Crafts they are hosting a Clean and Simple Challenge. You must use a patterned paper for your background and keep it simple. Here are my entries:

I was going for a girly themed thinking of you card and a boyish thinkoing of you card. Each has similar elements to the card like the bow and the strip of paper on the side but I wanted to showcase the colors and pattern of the designer paper.

S & S Sketch Challenge #60

My friend Eric is celebrating his 13th annual 29th birthday this Saturday, so I decided to make his card today. Over at the OWH Stars & Stamps Blog they have a great sketch.

The squares in the sketch worked out perfectly for the theme of the card. In hawaiian quilting they traditionally use this type of geometric pattern. Since my friend is a fan of all things hawaiian I couldn't resist.

Baptism Invitations

My Hubs and I are the proud Nino and Nina of our niece Olivia. You may remember the blanket I made for her a few months ago. These are the invitations for the baptism and party we will be having for her.

The christening digi is from Mo's Digital Pencil Shop. I printed it right on to cream cardstock and colored it using my colored pencils. The designer paper is from Hot Hues!, and the punch is Martha Stewart. The ribbon and cardstock is from my stash.

Fun with the color Brown!

Last night I sat with a few different paper stacks trying to get inspired. I kept stopping at the brown designer paper. My mission was to make brown girly and pretty. Let me know if I accomplished what I set out to do.



Strawberries!

I was at the store today and saw that Strawberries were on sale. I love it when they are in season. It reminds me of my Grandmother's house. She lived near the strawberry fields in Camarillo,CA. We used to go out to the fresh fruit stands and buy flats of strawberries. They were so delicious.

I guess this is what inspired me to make this card:

I found the image as a free clipart from a website I can not remember at this moment, the paper is from a few different paper stacks I have aquired over the past few months, and the sentiment I created in Microsoft word.

My grandmother was one of my best friends. I would talk to her almost every Sunday. I always miss her more in the spring. the strawberries, her birthday, and all of the fun we used to have. I was lucky to have her for so long in my life. <3



Animal Cards!

I have been bitten by the inspiration bug. This week has been so much fun. I have been able to put enought card kits together to make about 100 cards. My goal is much higher than that for National Crafting Month but it's a good start. Here is a cute Hippo card I made.

I used a sketch from OWH Stars & Stamps blog.

The paper is from K&Company, the stamp set is from Hero Arts and the card stock is from my scrap box.



Hello!

I was going through a my scrap paper box and came up with this combination of colors.

The cat stamp is from Inkadinkdo and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Mother's Day Cards

Recently I have been preparing card kits for an upcoming card party I'm having.

The post before this were the father's day cards I put together and today I am showing you the mother's day cards.

I used a few of the sketchs from the Stars and Stamps Blog from OWH. If you haven't been to this blog please go and check it out. They have over 50 different sketches to get inspired by.

You may even be inspired to send them some cards.

I used S&S sketch #59. The designer paper is from K&Company, the stamp is My Creative Time, and the embossing folder I received with my Cuttlebug V2. The paper flowers are from my stash.

I am entering these cards in the Southern Girls Challenge and the Stars &Stamps Challenge blog.

S & S Sketch Challenge #58

OWH had another terrific sketch this week.

I am having a card making party on March 19th and thought that I would get some card kits together for the evening. Here is a father's day card we will be making.

I used my diamond plate embossing folder and the "Tool time" and "Nuts & bolts" stampin up stamps.

The Happy Father's Day is also stampin up.

I used my houndstooth embossing folder for this card and the same stampin up stamp.

For this card I used my herringbone embossing folder and a differedent stampin up stamp. I don't know if it needs the three squares above the father in law or not. I think I like it simple.

Swing - Flip Flop card

Here is a new Happy Birthday flip flop card that I made. The directioms are very easy to follow. I found them at Splitcoaststampers. Check it out I know you will enjoy making this card, I do!

On the cover I used a MelJen's design free digi stamp.

On the flip side I used a Dustin Pike digital stamp. Both have been colored using rose art pencils.

Embossed Flower Card

On OWH's Stars and Stamps blog this week's tutorial was an embossed flower card.

I think this is my new favorite technique for embossing cards. So PRETTY!

This is my take on the technique:

I used an Inkadinkado stamp for the background, and layered some flowers I had cut out using my cricut. I didn't want too much texture so I chose the birds and swirls embossing folder. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the crystals are from Michael's dollar section. Thanks for the tutorial. I'm off to make a few more cards using this technique.

Still organizing

For the past few weeks I have been converting my guest room into my craft/everything room.

We purchased shelving at Ikea and I loaded all of my supplies.

I wanted to use fun and colorful storage. I found these bins at Ikea, Michaels, Walmart and Target.

With my labeler in hand I started giving everthing a home.

These small containers are Jolees Jewelry storage keepers but they work great for all of the small embellies I use for papercrafting.

Even my sewing machine, patterns, crochet/knitting books and magazines now have a home.

I made these tags for the Ikea magazine boxes. The index cards are only held on by the brads for easy removal if I want to change what is in the box.

On these shelves I keep my family of Cricut products. I'm not sure if I want to leave them out on the table or keep them in the boxes.

My craft room will always be a work in progress as to it's organization, but I am so happy that I am getting so much of it done.

New Card

I was looking at my dashboard the other day and happened upon Brenda's blog:

Sweet as a Gumdrop.

She has so many cute projects: card folds, boxes, gift ideas and beautiful cards. I want to CASE them all.

Here is a card that I made for my friend's engagement party:

This is the "swing" card. Brenda made her version into a giftcard holder.

The center of the card "flips" over when the card is opened.

I even decorated the envelope to match. Sorry the pics are so horrible.

I haven't mastered it yet.

Blue & Chocolate Challenge

This week on Southern Girls Challenge blog they had a colour challenge.

Here are the requirements:

Welcome to another challenge at Southern Girls. This week we are giving you a colour challenge, we would like to see a BROWN & BLUE colour combo on your creations. You can of course use any neutrals but we want to see blue and brown featured.

I wanted to make a birthday card for one of my friend's son.
Here is my entry:

The fold technique I learned from Sweet as a Gumdrop blog.

It is super easy to make and my favorite card to produce at the moment.

I used Meljen's groundhog digi and sentiment, Hero arts stamps,

and retro paper from a stack I bought forever ago.

 

There is a pun with the paper and the sentiment. Retro 70's and "can you DIG it?"

I had a lot of fun making this card.

Happy Birthday to US!!!

Today I'm 35! and so is my WOMBMATE!!!!

Today, My twin sister and I are celebrating our birthday and we thought it would be fun to include all of you. So we are proposing a Double Challenge. Your challenge is to create (1) Birthday project and (1) Valentine project. Be Cre8tive and make anything you want using these themes.

Don't forget to check out my sister's blog at: onecreativemomma.blogspot.com

For my birthday project I decided to create a favor that would compliment the invitation we made.Here is the invite and favor.

Since our birthday lands near or on Super Bowl Sunday we always have a football themed party.

And for my Valentine's project I decided to make a card for my husband. The "Be mine" has a wobble attached to it so it will shake when he opens it.

Now a Challenge wouldn't be complete without BLOG CANDY so here it is. I'm giving away this TPC Studios stamp set and a Crafters Dozen pack of Wobbles given to me by Stacy at Action Wobbles.

THANKS STACY!!!

Remember these posts should be new and not something you have made before today. This challenge ends Super Bowl Sunday at Midnight Pacific time.