Wrapping it up… last of the 6x6 “Sweet Desserts” Scrapbook Recipe Pages

Thanks to everyone who came out to meet me at Bucklers!  I hope to see you soon in my classes, clubs, and workshops!  We’re going to have so much fun!

Today, I’m sharing the last of the 6x6 Sweet Desserts scrapbook page swaps… and then back to business as usual!  I began posting them on Friday… so if you want to pick up from the beginning, check out THIS POST from Friday!  I’ll be back tomorrow with more of my own original work… and thanks for stopping by!

Fun and colorful “Old Fashion Apple Dumplings” from Bethany Keeney.  Gosh, I love apple dumplings… and this can’t be too bad for a diet, right?  It’s only apples, after all!  Aren’t the little punched apples cute?

Key Lime Cake from Krista Rill… another fun page, with bright colors and a great recipe too!  Krista was the over-worked swap hostess… I bow to her patience!

Earthquake Cake (with yummy coconuts and pecans… it’s got to taste wonderful)… :( But, no name on this swap!

A very pretty Millionaire Pie Page from Sue Stout.  Looking at this again, I see Sue typed her name and City/State on the recipe page too.. one more great idea I will use in future swap!

And a fabulous page from Kimberly Moorhouse with a recipe for Cherry Cobbler (YUMMY!).  Kim used Crystal Effects on the cherries in the lower left corner, and they look almost good enough to eat!

I hope you enjoyed the 6x6 scrapbook/recipe swap shares… many of these ladies will be on the Royal Blog Tour with me at the end of the month.. You’ll want to see more of their great work!  You can click on the tour image in the upper right corner of my blog if you’d like to sign up to ride along, or post a link on your own blog!   Back tomorrow with new shares!

 

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More Sweet Desserts Recipe 6x6 Swap Shares

Today I’ll be at the Bucklers’ Craft Show at the Jacksonville Fair Grounds from 10am –5pm... Please stop by and say hi!

Continuing from yesterday’s post… such great ideas and yummy recipes!  I guess I’ve become a swap convert… perhaps after I finish all my convention swaps!

From Dianna S. Mooncake, hidden pockets and more!  This is a really fun page and recipe using your choice of pudding flavors… the pull-out is a fabulous way to record your favorite flavors too!

An unknown participant… I believe the recipe may have shifted in the mail… I tried to move it and realign but it is really stuck to the page!  The recipe is for Nanaimo Bars.  I’ve never heard of them but they sound VERY yummy!

Toffee-Coffee Brownies from Felicia A. Bloom (just throw my diet out the window)

Bonnie Olson’s Rocky Road Cookie Bars (I am in so much trouble here!).  This is a really great idea… Bonnie added a stamped piece of window sheet to protect/cover the recipe and add add dimension to the swap too!

 

One more today… Cherries for Easy Cherry Cobbler from Ethleen which was inspired by Gretchen Barron

5 more 6x6 recipe swaps coming up tomorrow… and then back to business as usual!!

 

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6x6 Page Swap Samples are Here!

Do you participate in swaps?  I always make sure I do the swaps for our Jacksonville Starz Demonstrator Group Swap each month, and the annual Convention, Leadership and Regional Training events.  I tend to shy away from other group swaps though because of time constraints.   There’s only so much time in a day!

Recently, I made an exception… and joined a 6x6 scrapbook page Sweet Dessert recipe swap hosted by Krista Rill (thanks, Krista!)  Although it took an infinitely long time to get the swaps back, I was quite pleasantly surprised and will be sharing them with you over the next couple of days.  The recipes sound delicious… and many of my stamp campers are dieting :(

I did learn a couple things during this swap too…

• I was quite surprised that everyone used typed recipes on their pages (I hand-wrote mine, no wonder my hand was so cramped!!).  I really like the look of the typed recipe and wish I had thought to do that!  I guess I’ll chalk it up as a DUH! moment! 
• That I should have put the name of the swap, host, month/year, supplies, and my contact info on the back (another DUH moment!)
• I didn’t have to put them all in an expensive sleeve before mailing to the hostess!
• Being a swap hostess is NOT an easy job, it’s a LOT of work (thanks again, Krista)!
• Not everyone follows the current merchandise, submission deadline, and other swap rules (another DUH moment for me)
• I probably should have stayed with my original (brighter) design, as everyone seems to prefer more modern and bright colors… and it was my first instinct to do yellow for lemony pie!  My painstakingly hand-written swap can be seen in THIS blog post.

 

Here’s Suzie Hasko’s Frozen Strawberry Dessert Swap:

From Michelle Jerome, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake (doesn’t that sound interesting?)

A really fun and yummy diet recipe from Kimberly Johnson:

Laurie Desmarais’ Coffee Cheese Cake… perfect for stamp camp if they weren’t all on diets!

And yummy banana pudding from Lorita Edwards… I LOVE banana pudding and never make it because I’m the only one here who will eat bananas!

I’ll be back tomorrow with 5 more great swap shares… Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

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Open House Success!

Yesterday was my Retired Rubber Garage Sale and Open House Ice Cream Social.  We had plenty of rubber flying around the room as everyone found special stamp sets they had missed from years’ past.

The door prize drawings were held late yesterday evening… and the winners have been contacted.  Thanks to everyone who attended and helped me reduce the size of my rubber “stash”!

We made a quick make ‘n take at the open house, using a light box and dry-embossing technique.  We also used the beautiful Autumn Harvest Rub-Ons, some for the first time!  What a quick way to make a simple card!

Here’s the Make ‘N Take we made… of course everyone’s was a bit different as they were able to choose their rub-on, placement, and ribbon option!

 

Are you ready for the Royal Blog Tour?  It’s coming up fast!!  The tour will be held at the end of the month… and the Queen and Princess interviews are being posted daily!  Click on the Royal Blog Tour icon in the upper right corner to catch up with what is going on!

This will be a very busy weekend for me… I’m doing the Buckler Craft Fair at the Jacksonville Fair Grounds on Saturday.  If you’re a local blog reader, please stop by and say HI!  I’ll have more Retired Rubber for sale too!

 

 

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Forest Friends Magical 3D Pop Up Box

Last month, I did a box similar to this using the Ocean Commotion Stamp Set.  The box adapts well to so many things, I decided to work it up again using the Forest Friends Stamp Set!

 

The box was really fun and easy to do… using window sheets to support the pop-up images on the interior of the box!  The birthday message was borrowed from the “On Your Birthday Stamp set.  All the panels were sponged with layers of Certainly Celery, Garden Green, and Bashful Blue Classic Ink before embossing the tree image onto the panels, and heavy grade Window Sheet was used to support the images and message.

 

Isn’t it fun?  You can see the original Ocean Commotion Box which I created for the Royal Blog Tour last May >>HERE<<. 

Tomorrow is my New Catalog Open House and Retired Rubber Garage Sale.  Next Saturday, you can find me at the Bucklers’ Fair, and Sunday afternoon we’ll have a stamp – a – stack beginning at 2pm.  Hope to see you along the way!