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Dec
26
More Nursery Necessities…
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I’m counting down the days to the new catalog which is VERY easy with four cases of new catalogs sitting in my living room!!! I can’t wait for my New Catalog Open House on January 17th…
All of these samples are made with Brocade Blue ink & cardstock and Bashful Blue ink and the card is Whisper White and the book & 6×6 scrap page is Very Vanilla giving it a more ’sleepy’ quality, I think.
In all my free time (yes, that’s a joke!), I have been doing an redesign of my main website at www.ustamp4fun.com and I have been getting many requests to update the gallery of samples by set. (None of these requests of course are coming with an offer of money, LOL, but I will try to be better about keeping that up this year as one of my new year’s resolutions). So, I have made a set sampler HERE for you to view all the samples I have made with this set!
Dec
20
Nursery Necessities - Coaster Ideas
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It’s always fun to play with new sets! These are two of the display items I made for Leadership using Nursery Necessites (a new set coming in January!) using plain drink coasters. The one on the left is a mini ‘clipboard’ type altered coaster (thank you again Trisha Wampler for that idea that I am using to death) and the one on the right is a mini book with the coasters as the book covers.
The elephant (left) was embossed in white on Pretty In Pink and cut, the background papers are "Flowers for You" designer series paper and the set "It’s a Date" will be sorely missed when it expires 12/31/07, I do use it a lot! The book cover is Very Vanilla cardstock stamped and layered with Brocade Blue & Bashful Blue, wave caps sponged in white crafters ink and, of course, glitter.
My favorite stamps in that set however are the crescent moon and star! See the entire set of 12 stamps in the Preview Mini Catalog (go to page 12–and don’t forget to notice the matching jumbo alphabet wheel on page 13).
Dec
15
Chocolate–my other love!
Filed Under Christmas, Personal | 7 Comments
UPDATE: For those of you asking me, the ‘house’ mold and all supplies were purchased at Cannon’s Cake Supply store in Delaware, they don’t have a separate site for their cake and candy supplies but you can call the supply store at 302-738-6008, they ship same day–ask for ‘house’ mold and 3 lbs. of chocolate melts–they sell all colors of chocolate as well. The page for the supply store (hours, etc.) is HERE. I have about 8 of these molds to do the number of houses I have to do quickly, LOL!
My apologies for my non-stamping post, I am in the throes of Christmas preparation with my family and I am sharing with you photos of the beautiful and delicate chocolate houses that I have been making for almost 20 years each Christmas (photo is last year’s houses). With the help of my daughters, the candy making has begun–and with Katherine’s help, the ‘housebuilding’ has begun with all the walls and roofs molded and are stored for assembly and decorating on or about Christmas eve.
Before I had children, I made as many as 15 of them as gifts for my family and sold them as well. I went as far as to paint each mold with the detail of the trellis and window shutters, etc with different color chocolate, but these days my decorating of the house and the yard have declined considerably in the effort to get them done at all! I make six of them for close friends and family and wish I could make more but each one takes hours to make. The house is entirely chocolate and the roof is a sheet of chocolate, to with non-pareils (added like roof shingles). The trees are green chocolate, the snow detail on the house is white chocolate, but the housetop snow is royal icing.
I have made the toffee for the inside of the homemade buttercrunch candy and will be toasting and chopping the almonds today. Toasting almonds is actually very tricky and difficult to accomplish (in a family with four children). I need to toast 1 1/2 times the amount that I need to take into consideration the stealing that will happen. This cuts down on some of the angry accusations, finger pointing, name calling–and that’s just my husband! (
ah, the joy of a big family)… you get the idea. It can get ugly, so I just make more than I need!
Those of you who know me well, know that the only candy, cookie or cake I will eat is chocolate–so I mold chocolate houses instead of baking gingerbread ones (like normal people). I am proud of the homemade butter crunch candy that I make which I have been perfecting over the last few years. I have already made the toffee for it (I wear the burns proudly for the 320 degrees I cook it to) and have it in a sealed container to season it so that it makes the perfect center for the buttercrunch (it must melt in your mouth!).
I will be sharing with you posts of my favorite sets that are discontinuing this week. I am proud to have been selected by Stampin’ Up! to be a display artist at Leadership this January, but I cannot share the samples until the sets are announced (or actually, I can show you, but I’ll have to shoot you afterwards, LOL).
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