National Stamping Month!

TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL STAMPING MONTH IN September, we are offering our first-ever double stamp set! You can get the exclusive My Acrylix® Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set FREE when you place an order of $75 through September 30, 2011. You’ll love this double set—two D-size sets in one envelope—which includes lots of clever phrases and coordinating images you’ll use in your handmade cards all year. And with a retail value of $35.90, this set drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase! Have double the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set!
Below you can see a few pieces of art I made with the stamp set. Look for a video on how to make the pocket coming soon!

Just a Note

Earlier this month, I did a trade show in Dallas for my Landscape/Irrigation company. A very nice man took us out to eat at a VERY nice steak house in Dallas. I made sure before we left the trade show we had an address so I could send a Thank you card. This gave me the chance to use the tree on the CTMH cricut cartridge.
I decided to use some burlap on the card-in honor of the man who took us to dinner. See he is the sales rep for the company that sales the burlap used on tree root balls when they did native ones! I hope he is impressed with my use of burlap!

Back To School Block Frame Class

Back to School Block Frame

Class Date: Sept 10 2011
Time: 9:30 am
Place: My House
Please RSVP & Pre pay by August 29
*Please bring standard class tool kit – Paper Trimmer, Scissors, and Permanent Adhesive *As per CTMH Policy, the Class Fee only provides your Class Kit (there is no charge for my expertise).
Cost: $17.00
1 Block
1 typeset pattern paper
12” cocoa ribbon
1 sheet of cardstock
Instructions

And yes, that's a picture of me-2nd grade. Bad hair and even worse glasses!!!

Peach Upside Down Cake

A customer gave me a big bag of peaches, and I have been making all things Peach lately! We had peach ice cream, peach salsa and peach upside down cake. I made the Peach upside down cakes in the small loaf pans so that I could share. I used the CTMH Mayberry and the Workshop on the Go Mayberry stamp set to create a little gift for the customer who gave me the peaches. I was insipred by this post and the creative use of the jar.

Peach Upside Down CakeBake:

Cool: 15 minutes

Prep: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1-1/2 to 2 cups sliced, pitted and peeled peaches or frozen unsweetened peach slices, thawed and large slices cut in half lengthwise
• 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1-1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup milk
• I added some chopped pecans as well
  

Directions

1. Place 1/4 cup butter in an 8x8x2-inch baking pan. Warm in a 350 degrees F oven about 5 minutes or until butter is melted. (Be sure to watch carefully to avoid over browning the butter). Remove pan from oven. Add brown sugar, stirring until sugar is completely moistened. Spread sugar mixture evenly in pan. Arrange peach slices evenly over brown sugar mixture. Set aside.

2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Beat in granulated sugar until well combined. Add egg and vanilla, beating until combined. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk to beaten butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined. Spread batter evenly over the peaches in the pan.

3. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of pan; invert onto a large serving plate. Cool for 10 to 15 minutes more. Serve warm. Makes 8 servings.

Door Wreath-Texas Tech

There is no secret that I love my Red Raiders!! Football season is upon us, and I decided this year to create my own door wreath using CTMH products.
I cut the banner and the 3d roses using the CTMH cricut cartridge. I also used some chipboard letters from CTMH and covered them with glitter and Liquid glass.
It's a prefect time of the year to pick up some glittery stems from the Christmas section of the craft store. So what's your favorite team? Make your own wreath using your team colors!!

Make your own

Corrugated is all the rage right now. But what if you don't have any? Create your own faux corrugated accent with kraft cardstock and a paper crimp-er. You can see below that I cut an image with the CTMH Cricut cartridge and then ran it through the crimp-er.
I also used some wonderful rub-ons from the Mischief compliments collection. (wheat images)

A Gift for the Dog Sitter

Over the past weekend I had to do a 3 day trade show in Dallas. That meant leaving my sweet Dixie Dog home with a dog sitter. Becca is a life saver, and she is so good with dogs! In addition to paying her for her time I made her this frame using the 3d flowers from the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge. I left the paper inside the frame so you could see that I got it at Micheal's for $1. Turns out to be a great gift.