Are you a Craftaholic?

Do you suffer from uncontrollable shakes when you see an arts and crafts store and when you step inside the store, do your eyes widen like that of a child at Disneyland?

Do you wake up in the middle of the night only to find that you fell asleep on your craft table (again) and now you have to go wash that glitter off your cheeks?

Have you stopped socializing with your non-crafty friends and find yourself idolizing the crafty ones?

Are your fingers petrified when you reach for the glue gun?

Do you kiss your sewing machine when you start to work on a project or officially named it and you are too ashamed to admit it?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, -you-are-a-craftaholic- and once you admit that, you can move on and keep crafting people!!




I will have a fun giveaway on Friday Jan 21st around nine-ish in the morning (USA, Los Angeles, California Time) you don't want to miss it.

Paper Bag Recipe Book

Hello readers, thanks so much for coming by.  I have a new paperbag book to show you.  This one was designed by my crafty friend, Misty Grosse.  I don't have a link to Misty's blog because it's under construction, hopefully it will be up and running soon.  You're gonna love her paper crafts, she's a pro and she comes up with the cutest projects.

We made these recipe books last week when a few of us got together.  This is a little different than the one I created a few months ago, you can see that one here.   Along with putting the recipe book together, we also had a potluck.  There was soooo much food there since all fourteen ladies brought a dish.  We had everything from a tasty Peruvian Chicken Rice to a delicious Avocado Dessert Pie to an amazing Chicken Stroganoff.  I shared my Tres Leches cake with them, you can see that recipe here and I'm happy to say I got thumbs up reviews.

Along with the potluck dish, each lady brought five recipes to share with everyone else......doing the math.... I ended up with over 60 crazy-licious recipes!!.   I will share these recipes with you throughout the year.  I'll bet you're still thinking of that Avocado Dessert Pie! let me just tell you, it's delicious! if you make it, your friends are not going to believe that the main ingredient is avocado.  They are going to think that you don't want to share the recipe and you only said avocado because that's the first thing that came to your mind..... hehe, funny.



On to the recipe book:
Misty used the cricut machine, "From My Kitchen" cartridge, to cut out all the shapes and words

check out this tri-fold page with recipe cards:

and this is the back :

The paper clips are used to hold the recipe cards while we're cooking, cool idea!
And this is where my 60 recipes are stored, inside each paper bag:

I hope this gives you ideas for a recipe book.  Hope you have a great day.

The following message is for Betty, her blog just disappeared.  

Hope all is well my dear friend, I miss your posts and Corgi.

Cinderella Card

I made this card for Stampotique Designers Challenge: Put on your best Mask.  The "Masking" technique is very easy to do and it gives your stamped project depth.  It's a popular design choice for many stampers and a single stamp will yield hundreds of possibilities.

Here's my completed card:

The inside reads:  
A new pair of shoes can change your life, just ask Cynderella.

Keep reading if you'd like to learn this technique.....


Fist stamp your image on cardstock and quickly re-stamp on scrap paper:

cut out the image on the scrap paper, this will be your mask.

Next, place your cut out on top of the image you stamped on cardstock.  Now you're ready for your second image.  Stamp your second image on top, like this:

You might be thinking this image is ruined???right?.....remember, I covered my image with my mask.  Here's where my image really is:

It was underneath my mask.  After you remove the mask, you get a nice clean image:

It's that easy!