Happy 100th Birthday.....{MCT Cook & Craft}

Good Morning!
I am sharing a post today for MCT's Cook -N- Craft series where we get to make any kind of project BUT we also share a favorite recipe.
For my project today, I had a request from a friend to make a special birthday card for her grandma who is turning 100 on Tuesday. Since they are going to have a big birthday celebration, I also thought I would share one of my FAVORITE summer time salads that is perfect for a picnic, backyard b-b-que, or in my situation, a just because snack. 

Let's take a look at my card first....

The birthday lady loves to garden and her favorite colors are yellow, pink, purple and green. I incorporated all of those colors into my springtime inspired card.
I used several MCT stamps and dies and love the way this bright and cheerful card turned out!
I started with a kraft cardstock base, added a layer of white cardstock and then die cut the pretty polka dot designer paper with the Stitched Rectangular Frame Die.
Using both the XL Label Die and the Stitched XL Label Die I made the focal part of my card. The adorable Watering Can Die is from this past new release~ and I added some pretty flowers from the Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies. 
Moving along on my card, I die cut the "100"  from the Stitched 4X6 Journal Dies and adhered them to my card front. Using the sentiment from Prehistoric Holidays, I stamped the Happy above the 100 and the Birthday below. I also added the "th" using the Write On stamp set.
Finally I finished my card by added a few hearts from another new release~ Thank You Mom.
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Now onto my recipe.....
Again it is such a yummy salsa perfect for chips and makes the best side dish to take to a party. Let me tell you it will be gone in no time and is highly addictive!!

Spicy Bean Salsa

Ingredients

1 (15 ounce) can black-eyed peas
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper

1 (4 ounce) can diced jalapeno peppers
1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
1 cup Italian-style salad dressing
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

Directions
In a medium bowl, combine black-eyed peas, black beans, corn, onion, green bell pepper, jalapeno peppers and tomatoes. Season with Italian-style salad dressing and garlic salt; mix well. Cover, and refrigerate overnight to blend flavors.

Serve with tortilla chips

So I hope you have enjoyed my card and yummy recipe!
 Want to see more projects?

Make sure you head on over to My Creative Time to see what the rest of the DT made!

I know the inspiration is AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

MCT "5 Days of Christmas" Day 3...{Holiday Card}

Good Morning everyone and welcome to 
Day 3 of 
My Creative Time's 5 Days of Christmas!
Each day we will be sharing projects, with a theme to help you get into the holiday spirit.
All of our projects will be simple ones that you can recreate in a flash.

For Day 2 we are all sharing Holiday Card projects!

and here is the card I made....

I just got some beautiful new designer paper from Echo Park that I used for this card. Loving the music note background and the new Thank You & Frame Dies set, I added some popped up ornaments, complete with their hangers and bows.

The sentiment was stamped onto the Fun Stitched Tag Dies and comes from the stamp/die set~ Prehistoric Holidays.

A simple card that can be massed produced with any kind of designer papers!

Recipe:

My Creative Time~

Fun Stitched Ornaments & More
Fun Stitched Tag Dies

Prehistoric Holidays

Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies

Thank You & Frame Dies

Extra~

Echo Park~ I love Christmas

Foam
Kraft Card stock

***GIVEAWAY***     

             Emma will be giving away a $25 gift card to the “My Creative Time” store to one LUCKY commenter each day this week! All you have to do is leave your comments on each of our blogs & Emma will announce the winner each morning on her blog! Good LUCK :)

I hope you liked my card!
Make sure to check out the rest of the DT's projects over on the
My Creative Time blog!

Have a Great day and I will see you back here tomorrow for Day 4.

MCT 46th New Release Sneak Day 4

Morning everyone and welcome to Day  4 of sneaks for the 

My Creative Time 46th New Release!!

I hope you have enjoyed all the AWESOME projects so far this week. We have one more sneak to share....

Prehistoric Holiday’s

For my projects today, I used some of the added elements and sentiments in this new set to make some mini holiday cards. 

I started out the same way with all 3 cards. I used the new Stitched Squares Inside and Out set to make the base of my cards. Each card measures 3x3 and is so adorable!

I layered the above card with some black cardstock, designer paper from Doodlebug Designs and then a smaller white cardstock square. I stamped my sentiment and placed everything aside to color and die cut the party hat. I colored it using my prismacolor pencils and embellished it with some gold stickles to match the pattern paper. Some Totally White Trendy Twine finished off my card.

My Christmas card was done the same way as above. I used My Minds Eye designer paper for the second layer, colored my santa hat with my prismacolor pencils and embellished it with some diamond stickles. I added the beautiful Candy Cane Trendy Twine to finish this card off.

My final card is this cutie Halloween one. Besides using the new set Prehistoric Holiday’s, I added the adorable spider from the Too Cute To Spook set. Embellished with orange stickles and Totally Orange Trendy Twine finished this card off.

And here are all 3 cards together! I am so loving these fun cards and can not wait to give them to friends!

***Sneak Peek giveaway!***

 We will be giving away the sets we are showcasing each day to ONE lucky winner! For example, the set we are showcasing on Wednesday, Emma will announce the winner of that on Thursday & the sets we are showcasing on Thursday, Emma will announce that winner on Friday in her video! ALL you have to do is leave a comment on each of our blogs! You are NOT required to comment on EVERY SINGLE blog, but the more you comment on, the more chances you have for winning! VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE leave a way for us to contact you w/your comment just in case "YOU" are the lucky winner! For EXTRA entries, you can spread the word about this release on Facebook, tweet about it OR even instagram it! #mycreativetime! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE & let's start spreading the word!;)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

I hope you will join me tomorrow for the big reveal and blog hop!!!!

Don't forget to stop by the MCT Blog to see what the rest of the VERY talented DT has to share!