Spooky Treats just for You....{MCT Cook-N-Craft}

Good Morning everyone!

Today I am sharing a project for

MCT's Cook -N- Craft, 

its an anything goes post day BUT we also share a favorite recipe.

Fall is my favorite time of year! The weather cools down, its football season and its 

PUMPKIN time!!

Todays project and recipe is all about pumpkins so lets take a look at my project first!

Total cuteness when it comes to making your own pumpkin treat box! This easy to do project can be made with any color/design of cardstock.
For my project I found some scrap striped paper and used the Stitched Favor Box Die.
Next I stamped the sentiment using the new kit ~Frightful Greetings
For the stem of my pumpkin, I just die cut the top of the Stitched Favor Box in brown cardstock and layered it over the designer paper.
Finishing touches to my project~ I added a green leaf using the die from A Thankful Heart
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Now onto my recipe.....

I LOVE pumpkin bread so I am sharing one of my favorites!

 Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree

4 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

2/3 cup water

3 cups white sugar

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour    

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger  

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

So I hope you have enjoyed my treat box 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!!

To My Lil' Pumpkin...{Trendy Twine DT Project}

Good Morning everyone! 

It is my DT day over on the Trendy Twine Blog and

For my project today I followed the current Trendy Twine Challenge going on right now

and made some adorable pumpkin treats.

The challenge is....

Boo-tiful Treats recipe:

Halloween treat packaging with a tag

& 

Trendy Twine**

And here are my lil' pumpkins!

 Aren't they just ADORABLE????? I just love them to pieces!!!!

 Here is how I made these.... I used a file I bought in the Silhouette Store called the 3d Pumpkin Petal Box and re~sized it  to make them mini...These measuring about 2". Once all the pieces were cut out, the box and the stem, I stamped onto the front my PK face, PK~550 Pumpkin Faces. I added some big pink cheeks and some white gel pen doodles and placed these aside to work on the tags.

For my tags, I used the die and stamp set from MCT, Teeny Tag Dies and Teenie Tag Holidays. I stamped it onto some white cardstock and for some added color to top of the box I die cut a leaf in the same green color as the twine using the MCT Stitched Leaves Dies. To put the tag onto the box, I wrapped some Lime Orangesicle Trendy Twine around the closed box on the stem. A sweet bow and the ends tied and my boxes are ready to give to my Lil' Pumpkins.

Isn't this twine color AWESOME? I just LOVE the ones with the added white twist. In my opinion this is one of the MUST have for all of your fall projects! Remember Thanksgiving is coming up and this would look super on all those projects as well!

So there is my inspiration project! I sure hope you will join us in this month's challenge! You have 1 more day to great crafty and enter to win!

**Trendy Twine is a brand of twine, not bakers twine in general.

If you do not have Trendy Twine, use hemp, jute, 

embroidery thread, or yarn only; ribbon does not count.

(no other brands of bakers twine)

Deadline is: 11:59 pm, Fri., Oct. 24th.

-Project must be new for the challenge.

-No back linking.

-Only one entry, please.

-Must follow directions for the challenge.

-Mention the challenge in your post.

Projects not qualified will be unlinked without notice.

(including wrong twine)

Before I say goodbye for today, make sure to stop by and have a look at the gorgeous twine and so many other fun items in the store HERE

While you are there make sure to look at all the gorgeous Halloween twine colors!!! There are tons of specials on all the mini sets.....

PLUS 

all the full rolls are on sale as well...

New to Trendy Twine??? Check out the other places where we share our projects .....

Trendy Twine Blog~ HERE

and the

Trendy Twine Facebook page~ HERE

Don't forget to visit the 

new and improved, packed with tons of product

Store HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you have enjoyed my project and have a great Thursday!

Harvest Greetings.....{PKS Challenge 14-14}

Morning everyone!

Welcome to another fun Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge!!!!

Fall is in the air, the leaves are such a gorgeous color around here and it is almost Halloween time!!
It's the 15th of the month, which means the start of another Color/Photo Inspiration over at Peachy Keen Stamps!
Here is the inspiration picture....... They are beautiful ones!!!

And here is the card I made! My inspiration came from the  orange and brown colors and the picture of the pie :) Yummmmmm Pumpkin Pie...LOL!

Here is how I made this... I started with a kraft cardstock base and die cut 2 of the rectangle frames in designer paper. The bottom layer is wrapped with some Trendy Twine and taped to the base. the second layer is popped up using some foam squares for extra dimension. 
Next I cut all the pieces of the  pumpkin pie using my cameo. I hid the face that came with the file so I could stamp my Peachy Keen Kawaii face! So cute!!!
Once all the pieces were die cut and the face was stamped, I put the image together, adding some foam dots to the whipped cream~again for added dimension.
I popped the whole image onto the card front and then added my sentiment.
When picking the sentiment for my card, I thought this card would go great with a home made pumpkin pie. Don't you?
To finish my card off I added some random enamel dots and again popped up the sentiment.
Lots of dimension and cuteness on this card!

Peachy Keen Stamps Used:

PK~1370 Kawaii Face Assortment
PKSC~23 October 2013

My Creative Time Products Used:

Stitched Rectangle Frame Dies 

Curly Label

Other Products Used:

SVG Cutting Files~ Sweet Thing
Trendy Twine~ Krazy for Kraft
Recollections~Harvest Delight paper pack
Chalk, pop dots, enamel dots, copics, white gel pen
distress ink

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with the new challenge!!

You can find out all the details by heading over to the Peachy Keen Blog as well as see the inspiration from the other DT members!
I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

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

Trick or Treat....Pumpkin Gift Set......{TKJ Color Challenge}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

 A Color Challenge

And here is my take on it.....

A few weeks ago I posted a Pumpkin Spice Creamer recipe/gift card (you can see the original post HERE) and wanted to finish another gift set to send to a friend. 

I used both the colors and the picture of the pumpkins as my inspiration. I started out my card using a piece of Brown Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock and added my layers of pattern paper using Simple Stories~ Take a Hike paper pack. After adding my signature machine stitching border, I wrapped some Kraft Wraphia Ribbon around the mat and tied it in a simple knot. Then using a White X-Small Tag and some Chit Chat Seasonal Word Stickers added "trick or treat" to the tag.  I then went ahead and using some Brown Earthy Hemp Cord , tied the tag to the Kraft Wrapia Ribbon. 

To finish up my card, I die cut a scalloped circle using the Brown Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock and stamped the cute pumpkin on white cardstock for the center of the scallop. 

To match my card, I made this beautiful decorated mason jar filled with the Pumpkin Spice Creamer. I used the same Brown Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock  and designer papers, wrapped more of the Kraft Wrapia Ribbon around the lid of the jar and made a matching pumpkin tag that I tied onto the jar using some of the Brown Earthy Hemp Cord.

So there you have it....

my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just B Creative Crazy~October Linky

Craftin Desert Divas~ Halloween Party

Paper Issues~ Halloween

Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Fall/Halloween

Cupcake Inspiration~ Challenge 233

CI Paint~ Inspired By: Black and Orange

Good Morning Bloggers!!!
It is time for another fun
Inspired By Challenge 
over at
Creative Inspirations Paint!!
This weeks Challenge~
Inspired By: Black and Orange

Since Halloween is right around the corner and my kiddo's LOVE to get yummy
treats, I made 2 gift bags for them filled with a Hershey Bar.
Just a little something to put in their lunches

So here they both are....I used Kraft bags from

The Kraft Journal and yes I know this is a stretch but their challenge this week is

Quick as a Bunny~ I used Tracy's tag as my inspiration~

Making a gift as well as using a tag...plus ribbon and twine

Here is a close-up of the first bag...

I received this adorable spiderweb from my crafty friend Nana over at

My Crafting Channel

 and I knew I wanted to use it for something altered. I painted it with 
Onxy CI Paints, attached some Trendy Twine in Black Licorice running the twine down to my adorable spider....Isn't he too cute with those googly eyes??
Since he was alittle different color than the orange in my ribbon and stamping, I painted his
legs with Pumpkin CI Paint
Love that chevron border I added on the bottom??
I used The Alley Way Stamps~Cover Up set
and Distress ink in Rusty Hinge and Black Soot
For my sentiment I used CI Paints Deliquesce Black Embossing Powder,
 My Creative Time~Mixed Holiday Sentiments and stamped it on the Tiny Tag die
all attached with a clip that was purchased from The Kraft Journal and 3 Girl Jam crinkle ribbon in Tuxedo and Harvest Orange

Here is a close-up of the second bag...

Again most of the products are the same...the only things different in this bag is I used

The Alley Way Stamps~Jibber Jabber set for the polka dot border

The Alley Way Stamps~Ghoul Friend Set for the ghost

CI Paints in Fairy Dust for the ghost (you can see the shimmer the paints make by the glare from the picture..LOL)

and chipboard letters painted in pumpkin.

I hope you like my treat bags and will play along with us over at
Creative Inspirations Paint!
Remember you do not need CI Paints on your project but if you have them we would
LOVE to see how you use them!!!

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

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Entering this into the following challenges:

My Creative Time~ Googly Eyes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Glimmer and Sparkle
Trendy Twine~ Something spooky/cute w/twine
Decorate to Celebrate~ Halloween Party
PaperPlay Challenges~ Shine On
My Craft Spot~ Boo To You
My Crafting Channel~ Halloween Project
My Kraft Journal~ Make it Monday
3 Girl Jam~ Anything Goes w/Ribbon
Happy Life, Crafty Wife~Ghostess with the Mostess
Paper Playtime~Trick or Treat
Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Friday's
The Ribbon Carousel~ Halloween Spirits
DL Art~ Thankful Thursday
Little Scrap Pieces~ Halloween
Sunday Funday~ Linky Party

CI Paints~ Inspired By: Fall Colors

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: Fall Colors

I made a very CAS fall card

(you know how I love my CAS style....my wonderful hubby told me today that these are his favorite of mine as well..awww he is my biggest fan and even hearing him tell me these are his favorites again and again still make me feel just as good as the first time)

Ok enough mush...time to share my card

I used Kraft card stock as my base

CI Paints~ Deliquesce Clear Embossing powder over Tim Holtz

Gathered Twigs Distress ink

and 

My Creative Time~Piles of Smiles sentiment stamp 

Here is a close-up of the sentiment and leaves.

Those leaves are also from 

My Creative Time~ Piles of Smiles set

I die cut 3 of them in different color PTI cardstock

then used CI Paints in Sunshine, Evergreen and Pumpkin

to give them some shimmer and sparkle.

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft

PTI~ Lemon Tart, Orange Zest, New Leaf

Dies~ My Creative Time~

Leaf dies from Piles of Smiles

Sentiment~ My Creative Time~

Piles of Smiles

Extra's~ Creative Inspirations Paint~

Pumpkin, Sunshine, Evergreen

Creative Inspiration Paints~

Deliquesce Clear Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz~

Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

I hope you like my very CAS card and will play along with us over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!

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

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Cas-Ual Friday~ CAS Fall

DL Art~ 1000 Post linky Party

CI Paints~ Inspired By: Monochromatic

Good Morning Blogger!!!

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: Monochromatic

which by definition states..

~of or having one color.

~of, pertaining to, or having tones of one color in addition to the ground hue:

 and here is the card I made..

I went with several shades of orange..

my inspiration from the new Authentique Paper~Enchanted

that I just picked up

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Bazzill~

Licorice Twist

Designer Paper~ Authentique~

Enchanted

Sentiment~ Blog Candy Won from~

Nana~ My Crafting Channel

Image~ Market Street Stamps~

Happy Halloween

Extra's~ Creative Inspirations Paint~

Pumpkin, Emerald

Sewing Machine

Trendy Twine~

Orange Licorice

Button 

Curly ribbon

Copics~ C1,C3

Glossy Accents

I hope I have inspired you!

I would LOVE to see you join in on our 

Inspired By: Monochromatic

Challenge!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a 

GREAT Day!!

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Entering this into:
Inspire Me Fridays~ Anything Goes
IDIC Challenge~ Monochromatic