It's a Date Vol. 1

I have a new date stamp element pack out at Scrapping Fairytales today! It is so versatile. You can make it match you page perfectly by clipping a paper to the different sections of the background paper. There are four different sections, so the possibilities are numerous. Also included are the years 1995-2020 in both straight and round orientations, the months in round, straight and abbreviated versions and numbers 1-31 for the date.



Check out how my CT member Dawn used it on this layout.

A little bit of China

Life has gotten a bit crazy around my house this past week. My husband started a new job on Monday. He is now home every night. Talk about a big adjustment. For the past just about ten years he has been driving truck long distance, so he was usually only home every other weekend. The kids are really liking having him around more often, so am I. It's just going to take us a little bit to get used to the new routine. I have also applied for a preschool job for a couple mornings a week during the school year. I'm really hoping I get it.

Now on to what you probably came here to see...my new kits! :) Ever since I was little, pandas have been one of my favorite animals.When we went to the San Diego Zoo a few years ago, I was so thrilled to be able to see a live panda in person. I would love the opportunity to some day go to the panda research center in China to see even more of them. When I was working on my Zoo Crew kit I had thought about including the panda, but decided I wanted to do an entire kit around it instead, so that is how this kit came to be. I just love how these kits turned out.





If you buy both kits together in the bundle, you save about 30%. :)



Until next time happy scrapping! :)

A sneak peek!

I have 2 fun mini kits coming out this Friday. Here is a little sneak peek. :)

Come join me for a Speed Scrap!

I'm hosting my first speed scrap at ScrapMatters! Not only that but I even made the participation prize! Hope you can join me for a fun time. :)

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

Wow the summer has sure gone by fast so far. My little sister has decided that she wants to do three different kinds of cupcakes for her wedding, a white, a chocolate and a fun flavor. For her fun flavor she is currently thinking Strawberry Lemonade, since it is a summer wedding and that's a summery flavor. So that means time for me to experiment.

I took two tries at making the Strawberry Lemonade cupcakes. I think it's going to take a few more tries before we get the perfect combination. The first one I made was a lemon cupcake with a little bit of strawberry filled with lemon curd and topped with strawberry buttercream. This one turned out very dense and quite lemony. The lemon was a bit too overpowering. So it was on to try number 2. lol.


(Strawberry lemonade cupcake Take 1 outside)


(Strawberry Lemonade cupcake take 1 inside)

Take 2 is much closer to the cupcake my little sister is wanting for her wedding. I made these and took them to our church's Vacation Bible School for treats for the teachers and they were a huge hit! :) I decided to practice my rose frosting on these, too. Learned a few tips on how to get them to look right from the beginning next time. ;) This time I started with a white cake base and added lemonade concentrate in place of the water along with the strawberry puree. The filling is a strawberry lemonade mousse and is topped again with a strawberry buttercream. The cake was very moist and light with a great crumb. The mousse was the perfect blend of strawberry and lemon. I think I'm going to try to tweak this recipe a little bit more to see if I can get a bit more strawberry flavor in the cake, then it will be just right. :) I also like the appearance of this second one much better than the first, too.


(outside of Strawberry Lemonade cupcake Take 2)


(Inside of Strawberry Lemonade cupcake Take 2)


Next up is a birthday cake for my grandfather's 75th birthday this weekend. :)

Hunter's Cake and Template Freebie

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day yesterday. :)

Last weekend we went camping for Hunter's birthday. Man, what a wet weekend it was, too. :P By the time we came home on Sun we no longer had a black & white Shih Tzu. Instead we had a black one. :O Thankfully on Saturday when we had Hunter's birthday party with his friends it was dry until it got dark. We had the pleasure of setting up and taking down in the rain, too. lol. Unfortunately with all that rain that meant no sitting around the campfire at night too. Good thing we had packed games in the campers to play instead. The kids had a great time as usual, though, so it was all good. :)

For Hunter's birthday we decided to go with a Super Mario Bros. theme. I made funfetti cupcakes with red, green and blue frosting for his party with his friends and a funfetti cake for his family party. The decorations on his cake took me quite a while to make, but I have to say I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. Everything on it was edible except for the Mario figurine on the top.











This week I'm thinking about trying a strawberry lemonade cake and cupcakes. I found a recipe that sounds pretty good and it's a flavor Lisa would like to try for her wedding. So I'm going to give it ago. Will try to remember to take pictures so I can post them here. :)

I'm hosting the Tuesday Template challenge at ScrapMatters today. :) You can snag this free template from me in this thread. Since it's the end of May, you have until the end of June to get a page completed!



Here is the page I created using The Design Girl's Fairytale and Erica Zane's If You Give a Girl a Castle that inspired the template.



It's been a fairly productive month scrapwise for me, too. Here are some of the other pages I managed to scrap. :)


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I've got some fun things I've been working on the last couple weeks, hopefully if all goes well I can show them to you soon. :) Until next time...

Happy Scrapping!

Summer Kick off freebies!

Starting on May 27th, the Haynay Hunnies are giving you a week of freebies! :) You can find them on Haynay Designs' blog. Today is a cluster frame I created using Love My Doll and Love My Baby.