Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Layout of the Week 11/29/11 -- Sherriscraps!

When I logged into the gallery at the Cookin' Up Creations forum, this layout by Sherriscraps caught my eye right away:


I love the composition, the mix of patterns and colors, and that big bright photo. The title also made me smile! Please leave Sherri some well deserved love here!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Make up Monday for November 28th

Good Morning.. Week in Review on Make up Monday
We are going to start with Technique Tuesday with Nana Karen. She supplies us with a great template for a flower... and many different size options. It's beautiful when all made up.


And here is Karen's layout using it. What a fabulous accent for any page. Beautiful layout.


New Wednesday is with Nicole. She really put on her thinking cap for this one.... PICTURELESS.
I am still working on this one. She was very creative and shared her all time favourite Kraft mac n cheese. Sure would love to see what you come up with.


Tutorial Thursday is with Sandy. She is sharing the art and creation of using White on White. What amazing inspirational photo and her card is stunning.

The card is layers and layers of white... so soft, elegant and beautiful.


Focus Friday with Amy .. Eat your Greens. What a great array of greens there are in the photo.


Below is Amy's fabulous circles design layout with just too cute photos. .. and look at all the green.


Sketchy Saturday with Tammi is called Ingredients.


What an amazing mix of colour, texture and many elements. Everything you'd find in a layout.
She supplied us with the Sketch from Page Maps below.


And here is her amazing layout with lots of colour, fun layers, great elements. Love the title and photo.

Inspiration Sunday is Lattice Top Pie with Jo. Amazing lattice style pattern in this pie photo to inspire us.
And here is her fabulous layout created through this inspirational photo. Great strips and fabulous soft fun layout.
Sure hope you enjoyed what the DT put together for you this week. Be sure to try a few of these neat ideas when your crafting. Would love for you to share them with us.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Layout (CARD) of the week!

I actually chose a CARD made by Sandy this week. I LOVE this little old lady.....she just made me smile! Now wouldn't that just brighten your day if you received that card in the mail?! Congrats, Sandy!! 


Monday, November 21, 2011

Make Up Monday 11-21-11

What a great week of yummy challenges here at Cookin Up Creations!  

In case you missed any, here is your monday menu to inspire you to create some new projects during this holiday week!!

Last Tuesday, Tamara showed up some great techniques using Baker's twine and asked us to use it as a border on our projects!

On Wednesday, Sandy asked us to take our old embellishments and "season to taste" them into something we can use on a new project.  She took some old brads and made them new again!
On Thursday, Amy showed us a tutorial to make envelopes and challenged us to use an envelope and a photo taken at a restaurant, coffee shop or similar and make a fun new layout!
On Friday, Barb challenged us to use squares and gave us a yummy brownie recipe too!!!
Saturday's Sketch was provided by Bev....a fun 2 pager!!!
and her example:
And on Sunday we received some wonderful inspiration from Jan to use the colors in this photo:
and her beautiful cards...
I hope you have a great holiday week and get a chance to create some of these goodies! 
 Check out these challenges and others at the Blue Plate Special for a chance to win a great prize from Apron Strings!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Congratulations Amy on Having the Project of the Week

First off I just want to say how beautiful I think this card is....so very soft and pretty....not to mention I love her take on the challenge to focus on tags! Awesome card Amy, and congratulations on having the Project of the Week!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Make Up Monday 11-14

We had great challenges this last week and here they are.... 
Tuesday- Use circles on your project. Here is the lovely examples

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Wednesday-Use your leftovers... Here are some great ATC's as examples
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Thursday-Use the recipe listed in the post... it is kinda lon so here is the linkhttp://www.cookinupcreations.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=7828
Here is the example
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Friday-Use Tags Here is the wonderful example
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Saturday-Use pictures of you and this sketch
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Sunday- Scrap about a feast... either one you are going to have or have had... Here is an example of a Christmas feast... YUM!
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Have fun scrapping!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Make-Up Monday 11/7/11

On Tuesday, Jan challenges us to include food ad misting on our project and shared a wonderful LO about cheese toast and had wonderful misting on her LO:


 On Wednesday, Jo’s challenge was based on toffee squares that her mom used to make.  She challenge us to use a repeated shape to create a pattern on our project




On Thursday, Barb didn’t focus on a food, but on a cooking technique…blending.  After all our recipes would be pretty bland if they always only consisted on one single ingredient.  With this challenge she showed us a way to blend two paint colors and add a coat of glossy accent to make our own epoxy letters.


Leading into the weekend, Friday’s challenge was brought to us by Karen.  She challenged us to showcase those special recipes and make recipe cards or a LO featuring them.


Saturday brought us another wonderful sketch that Tamara found in the Oct. 2011 issue of CK magazine:



The week was wrapped up by a beautiful inspiration piece created by Nicole in which she sowed us how to use food coloring to make custom mists for our projects:


I hope you all are able to take the time to play catch up today on this past week’s fabulous challenges.  We look forward to seeing everything you create.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

LOTW 11/2/11

Wow, I have been so busy this month that I am behind in the gallery. But yesterday when I went in to look for my pick this week and to leave some comments, I was blown away. You ladies are rocking the gallery. I went back this morning to do another quick glance and this week I want feature this "Thankful for Daddy" LO by Bev. As we enter into the Thansgiving season, I think it's a great LO to start the month out with since it does focus on something that they are thankful for...




Congratulations Bev on having your LO chosen as LOTW.