Fellow blogger's blog candy!

Corinne's cleaning out her craft room and has a bunch of goodies she wants to giveaway! Take a look:
Rinne's Craft Room ReDo Blog Candy

Baking & Thrift-Store-Hunting

I made some min Guinness chocolate cupcakes for a St Paddy's day party. They were a hit! At one point my friend called me so that she could point out who had made these lil cupcakes and the girl shouted "Shut the front door! These are *fabulous*!" I was happy she enjoyed them so much and happy she didn't swear. ;-) So, my friend Tami has renamed these the "Shut the Front Door" cupcakes. Tami's sister owns a gorgeous women's boutique clothing store with fabulous pieces. She held an open house/sale recently and Tami asked if I could make those mini cupcakes and so I did!

I also made some mini blood orange cheesecakes, but they didn't turn out as the mini Oreo cheesecakes I've made before; I think the mini cupcake liners were too small and so there wasn't enough cheesecake filling in them.

Chocolate Stout Cake

Recipe source: Smitten Kitchen

Note: to make the mini cupcakes, I baked them for 15 mins.

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Blood Orange Mini Cheesecakes

Recipe source: Kraft

2 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

12-ish Nilla wafer cookies
juice & zest of 1 blood orange

Heat oven to 350°F.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until well blended.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each just until blended.
Place 1 cookie on the bottom of each of 12 paper-lined muffin cups.
Pour cream cheese mixture into each cup.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Cool & refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

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I went to my favourite thrift store today; I love trying to find interesting pieces to repurpose. I found 2 big, wooden pillars to hold candles I'd like to paint white. I'd love to make these music sheet pillar candles featured on Purple Onion Designs to then place on top of them. I also found some vintage hankies with interesting patterns and a tea cup & saucer with birds! The vintage hankies I want to use as a background on a scrapbook layout and I'm not sure what else. I *love* these hankie wedding invites by Bird & Banner. *swoon*! And I love tea & birdies so I was pleased to pick up these 2 pieces.


Thanks for stopping by!

German St Paddy's Day Bday

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's my square card that I made for the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz! The theme is St. Patrick's Day. I also followed PaperWorks Co's Sunday Sketch #73.


Now, my Father's bday is today, but he's German so I always have fun throwing in some Irish into his bday. I took the Celtic heart from WMS's Celtic Heritage set to create my lucky shamrock. :-) This was my first time 'playing' with Basic Grey's Marjolaine collection. The cute, central image is a stamp from PaperWork's Co's Rachelle Anne Miller's collection. The sentiment is computer-generated and tis Happy Birthday in German.



Now, hopefully you waltzed over from Jen Shears Designs' blog. And your next waltz is over to Create.Share.Inspire. Be sure to check out all the other waltzers taking part in the WMS Friends Blog Waltz! You'll need to register for the WMS forum in order to see the Waltz forum thread *here*.

Thanks for waltzing by!

::Supplies::

Stamps: A Surprise Cheer (PaperWorks Co with Rachelle Anne Miller), Celtic Heritage (WaltzingMouse Stamps)
Paper: Coffee Cake; double-sided paper (Marjolaine - Basic Grey), Simply Smooth white (Prism)
Ink: Landscape (Palette), Chocolate Chip (SU!), Copic markers (E00, 33, 47, 49, 71, G0000, 94, R0000, RV29, YG03)
Embellishments & tools: Petite Oval - Large die(Spellbinders Nestabilities S4-138), Green Agate glitter (Martha Stewart), sewing machine, pop dots, ribbon (stash)

Get Well Wishes

Hello!

Thanks for stopping by today. I made this card for my friend's grandmother who's in the hospital. I know she's on the mend, but I also know she's itching to get home and back to her routine. The sketch is from PaperWorks Co's Sunday Sketch #70.

I just got my box o' goodies from PWCO with the new A Day in the Life of Abigail C. stamps and some new Basic Grey collections, including Hopscotch which I used here. I paperpieced Abigail's clothes using Hopscotch papers.

Thanks for looking!

::Supplies::

Stamps: He Loves Me? (A Day in the Life of Abigail C. - PaperWorks Co)
Paper: Hopscotch Collection (Basic Grey), white & blue from stash
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU!), Copic markers
Embellishments & tools: Labels Seventeen (Spellbinders Nestabilities), popdots, lace (stash)

Wendy's Hearts

Hope everyone had a lovely St Valentine's Day! Mine got off to a wonderful start when my favourite band announced the release of their new album for today! Woo hoo! Super duper excited about that!

Here's a card I made at my Stampin' Up friend Wendy's house. She's a small, hobby demo and she demo'd this card to us. I'm sharing this as part of PaperWorks Co's Sunday Sketch challenge on the blog, which was to use a heart or several hearts! I used a two-way glue pen around the 3 big hearts and added fine glitter.

Thanks to Bella for this sketch and thanks for looking!

::Supplies::

Stamps: Wonderful Words & I {heart} Hearts (both Stampin Up)

Paper: not sure...I'll have to ask my friend!

Ink & embellies: chocolate, dazzling diamonds (both SU)

bébé Sophie

I made this card for a coworker's newborn cutie pie. I also followed this PaperWorks Co Recipe by Alice:

• a circle
• a bow
• 2 flowers

I used my hand-held Making Memories notch die tool with the tiny hole to punch 'eyelets' around the scalloped circle.

Thanks for looking!

::Supplies::

Stamps: stork (Anna Griffin/All Night Media)
Paper: Playground (A Walk in the Park collection - Echo Park Paper Co), Simply Smooth white (Prism)
Ink: Versamark, Chocolate Chip (SU!)
Embellishments & tools: Fruit Punch Stickles, Mega Circle & Giga Scalloped Circle punches (Marvy Uchida), Making Memories notch die punch, popdots, Prima flowers, pink Divine Twine, Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug)

Wisteria for Aynsley

I made this card for a coworker who had a rough day the other day, so several of us pitched in to get her a bottle of wine and I said I'd make her a card. The sketch is from the PaperWorks Co Sunday Sketch #65 and inspired by a MoxieFab 'Tuesday Trigger' challenge inspiration photo.

I also made some rolled paper flowers. You may find the SplitcoastStampers tutorial *here*.

Thanks for looking!

*Blessings*!

::Supplies::

Stamps: Pom (Basic Grey - Wisteria Collection), Vintage Damask Background (Purple Onion Designs)
Paper: Wisteria collection; Fountain & Garden Patio (Basic Grey), purple & grey (stash)
Ink: Eggplant Envy & Night of Navy (SU!), Hint of Pesto (VersaMagic), Frost White (Colorbox),
Embellishments & tools: Purple Stickles, Threading Water (Fiskars border punch)