Wild Wyoming Girl

Creative Cuts and More Blog Hop - 8X8 Recipe Album

Welcome to the first day of the Creative Cuts & More Mega Recipe Blog Hop featuring the 8”x8” Treasured Family Recipes Kit! There are 24 designers to inspire you. Plus we will all be sharing some of our own delicious treasured family recipes.

Here's the Scoop!:   As part of the celebration Creative Cuts and More (CC&M) will be having a great sale. For the next six days, they will offer 20% off the entire store. But act quickly, it is only for six days – this sale will end on Nov 14^th. Make sure you enter this code recipebloghop2009 during checkout.

As a continuing part of the celebration CC&M will be giving away great gifts. Each day they will give away one kit. Here is the twist – go through the blog hop, leave wonderful comments on each designers blog.   After you have finished the blog hop, return to www.diecutdiva.com and instead of leaving a comment, you need to share a recipe to have a chance at winning the kit. Share the recipe on your blog and link it back and get another chance to win the kit.

My Creation

I had so much fun working with the 8x8 Treasured Family Recipe kit!   I decided to create this album to give as a gift. 

The album provided in the kit is black, which I really love! I use touches of black a lot in my creations, so this was perfect! I layered various pieces of the gorgeous Cosmo Cricket Early Bird paper. I love all things Cosmo Cricket and this line worked so fabulous for a recipe album!

This amazing kit also includes Cosmo Cricket chipboard self adhesive embellishments, gorgeous thick cardstock, as well as die cuts and thick die cut black letters! Be sure to visit www.creativecutsandmore.com to get this kit before it's sold out!

 
 

Here's a close up of the cover page. The black album cover has a circle cut out of it for a window effect. I decided to layer some Spellbinders die cuts, as well as the thick Cosmo Cricket chipboard pieces to create a 3D look. Just Rite Stamps work perfectly with Spellbinders die cuts to create a customized/personalized album!

 

I like leaving a bit of the black album pages showing. I also distressed the embellishments and pages throughout the album with Ranger distress ink in walnut stain, and Tsukineko Memento black ink.

I created a pocket for the inside cover, and placed large manila tags inside. One has a “To and From” label and the other has a rolling pin graphic. I love to use tags and distress them to make them looked aged. Page 2 has a journal block that I'll write my dedication note on. The word RECIPE is created with the super thick dimensional letters in the kit.  They coordinate perfectly with the black album.

THE RECIPE:

Ok, so here it is. Rhonda Schmeltzer's to die for Sugar Recipe! Rhonda is my BIL's sister and OMG this woman is an amazing quilt artist from Worland, WY! She shared this recipe with my sister, who shared it with me. These are the softest, most flavorful sugar cookies you will have taste! The are fabulous!!

I included a picture of my sweet Arianna who loves to bake.  The other photo is of Arianna's, Mackenzie's and My hand - after playing in the sugar cookie dough one afternoon.

 

Die cut details - I used Snow Tex on the top portion of the die to create the look of sugar cookie dough. I love how it turned out!

Here's a close up of the “YUMMY” tag.  I used the thick chipboard brackets, and layered in Stickles for a shimmery look to match the sugar cookie dough. Fun!

 
 

I intentionally left these pages blank, so that the gift recipient could add her favorite family recipes!  Isn't that a fun idea to add onto the recipe book?

Here's the Breakfast pages. She can add her favorite cinnamon roll recipe or breakfast burrito's! Yumo :)   Isn't that little toaster tag too cute?

Back cover of recipe mini album covered in beautiful Cosmo Cricket paper, and "On the Vine" Spellbinders die.

I hope you've enjoyed my recipe album I created using Creative Cuts and More kit.

Be sure to visit everyone on the Blog Hop today and tomorrow...you're sure to be inspired to create something fabulous!

MONDAY BLOG HOP

Die Cut Diva

Jen Johnson

Lori Renn

Michele Kovack

Ellen Sosnoski

Kayla Dupont

Courtney Holgate

Sharon Harnist 
  
Eva Dobilas

Noelle Reese

Joan Ervin

Suzanne Blickenstaff

Angie Pearl

Cathy Tidwell

Holly Simoni - - - - -YOU ARE HERE!!!

Lila Holgate

Kendra Wietstock

Chris Penaflor

Holly Brown

AJ Otto

Stephany Zerbe

Lisa Somerville

Chris Dickinson

Stacy Cohen

Pam Smerker

Die Cut Diva

 

 

 

Our 10th Anniversary....

Today is the day Aaron and I celebrate our 10 year Anniversary.  It honestly doesn't feel like 10 years.

The first time I met him was at work, in a tough meeting I was facilitating.  He was rolling his eyes, making comments under his breath, sighing, leaning back in his chair.  So, by the end of the meeting I had had enough of him....and went to talk to his supervisor about how rude he was during the meeting! LOL  Come to find out, he was frustrated with someone else in the meeting and how they were treating me.  I came to respect his experience, opinion and philosophy at work.  Everyone did really.  We worked together a great deal helping people with disabilities.

We became friends.  We started to date.  He actually still wanted to date me when I was going through a really hard time in my life - was he nuts?!  I found out later, that he had pawned his guitar to take me on our first date to a wonderful restaurant.  (And some of you know how much he loves his guitars.....Is that just the sweetest thing ever!)

Six months after we started dating we bought a house together in Colorado.  Two years after we were together we got married in our favorite place in the world.  Yellowstone National Park.  We were 27.  It was a small ceremony with family.  We spent a week there on our honeymoon.  I'll never forget it.  We hiked, took pictures, read, fished, had long romantic dinners, sipped wine and smoke cigars on the Old Faithful Inn balcony, help hands and kissed for hours. 

 

Since that day we have moved from Colorado to Iowa, and he began his career as a Conductor on the Union Pacific Railroad.  We had 2 baby girls, who are now 7 and 5. I stayed home for 3 1/2 years with the girls, then returned to counselor work.  We moved to Wyoming to be closer to family.  We've lived in 3 houses - 2 new, 1 over 100 years old.  We ordered our first brand new truck from the dealership.  We still haul around an old Volkswagon Karmen Ghia, whose restoration got put on hold when we started having kids.  We lost our longtime pet - Klondyke - who was 14 years old.  We still have our lab - River - 14 yrs old to love and snuggle with.  We have made some wonderful friends along the way. 

We have laughed a lot, been stubborn a lot, appreciated a lot, talked a lot, took "a leap of faith" a lot, changed our plans and our minds a lot, but most of all....we have loved a lot.

My girls still ask me to try on my wedding dress now and then....they ask me to tell them about the time their dad and I got married....and so I do.  We look at all the pictures and sometimes pull out the video.  They both talk about how they wished they could have been there - LOL :)

It's a day I'll never forgot, and love to remember again each year.  I'm so very blessed to have married the love of my life.